Wednesday December 8, 2004
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Survivors wonder why Charlie and Claire have been abducted - and by whom - and a search party ventures into the treacherous jungle to look for the pair. Suspicions focus on Ethan Rom (guest-star William Mapother), who, it was recently discovered, was not a passenger on the doomed flight. Jack battles inner demons relating to his father, while Boone and Locke discover another island mystery.
Read Full Recap » (warning: possible spoilers!)All the Flamboyant Surgeons Get Beaten Up By Creepy Abductors hide show
Jack and Locke separate in order to retake the abducted Claire and Charlie. Jack's party ends up discovering defeat by Ethan… but miracle doc Jack also manages to somehow rescue Charlie from the brick of death. I guess it's called payback. It's not good. As for Locke and his faithful follower Boone, they discover a Mysterious Hatch and share some Star Wars-related witty cues. -
JACK EPISODE aka Anoyinggggggggggggg!!!!!!!!!
Anyhow, JACK cuts across the jungle (poor jungle) and yet, he does not get killed by the Monster. BUT, he is attacked by Ethan (yay!). Afterwards, followed by his faithful worshiper Kate the Murderer, he discovers Charlie hanged from a branch or something and heroiclly manages to bring him back to life and jackish (that's not a word) reality. That is a really well-directed scene (props to Stephen Williams), but its conclusion is far from awesome. In fact, it's kinda lame. As for the flashbacks, they are also well-directed (double props to Stephen Williams) but Jack is present (not) to save the day. On a brighter note, Locke and Boone discover the Hatch, which is going to evolve into a very interesting key-storyline in Season 2.
While swimming, Kate finds the marshal's locked case. Jack agrees to help Kate open the case if she will show him what is inside it. There are guns inside and a toy airplane. Kate says the airplane belonged to the man she loved-and killed. In a flashback, Kate robs a bank so that she can recover the toy airplane. So Locke and Boone find the hatch - whihch is awesome. Kate and Sawyer swim and find a suitcase - which they both wamt, it's so funny what they do to get it and how they act together. I feel sorry for Charlie, but I love the way Rose is with him. I love Kate's back story in this episode she is awesome. I also love Sayid and Shannon, I also love the new camp! Oh, and when Charlie cried, I cried - it's because I love this man.
Doing flashbacks about jack, can be dangerous... hide show
...because they can be boring. This episode wasn´t bad, it just does not have what it takes to be special.
I liked this episode.
We have drama, not too strong, because this episode centers in jack, and the flashback didn´t seem to be interesting enough. Even the situation on the island wasn´t anything special because nothing really important happened.
Some interactions between sayid e sawyer, hugo and the kid, locke and boone was interesting.
I didn´t understand the connection that the writters tried to make with the jack flashbacks and is tendency to be the good guy. It seemed just fillers, with no importance.
The final scenes and the cliffhanger, was the best this episode could deliver.
Nothing new about the characters, but this one matters a lot hide show
This is the first episode to give a flashback to a character that we've already met--- Jack, and while the title is rather unruly is does have an issue that could apply to all of the characters, but especially Jack, and this hostility causes him major problems when the search for Claire and Charlie begins.
The obvious anger is thrown at Locke, who really doesn't deserve it. He does everything in his power to try and help lead the search, and it's obvious, he's far more capable of doing so than Jack is. But Jack ignores him, and keeps pushing on. When the trail splits, and Locke tries to tell them to go together, Jack blatantly ignores him, and goes ahead with Kate, who now reveals that she has experience as a tracker. But rather than take this as a sign of hope, Jack throws it back in their face the minute that they are alone. For some reason (perhaps because he is beginning to fall in love with her) he still can't get over Kate's deception, which will grow even more pronounced over the next episodes. The irony, of course, Jack has been no more honest with her about his life, and certainly hasn't told her about the problems he was having long before the plane crash.
When they finally catch up to Ethan, Jack focuses his hostility on him, which ends with his ass getting thoroughly kicked. But not even that stops his pursuit, which leads to the most shocking image of the episode--- Charlie with a noose around his neck, nagging from a tree. It looks pretty clear that he is dead, but Jack can't let this go either. Indeed, his lifesaving methods become pretty brutal, as if he's beating on Charlie for daring to die. Turns out, that this time, he manages to accomplish a miracle, and bring the young rock star back to life. In the flashback we get, we see what was likely the precipitating incident that probably guilted Jack into flying to Sydney in the first place. While operating on a pregnant woman, Christian Shephard cut one of her arteries, and despite the efforts of him and Jack, the woman died on the table. Jack realizes that his father was clearly intoxicated, and had no business operating in the first plays. He is willing to lie for his father once to protect him, but eventually his honesty gets the better of him, and his father pays the penalty. But was really Jack's conscience that got the better of him? Could it have been simple jealousy at having to be subservient to a man who clearly doesn't have it any more? Jack clearly doesn't want to turn into his father, which considering his behavior here, and much later, is just as ironic.
