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bellyjere getting engaged with benson boone playing in the back… that’s how you know the ship is dogwater 

notice how they play sufjan stevens for bonrad and they play benson boone for jelly?

claiming my spot as team conrad before yall switch 💘

no fucking way belly even considered for a SECOND to not go abroad to paris because jere has to take more classes what in the manipulated 

STEVEN THROWING ROCKS AT TAYLORS WINDOW OH MY GOD

you’re losing me playing is CRAZY work i love it

the christmas scene being an exact replica of the book. jenny han knows who her endgame is

no way they ruined steven and taylor with the cheating trope

cheater telling another cheater not to cheat is insane 💀

literally on the verge of puking every time jeremiah is on screen I CAN’T DO THIS conrad fisher i love and adore you

SUFJAN STEVENS MYSTERY OF LOVE NEEDLEDROP IS ABSOLUTELY INSANE WORK ……… 

also loved the little crossword easter egg, very cutesy 

this show has to have some sort of record for the most songs played every single episode 

Does Hurley know he was on a South Korean show?

belly please stand up girl. that bellyconrad scene was the only good thing about the episode 

STEVEN AND TAYLOR CHEATED ON THEIR PARTNERS WITH EACH OTHER????

AND LACIE BARONE ALREADY HAPPENED??? WOAH

take a shot everytime Jeremiah gives you the ick…

i do not like being reminded that belly and jeremiah do the deed 😍

"Hey" Belly is so easy bro she was ready to pounce on that man.

Steven and Taylor are my favourites- I don’t approve of this bullshit 

Charlie yelling HANDS like he’s in The Bear to me is so funny to me I can’t even explain it

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trying not to choke myself at every belly jeremiah scene oh god i’m suffering but the slap at the end? amazing 

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"𝑪𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒔𝒊𝒕 𝒅𝒐𝒘𝒏 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑰'𝒍𝒍 𝒕𝒆𝒍𝒍 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒅𝒊𝒆𝒅 𝒇𝒐𝒓" — Jacob

Wait, how is this episode not a 4.65 at least? Those average ratings are making me go crazy. This is the second best penultimate episode I ever watched (right after Black Sails 4x9). I’m guessing that if I loved that, I’m gonna love The End for sure.

This wasn’t a Desmond episode but he still carried the whole sideway flashes really hard. My boy locked himself up in the t1 character spot of the show for me. I love how he is slowly making everyone remember and I believe this is the thing that could lead to the iconic scene of The End which I got spoiled of a little (at least for the place and the persons there because of the banners). I love that Desmond is the one who is reuniting everyone, I couldn’t have found a better character to do that than him.
I also loved how many sideways scenes were linked, all drived away by the last, especially in the beginning of the episode. It started with Jack getting a call from Desmond, then is jumped to Desmond punching Ben, then to Ben talking to Locke who then call the police. That call allowed the action to switch to the police station with Sawyer as well as Desmond that arrived there and meet Kate and Sayid there too. Very interesting to see how they are almost all connected, just by two phone calls.

"𝑰 𝒌𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒎, 𝒅𝒊𝒅𝒏'𝒕 𝑰?" — Sawyer

Seeing Sawyer feeling guilty like that hurts my heart so much. Sawyer grown so much since season one and I feel like a proud mother.

"𝑯𝒆 𝒅𝒐𝒆𝒔𝒏'𝒕 𝒈𝒆𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒔𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒅𝒂𝒖𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒆𝒓." — Benjamin Linus

I want to thank Ben for killing Charles Widmore. As much interesting as he was he still got on my nerves a lot since his first introduction. Still an amazing antagonist though.
However, few minutes before in the episode, did we seriously lost Richard? Oh dear, I hope he is not dead cause if he is, that was so swift, shocking and violent.
About the sideway flashes, I’m so glad we got to see Danielle again! I swear that Danielle and Ben are meant to be together. They are Alex’s parents, I don’t care about Robert for real.

"𝑴𝒓 𝑳𝒐𝒄𝒌𝒆, 𝑰 𝒘𝒂𝒏𝒏𝒂 𝒇𝒊𝒙 𝒚𝒐𝒖, 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝑰 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒌 𝒚𝒐𝒖'𝒓𝒆 𝒎𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒄𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒄𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒇𝒂𝒕𝒆." — Jack Shephard

Those moments between Jack and Locke have been sooo good in these sideway flashes. I love how the roles are different: Jack is quoting so many lines that Locke said in the early season. I remember Locke saying to Jack that he shouldn’t mistake coincidence for fate when they thought they were meant to push the button. Their dynamic have been great lately, I just wish that Locke was still there on the island as well.

