5x06 "316" Review
This week, friend of Lostpedia and the blog, user "ILostMyKeys", is posting the episode review. It's his first post ever so do be kind :)
"We have to go back!!" And now they are. I thought it wouldn't be until the later episodes of the season, perhaps the finale, that the O6 would make their return, but we saw it all in the latest episode of Lost, season 5 episode 6, entitled "316". When I learned of the title I immediately pictured Stone Cold Kate Austen, opening a can on some bad guys. In fact, it was flight 316, and this episode showed us the return of the O6.
316 was set almost entirely off-island, and was largely centered on Jack and the 36 hours after the cliffhanger of the previous episode, This Place Is Death. It began with a trademark of Lost, the close-up eye shot, in a very similar fashion to the first shot in season 1's pilot. Jack find's Hurley, and then Kate by the lagoon, before we are whooshed back in time 36 hours to find out how they got there.
Off the island, we are led into a new Dharma station, The Lamppost. Here, Ms Hawking explains that Dharma used this station to find the island, which is always moving. Using the apparatus they can predict where the island is going to be in a certain point in time, and Ms Hawking has found such a window for the O6 to exploit via a trans-pacific flight, Ajira flight 316, heading from Los Angeles to Guam. And this is the point where the episode and indeed the show itself turns in a direction I did not like. Ms Hawking insists that to maximize the chances of getting back to the island, not only must as many of the people on flight 815 be on flight 316, but other "recreations" must be made. She tells Jack that John Locke's body was a proxy, a substitute for Christian Shepard, who's body was being transported in flight 815. She tells him he must find something of his father's to give to Locke. My problem with this is: why does the island need them to make these recreations? Can it not tell the difference between Christian Shepard and another dead man with an item of his?!
Desmond tells the others that they are crazy to want to go back to the island, and tells Jack not to listen to Ms Hawking. Ms Hawking informs Desmond that the island is not done with him, he replies that he is done with the island, and leaves. Later, we are in Jack's apartment, in a very spooky scene. We hear a noise, and Jack goes to investigate, discovering Kate on her own, looking distraught. She says she will go back to the island with Jack if he promises never to ask about Aaron again. And then they do it! Goal for Jack! What happened to Aaron? If I could speculate, I would suggest that the guys with the traquilizer darts finally caught up with Kate, kidnapped Aaron, and are using him to blackmail Kate into going back to the island. I'd speculate further that Kate made out with Jack in an attempt to get pregnant, in another recreation of flight 815, Kate would take the place of Claire as the plane's pregnant woman.
What happened that night to everyone other than Jack is a mystery. In the morning, a beaten up Ben rings up Jack, and informs him that he got "side tracked" and needs Jack to pick up Locke's body. This leads to what I felt was a poignant scene. Jack had earlier met up with his grandad, who was trying to make a break from his old-folks home. His grandfather gave him a pair of his Christian's shoes, and Jack put's said pair on Locke's lifeless feet, and tells Locke that wherever he is he "must be laughing his ass off". Before closing the coffin, an emotional Jack gives Locke back his suicide note, telling him he already heard all he needs to hear and that he's going back.
At the airport we see Sayid, being led by an attractive, dark-haired, unknown woman. And we see Hurley, carrying what looked to me like a guitar case, for sure a case for some kind of instrument. These details seem to be following the recreation of 815 theme. On flight 815, Kate was being escorted by a marshall as a prisoner. Now it seems Sayid is the prisoner. Hurley takes the place of Charlie as the musician. On the plane, Sayid does not appear surprised to see the rest of the O6, an indication to me that he was aware of what was going on. Which begs the question, who is the woman escorting him, and why is he there when he explicitly said he wanted no part of returning to the island? I again go back to the tranq-gun agents, and speculate that they are Widmore people, and indeed the woman escorting Sayid on the plane is a Widmore agent.
An annoying recurring theme to Lost is the lack of communication, and on the plane it was especially absurd. You would have though someone would have said something to Sayid, at the very least said hi, but no. Jack hears that none other than Frank Lapidus is flying the plane, and he jumps at the chance to talk to him, in my view making the lack of communication between him and Sayid even more ridiculous, unbelievable and utterly unconvincing.
