S4E10 - Something Nice Back Home

Well, it looks like AMOROUS MULTIPLUS finally reared its ugly head in this episode, though it was handled well without having to resort to a cat fight. Of course if you recall, Kate and Juliet already had their knock-down-drag-out in the episode where Juliet was ostracized from the others and the two love-torn ladies woke up in the jungle handcuffed to one another.

Since the revelation of the Oceanic Six, I’ve wondered if Juliet ever winds up making it off the island. Like Desmond, she wouldn’t be considered part of the group of crash survivors so wouldn’t be as “newsworthy”. However, we do know she has major motivation (her sister) to leave.

Anyway, it looks like whatever potential there was to be between Jack and Juliet (aka Jackiet/Juliack) is not in the cards as he winds up with Kate in the future (Jacate/Katack). We kind of already knew he was interested based on their conversation in Kate’s flashforward after the trial, but it looks like he finally gets over his aversion to Aaron and asks her out for that “cup of coffee”… and then some.

But alas, it seems even Katack is not meant to be, thanks in part to Jack’s disturbing visions of his dead father and drinking/jealousy issues. The two most interesting comments to me were in their argument towards the end. “Sawyer made his choice” is the follow up indicator that I was looking for to prove at least some of the survivors that don’t get off the island weren’t dead, but rather stayed behind for a reason. I thought as much already, but the only clue we’d been given so far was the conversation between Hurley (crazy) and Charlie (dead), so you gotta kind of question the source. I wonder what Kate’s promise to Sawyer was? Seeing as he’s had his revenge on the “original“ Sawyer, the only remaining tie to the outside world I can think of is his ex-con girlfriend’s daughter. Perhaps it has something to do with her. Anyway, the other interesting comment was Jack arguing how Kate wasn’t even related to Aaron. Not to get too analytical, but the word choice and the way he delivered the line really made me think that he knows he is Aaron’s uncle at that point. I’m sure we’ll see how he finds out in an upcoming flashforward.

Which of course brings us to Aaron’s mama. I didn’t necessarily believe Claire would be killed (though it would surely explain why they would decide to take Aaron with them), but I also never thought she would just up and disappear into the jungle. Very interesting. I wonder if she’s off getting converted into an island-addict a la Locke while everyone thinks she’s gone for good or dead. Wouldn’t it be freaky if the next time we saw her she was watching a brainwashing video while shacking up at the “Temple” hatch where all the others are apparently hiding now?

Oh yeah, and I almost forgot Charlie’s message to Jack via Hurley, “You’re not supposed to raise him.” For those of you that don’t remember, that is a throw back to season 1, I believe, where the psychic that Claire went to see was adamant that she HAD to be the one to raise her baby and no one else could. Presumably, that is why he tricked her into getting on the plane (under the guise of traveling to the US to give the baby up for adoption), because he knew it would crash and she would be forced to take care of Aaron on her own. Hopefully she’s still alive and well somewhere on the island when/if Aaron returns, otherwise he might turn into some sort of devil-child. Who knows?

One of the highlights of the episode for me was Jin’s exchange with Charlotte. It reminded me of how much of a bada$$ he can be.

I thought it was a pretty good episode, myself, but I’m concerned about the previews for this week. While “time travel” is my public enemy number one, number two would have to be “interacting with dead people.” Not sure if you caught the clip, but it appears that Locke has a nice chat with Jacob who claims to have been dead for a little over a decade. …heavy sigh… Why can’t I just accept that this is a science fiction show and not a documentary on PBS? It would make it a lot easier to swallow at times.