LostEpisode 508LaFleurPlease let three years be enough!!!!
I actually squeed liked a mad fangirl and clapped my hands when Sawyer and Juliet declared their love for each other. Sigh!!!
But that damn Kate; why’d did she have to return then??!! Please let three years be enough!
So, onto the recap of an episode I really liked.
The flashback this week belongs to Sawyer, who’s living at Dharma in 1974 under the name James LaFleur. The flashback takes us a time when our time travelers were still at the Orchid and Locke was being lowered into the well. They flash (and loose Locke) but find themselves in a time long, long before the well was even built. We finally get to see what Four-Toes looked like before it was just a four-toed statue.
Locke turns the Donkey Wheel and time stabilizes. Our Losties head for the beach, but on the way come across two people being roughed up by Others. Sawyer and Juliet kill the Others and save the girl – Amy. They bury the bodies of the Others and take back Amy’s husband’s body back to Dharma.
At the sonic fence, Amy fools them into walking into it and they are all knocked out by it. When Sawyer eventually regains consciousness, he spins a story (the same one he told Amy) about being the captain of a salvage ship looking for the wreck of the Black Rock. He says that their ship ran aground after being in a storm and they were looking for some of his people. Horace buys his story, but has every intention of sending them back to Tahiti in the sub.
But guess who pitches up in the middle of the night? Richard’s just a tad pissed because the truce has been broken and wants to know where his people are. Horace doesn’t seem to be able to pacify him, and that’s when Sawyer decides to talk to Richard. He tells Richard that he’s the one who killed his people. He also goes on to mention Locke and tells him that they’re waiting for Locke to get back. Richard believes him.
Later, Horace tells Sawyer that they can stay an extra two weeks. Sawyer finds Juliet at the sub and she says she wants to go. He convinces her to stay. (End of flashback)
Meanwhile, three years later, Amy has married Horace and goes into labour. This is after she and Horace get into a fight and he gets roaring drunk and tries blowing up trees with dynamite.
There’s a problem with the birth and Sawyer gets Juliet, who’s now a mechanic at Dharma. He convinces her to help Amy, which she does and Amy gives birth to a baby boy. Later, it’s revealed that he and Juliet are now in love and living together.
When Horace eventually awakes, Sawyer tells him that he’s a daddy. Horace tells Sawyer about their fight and asks Sawyer if three years is enough time to get over someone. Sawyer tells him about Kate (without mentioning her name) and says that yes, three years is definitely long enough to get over someone.
The next morning, Sawyer gets a call from Jin. We all know what Jin has found, and Sawyer races off to meet him. In quite a moving scene, Hurley, Jack and Kate emerge from Jin’s bus.
Like I said, I’ve really enjoyed this episode and I think it’s got a lot to do with Sawyer and his magnificent transformation into this handsome swashbuckling hero – although that 70’s hairstyle does
nothing for him. We’ve all predicted that this bad boy would evolve into a fantastic leader, and he has. Good job Sawyer!!!
Anyway, key points of this episode:
• Four-toes. Wow; how awesome was it actually, finally seeing Four-Toes – even if it was just a 5 second glimpse! I’ve watched enough documentaries and read enough books on Egyptology to tell you it was (so obviously) an Egyptian statue. Anyone could see that :)
It could be any number of the Egyptian gods – Anubis, Horus or even whoever the current Pharaoh of the day was. Makes you wonder what a statue of an Egyptian god was doing on an island, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean!!
• We now know how our time-travelers ended up working for Dharma. It actually stands to reason – considering when they’d ended up – they could only become members of Dharma or Others. Anyway, Horace believed their story quickly enough. I’m quite sure that the mention of the Black Rock probably had something to do with it.
Even so, I think that Sawyer’s lies were too easily believed by the Dharma lot. There were too many holes… like the good “guess” Juliet made about the sonic fence.
