Apr 01 2009
“Almost-live” blogging — 5×11 Whatever Happened, Happened
9:05 Jin’s ok. Little Ben is alive. I figured he would be (for the sake of not entangling the show in time-travel paradoxes), but how does someone survive being shot in the chest?
Flashback. Cassidy: “What are you doing here?” Kate: “Sawyer sent me.”
9:17 Cassidy, about Sawyer: “What a coward.”
Hurley checks to see if he’s disappearing! Which he would be if the show had become entangled in a time-travel paradox. I love this. Miles says, no. He’s a believer in the Faraday line of thinking that you can’t change the future.
And then, in the middle of the time-travel discussion, Hurley, standing in for us, the viewers, as he so often does, says “This is really confusing!” Ha ha ha!
Jack refuses to help Ben. Kate says Ben will die. Jacks says, “Then he dies.”
9:29 Jack is tired of being the guy who always fixes things. “Maybe the Island just wants to fix things itself.”
Kate: “I don’t like the new you. I liked the old you.”
Jack: “You didn’t like the old me, Kate.”
Interesting.
Roger is remorseful. Who would’ve thunk it?
Hurley and Miles continue their discussion of time travel. This is cracking me up. They’re pursuing threads that are becoming more and more convoluted and incomprehensible, just like two LOST fans arguing about their favorite theories.
Hurley, again standing in for us: “Say that again?”
Juliet says they have to go to the Others for Ben. I don’t really understand this. Do the others have more advanced medical skills than the Dharma folk?
9:37 Flashback to scene on pier. Kate loses Aaron in supermarket. Finds him with a woman who looks like Claire, from the back, but it isn’t Claire.
Meeting of Kate and Sawyer (and the cute blue VW vans) in the meadow.
9:49 Kate and Cassidy have become friends. Kate: “Aaron needed me.” Cassidy to Kate: “You needed Aaron.”
Sawyer: “I’m dong it for Juliet.”
Juliet to Jack (echoing Cassidy to Kate): “You came back here for you.”
New Jack (channeling Locke): “I came back because I was supposed to.”
Kate and Sawyer have The Talk, then are interrupted by armed Others.
10:02 Kate, confirming Cassidy’s point, tells Claire’s mother that she lied because she needed Aaron.
Back on the Island, Kate and Sawyer give Little Ben to Alpert, who says “If I take him, he’ll never be the same again.”
Hey, maybe Alpert really IS a vampire! Hah.
Alpert carries Little Ben through the jungle, towards a cabin. It’s Jacob’s cabin, I think. Is Christian Shephard inside? I bet that’s it. How many other surgeons are there hanging out in the jungle?
Big Ben wakes up and sees Locke. Big Ben looks shocked, and I don’t think he’s faking. Locke just smiles and says, “Welcome back to the land of the living.”
I’d say this was a good, though not a great episode. What kept it from being great, for me, was that Kate didn’t really engage me emotionally. When she was crying about giving Aaron up, I wasn’t feeling it. Same thing when she reunited with Sawyer. I’m not sure if it’s the character or the actress, but Kate usually seems remote to me.
On the plus side, we got answers to several questions: what Sawyer had whispered to Kate in the helicopter, what happened to Aaron, and how Ben ended up with the Others. The dialogue between New Jack and Kate was interesting. And I loved the scenes with Hurley and Miles, acting as stand-ins for all of us theory-spouting LOST fans.
Evangeline Lilly promo photo (c) ABC
Ooh, pretty Kate photo. I actually exclaimed in the middle of the episode while watching one of the flashbacks “God, she’s got pretty hair”…heh. She’s just so darn cute, it’s unbelievable. That Dom should thank his lucky stars, that’s for sure.
I am still chuckling about the vampire theory–here we were joking about that all along and now it’s starting to look like it’s actually true…lol…
Did you think it was Jacob’s cabin? They didn’t really give us enough of a look at it…I expect it’ll come up again later so we’ll know for sure. Hopefully.
And I love the idea of Hurley and Miles as two Lost fans duking it out over time theories…lol.
I got so caught up in the Kate and Sawyer stuff I forgot about that bit at the end with Locke. That smile of his was one of devilish glee…and Ben actually looked scared. Ha! I’m looking forward to seeing how THAT turns out.
I think I was wrong about it being Jacob’s cabin, and you were right that it was actually Smokie’s lair. The “Lost Untangled” video (see the post above this one) actually confirms that.
The very short scene at the end with Locke and Ben was great, and I agree, it bodes well for next week’s episode. The two actors work so well together.
Wouldn’t that be funny if Alpert really was a vampire? Seriously, what is he? He says if he takes Ben, Ben will never be the same. And that Ben will forget what happened. And that Ben will forever after be one of them. Hmmmm ….. What is it that Alpert — or Smokie — is going to do to Ben?
It’s funny that you thought Alpert was taking Ben to Jacob’s cabin, because I thought it might have been the temple which I don’t think we’ve seen yet.
I enjoyed this episode, but I would agree that it wasn’t a great one. Kate didn’t annoy me as much as she does sometimes, so that was good.
I liked how we got some real answers, and I of course absolutely loved my Hurley discussing time travel with Miles. It was like the writers were doing a little dialogue with the fans, only keeping the beat of the show going.
I think you’re right. It *is* the temple. You and Val (and the ‘Lost Untangled’ narrator, who should know, since he works for ABC!) all think it’s the temple/Smokie’s lair, so I’m convinced now.
During that scene, I had Christian Shephard on my mind because I was thinking about who could possibly be the Other-equivalent of Jack. I thought that Kate was bringing Ben to the Others for medical treatment, so I was wondering who could be the Other who was a skilled surgeon who could operate on Ben and save his life after Jack had refused to so. And then I thought — aha! It has to be Jack’s undead Dad — he’s a surgeon! (And back then, Jack’s Dad wasn’t yet dead, or even undead!) And then I saw Alpert and Ben approaching some fuzzy structure on my tiny TV, and I thought Eureka! I’m right! Christian Shephard lives in Jacob’s shack!
I was so pleased with myself.
But, as Hurley would (and did!) say — My theory was WRONG! Ha ha ha. I guess from now on, everytime I come up with some hare-brained theory, I’m going to think of Hurley saying “Your theory is WRONG!”