Well, it's been over a week since last week's episode. Crazy how it works like that. If I had a nickel for every time I fell behind on a blog I was semi-invested in, I'd have, well, a quarter, maybe. But it's time to get back on the bandwagon--and at least for this post, I promise to keep it short... 'cause I gotta write another one, ASAP.
Part of why I never posted last week is because it was a great all-around episode, so it was hard to pick out a particular scene. There were a ton of amazing moments, but I couldn't figure out which was the most important.
After a week of reflection, it's got to be the scene when Sayid stabs Flocke, and specifically the very end of the scene, when Sayid says that "the only thing I ever wanted died in my arms, and I'll never see her again," and Flocke replies, "But what if you could?"
Forgive me for harping on the clues leading to the connection between the sideways universes, but I still think it's the most important part of this season, if not the entire series. Everything hinges on that, and everything will be given meaning once we know how they're related (unless the answer sucks, and we're all really disappointed, but that's hard to imagine).
This moment not only indicates that the worlds are definitely connected (which has already been established, I think, multiple times), but also that our characters on the island can eventually, in some way, be conscious of the sideways world and their connection to it, and that Flocke not only knows about the sideways world, but knows exactly how to get Sayid and the others there.
My early fear was that we, the viewer, might eventually find out what the connection is, but the characters would be oblivious, the same way insight provided by flashbacks and flashforwards (and how they relate to island life) was sometimes hidden from the characters (especially in instances where they crossed paths off the island). But Flocke's line tells us that Sayid, and presumably everyone else, will be able to see, or perhaps experience, or in some way connect with the sideways world--the one in which Nadia is alive. Perhaps they'll have to make a decision about whether or not to enter the sideways world. Perhaps if they choose to enter it, they will become the sideways-world person entirely, losing all memory of their alternate life. Or perhaps they'll just be able to see the sideways world, like Jack (in my opinion) saw it in the mirror at the lighthouse (but in more detail), though they won't be able to enter. Whatever the case, that decision, or at least that moment of recognition, is coming, and it's gonna be cool.
This moment was the most important, but it wasn't the best. And as a lover of the show in addition to the theories, I was most excited by some of the storytelling and character moments in this episode. Sayid and Flocke had interesting implications, but the following moments were just awesome:
The baseball preventing Dogen from killing Sayid, and especially the pay-off to that moment when Dogen tells the story about his son and why he ended up on the island. Pretty cool, and a surprisingly emotional scene for a minor character. (And by the way, the fight scene leading up to this moment was incredible.)
Miles playing solitaire--but only after I realized that Sayid's first flashback episode, in Season 1, was called Solitary.
Dogen's speech about the scale, balanced between good an evil. Pretty cool summary of this season, if not the entire series.
Sayid escaping from bondage and then shooting Keamy in the flash-sideways; aside from being an awesome scene, it was nice to know that who these people are remains fundamentally the same in both sideways universes.
But the best moments, by far, were when Claire and Kate were reunited, both the first time and later, when Kate dove into Claire's hole to escape from the smoke monster. I always found Claire pretty annoying in the first few seasons of the show, but somehow she's become one of the most interesting, confusing, and mesmerizing characters because of creepy moments like these.
I am incapable of writing short posts.
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