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FeliciaM7 wrote:

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Exactly. He was on his way to see her when the plane crashed. Continuity error that was never addressed I guess.

Yep, I forgot about that. Only watched all the eps once until now so that detail slipped my mind.

Carry on. :-)

Our schedule says Eps 7 - 9 and the abc site says those eps are "Solitary," "Raised by Another," and "All the Best Cowboys..." so that's what I watched.

Solitary:

Not much to say except Danielle tells Sayid she hasn't seen other people - only heard them - but she saw Ben take Alex. Writing continuity error or intentional misleading by Danielle?

Raised by Another:

1. Is the psychic the dad of the miracle girl that Eko went to investigate?
2. Psychic says Claire has a "goodness" and then later she aligns with Christian. This would imply (or at least I infer from this) that Christian is "good."
3. Psychic says her baby needs her protection and there is great danger if she gives it up. Then he books her a flight on 815. DID he know, as Claire suspects?

All the Best Cowboys:

1. This is the ep where I think I started hating Jack. Sayid needs medical attention but he chases off after Claire/Charlie - something Locke could do better. Yes, he may have already treated Sayid, but he would have served the group best by staying available for medical care. Locke even makes this point saying "I don't want our only physician injured" or something to that effect. And Jack ignores this statement with a snide "Can we go now?" What an arrogant ass! And he has no clue how to track! He's running and stumbling through the jungle, probably destroying anything Kate could use to actually track.
2. at Walt saying to Sawyer "It's stupid to lie about your name."
3. We find out later Walt is "special." He says his other dad told him he was the luckiest kid he'd ever known. And he keeps rolling exactly what he needs to win the game. Was he unknowingly controlling the dice?
4. How did Locke know it would rain in one minute? Weather training he may have taken for his walkabout? Or a case of Esau within him?
5. Why did Jack "hear" Claire but not Kate?

It seems every 3rd or 4th ep has a lot of stuff in it for me, but the ones in between are just "meh." And I think we'll have a lot more to analyze in S2.

I'll grant that Jack saved Charlie and Kate would not have, given that she was begging Jack to stop. However, it's not as if Jack knew Charlie was hanging and needed to be saved. What he DID know was that there was someone who was injured and the point had already been made that he was too important to the group to risk injury. This is just the first instance, but it will be seen again and again that Jack always seems to be the guy who just has to be the one in charge, the one who has to make the decisions, even when he's wrong. I don't recall a specific instance where he ever admitted he was wrong or apologized. I may be proven wrong in future eps, but that's what I remember at this point.

Now, let me be very clear. This has nothing to do with Matthew Fox. Obviously he's an accomplished actor to make me hate this character so much. And it's not as if I don't care about Jack. I do. I want to know what happens to him, why he's like he is, what is going on inside his arrogant, self-absorbed, "right" mind all the time. But he's still a jerk. I will say, also, that he redeemed himself a bit (a tiny bit) in the second half of last season when he took a back seat to Sawyer. And that's not about Sawyer being my fave character, it's about Jack allowing ANYONE else to show some leadership.

aslanscubs wrote:

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I don't think Danielle saying she had never seen anyone else an error. I think Danielle was just trying to protect Alex.

Ah, yes, a possibility I had not considered!