LOST: The Brig

First I thought the island was purgatory then hell but now I'm seriously starting to think "total immersion video game". heh.

Is it just me or aren't the coincidences getting to be just a little too unrealistic? how can the island have any "rational" real world explanation with all these crazy coincidences? halucinogenics maybe? anyhoo I'll make a 5 dollar bet now that Cooper isn't really dead. No way Sawyer just murdered someone in cold blood because then he really is going to hell. Figuratively anyway. Two "outs" come to mind. One it wasn't Cooper, it was "island magic-box Cooper" I noticed when Locke moved the sack filled with Cooper, it seemed almost wooden? maybe a bad job in Lost production, or maybe because when he catches up with Ben and opens the bag, Magic Island Box Cooper will have reverted back to some inanimate form. And that means that Sawyer didn't kill anyone. Two, Cooper isn't dead, he was just unconscious, he wakes up while he's on Locke's back and you guessed it Sawyer didn't kill anyone. I hope.

Ok first, Sawyer and Locke don't have the same Daddy, as you said in the review. Cooper was the con man who cheated Sawyer's parents leading to Sawyer's father to kill his mother and himself. Second, LAgrrl, Sawyer's already killed someone in cold blood. The first season showed him kill an american working at a shrimp shack in Sydney. Sawyer was led to believe that man was responsible for his parents' deaths and he shot him.

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Sawyer has already killed someone; he was led to believe the man was the con that ruined his life, so its no big surprise that when he actually finds the guy, he'll kill him too.

And the body was wooden because he was dead. Rigor mortis...

As for Jack, I'm not convinced he even knows that people don't trust him. It seems like it hasn't even dawned on him that Desmond and company don't trust him, and he's just hanging out like its old times. The comments to Charlie about camping make him look oblivious to how the camp views him.

nax37. I'm pretty sure when he stated that Locke and Sawyer share a daddy, he meant it figuratively. Cooper in a sence created much of what Sawyer has become.

Pretty good episode.

I can't say I was suprised that Sawyer killed Cooper. It would have been a great arc for Sawyer to not kill him. It would have shown a big change in the Sawyer before the island and Sawyer after the island. I've never been angry at Jack until he has brought Juliet back. I don't think he knows that no one trusts him but I do think he knows what Juliet is doing. I think he and Juliet have a plan to try and ambush the others when they come. Who knows, though. It's like Locke said when they saw Jack playing football with the others. The first time he saw Jack, he was running through burning wreckage to save people. If he is playing football with the others, he probably has a good reason. The next episode is supposed to be a Ben episode so it should be really interesting.

Once again I think the review for this show was way off. This was a B/B+ episode at best. It tied up a few loose ends but did not advance the plot. Which is nice, but since we knew that Locke was holding his dad and not Ben the whole time, there was little suspense in the first half of the episode.

Loved the scene with Roussou though!

This episode was freaking fantastic! Can't wait to see where they take Sawyer's character now... it really added a lot of depth to him. Also cool -- how the episode tied back into all the stuff from season one. I LOVE the way the writers set stuff up so far ahead so the payoff is that much more sweet. And what a story advancement from so many perspectives, mainly character growth and development. Thanks Lost!

Loved it. Great storytelling, and while we knew from the very start that Locke had his Dad and not Ben the whole time, I don't think the show was REALLY trying to trick us with that.

lister, this didn't advance the plot? Uhm - I respectfully disagree. We see a lot of things happening to Locke, who's personal journey is more tied to the island than almost anything else in the show. We see where the Others went and more of their activities (a little, in any case) and how they all are part of something bigger that seems to have to do with the properties of the island, something more (if Albert is to be believe) than just Ben's fixation on pregnancies. We get that the survivors really don't trust Jack and that it is finally brought to Jack's attention - and we get a solid confirmation that Jack is up to more with Juliet than just blindly trusting her.

I hope this show is starting to get back on track after a forgettable season. I loved this episode and hope it is a sign of things to come.

Gotta disagree Merin... Locke is still stuck being less than the cutthroat we thought he was initially. We don't know where the Others went yet. Knowing the survivors don't trust Jack is not much movement plot-wise. Only that little bit at the end with Kate & Jack & Juliet seemed to be going anywhere, and then it all ended.

And once again, only Sayid asks the right questions! But he didn't get much info. All the wheels were in motion, but only an incremental advance. I liked that Sawyer's story got a wrap up. That's good.

OK we did see that one Other give the folder to Locke so maybe he's anti-Ben as well. Who knows?

Next week looks most excellent!

"starting to get back on track"? It's been on track for almost 14 episodes in a row now!