Mar 04 2009
Almost-live blogging 5×08 LaFleur
Blogging during commercials …
9:07 Time jumps are over! The Lost-ies are cured!
Sawyer: “As long as it takes.” Caption on screen: “Three years later.” Ha.
Nervous Dharma workers waiting for the reaction of their boss, LaFleur. The camera is coy, doesn’t show who it is, then it finally pulls back to reveal …. Sawyer!
Sawyer: “Son of a bitch.” Ha ha ha!
9:17 There’s Michelle Dessler from “24″! I better learn to call her Amy now. She’s pregnant. On the Island. That can’t be good.
Miles, snarking at Sawyer: “Who put him in charge?”
I’m really liking the Sawyer-Juliet rapport here.
Will there ever be a time when seeing someone in a hood isn’t reminiscent of Abu Ghraib?
Hood comes off. It’s Michelle, um Amy, again!
9:28 Sawyer, explaining why he should be the one to tell the story: “I’m a professional. I used to lie for a living.” Ha!
Baby and Amy are ok! Sawyer looks so proud of Juliet. I am REALLY liking the idea of the two of them as a couple. If they’re not one already, they should be!
9:37 Horace to Sawyer: “You are not Dharma material.”
Daniel: “We’re not on the song we want to be on.”
Little girl waves to Daniel. He seems to know her. “Charlotte.” !!!
Alarm. Alpert. Sawyer: “Uh oh.”
9:52 Sawyer: “It’s a good thing I’m not asking your permission.” Alpert still has his eyeliner on.
Amy takes her husband’s pendant — is that thing called an ankh? I wonder what the significance is, if any, of his wearing that.
Juliet wants to leave. Sawyer: “Who is going to get my back?” Oh, they are SO right for each other. I feel sorry that Juliet didn’t get off the Island, though, now that she finally had a chance. Though I guess it would be weird to just show up on the mainland in 1974.
Back to the future. Sawyer picks flower. They hug! Yes! Kiss. Juliet looks happier than we’ve ever seen her.
10:02 Sawyer with glasses. He looks so studious.
Sawyer: “I had a thing for a girl once. She’s just gone. She ain’t never coming back.”
Now THAT has got to be a cue for Kate to show up.
And — there she is!
Uh oh! Sawyer still likes her!
I enjoyed this episode. I like the love triangles or quadrangles or whatever they are.
I thought it was set up very well, so that right from the beginning of the episode, when Sawyer and Juliet are walking through the jungle, before they even see Amy being attacked, we are starting to see the rapport that they have together, and we are encouraged to root for them to become a couple. As the episode continues, we see the bond growing stronger, and our investment in their future relationship grows as well, until it culminates in the moment that we see that they are, indeed, together — and we feel a part of it, having hoped it would happen all along.
And then, Kate comes back. After we’ve been led to feel invested in Sawyer and Juliet, then we see Kate.
Very well done.
I finished my write-up over at my blog, if you’d like to check back–you caught me while I was still editing…heh!
That moment with Daniel…I actually gasped when I realized it was going to be Charlotte. Daniel is just such an angsty character…I was in agony for him this episode. He’s got such a sweet soul and all these desperate acts he’s done to try and save people and none of it helps.
I loved having a Sawyer/Julie-centric episode. The two of them are fun. And Sawyer living the domestic life but still remaining Sawyer-ish are awesome.
I giggled about Alpert and the yeliner–does he actually have eyeliner or is it just that his eyelashes are so dark? I love the way Sawyer dished all this crazy stuff to Alpert that proved he wasn’t some mere Dharma flunkie. That was awesome.
Alpert is so gorgeous and so scary at the same time. Everyone around him changes, and there he is, in all these different timelines, like an ageless vampire. *shiver*
Ok, I’ll check back at your blog. I guess I jumped the gun. But I was over at the main Television page, and I saw that picture of Sawyer taking off his glasses… yum … and how could I resist clicking on that?