In the penultimate scene, Jack and Ben sit together, Ben reading. Jack asked Ben how he can read, and Ben replies his mother taught him. Jack, holding John Locke's suicide note (it found its way back to him after the security searched the coffin), asks Ben if he knew Locke killed himself, the reply a negative. Jack asks what was going to happen to the other people on the plane and Ben replies "who cares". I felt like this scene was designed to show just how selfish Ben is, the extent of his lying nature. He lies for the hell of it, nothing he says can be trusted as he only tells the truth when it suits him, and he doesn't give a damn about anyone. Jack reads the note, which says:
Jack
I wish you believed me.
J.L.
And then the plane fills with a bright light, not unlike the flashes experienced on the island, and we are back where the episode started, Jack lying on his back in the jungle. We see him find Hurley and Kate again, before a Dharma van pulls up, and a man in a Dharma jump-suit points a rifle at the trio... It's none other than Jin! L O S T
I thought it was a great episode, well acted and well shot. I especially liked the atmosphere created in the plane, and the scene at night in Jack's apartment - very eerie and Lost at it's atmospheric best.. However I wish someone would have said something to Sayid, it just seems very hard to swallow that after all they've been through, no one said a word to him. Also, this idea of recreating things on flight 815 - it just doesn't make sense, and I fear Lost is trading science fiction for fantasy, a move that doesn't please me nor many fans of the show... Can't wait to find out what happened to Kate, Sayid, Hurley and Ben in those 36 hours, and of course the explanation for the recreating of flight 815. All in all, I'm glad they're back on the island at the very least, and the off-island stuff was for the most part only mildly intriguing. Let's hope not too much episode time is wasted telling more off-island stories and we get to the good juicy stuff on the island!
This episode gets 7 thumbs up. ilostmykeys
66 comments:
I love your "this episode gets seven thumbs up" thing lol.
And like the marshall theory
Oh and thanks v. much for doing a blog!
Although I agree that the "reconstitution" was a bit much, I don't see how it's more "fantasy" than a magic giant donkey wheel or dead people that everyone can see and hear (even off Island).
Can we assume that the reason why Ben was beaten up was that he either killed or tried to kill Penelope Widmore? He told Jack he was going to make good on a promise or something to that effect, which I assumed meant his promise to Charles Widmore to kill his daughter. And then we see him making a phone call beside some boats. Oh Lord, please, not Penny!
That's what I thought right away too: That Ben had, at the very least, tried to kill Penny.
Do you think "The Lamppost" is a nod to the Chronicles of Narnia? They used the lamppost to find their way back to our world...
Sorry for the omission, yes it would appear very likely Ben's "sidetrack" was to kill Penny, and was unsuccessful.
And Lex I always felt seeing the dead and the wheel had scientific, rattional explainations. Recreating 316 to give it the appearance of 815 seems a little daft to me, but perhaps it does have a rational explaination.
What about hurley getting out of jail. How did that come about?? that what I was wondering, and why would locke write that jabber to the doc. Maybe ben wrote it as a message to coax him into going back. I dont know. such a good episode. Where to start. Maybe I will just leave it at the end of the episode with jin in a dharma uni. Even though I expected that how awesome was it to see how everything unfolds. Gives me the same excitment as season 1 and 2
I didn't like the re-creation thing at first, but it's making more sense to me as I think about it. It's kind of like they are trying to find a mathematical way to fool the island into letting them find it.
I found this episode very unsettling, but the worst part was Kate. Something happened that seriously spooked her. And Jack just accepting her creepy warning about not talking about Aaron and then jumping in the sack with her! I couldn't get over that.
I agree about the not talking to Sayid thing, but then again, if your friend was handcuffed, you might avoid talking to him too in order to not upset the warden.
Great first-time review!
i like on the whole recreating the plane thing.. Kudos! it was good. but did anybody catch anything about desmond? they did say the island is not done with him. and whose the new guy suppose to be?the one that said im sorry about ur friend in the airport. he was also sitting across the isle from hurley. i am assuming he has a role on the show or they wouldnt have had him with the 06. but sayid did look pretty pissed on the plane- it was kinda funny
Did anyone not find it bizzare that no one mentioned Ben having been knocked around? Really. No one seemed to notice.
Did anyone notice that this episode was "shot" with unusual lighting making the characters look slightly different? Don't mean to sound like Daniel, "the light here is so...." Also was Kate wearing sunglasses that were similar to Charlie's, and did she look slightly dopesick? (I might be reaching but..)
I kinda got the feeling there were all quiet, b/c they were expecting to crash. I'd be in a somber mood if I thought I knew the plane was crashing...my second one.
