Tonight's episode "The Hunting Party" was a lot of plot, but not much in the way of story. We got to see an interaction with "the others," which didn't lend much in the way of information, only that the others are allowing the survivors to remain on the island. And also, we got to see how Jack's marriage broke up, which was another piece of the puzzle to a man that is so annoyingly stubborn and faithless.
Some pieces of note:
1. Jack's last line to Ana-Lucia: "How long do you think it would take to train an army?" Setting up a potential island-Armageddon between the survivors and the others.
2. Charlie watching Locke with Claire and Aaron, taking over his place (or so Charlie feels). What is Charlie going to do about it? Start using again? Or become obsessed with Locke's interest in Aaron? Take action? The man is a powder keg of heroin.
3. Jack, who is attracted to Kate, is pouting because Kate and Sawyer seem to be growing closer. But when Jack tells Sawyer, "You said you love her," Sawyer doesn't seem to recall saying it. What does this mean for the Kate-Jack-Sawyer triangle? It seems to me that Jack is punishing Kate for her attraction to Sawyer -- when she makes her big mistake by following them and getting herself captured, Jack ignores her. Kate seems to want Jack to love her more than she wants to love him -- she spends the remainder of the episode trying to get Jack to talk to her.
4. How will Ana-Lucia figure into the Jack-Kate-Sawyer triangle? Jack goes to her to take over Kate's usual cohort-role at the end of the episode. Is Jack just using her to make Kate jealous? Is Ana-Lucia's status as an outcast make her more attractive to Jack? After all, Jack's former wife, Sarah, (in the flashback of tonight's episode) said: "You can't stand not having something to fix."
5. Why are the others allowing the survivors to live on this island? And why are they taking all the children and people on the list, but not killing them? Goodwin, a spy who infilterates the tail-end survivors, tells Ana-Lucia that one of the survivors wasn't taken "because he wasn't a good person." Zeke, the others' spokesmen, quotes Alvar Hanso in tonight's episode: "From the dawn of our species, Man has been blessed with curiosity." This raises tons of questions. Are they part of the social experiment of the Hanso Foundation and the Dharma Initiative? Are the others actually good and the survivors the bad ones -- and if so, who are we really rooting for in these episodes?
6. J.J. Abrams, at the Golden Globes, categorized Lost as "a show about faith." Hmm.
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