I agree, that Charlotte moment was amazing. I knew that Daniel recognized her, but I didn’t know who she was until he actually said her name, so that really took me by surprise. “Sweet soul” — yes, that’s a good way to put it! And his face is so expressive — you can see everything he’s feeling on his face, which makes it even more poignant.
I love Sawyer and Juliet together! And, I agree, he was domesticated without losing his Sawyerness. There were times in this episode when I thought he looked happier than he ever had before. (Juliet too, as I had mentioned above.)
I heard that some major authority (like Wikipedia
) claims that Alpert doesn’t wear any make-up, and that his lashes are just naturally dark. But how could it be his lashes? There’s a dark line going right across his bottom lid. Well, only his make-up artist knows for sure.
Maybe he *is* a vampire!
Hee…I was hoping that Sawyer image would get me some clicks! And thanks for reminding me…I have to add “glasses” to my keywords, ’cause you know there are Sawyer fangirls looking for glasses pics. Not as much as “shirtless Sawyer”, but still. *G*
I remembered thinking, when Charlotte said she’d seen Daniel when she’d been a little girl, that he’d done one of his time travel experiments to get to her then. It hadn’t seemed to make sense exactly, because how reliable is it to tell a little girl something, but then here it was, all the flashes they were going through and she lived on the island…it all kind of crashed down on me as soon as I saw that little girl. Gah! Just good writing all around.
Perhaps I’ll have to try and get some close up screencaps of Vampire Alpert to check his eyes out. That will be such a terrible chore, let me tell you. *G*
This was a really good episode. I agree that the writers did a really good buildup of Sawyer and Juliet’s relationship .. then the foreshadowing of Sawyer saying it was possible to get over someone in three years … then Kate!
Did I miss it, or did they not show what Daniel was up to in the 3 years later segments?
I’m wondering if Locke/Ben landed on the island in present day time, or in the 70’s time? If all of them are in the 70’s now, then will they just live out the rest of their lives in the 70’s, or somehow get transported back to present day time once whatever their reason for being there is accomplished?
@V — While I share your love for Sawyer, I am totally immune to Alpert’s vampire-ish charms. Doesn’t do a thing for me. Besides, some day he may have a Dorian Gray moment, and appear to age thousands of years in an instant. Ha.
@laneerg — I think you’re right — I don’t think they showed Daniel in the later time segments.
I think it’s strange that Jack’s group landed in exactly the same time zone where Sawyer’s group is now living. The probability of that happening by chance alone is almost zero. So something is going on. And whatever that is could have also pulled Locke and Ben into the same time zone too.
My guess, though, is that they are in different times. Jack, Kate, and Hurley were transported down via a flash, while Locke and Ben came down with the plane. Different ways of getting to the Island may mean they landed in different times. I would guess that Locke and Ben are in the present.
I’m sure they are all going to end up in the same time by the end of Season 6, and probably a lot sooner than that. Meanwhile, I kind of like the idea of them wandering around the same place, but in different times. Maybe the 70s group can leave notes for the present day group?
Hey MsTerri, I hope Alpert doesn’t have a Dorian Gray moment…eewww! I could see something like that happening, though. Of course, maybe he’s not really there…*plays Twilight Zone music*
What’s funny is I know and love Nestor Carbonell from back during his “Suddenly Susan” days, the Brooke Shields sticom in the late ’90s. Hubby and I still call him “Luis” whenever we see him on TV…lol. This role is quite a departure from that one…heh…but honestly, he hasn’t aged in 10 years in RL so it’s the perfect character for him. Maybe he really IS a vampire…
p.s. Thanks again for the really nice comments on my blog, and for the linkie in the blogroll. Now I have to make sure I keep up with those Lost posts! *G*
I think I only saw “Suddenly Susan” a few times. I can barely remember the show, and I don’t remember Carbonell at all. But that’s pretty funny that he hasn’t seemed to age in real life either.
I guess you *do* have to keep up with your Lost posts now. Not to put any pressure on you or anything. (Insert evil laugh here.)