Why would Jack or anyone talk to Sayid on the plane when he's sitting next to an unknown? Especially one who has him in some sort of custody.
Great review, Keys :D Your review gets seven thumbs up ;)
I'm curious to see who that "you have my condolences guy" was who was in the front of the plane with the rest of the O6. He's definitely going to have some part to play...
As a huge Locke fan, I'm extremely anxious to see how he got into that headspace to write that suicide note. I wonder if next week's installment might hit the same notes as Season 2's Locke-in-crisis-of-faith-mode episodes. 5x07 cant come any sooner!
- On a totally different (or similar?) subject, the Darlton Podcast: Is anyone as obsessively intregued as I am as to why they kept stressing that all the fan questions came from Canada/Canadians? I smell another round of Others-related characters lying coming our way...
Not talking to Sayid, at least for Jack and Ben, may have something to do with the last thing Sayid said to them. "And if I see you – or him again, it will be extremely unpleasant for all of us." That, coupled with the fact they are all doing this extremely absurd thing they only partially accept will get them to the island, as well as the distinct possibility they are going to crash again, is more than enough for me to suspend my disbelief. This isn't your run-of-the-mill plane trip.
I think the whole point of recreating 815 was to get Jack to believe in the island and its power. Locke note to him was about believing, and the a few seconds after he read it and , to me made up his mind that indeed Locke was right and Jack finally after all this time believed, BAM they ere transported back. Just my thought, but faith has more to do with the island then anything. And Hurley got out of jail because of Ben's lawyer, it was covered in a earlier episode, but why he was on that flight is a mystery as of yet.
I think it's safe to say "the middle way" - meaning faith AND science (or reason, if you'd rather) - is what the show, if not the island, is all about. Jack and Locke are equally important characters in this story. It seems to be the writer's way of telling us the island is about both faith and reason, rather than one or the other.
Ben is full of lies.. it's frustrating, you can't believe anything he says. A) His mother died in childbirth, and he wasn't visited by her ghost till the island, and by then he could read. B) Did you notice in the preview for next week Ben was with Locke when he hung himself?
Three observations: (1) whenever Kate wants Jack to stop asking questions she smothers him with kisses, this happened one other time on the island in season whatever, who can remember particular seasons and eps anymore ?! (2) best dialogue scene was when the tension was high on the airplane and Jack leans over to Ben to ask what becomes of the other people on the flight and Ben flippantly replies "who cares?" and Jack grimaces painfully like he knew to expect that would be the answer from the souless Ben. That was a cool scene, and (3) Frank's expression when he saw the Lostaways were right there in first-class then realized "wait a minute, we're not going to Guam are we ?" Change of underwear, please !
Sorry, but another thing...
One little thing nags at me a bit and hasn't yet been mentioned. Locke apparently was in recent times known as Jeremy Bentham, so why'd he initial (and not sign) his suicide note as JL instead of JB ?
And did anyone else notice his handwriting script was too pretty/girlie for a knife-wielding tough like him ? Seriously, I haven't seen any guy write in cursive since the '70s.
you could be on to something with the elegant handwriting theory... But in my opinion I dont think it was thought so far through to have it matter... Although this is Lost and I could be very wrong, like i have been MANY times before
i hope ben couldn´t kill penny, but he's always been scarily efficient. if he wanted to do it... he probably did.
Did anyone else notice that the initial eye-opening scene wasn't as visually appealing as in the pilot episode? It didnt start with the cloesup of the pupils getting dilated.. I was pretty disappointed by that..
@Ryan: Great insights! It does seem like it was all about making Jack believe in the Island's powers
I do not think Kate got a visit from the tranq-dart squad. I think she got a visit from Claire. Claire told her that Kate had to go back, but leave Aaron behind. Kate doesn't want to talk about because she doesn't want to tell Jack she is following the instructions of Freakier Ghost Claire. (Cf. Taller Ghost Walt.)
I think the same kind of thing happened with Hurley. Charley told him he had to come back. And to bring a guitar.
Can it not tell the difference between Christian Shepard and another dead man with an item of his?!
the revelation that John killed himself to be put into the coffin was probably my favorite part of the episode. Because it makes so much sense with what will happen in the show and I'm surprised no one caught on to it. Christian became the person in the cabin and this is John's way of also going back to the Cabin. He had to die and be brought back to the island dead for him to have the full extent of the cabin made known to him.
