Lost: I Will Glare At You Really Sternly

::spoilers, gang::

Check out the big ego on Dr. Jack!

So no one is to even bother questioning Juliet’s infiltration into the Beach Boys because she is “under [Jack's] protection”? How exactly is he going to enforce this special protective magic? Laser beams from his eyes? Look, we all know Jack has this gaping vulnerability when it comes to tragic blondes. I mean, if the fellow were Stateside he’d probably end his days drinking rye and warbling along to ‘Candle In The Wind’. Of course his judgment regarding Juliet is going to be impaired! The rest of us, however, could pretty much call Juliet’s Mata Hari thing from miles yonder. And if he thought about it for more than five seconds and with more than his twig’n'berries, Jack could have spotted the hole in Juliet’s little tale about Claire. After all, he’s been running around for a few weeks with Rousseau, who is fit as a fiddle and ready for war after giving birth to HER child on the Island. Where was her need for a magic shot? Yes, Juliet said that she engineered Claire’s system, but only because Claire’s death in childbirth was inevitable–like all the other women who’ve given birth on the Island. Jack, there’s a little game we folks out in the world like to play. It’s called “I call BS!” You should brush up on the rules. Maybe he’s still pondering the origin of his tattoos. (Weighty subject that it was…) I’m still questioning his judgment about not moving the camp inland to the village. Why scrounge blankets and a lean-to for his new BFF when there are perfectly-plumbed houses with electric lights half a day’s walk inland? Oh well. I am clearly no leader of men.

There were several brainteaser goodies in tonight’s episode. And I’m confessing now that these are fast becoming my favourite parts of Lost. They remind me of those hidden-object pictures in Highlights.

• The transportation used to escort Juliet to the Island was Hererat (sp?). From my dim recollections I believe this is an archaic term used for what we now call Mt. Ararat. That is the location given for the final resting place of Noah’s Ark.

Does this point to the Island being a survivalist reclaimation laboratory of some sort? A kind of genetically-engineered Ark to preserve the species?

• The first woman who died, who according to Ben “chose” to be pregnant was named…Sabine. Pardon me if I don’t necessarily believe a woman called Sabine necessarily had a pregnancy of her own volition. I think this is yet another clue to the Island’s being some type of against-their-will lab. With all the Enlightenment philosopher names floating around, I find it hard to believe that the concept of force vs. free will is NOT going to be examined by the producers.

• At last.  We discover the Book Club’s King Tome Of Choice to be Carrie.   Why is this significant?   Please tell me that Lost will not be taking the Grey’s Anatomy route of having a prom in the season finale?!  I kid.  I actually think that Carrie is the significant choice because that novel is about a girl with a psychokinetic power rebelling against a strictly religious mother.   The Island is already full of wars between Science and Religion, Faith and Reason, Blind Trust and Skepticsm.   Of all the King novels, Carrie is the one which most openly addresses those themes.   And it also involves a great deal of menstrual blood, tying in nicely with all this fertility jazz.

So what did I think over all?   I’m on a rewarming trend toward the show, but Jack and Kate and anything to do with them still acts like a bucket of icewater on my loins.   So as long as we’ve got Hurley, Sawyer and some answers, I’m back on board.