Not the best episode, no, but still enjoyable. At least the Kate episode is out of the way early :). These episodes are more watchable when you have the show on DVD, now it’s just irritating to wait another week for more (important stuff).

The Clousseau stuff doesn’t make any sense to me though, one moment she is with Christian in the Cabin and now she all of a sudden is a Rousseau like character. The infection doesn’t make sense either, when they tested him he seemed to be okay but then it turns out to be he was indeed infected.

Anyway, next week looks great again.

@ RaphNL, I was thinking the same about you about the test, but I think that maybe some of the tests were rigged, like the electricity test. Maybe there wasn’t any actual current flowing through him but the man in black, who I assume they were trying to find out if he was inside Sayid, doesn’t feel pain but acted that it was hurting him. Just an idea.
The hot poker had to be real though because it did scar his body, but then I don’t think they ever showed the damage done so maybe it didn’t he just said it did.
The whole Sayid line about “trusting Jack” was rather fishy and not something that Sayid would ever say. The show is sure portraying him to be acting weird, hopefully for more of a reason that just dramatic effect.

@RaphNL Good call about the Sayid 70 day thing .. I apologize .. that was a pretty retarded comment, I will fix it, pretty embarassed. But I’m pretty sure Jack asked him to come back to the island with him and he refused. So I guess he didn’t trust Jack too much then. And I think that would have been one of the last times he saw him before this episode. Not a 100% on that, but its some food for thought.

It is a good point that this could be a different version of Sayid that is intended to act out of character. Whatever might be impersonating him might assume that he trusts Jack. But again, we will have to wait and see.

My problem is that we can’t even judge these facts until potentially 3 months from now. I think that we can all agree LOST is a totally different experience watching it consecutively on DVD.

I really like the idea of the fake tests that Sayid reacted to when he shoudn’t have.

one thing though, this ‘infected’ thing… I would assume this basically makes Rousseau less crazy, that her team did indeed get taken over the same way Sayid and Claire supposedly are infected.

Also i watched Speed Racer the other day. Dogan is totally Rain’s dad in that movie.

“A flashback would reinforce a character’s actions on the island. In this episode, there is a lot of uncharacteristic behavior without any reason for it.”
That’s because it isn’t a flashback, it’s different reality. True, it takes place in the past, so to speak, but the Kate of the flight that landed is not the Kate of the flight that crashed.

Call me a fanboy or whatever but this review shows a complete lack of understanding of the show and the characters(atleast Kate & Sayid). First of all Kate never asked the taxi driver to run over Arzt. Arzt had already cleared the road, Kate wanted the driver to run over the luggage which was still on the road. Re-watch the scene. With that being said Kate behaved EXACTLY the way I expected her to. Kate has always been shown as a fugitive with a heart of gold. Consider this specific example from one of the flashbacks which shows Kate living on an Australian farm. When the Australian farmer who owns the farm finds out that she’s a fugitive he calls the cops on her to claim the bounty. He is driving her to the police station under the pretense of taking her to the train station, the marshall is following them. Kate notices the marshall and tries to escape by trying to take control of the car. The car loses controls and falls off the road and down the hill. Here Kate is free to run away but the engine is on fire and the farmer is inside unconscious Kate considers running away but eventually ends up not only pulling the farmer out of the burning car but also dragging the unconscious farmer up the hill which costs her precious time and as a result the Marshall captures her. Kate could easily escaped had she not helped the farmer. The situation in this episode was infact pretty much identical to the situation I mentioned. So Kate was completely in character.

As for Sayid, no one is saying anything about expecting a red carpet but when someone drags you into a room, ties you up, tortures you for no apparent reason, and then lets you go, it is understandable to have some questions. Sayid has always had a great deal of respect towards Jack. Infact right before he got shot he was the first lostie to jump onboard with Jack’s ‘lets-blow-a-hydrogen-bomb-on-the-island’ plan. I think Sayid was placing trust in Jack as medical professional, there isn’t any reason for him to not trust Jack’s medical opinion considering Jack has already saved his life a couple of times.

Calling this episode ‘Attack of the Clones’ is a huge over-reaction. It’s not a perfect episode by any means, infact I was kinda annoyed by the first 20 minutes where Dogen and Lennon were dancing around the questions Jack was asking. It felt that LOST was falling back into early Season 3 mode where the others would refuse to answer the simplest question and Jack would spend the next few episode yelling demanding answers. But luckily the episode redeemed itself in the the last half hour after the others came clean about the sickness. This was a mediocre episode but by no means a terrible one.

Nobody else thought it was nuts that Ethan was Claire’s doctor…again?? That fool is so goddamn spooky.