Jate Lives!

I know, I know: What kind of person who claims herself to be Queen of All Things LOST takes almost 4 days to post about it on her blog? Well, my answer is this: the mother to a walking, talking (um, sort of), running, climbing, daredevil child whose husband is coming home NEXT WEEK. So there. 

So anyhoo. I know that a few weeks back, I was all jumpin' around, spoutin' off how much I was a fan of Jacket, the pairing of Jack and Juliet, and I was all swoonin' over the fact that Jack was a go-to guy, and I loved the fact that he's about to throw down with Ben and protect Juliet..... you guys know I was just kidding right?! Heh, heh. ... RIGHT?!

So it seems that Jate shippers have gotten their wish and Jack and Kate are JackandKate in the future. Though, I have to admit, I wasn't like, jaw-dropping shocked to see that it was Kate gettin' all Zestfully clean, try though she might to lower her voice by a few octaves to throw us al off course. And, even as that towel was about to become a rather unnecessary barrier between her and Dr. Jack, I was thinking to myself, "Well, we know that THIS won't end well." Because... well, we DO know that it won't end well. We all saw beardy, unkempt Drunk Jack screaming about "go[ing] baaaaaaaaaaack" to the island, so it's safe to say that the current state of domestic bliss we saw on Thursday is only temporary. 

Hmmm, I hear Aaron rustling to consciousness in his crib, so let me check my notes and hit the high points...

Haha, I wrote down that "Rose wants to throw down with Charlotte, and I would PAY to see that catfight." It's true. "Just watch ya tone, Red." And speaking of "Red," I'M SO MAD that I didn't see that coming!! Re-watching with Lo on Friday night, and seeing all those signs of her eavesdropping on what Jin and Sun were saying, I felt like they could have just smacked me upside the head with a bat engraved with "CHARLOTTE SPEAKS KOREAN, DUMBASS" and the effect would have been the same. 

Um, what else...? Oh, Sawyer and Claire. The sudden transformation of Sawyer from brooding, no-longer-has-a-purpose-now-that-he's-killed-Anthony-Cooper into uber-protective, Claire-lovin' tour guide was a bit speedy for me. Not to mention that I'm still oh-so-confused as to why CHRISTIAN SHEPARD KEEPS SHOWING UP EVERYWHERE. That should be a fun reunion though, if/when Sawyer catches up to Claire and Christian, seeing as how Sawyer and Pops shared a (few) bottle(s) of Scotch in the Land Down Under. (Just another random thought: what's with the camera angle at the end of the show? If memory serves correctly, the last time we ended the show on that downward angle, the pilot was a bloody mess in the limbs of the tree... just sayin'.) Doc Jensen's column this week seems to think that Claire actually didn't survive the attack on her New Otherton house, and that she's now some sort of tangible ghost, hence Miles' seemingly creepy interest in her. That would make like a teeny tiny itty bitty amount of sense, and maybe she and Christian are wanderin' around the jungle being ghost buddies, now, but I'm not totally buyin' that. (And I apparently have an aversion to the letter 'g' today, or have reverted to my southern upbringin'.)

And finally, we have to discuss Hurley's "we're all dead" hypothesis. We've been over this before, however, in the Hurley-centric episode, "Dave," where Hurley's imaginary friend told him that he didn't win the lottery, he didn't survive a plane crash, and that there was no way a hot blonde like Libby could be interested in him. (Harsh, yes.) Only this time, it wasn't coming (THERE'S THE G!) from Dave, but rather from Chaalie, who, by the way, left a message for Jack: "You're not supposed to raise him." Aaron, presumably, but riddle me this: What if he means Christian? As in, "You're not supposed to raise him... FROM THE DEAD?!"  Too much of a stretch? OK, you're right.

And finally, other (random) since Aaron is awake AND WANTS TO PLAY:

• Loie notes, "Where is that electricity coming from?" In reference to the light that was flipped on in the makeshift OR before Jack's surgery, and that, my tall friend, is a VERY good question.
• The whole Juliet-Kate scene wasn't as weird as everyone seems to think. To me, she knew Jack was awake, and by saying all that stuff to Kate, Juliet was relieving Jack of any obligation or whatever that he may have felt toward her.
• From JB, at Vistage: Does Jack need to get baaaaaack to the island because there is (literally) a piece of him that was left behind? And on that note, why does the island allow Jack to get sick? Does he, as Rose insinuates, do something to offend The Powers That Be? 
• I'm fairly certain that whatever favor Kate was doing for Sawyer has something to do with his daughter, Clementine.
• And finally, the "Alice in Wonderland" references are getting a bit intense. Coupled (Chizzy!) with all the Wizard of Oz references, the series finale is set to be a veritable amalgamation of fiction.

And on that big word, Brown out. :)