{"id":6649,"date":"2006-11-09T23:05:55","date_gmt":"2006-11-09T23:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/09\/rations\/"},"modified":"2024-04-13T11:18:59","modified_gmt":"2024-04-13T15:18:59","slug":"rations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/09\/rations\/","title":{"rendered":"Rations"},"content":{"rendered":"\u23f3 Approximate reading time: <\/span> 3<\/span> mins<\/span><\/span>

I’m down to rationing entries, rationing energies. And because I doubt there
\nwill be cause to mention ABC’s hit series Lost<\/i> before the third
\nseason picks up again on February 7, I need for last night’s highly anticipated
\nFall Finale, "I Do," to tide me over for several more weeks. Granted, this entry
\nis a day late, but Jeff<\/a>
\nasked<\/a>,
\n"What? No Lost<\/i> commentary?" Here it is, delayed to fill up the time
\nbetween now and early February (Is that right? We’ll see the Colts-Bears Super
\nBowl before another new episode?) <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

First off, last night’s Kate-centric episode was a real heart-warmer,
\noverflowing with romance. In the backstory, Kate, er…Monica, bought groceries
\nfor taco night, then dashed to a phone booth (carrying the groceries in the
\nrain) to call the agent on her fugitive trail and plead with him to discontinue
\nhis pursuit of her. No luck. The timer (purchased to get the tacos just right?)
\nwent off, and she ended the call so it would not be traced. What’s the point of
\nthis backstory? Hard to say. It stirs up questions about her loyalties,
\nsensitivities, trustworthiness (and in a peculiar twist, perhaps even her
\nfertility, though that’s unclear); the deep-down criminality was off-set by a
\ncompassionate and attached Monika(te) who wished to be forgiven for past
\ngrievances. Also, Kate’s cool with marriage, still married (presumably), and
\nvulnerable, as is Sawyer, to sins of the flesh. <\/p>\n

Jack committed a different sin of the flesh when he slipped the scalpel
\ngently into Ben’s exposed kidney (liver?). And this led up to the climactic and
\nsuspenseful endpoint of the episode. Is Jack willing to let Ben die? Maybe he
\nis. The folk geography of the island is throwing a wrench in the works. Jack
\nknows he’s at the water’s edge because of the dangerous gusher that foiled his
\nescape attempt a few weeks ago. And Kate thinks, based on Sawyer’s explanation,
\nthat they’re on a separate, second island. Their bearings are all off because
\nthe Others randomly drape burlap bags over the heads of our Lost friends. Still,
\nit seems like they would’ve known whether they boarded a boat after last
\nseason’s finale. They were on a dock, after all, when their heads were covered.
\nI’m beginning to think that the Hydra (the aquarium station where they’re held,
\nyeah?) is not far from the Others’ small village. Accessible only by boat?
\nDoubtful. So while it’s up in the air about whether we’re seeing one island or
\ntwo, it’s not entirely clear how Ethan and Goodwin arrived on the respective
\ncrash sites so quickly (unless the village is on<\/i> the one island, and the
\nHydra hatch or prison-island is some distance removed). In the episode’s tense
\nclosing scene, it seems like Kate would go ahead and take the chance, split from
\nthe scene, and call Jack on the walky-talky after scoping out the surrounding
\nterrain, except that she’s now sweetly endeared to James.<\/p>\n

Yet another oddity: Jacob’s list. Is Jacob an Other name for Ethan Rom? One
\nof Eko’s victims during those early days on the beach? Probably not. I don’t
\nthink we’ve met Jacob yet, and we have every reason to believe he’s closer to
\nthe brainworks than Ben and his grubby cohort. <\/p>\n

A few other stumpers:<\/p>\n