Richard definitely believed Sawyer’s story. I’m also quite sure that this… “relationship” between Richard and Sawyer is what sealed Sawyer’s job as head of security. I’m sure that Richard and Sawyer had a few more chats about Locke, and maybe even other things.
• What’s really interesting is that someone tells Sawyer that all children are born on the mainland. Firstly, what or where is the mainland? And more importantly, why are all babies born off the island? So, it’s entirely possible that the Pregnant Woman Syndrome that plagued Sun while she was on the island was in effect here too.
So why was Juliet able to safely deliver this baby? And considering that babies are usually not born on the island, we have to ask ourselves just who this baby grows up to be.
• Sawyer and Juliet’s relationship is something I had taken a fancy for since the end of season 4. I think that these two are very well suited to each other – a lot better than Kate and Sawyer. And this has nothing to do with my Kate-hate (well maybe just a little bit) but with Juliet, Sawyer knows where he stands. And she always has his back.
But now that Kate has returned… I truly hope that this will not play out into some long-winded story about who loves who and who should be with who. Juliet clearly belongs with Sawyer.
• At some point, Dharma and the Others declared a truce. So why did those two Others kill Paul?
• Where is Sayid, Sun and the other Losties. And since Locke is with the Ajira people, why did this time split occur?
I’m sure there’s a lot more I’m leaving out, but that’s what I have for you today. I’m really looking forward to the next episode.
What we’ve learnt this week• We know how our time travelers (I really want to call them flashers!!) end up working for Dharma.
• We’ve seen what four-toes was.
• We know that Juliet and Sawyer are living together.
• And we learnt that Horace Goodspeed was the leader of the Dharma people.
New Questions this week• Where are Sayid and Sun and Frank?
• Why was Juliet able to deliver the baby?
• What happened to four-toes, and what exactly does it signify?
• Will Juliet’s and Sawyer’s relationship last now that Kate is back?
Interesting Trivia (from
this site)
• The Other shot by Sawyer had a horseshoe tattoo on his upper right arm. This tattoo is popular with sailors, and horseshoes have also been considered a symbol of female fertility. The open ended side of the horseshoe represents the open womb of the woman.
• LaFleur was first mentioned in the Comic-Con 2008 Pierre Chang film. At the end of the film, Chang says "LaFleur, what are you doing?"
• Most DHARMA Initiative workclothes are labelled with a person's FIRST NAME and position (e.g. "Roger Workman" [Ben's father]). Sawyer's, however, is marked with his LAST NAME ("LaFleur Head of Security")
• This episode is unique in its handling of time in two different ways. Firstly, while title cards have been used in the past to indicate times or places, this is the first episode which has used them for this purpose for both the present-day and flash segments. Moreover, while "Ji Yeon" utilized both a flashback and a flashforward, this episode was the first to have a story segment which was both a flashback and a flashforward. The 1977 scenes were a flashforward because the depicted events three years after the preceding episodes' on-Island storyline (continuing from the end of "This Place Is Death"); they were also a flashback because they immediately preceded the events at the end of "316". In a way, they were also present-day scenes because the final parts took place immediately after Jin finds Jack, Kate and Hurley in "316".
• Phil and Jerry, the brownie-eating 1970s hippies, seem to be references to Phil Lesh and Jerry Garcia of The Grateful Dead.
Rosie may be a reference to the reoccurring symbol of roses in Grateful Dead songs and art. In the Grateful Dead "Ramble On Rose", the protagonist's name is Rose.
Also, the name of the band Grateful Dead has been attributed to this quote from the Egyptian Book of the Dead: "We now return our souls to the creator, as we stand on the edge of eternal darkness. Let our chant fill the void in order that others may know. In the land of the night the ship of the sun is drawn by the grateful dead."
Screencaps (all screencaps from
this site)
Paul's Ankh necklace
Young Charlotte
At the sonic fence
Poor broken-hearted Daniel
Didn't you just want to go "awwwwwwwwwwwwwww"