Eggtown

I’m changing up the style of blogging for this one.  It’s an “almost live-blog”.  Since I don’t have a laptop, I have a hard time typing and updating the blog while I watch.  However, I do have a palm and a keyboard so I can type while I watch, it’s just more of a process to get that info form there to here.  So, what you’ll read are bullet points on what I thought as I watched through.  It was a lot of fun to do, so let me know what you think of the new format.

• Locke is making eggs.  Ahh I see, Ben is in the basement.  Once again Ben owns Locke.  He’s great at keeping a cool face in front of Ben, but he’s kind of dumb to think that Ben can’t hear him when he’s 20 ft down the hall.
• Kate and Sawyer exchange some verbal jabs, always fun.  And….FLASH FORWARD! Cut through the legal mumbo jumbo and Kate gets remanded.  Man, it’s like Law and Order!  We just need McCoy to show up and send her to prison.  I love Law and Order.
• Kate just got owned by Locke.  He gets harder to like all the time.  I want him to be right, but he’s not making it easy.
• “You just Scooby Doo’d me didn’t you?” Hurley to Kate
• Kate just told her lawyer, “You are not using my son!”  And a shocked silence descended over the living room.
• Kate’s not good with babies. Just as a note Kate, you may want to start working on that…
• And Jack is now lying under oath.  That is interesting.   Details that could be important – 8 survivors, crashed in the water.  There are hints of truth, Kate provided first aid to Jack.
• Dharma Red Wine in a box. Amazing.
• If you couldn’t logically determine it by this point, Kate reveals what the rest of us know: she needs to bust out Ben.
• Wow, so the last sequence kept me too engaged to write.  At first I wasn’t sure if Sawyer was in on it.  But apparently Kate just used him and he didn’t know.  The Con is conned again.  I find it very humorous that Miles just wanted to extort  Ben.  Now Kate knows everyone knows about her.  What drives her back off the island still has me wondering.  I also almost expected Locke to appear and shoot Miles before he could tell Kate anything.  That feels like Locke’s style recently.
• <Locke continues his trend of awesome and kicks Kate out of his group.
• Kate and her mom have a heart to heart, but Kate feels manipulated and kicks her momma outta her….prison….home.
• Dang it, Sawyers was in on it. I was conned! Sawyer unbanishes Kate and seduces her with his Han Solo-esque scoundrel ways.  Yes, I’m sure someone has said it before, but Sawyer is the Han Solo of the 21st century.
• Jack is tired of reaching no one on the phone, so they call the “emergency number”. Their phone conversation determines that the helicopter hasn’t arrived. Of course the island members probably think they crashed or are dead.  I just keep thinking about where in the space-time continuum they got lost.  We already know there’s some kind of buffer between time outside and inside the island.  I guess the question now is does it fluctuate (which it seems is possible)?
• Wow, grenade in the mouth.  That is brutal.  Locke, you are one with the path of awesome. /end sarcasm
• Sawyer’s scoundrelly ways backfire.  He may be harsh, but it’s possibly true; Kate has been known to vacillate.
• And Kate gets off almost scott-free. McCoy wouldn’t have made a deal. Not that we couldn’t have assumed that from the beginning.  Jack wants to chill with Kate, but not with Kate’s kid.  Whose identity has become obvious over the process of the show.  And at the end when Kate says “Hi Aaron”, I’m not surprised.  It doesn’t detract from how awesome this show is overall, but…well let’s summarize.
• Good episode overall, but it’d definitely my least favorite of the season so far.  This one just didn’t surprise me or hit me in the gut like the last few have. It’s important to figure out what’s up with Kate in the future and figure out how she’s gets off, but it’s just not that compelling to me. The reveal of Aaron as one of the Oceanic Six doesn’t really surprise me either as Desmond “saw” Claire and Aaron get on the chopper if Charlie went down to the hourglass. The questions are what are going to haunt us: Where’s Claire?  How did Kate end up with Aaron?  Why does Jack hate the island so much?  Ok, that last one may take a lot longer to figure out.

Well, it’s been fun, and I hope you enjoyed my random thoughts.  Thoughts?  Theories? Comments?  Leave em below!