Lost 4x10: "Something Nice Back Home"

[Commander Vaughn]

A bit OT, but I had switched Grey's Anatomy on about 10 minutes before Lost came on and was surfing here at the bbs and kept hearing someone say 'Dr. Shepard', so I kept thinking I was missing Lost, it was driving me crazy.

Damn, that episode of Grey's Anatomy just did not end! The fact that it ran over into Lost's timeslot was far worse than any part of this episode. I hate that show!

 

[Dream]

A bit OT, but I had switched Grey's Anatomy on about 10 minutes before Lost came on and was surfing here at the bbs and kept hearing someone say 'Dr. Shepard', so I kept thinking I was missing Lost, it was driving me crazy.

Damn, that episode of Grey's Anatomy just did not end! The fact that it ran over into Lost's timeslot was far worse than any part of this episode. I hate that show!

I'm not a fan of GA, but just one of these days I would love it if Jack randomly appeared on Grey's Anatomy as one of the doctors. Fans would be so pissed that the two shows take place in the same universe.

 

[startrekwatcher]

Well, it's official. Rosseau is dead. But was it just me or did the two corpses look NOTHING like the actors? And they only died what 24 hours ago?

Yeah, I thought the same...when Miles unearthed Rousseau and asked "Is that your French chick?", I thought it was actually Karl...

The more interesting question is who would take the time to bury the two bodies. I really don't see the mercenaries taking the time to do it. Did the Others?

 

[Aragorn]

I'm not a fan of GA, but just one of these days I would love it if Jack randomly appeared on Grey's Anatomy as one of the doctors. Fans would be so pissed that the two shows take place in the same universe.

Well Jack and Derek's last names are spelled differently (but maybe it's not canon if the spelling hasn't been shown on screen), but it'd be funny if Jack showed up and said to Derek, "Dad's dead and I'm going to Australia to get his body."

 

[Starbreaker]

Charlotte speaking Korean was no surprise.
The Danielle and Karl thing was kind of grizzly.
I think this is going to be more of a bridge episode than any other.

 

[cubbie]

I can't believe I gave this a poor. I love Lost but the two most irritating characters were highlighted in a boring episode. I hate whiny Jack and I hate manipulative Kate. Of course, the only thing worse is the two of them together.

The only interesting line was Hurley saying they were all dead. I was praying Jack and Kate were really dead.

I hope Hurley isn't, though.

 

[Mr Light]

I'm guessing the reason the Island struck Jack with an illness is as retaliation for being the one to bring in the Kahana people. After all, it was Jack's actions doing this that led to the slaughter of Danielle, Karl, and RedShirts Number One Through Twenty.

Just like Ben was struck with an illness because he's a bad boy. Was it merely getting Goodwin unnecessarily killed? Or something he did off-Island on one of his many trips?

 

[LitmusDragon]

The shippiest of shipper episodes. There was even a marriage proposal fer crying out loud.

I voted above averge, though that's maybe a bit generous. I think most of us have seen the Christian Shepherd thing coming from a mile away so that was hardly a significant revelation.

However I did really enjoy the scene with Jack and Hurley in the mental hospital. The revival of the purgatory meme this season has been fun, though I suspect it's just a tease.

 

[Trippy]

I can't believe I gave this a poor. I love Lost but the two most irritating characters were highlighted in a boring episode. I hate whiny Jack and I hate manipulative Kate. Of course, the only thing worse is the two of them together.

The only interesting line was Hurley saying they were all dead. I was praying Jack and Kate were really dead.

I hope Hurley isn't, though.

My thoughts exactly! Worst ep of the season for sure ...I think I even tasted vomit in my throat at one point!

And even Sawyer was irritating...worry about Claire and the baby...keep evil ghost whisper dude from her...then fall asleep! (with gun lovingly held in his arms)

 

[Warp Coil]

I guess I'm in the minority, since I enjoyed the episode. I couldn't help but smile like a giddy schoolgirl when I saw that Kate step out of the shower. I'm definitely a Jack/Kate fan.

Considering how amazing last week's episode was, I figured this week's wouldn't be as good. But there's still enough going on to keep me interested.