Not that I'
m unappreciative of the effort, but this was more of a recap than a review.
"I thought it was a great episode, well acted and well shot. I especially liked the atmosphere created in the plane..." interesting thing to say after you spent a paragraph ripping on the plane scene. Sayid was cuffed sitting with a stranger, might it be unwise to risk notifying someone who could be some sort of Marshall that the plane was possibly going to crash? It made perfect sense to me that they didn't try to talk to Sayid. And things didn't go too well at the last time they saw each other if you remember.
(1) I thought the same thing as ThirdMango, that Locke committed suicide in order to become Jacob/Jacob's spokesperson/Spirit of the Island/whatever.
(2) The Island crashed 815 because it wanted some of the people on board. Simplistically, recreating 815 will help the Island identify those people and bring them back. One person on a plane (i.e. Jack) probably isn't enough.
Did anyone else think that no one was talking to each other because they were trying to re-create the 815 flight when no one knew each other?
Maybe That guy that they showed on the plane and before the plain is desmond. I know he wasn't on the plain but maybe the island just needed him back. I dont know. And that crazy stuff about jin. That was awesome. I wonder if he would have something to do with the dharma's doc whats his name. I cant wait to see how jack has been at the island before. Maybe he was a doctor back in the dharma hay day. Just some thought's. Im sure everyone is like me where they think of a hundred different things.
Remember that the O6 didn't know one another on the original flight so they didn't chit chat. To recreate all this none of them talked to one another if you think about it.
Also, remember Ben talking to his lawyer in the parking garage and getting assured that Hurley would be let out of jail by the next morning. For whatever reason he chose to go straight to the airport and book up as many seats as possible to help innocents.
Is it possible the people on the island are unkowingly in control of their own destiny? Perhaps when the numbers are entered into the computer, it determines the movement of the island (entering the numbers is supposed to keep the island safe?)I wonder when the survivors return will the numbers change so that 316 (and not 108) takes on some significance? If they start entering numbers again maybe the island will stay hidden, and if they dont then the island will become chaotic again until the numbers are entered???
Ben was probably beaten up by Desmond but I doubt the shot of the marina means that much. Remember it takes a long time to cross the Atlantic and around the Panama Canal to reach LA by boat and the impression I got from Desmond was he wanted to talk to MS Hawking fast. I imagine he and his family flew to LA and aren't anywhere near the waterfront. And no one knows of Ben's vow to kill Panny anyway..that was between him and Widmore.
Regarding recreating situations on the plane to get back to the island, I must disagree. They are not trading science fiction for fantasy... not at all... quite the opposite actually. The recreations are all about quantum mechanics, which really is nothing more than theoretical mathematics and science. Check this link which explains it very well:
http://forum.thefuselage.com/showthread.php?t=108005
When Kate saw Claire in the bedroom Claire said "Don't you bring him back" I think it's possible that she was refering to Locke and not Aaron. Also it's possible she left Aaron with whoever was watching Sun's baby maybe a relative.
I like the ideas about John's death put forth by ThirdMango. I'm not at all sure it's true, but it is an interesting idea.
I didn't think that Aaron was kidnapped, though that is one possibility. I think it more likely that Kate remembered the demand by Clair not to bring him back. Maybe Clair "visited" again, though I didn't think so at the time. I just thought Kate gave Aaron back to his grandmother and told her the truth about Clair being on the Island.
I think that the writers want us to think Ben at least attempted to kill Penny. Since the relationship between Penny and Desmond is the most powerful love going, I sure hope he didn't succeed (the most emotion packed scene in the entire arc was that phone call from the ship, IMO). But such an attack would be a way to assure that Desmond is not through with the Island, as he would like to be. Hawking always seems to know what she is talking about.
And I'm afraid my wishful thinking that Charlotte is not dead from a comment in another blog looks bad. It seems that Island time has shifted back to when Dharma was around, probably back to the time portrayed in the episode where we see Danial working for them. So his telling the young Charlotte she would die if she returned to the Island seems to have been said from real knowledge.
The point made by anonymous makes a good connection with the numbers being tied to the Island's safety. It's almost as if entering the numbers manually (and maybe before the Incident, automatically by the then-controlled electomagnetic energy) ensures that the Island stays 'anchored' in space and time. Maybe somebody or some faction tried to sabotage the Swan station to un-tether the Island for whatever reason(s)? Possibly to kill those that werent supposed to be there through the ensuing chaos of the time-travel sickness?