Having been in the background for several episodes, Locke steps back into the front in the search for Charlie and Claire. He gently tries to suggest to him that he's in over his head and that it doesn't make sense for the islands only physician to risk his life at a job he's not suited for. Jack ignores him. Later, when Locke tells him that Jack was going in circles, it seems that this is Locke not being subtle. Or perhaps he a little cockier, because for the first time someone is willing to follow him---- Boone, who up until now has been staying mainly in Jack's radar, now comes to a crossroads. He begins the search following Jack, but finishes it accompanying Locke. He tries to get more information on him (when Locke tells him that in the real word, he was the manager of a box factory, we know Boone thinks he's being teased), and tries to understand his mysteries. While the search goes on, rain comes out of nowhere, and just like in the Pilot, Locke looks up and holds out his arms. The obvious explanation is he thinks that it's some kind of blessing from the island.
And, long after the trails runs cold, Locke continues on his path, and then (much like Bobbi Anderson did in Stephen King's The Tommyknockers) he stumbles over his destiny. Something made of steel is under the dirt of the island. Considering that Sayid found a wire earlier leading from the ocean, it comes as less of a surprise than we think. Of course, we don't how big the object is, how long it's going to take to uncover, or what the cost will be. We get a hint when Boone refers to 'Red Shirt', a character on Star Trek who always got killed when the captain sent him on an away mission. Locke's remark is funny, but it too is prophetic in a fashion: Locke is going to lead Boone to his doom.
What are the others doing? Michael tries to help with the search, but when Locke brushes him off, he tries to form one of his own. It's pretty clear Michael has no use for Locke, and is becoming pretty pissed at being told off, especially in front of Walt. We don't see much of Walt in this episode, but there is a scene that is rather telling. He and Hurley play a game of backgammon, in which he thoroughly kicks Hurley's ass. Strangely, every time he throws the dice, he gets exactly what he needs to win. This doesn't seem to be only luck not her. Hurley's behavior is just as interesting. It appears he was gambling with the kid, and bet $20,000. It could be that this is just another joke of his, but he seems serious when he says "You'll get it." These two guys need a flashback each.
Another interesting scene occurs when a recuperating Sayid meets Sawyer for the first time since the torture sequence (roughly a week ago, according to the calendar) Considering their animosity, it's a little surprising that Sawyer doesn't take the opportunity to give back some of what Sayed gave. However, the two actually have a pretty civilized conversation. And as much as he might be a son of a botch, Sawyer is still on the beach, keeping the signal fires burning. The two of them are a lost closer in their mindset then they'd want to believe.
The rest of the characters don't do much. We don't see Jin and Sun at all or Claire (obviously) and Charlie barely shows up. Charlie's feeling a certain amount of guilt when he regains consciousness. Whoever this Ethan was, his sole interest seemed to have been Claire. This leads to more questions. How did Ethan mange to drag two people off into the woods and not leave a trail, except for what Charlie left. Did he have help? Did he use some kind of chemical agent? Does it have something to do with how easily he manages to beat the crap out of Jack before disappearing again? And what is this interest that they seem to have in children (Why else would they have taken Rousseau's baby fifteen years ago?)
'All the Best Cowboys' does something that the show will do repeatedly. It sets up two immediate paths, and then has us follow them for weeks before getting into any kind of resolution. (Of course, those resolutions frequently just lead to more mysteries but still…) Still it's a critical episode for several of the characters, and gets us set up for the second half of Season 1
My score:8.7
Tres cronopios y un fama se asocian espeleológicamente para descubrir las fuentes subterráneas de un manantial. Llegados a la boca de la caverna, un cronopio desciende sostenido por los otros, llevando a la espalda un paquete con sus sándwiches preferidos (de queso). Los dos cronopios-cabrestante lo dejan bajar poco a poco, y el fama escribe en un gran cuaderno los detalles de la expedición. Pronto llega un primer mensaje del cronopio: furioso porque se han equivocado y le han puesto sandwiches de jamón. Agita la cuerda, y exige que lo suban. Los cronopios-cabrestante se consultan afligidos, y el fama se yergue en toda su terrible estatura y dice: NO, con tal violencia que los cronopios sueltan la soga y acuden a calmarlo. Están en eso cuando llega otro mensaje, porque el cronopio ha caido justamente sobre las fuentes del manantial, y desde ahí comunica que todo va mal, entre injurias y lágrimas informa que los sándwiches son todos de jamon, que por más que mira y mira entre los sándwiches de jamón no hay ni uno solo de queso.
Julio Cortázar, De cronopios y de famas.
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