10/9c.
But wouldn’t it be sweet if it was called, “Just the Two of Us,” and the first five minutes would be the music video from the Will Smith classic, “Just the Two of Us” in which he raps about his impending fatherhood? Dang, that would be so awesome. And relevant.
Us vs. Them
Last season, one of the most talked-about episodes was "One of Them", in which Rousseau "captured" Henry "Ben Linus" Gale in her crazy jungle net. This prompted the “Is he who he say he is? Is he good or bad?” question among most viewers. Fast forward to now, and tonight’s episode: “One of Us”. Jack, Kate and Sawyer return to the beach with Juliet in tow, amid speculation about her motives and questions as to her allegiance. A very similar situation here, and a deliberate parallel created by the writers. This time around, we’ve got a head start on our skepticism, as we’ve already been wondering all season what Juliet’s true purpose and motivation was, and we know she’s at least a pseudo-other. Last year, Ben took on the task of deceiving an entire culture of people, opting to play his manipulation and exploitation cards in the hopes of gaining more information and driving a wedge between the survivors. Juliet may not be as manipulative as Ben (and who is?), but she’s no stranger to deception. She’s got the best poker face on the island, to the point that even her greatest ally, Jack, occasionally doesn’t trust her.
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Note: The literalist would say, “In ‘One of Them’ the survivors are introduced to Ben, who turns out to be an other (one of them). So because this episode is titled, ‘One of Us’, and the survivors are introduced to Juliet, then Juliet must be good. (one of us)” But it couldn’t be that easy, could it?
That’s What She Sayid
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From the preview. Juliet says, “If I told you everything I know, they’d kill me.” Sayid responds, “What do you think I’ll do if you don’t?” Chills, baby. Chills.
We Don’t Know Jack. Hell, Jack Doesn’t Know Jack.
Remember the last time Jack was on the beach? Me neither. I think the first Bush was president, and snap bracelets were all the rage. In LOST time, he’s only been gone about a month (give or take a few days). But the Jack who left the beach under the delusion that he was going to get Walt back is not the Jack who is returning to the island. It’s amazing what a few weeks in Othersville will do to someone (or a few years, eh Juliet?). He’s got Other mentality now (yes, I believe he’s still good), but if we thought Jack was difficult to walk all over before, we haven’t seen anything yet. He’s a little older, a little wiser and real pissed at Locke for squandering his chance at rescuing himself (and, presumably, everyone else). I think he’ll be in a take-no-shit-from-anyone mood, finally restoring a sense of legitimacy and seriousness to the beach.
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As they walk through the various corridors of the office, Nikki walks two steps behind Jack, with pages up on pages of messages that have amassed in his absence. She would try to catch him up to speed in the time it takes him to get from the front door to his office. Something like: “Welcome back, sir! How was vacation? Great? Oh not great? Okay. Well a lot has happened, where do I begin? Ummm, that hatch thing blew up with Eko, Charlie, Desmond and Sawyer inside — that’s why the sky turned purple and stuff. So afterwards, Charlie and Eko were okay, but Locke couldn’t speak until he rescued Eko. But then Eko confronted his past demons and got killed by Smokey. Bummer, he was a nice guy. And get this, something in that explosion gave Desmond ESP! Crazy, right? Anyway, he keeps having premonitions about Charlie’s untimely death, so everyone’s all like, ‘Oh no, Charlie’s gonna die,” but we dont’ know if he’ll die but Desmond has to look out for him. Ummm, so then me and Paolo showed up, and nobody liked us, and Medusa spiders bit us, paralyzed us and then everyone buried us alive. Seriously! Ummm, Charlie admitted to Sun that he, not the Others, kidnapped Sun. She was pissed! And last week, Sawyer made an effort at civility, so Hurley crowned him as the new leader. Phew, I think that’s about it. Hey where’s Locke?”
See what I mean? It’ll be a readjustment for Jack, complete with a power struggle with Sawyer, who really is the new sheriff in town. Should be a classic.
Enjoy
Okay, enjoy this one tonight. And check out Dharma Bonus Tracks (on the right-hand side of the page) for some added thoughts.
Coping with the sneaking suspicion that tonight’s episode probably won’t include Nikki stripping OR Juliet/Kate mud fights,
Charlie.
2 Snarky Comments:
dood...forget will smith. I'll bet a pretty penny that Michael and Walt can fill the 'jiggy wit it' shoes!
Maybe when they finally get off the damn island and make it to the states, they can fly into Miami international, and "Welcome to Miami" will be playing, and as they walk through the arrivals gate, Will Smith can be there in pink satin and do the dance break from the video...and this is how i know i'm lame.
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