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Adam and Eve! Adam and Eve!

Also, if we were going to have to have a Jack episode, at least we got lots of Hurley and Claire. Although I in fact enjoyed the feelgood Hallmark niceness of alternaJack bonding with his kid.

Speaking of Claire: yikes scary! Oh dear! Wah!

Good grief Jack is insufferable though. Here there's obviously this whole vastly complicated mystery going on and what is he freaking out about? "Why is Jacob watching me? What does he want with me?" Dude, is it possible that not everything is about you? He was obviously watching like 300 other people too. Jacob is really not helping by telling Hurley that he in fact staged the whole thing so that Jack would realize how important he is. Argh! So many interesting characters and both the writers and the chessmaster are inexplicably obsessed with Mr. Boring McWhinypants. (Is it because he's white? male? in the key 35-to-45 demographic?) Why Jack (for whatever it is) and not, say, the hero, moral exemplar, all-around awesome guy Hurley?

Favorite moment of the episode other than Adam and Eve: Jacob telling Hurley he's going to have to write some things down. Jacob and lists have a long and dubious history. I was pretty relieved it turned out to be directions.

Oh, also: if the episodes are in fact recapitulating the first season, then we get Sun next episode, which should be good for advancing that plot.

Questions:
- who are Adam and Eve (the bodies in the cave)?
- what happened to Rose and Bernard and Vincent after the bomb went off?
- why did the psychic tell Claire she had to be on that plane? is there something special about Aaron? does who ends up raising him have any bearing on any of the big conflicts?
- Walt?
- haha. no, seriously, Walt? do his powers have anything to do with Jacob/Smokelocke? where is he in the new timeline? what made the Others interested in him, and did Ben really let him go because he was too powerful for him to control?
- Libby?
- why doesn't Richard Alpert age? who/what is he?
- why did flight attendant Cindy happily join the Others?
- will Sun and Jin ever make it back home to their little girl?
- why didn't Sun go back to 1977 with the rest of the Oceanic 6
Answered:
- what happened to Claire, anyways, after she vanished on the island? (She's been living much as Rousseau did. Also, she's insane and in cahoots with Smocke.)

Comments

[cereph.livejournal.com]

Well, I certainly like Jack much more than you do, but it did seem like by this point in time, after all the crazy stuff that has happened, that he wouldn't have been quite so freaked by the idea that Jacob had been watching people, and that maybe he is actually there for a reason.