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March 20, 2008 |
Spoiler warning…
Tonight’s “mid-season finale” promised two things: Michael’s story and the death of a character. We got both of those. First, Michael’s story.
So despite the heading Ben gave Michael being different than the one that the helicopter pilot had, Michael and Walt did make it back to New York. Though Walt no longer wants to speak to Michael because he knew how they got off the island. Michael wants to kill himself but evidently can’t because, well the Island won’t let him. What? That’s right. The Island won’t let him die. Evidently this is common, as Mr. Friendly points out. Apparently the Island has a task for Michael to complete and he can’t die until it’s done. She know we know why Michael is on the boat and what he’s supposed to do. Though, in an ironic twist, Sayid decides that working for Ben is a bad thing and turns Michael into the crazy captain. What happens next? Well, there is cliff hanger part one.
Mr. Friendly was also able to come and go from the Island at will. That’s not really new, but this was obviously AFTER the sub was destroyed and all the communications on the Island were destroyed. Ben still has some secrets he isn’t sharing, like how he travels at will. This whole story-line worked, but it didn’t really tell us anything we didn’t already know.
The only weird thing is that Michael saw a vision, in the form of Libby twice. When she showed up on the boat she told Michael NOT to push the button (nice way to work an “execute” button back into the story). So here we have two weeks in a row where our Losties have seen people telling them to do something contrary to what Ben has instructed. Could Jacob be trying to get people to “help him” considering he’s no longer talking to John Locke? I don’t know.
“Someone will die.” That’s what the previews said. Well, someone did… Carl — Alex’s boyfriend. Alex, Carl and CFL were traveling to the Temple, to meet up with the real others in an attempt to survive the boat’s not-so-friendly “rescue” party. But during a 2-minute water break in the last seconds of the episode (predictable?) Carl is shot with a seemingly high-powered and silenced rifle. Momently later, after a semi-emotional “I love you” CFL is also gunned down. Not knowing where the bullets are coming from Alex surrenders yelling that she is Ben’s daughter. Cliff hanger part two.
Here’s what doesn’t make sense. We are obviously supposed to believe that our traveling party was taking fire from the boat-people. It would obviously explain where the helicopter went and the seemingly lack of people on board the boat, but I don’t buy it. Even if the “rescue” party is there to kill everyone but Ben, why would they just open fire on everyone — wouldn’t they want to see if these people knew where Ben was before shooting them? I don’t know, it just seems too set easy.
So now we wait, until April 24th, for the remaining six episodes of this season… before waiting another nine or so months for the next season. Let the speculation begin!