I don't think kate was trying to get pregnant. She wasn't even in the Lamppost when Hawking said things needed to be like 815.
I also don't think the O6 were trying to reacreat events. Because it is fate, they all ended up on the plane and fate put them in positions needed to get back to the island
Maybe I missed it somewhere...but what's the deal with Ben going back? When he left Locke at the Orchid, he said the one who moves the Island can never go back.
Comment for anyone calling Ben a liar based on the response about his mother teaching him, he was being sarcastic. Don't think he literally meant his mother taught him to read.
Great idea on Ben going to kill Penny. Didn't think of it at the time but it makes perfect sense. This could be what makes Desmond go back to the island...to kill Ben.
Maybe Kate is spooked that someone will still try to take Aaron away and gave him to his grandmother (Claire's mom whom we know to be in LA) to take care of (and hide). She doesn't want Jack to know because she wants to try to keep Aaron out of Ben's clutches.
Think of the replacement flight like that scene in Indiana Jones where Indie replaces the golden statue with a weighted bag that he hopes is equal to the statue. He's off by a bit of course, but let's consider the concept. The bag bears no real similarity to the statue. It doesn't look the same, it isn't made of the same material, etc. All the trap does is look at a single trait, weight.
Now consider the island. We've already established that the crash survivors and even probably those that didn't survive, are all connected by a complicated web of coincidence.
Indeed coincidence is one of the most striking traits of the series. We have yet to learn the root of all this coincidence (if one even exists), but I think it's safe to say that this web of coincidence is key to how these people ended up on the island in the first place.
So I posit this, that the key to getting back on the island...the trait that matters like weight does in our Indiana Jones example...is coincidence. All of the connections to the first flight...from the passengers who were on it to the dead person being transported with the shoes of the dead person from the first flight to Frank who was supposed to be the pilot of the first flight and is now the pilot of THIS flight. All of these things come together to create something with enough ties of fate and coincidence to the first flight to provoke the same reaction.
Yes, it isn't an exact replication, but it doesn't need to be. Perhaps fate in Lost is just as elastic as time, the changes don't matter because the result is still going to be the same.
Is this science? Well, I really don't know. It really depends on what, if anything, more we learn about how people end up on the island and why there are so many connections between the people who do.
And, really, very little that we see on Lost fits into any actual scientific theory so worrying too much about the exact technobabble seems silly to me.
More thoughts:
As for no one speaking to Sayid, Sayid looked up with surprise when he saw Jack get on the plane and looked like he was going to say something. Then he looked over at the officer and turned his head away as if to tell Jack he'd rather not speak now.
Another unasked question is what were the circumstances of Ben's injuries. Jack did ask him on the phone, but was put off. Clearly Ben didn't want to say. Why believe what this guy says anyway? He didn't know John killed himself? Seems like that might have been him in the room with him when he did it. Another surprise in the preview was John being told how important he was by Widmore!
Someone asked how Hurley found out about the flight. Since he is carrying a guitar case, I'm going to guess that he was visited again by Charlie who asked him once again to return, telling him he was needed. What a great guy Hurley is, buying up all existing seats to minimize the amount of people who might die in a crash!
I really hope Ben didn't kill Penny, I love Desmond and Penny's storyline. But it would make sense that something happens that makes Desmond go to the island. Mrs. Hawking did say the island wasn't done with him...
On another note, I think Locke was taking Christian's place in the coffin so that somehow he (Locke) can be "resurrected".
After all this show does have A LOT of biblical references. Note the biblical verse JOHN 3:16....and pay attention to Locke's death and flight # 316.
BTW, I loved Frank's reaction when he realized they weren't going to Guam...Poor guy! We might see him in the next episode requesting some toilet paper!
At least now we (possibly) know how Charlotte/Annie learned korean - she was tought by Jin in the good old Dharma days. This may be the same timeframe we saw Daniel visiting (sabotaging) the Orchid. I think hte Flashies (Jin, Daniel, Sawyer, Juliette etc) are stuck in the early days of Dharma after John fixed the FDW.
I would bet that John will "resurrect" as soon he was brought back to the island (like Christian did) and will indeed become the leader of the Others/Hostiles - as acting Jacob or person that can "speak on his behalf", until he is unsoldered by Christian. Remember: no Other ever saw Jacob in the Cabin - just maybe Ben - and we all know how he bends the thruth.