 

[TK421]

Eh, average. At least Kate's "child" had a very good explanation.

 

[Agent Richard07]

People thought this was the worst episode of the season? Even worse than "The Other Woman"?

I couldn't help but smile like a giddy schoolgirl when I saw that Kate step out of the shower.

They used that disguised voice thing again, but I figured it was her.

 

[Shatmandu]

Seemed a little slow. I wonder what Kate was doing on Sawyer's behalf.

Checking in on his daughter, I'm guessing. Kate knows her mother.

Joe, remembering

 

[Aragorn]

I was hoping the woman in the shower would be Juliet. But that would make Jack's confession that he still loves Kate a slap in the face to Juliet.

 

[DeafPoet]

Average, sadly. I'm one of the few who like Jack. I like Kate. I like them together, i guess. But this episode didn't really do anything with that premise or any other premise it raised.

Christian Shephard showing up was huge. I just felt like the whole thread that was introduced with Hurley was leading up to Jack actually sitting down and hashing some shit out with his old man. Alas, it's not the case. In other news, Christian screwed off with Claire somewhere. So is that it for her or will we be seeing her again? Who knows?

The appendix thing was actually my favourite part of the episode because it did Lost character work the way it's supposed to be done: put the characters through some shit and then show how they deal with it. Granted, an appendectomy is not the most riveting thing they probably could have done at this juncture, but whatever, it's something.

Lost is expert at raising questions and making you crave the answer. When *bang* LOST shows up before the end credits, chances are you just witnessed something awesome. Not the case with last night's episode. They set up all kinds of cool stuff and then by the time the end of the hour rolled around, all the intriguing shit they had started doing was just hanging there like so many dangling wet noodles.

Not particularly compelling stuff. And as a guy who usually really likes Jack stories, that's kind of a damning indictment.

In other news, next week's ep is called "Cabin Fever". If they can't make Jacob interesting then we're all really fucked aren't we?

 

[Temis the Vorta]

Average.

I found it mostly interesting and would have voted Above Average except I'm marking them down for killing Danielle before giving us her flashback story, bastards!

But the flashback I want to see is what happened around the time of Alex's birth, Danielle's crew dying from the virus, etc, and those scenes can still be told from Ben's perspective.

...and it looks like characters are having a hard time staying dead, so who's to say that's the last we'll see of Danielle?

Jack was a complete jackass at the end of the flashforward.

He has an excuse for his jackassery this time: too many pills & beer, which he is understandably swigging due to the whole undead Dad thing (compounded by Hurley's stories of undead Charlie - an even more upsetting implication than the notion that Jack is just losing his mind).

In general, I'm uninterested in the Kate & Jack soap opera, but seeing the process by which Jack really starts to lose it back in the real world is interesting.

Sawyer has gotten WAY too protective.

I've been waiting for some fallout from him killing the real Sawyer, yet (presumably) it hasn't eased his psychological pain from childhood - because it can't. So I've been interpreting his behavior as another way to distract himself from the pain. As long as there's a crisis for him to focus on, he doesn't need to focus on himself.

The whole "will of the island" is rather hokey and has lots of holes to it. So Carl deserved to die but Michael can't even kill himself?

The "Island Will" is too easy of a plot convenience. The writers can use it to justify any old thing they feel like doing. I'm hoping they use some restraint or that the Island doesn't have a "will" per se.

 

[Mr Light]

We started to see fallout from Sawyer killing Cooper. In the finale he murdered Tom in cold blood when he was down and captured. Then he pushed away Kate. I thought this was the new direction he going in, the dark loner, the bad guy. But then it went right back to the Odd Couple with Hurley, playing Risk, and risking all to protect Claire and the baby.

It feels almost as odd a character change as Jack suddenly giving Juliet the cold shoulder for Kate!

 

[Endymion]

My recap for this week is up...

http://moveitmoveit.wordpress.com

 

[Agent Richard07]

Does anyone know when the flashforward took place? I didn't catch what Jack was reading in the newspaper.

 

[Aragorn]

^ It was something about A-Rod and the Yankees spanking the Red Sox.