3x6 - "I Do" Present

Island Number 1

1. During Eko's funeral, we again see "Lift up your eyes, and look north" - John 3:05 on the Jesus stick. It seems that this quote is a clue as to where Island Number 2 is in relation to Island Number 1 and not a clue as to Mr. Eko's whereabouts at the beginning of "Further Instructions."

Island Number 2 - Where the action's at this week

1. So clearly, Kate and Sawyer are not "good ones," because Ben has no qualms about allowing Pickett to kill them, at least not until after Jack performs the surgery.

2. Kate and Sawyer finally got together (nice!). Have they not been able to infer that the Others are WATCHING THEM? The fact that they turned off the shock button in Sawyer's cage in "Every Man For Himself" should have given them a very big clue.

3. What is going on with Alex? Why is she behaving like that and why did Ben ask about her before he went under the knife?

4. Jack is one sneaky and loyal bastard. I really think he will let Ben die if Pickett makes good on his threat to kill Sawyer and Kate. All that remains now is to see if Kate can bring herself to run away, and if Pickett will actually let them.

Parting thoughts - Now this is just brutal. They can't end a show like that. Clearly Jack has proved that his loyalty will be only to himself and his friends even if they betrayed him. Ugh, WHERE ARE THE OTHER TAILLIES? WHAT IS ALEX'S AGENDA? WHY IS BEN A LIAR? WHY DO SOME OF THE OTHERS WANT HIM DEAD? I can't wait three months for this to happen!

3x6 - "I Do" Flashbacks

I would have posted this last night but Blogger wouldn't let me log in during a technical difficulty of some sort.

1. What? Kate's getting married to a cop? And her name is now Monica? How exactly did she manage to get a marriage license with her fugitive status?

2. How ironic, the honeymoon plane tickets to Costa Rica were on Oceanic. I got a real kick out of that.

3. So she really has been calling Edward Mars during her run. I always wondered what went on during these phone calls, seeing how she never struck me as the kind of person to taunt others.

4. It's so much harder for Kate to stay on the run when she gets attached to someone else which ties over perfectly onto the island.

Those guys sure know how to cast

This upcoming episode "I Do" will feature a guest appearence by talented actor, Nathan Fillion. If you've seen "Firefly", or it's movie follow-up "Serenity", then you know what I'm talking about. This episode gets so much more hype in my book for that reason alone.

3x5 - "The Cost Of Living" Present

Island Number 1 - Where the action's at this week.

Mr. Eko

1. Judgement day has come for Mr. Eko. The visions of his brother are so real that they burned down the tent Eko was resting in.

2. His trek through the jungle leads him back to the beechcraft where the body of Yemi is nowhere to be found? This isn't the first time this happened. Go back to "White Rabbit," when the body of Christian Shepherd was missing from his coffin and Jack nearly had a face to face encounter with him.

3. Was that Yemi or the Monster he confessed to? Was it the same monster that backed off last season that killed Eko this week? What did Eko say to Locke before he died? CAN WE GO FOR LIKE SIX EPISODES WITHOUT AN INTERESTING CHARACTER DIEING?!?!?!?!

Locke, Desmond, Sayid, Paulo, Nikki

1. How is Desmond aware of what the computer in the hatch was capable of? I don't think that Kelvin told him anything like that so is it more of his insight into the future?

2. Interesting choice for Locke to extend an open invitation for that expidition. Of course Paulo and Nikki just HAD to tag along. I say again, no real reason to care about these characters, they're just THERE! Okay well Nikki did let on about the TVs connecting to other cameras possibly in other hatches.

3. Just who is the man with the eyepatch? Could he be the owner of the glass eye Eko found in "the Other 48 Days?"

Island Number 2

1. That was a somber funeral sequence to start things off. They burned Colleen's body and set her adrift at sea, very touching.

2. Cute little flirty with Jack and Juilet, "I killed the cow, processed the meat..." yeah yeah folks. Given what happened last week and what Jack said about "not caring about making her feel better" that just didn't seem plausable.

3. Ben has a tumor on his spine, and believes that God brought Jack to him in order to save his life.

Lets go all the way back to "One of Them," when Ben was still known as Henry Gale. Didn't it seem strange that the others, knowing full well that the survivors have the passenger manifest, would send one person on a suicide mission just to capture John Locke? When the Others sent people to capture the plane crash survivors, they were sending out an entire team of people on these missions. Of course now it would be too dangerous knowing that the suvivors have an arsenal at their disposal and this mission was clearly for Ben's own survival, and suddenly it makes so much more sense that Ben was coing for Jack and not Locke. The fact that Ben acted alone could add to the speculation that there really is descention among the Others.

4. Why is Juilet trying to get Ben killed? Why are there people who want him dead? Why are they too afraid to do anything themselves? Why is Ben a liar? All this and more in the weeks to come.

Update 11/4 - Parting Thoughts: If the Monster really is taking the forms of dead people from it's target's past, it would explain why we have seen Christian Shepherd in "White Rabbit" and why the image of Yemi, the horse from "What Kate Did," and possibly the boar that harassed Sawyer in "Outlaws" were the Monster taking a tangable form. Yet what is the reason? Why is the monster acting this way? One thought I have, is that the Monster could be a physical manifistation of God. I'm not endorsing this theory because it would be a very bold move for the writers to make but I feel it's necessary to throw it out into the open.
SHUTDOWN!

3x5 - "The Cost Of Living" Flashbacks

I love Eko's flashbacks. Of all the taillies we met last year, his by far have the most substance and were some of the best we've seen on the show.

As great as this flashback was, I can pretty much sum this up in one point - Eko has stood by every sin he has committed as he did it only to stay alive, which is why he avoided facing any sort of judgement for so long. The opening flashback with him stealing food for his brother, killing the old man so his brother didn't have to, killing those men in the church while impersonating a priest - all of it was so he could stay alive. As we clearly see in the present, these sins will come back to haunt him.