That said, I demand at least 5 more tense to make it easier fpr us to explain the anachronistic events on the Island.
It´s all a circle. Jack's father killed himself by drinking and Locke...
The guy which gave his condonlosses to Jack I think is a replacement for Ana Lucia.
Which book did Ben read?
it may not be too relevant just yet as we don't know how this will play out, but i think another "hole" or unexplainable aspect is if ONLY losties get to go back to the island... as it seems right now the plane did not crash this time. Instead the losties got flashed away in the energy back to the island. Bringing me to my point... what about everyone else on the plane? they are supposed to just not notice that a bunch of passengers suddenly disappeared in the turbulence? this is bothering me as we already know the plane didnt crash - Jack Hurley and Kate say they dont remember it crashing
i agree with whoever said none of the characters "look like" themselves this episode. esp at the end maybe this was not intended but Jin looks really skinny in his face....
im assuming since hurley brought a guitar with him, his return has sumthing to do with charlie
I agree with you about the proxy thing... Let's hope they forget about that.
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About a comment that anonymous said about, "Doesn't anyone wonder what the people left on the plane think about the people that have disappeared" Hasn't anyone read the book "Left Behind", in which God takes all the true believers off the plane and leaves all others behind. The premise is (in the book) is that the ones left behind are not worthy. Could the island need only good people, like the ones he chose before to help him with his final plan for mankind or simply the island. Widmore could be sort of the devil or the devil's advocate, that messes with God's plan and God has to start all over again. Are the O6 experiencing a "second coming" to the island? Is the Island God?
Ben was reading "Ulyses" (sp?) by James Joyce. The book has a black and white cover. "one light, one dark"...
Jack asked Ben "how can you read?" and Ben said "my mother taught me"... How could his mother teach him if she died when Ben was born???
The last thing Sayid said to a bunch of people on that plane was extremely threatening, warning them that he did not want to see them again. Might make me a bit hesitant to talk to him . . .
Imlost - Ben was being his usual sarcastic self in saying that his mother taught him how to read. I highly doubt he was being literal - just being a smart ass in response to Jack's question.
The reason everyone tried to avoid talking to each other seemed rather obvious to me during the show. They were trying to avoid looking like terrorists, with all of their talk about the plane crashing mid-route.
Anyone notice where Ben was when he calls Jack? At a harbor! Did anyone notice Desmond did not get on the plane?
I think Ben does end up killing Penny like he promised Charles. It is also my thought that Desmond will take the boat Penny and him are living on and go after Ben. He will ultimately end up crashing on the island in a storm just as he did the first time he arrived on the island.
Any thoughts?
thanks for the review ilostmykeys... great job! i am wondering if anybody else noticed that the woman featured in the trailer for this weeks episode, speaking to john locke, is the same woman who escorted sayid onto flight #316? i am wondering if that means she is connected to ben. i guess that is what i am expecting.
THIS WAS MY LEAST FAVOURATE EPISODE EVER
Yes, I believe Ben killed or attempted to kill Penny. Ben promised Widmore that he would avenge Alex's death by taking Penny's life.
This could also be how Desmond remains a prominent character. Ms. Hawking tells Desmond that "the island isn't done with him yet". If Ben were to kill or attempt to kill Penny then surely Desmond would seek revenge on Ben; hence dragging desmond back to the Island.
Just for the record, Im pretty sure your reference to WWF Austin 3:16 for Kate Austen's ass whoopin episode is more a reference to John 3:16.
"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life"
John Locke relation to John the Baptist a little more relevant than the Stone Cold reference.
Note: Do some research and you will find most of the names in this show and there are tons of religious/philosopher references
Just for the record, Im pretty sure your reference to WWF Austin 3:16 for Kate Austen's ass whoopin episode is more a reference to John 3:16.
"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life"
John Locke relation to John the Baptist a little more relevant than the Stone Cold reference.
Note: Do some research and you will find most of the names in this show and there are tons of religious/philosopher references
Can someone explain to me why Jin was all Dharma-ed up at the end of this episode? I feel dumb but I don't get it...
@Elizabeth: One of the theories goes like this. The last time-flash that occurred while Sawyer was holding the rope to the well, it took them to back to the Dharma days. And it seems that Jin and the others seem to have joined forces with Dharma to blend in or something. Of course, we have to wait, for god knows how long to learn how actually he ended up in Dharma.
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