"𝑰 𝒅𝒊𝒅𝒏'𝒕 𝒑𝒍𝒖𝒄𝒌 𝒂𝒏𝒚 𝒐𝒇 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒂 𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒚 𝒆𝒙𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆. 𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒇𝒍𝒂𝒘𝒆𝒅. 𝑰 𝒄𝒉𝒐𝒔𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒃𝒆𝒄𝒂𝒖𝒔𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒎𝒆. 𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒂𝒍𝒐𝒏𝒆. 𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒍𝒐𝒐𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅𝒏'𝒕 𝒇𝒊𝒏𝒅 𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆. 𝑰 𝒄𝒉𝒐𝒔𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒃𝒆𝒄𝒂𝒖𝒔𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒏𝒆𝒆𝒅𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆 𝒂𝒔 𝒎𝒖𝒄𝒉 𝒂𝒔 𝒊𝒕 𝒏𝒆𝒆𝒅𝒆𝒅 𝒚𝒐𝒖." — Jacob

That monologue from Jacob is definitely one of my favourite of the show. Some Lost characters truly have amazing lines, Ben might be the one with the best ones, followed by Locke and Jack for sure.

One thing I thought was a bit strange is how quickly the things happened, how easily they trusted Jacob. Jack saw him talking Latin and filling a cup of water from the river an just went with it. I like that this happened a bit quickly cause that means we are closer to The End but that felt a bit rushed. I think it would have been right to divide this episode in two and maybe stop this one with Jacob starting to explain who him and the monster are which would have lead to the episode 15 we got right before but it would have been now instead.

By the way, I find it pretty interesting and I’m sure it’s not a coincidence that Jack and Jacob have such a similar name.

"𝑾𝒆 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒄𝒍𝒐𝒔𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒆𝒏𝒅, 𝑯𝒖𝒈𝒐" — Jacob

Well… this is it. In few hours, I will watch The End. I cannot believe I’m about the watch the last episode already. I don’t know if I will take the time to post my season 6 review today but I will post The End review for sure (except if I write a lot ofc).
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𝖢𝖧𝖠𝖱𝖠𝖢𝖳𝖤𝖱 𝖧𝖨𝖦𝖧𝖫𝖨𝖦𝖧𝖳: Desmond
𝖥𝖠𝖵𝖮𝖴𝖱𝖨𝖳𝖤 𝖬𝖮𝖬𝖤𝖭𝖳: Talk between Jacob and the candidates / Desmond escaping with Kate and Sayid 

𝗥𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗡𝗚: ★★★★☆ 𝟵.𝟳/𝟭𝟬
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now there's good reason that proposal scene was set to a benson boone song.

Overhated eppy! Still though, it’s not really anything incredible even if I don’t really understand the extent to which some people dislike this. I will say that I hope the backstories get more widely distributed because there are some very interesting characters who haven’t gotten any yet while this is Kate’s 2nd and while being pretty good, it was arguably the least necessary thus far. As many other reviews have noted as well, the placement and overall calm feel to this eppy also comes across a little misplaced considering that it follows up not only the crazy cliffhanger from last episode with Locke and Boone (which only has one scene dedicated to following it up here), but also the Claire plot, with the lack of focus on it at worst being detrimental to the writing of the characters as I’ll discuss in the spoiler section. I do also have some faults with Kate’s character and the way that she’s written thus far and so with all of those things in mind this review is pretty critical, but just to clarify this was still pretty great, particularly the side plots. 

[SPOILERS]

The first thing I want to mention is that I’m really not into the implied building romance between Kate and Sawyer that’s shown here through their opening scenes in this episode, and at worst find it pretty damn gross. Considering that Sawyer literally coerced and blackmailed Kate into kissing him without her consent in 1x8, something which is horrible, the one thing thus far into the show that I don’t forgive him for and is pretty much just SA, Kate’s lack of disgust at Sawyer for what he did and the fact that she’s still somewhat interested in him feels really gross and lacking in respect from the writer’s. I can’t think of a single woman, let alone human in general in my life, who wouldn’t be absolutely repulsed by what Sawyer did and find it incredibly violating, so the fact that the writer’s would write their women characters in this way doesn’t reflect well on them at all. It almost makes it seem like they don’t actually understand how bad what Sawyer did truly was considering the lack of consequences he gets for it and how Kate is just totally chill with him despite what he did. It’s not even as if it’s an issue with Kate not being able to stand up for herself against the men in her life either considering she literally leads some of them as they stage a robbery in this episode, she simply just doesn’t mind Sawyer’s actions at all in a way that I find incredibly unconvincing and concerning. I do feel like there’s potential for Kate and Sawyer to get together at some point, but having their romance get built up so early on immediately after 1x8 when Sawyer hasn’t shown any truly substantive growth or change just leaves a bad taste in my mouth. So yeah it honestly just really sucks to see the writer's treating their women characters in a way that feels so lacking in self worth or agency, and at worst it comes across as a little misogynistic. The fact that some people found their interactions here to be romantic or cute despite what Sawyer did in 1x8 is really just beyond me honestly. 

As for the rest of the episode, it was nice to see the show starting to expand on who Kate was before the island, and similar to 1x3, I really liked how it once again toys with our understanding of Kate’s character. Kate is a really fitting character for this show given its themes of perception and how we can often see people a certain way based upon how we understand them since she’s by far the most enigmatic character thus far into the show, and the way that this eppy is written plays into that really well. For example, the flashbacks open up by framing her an an innocent victim of the robbery before revealing the exact opposite, once again making us question our understanding and perception of who Kate is and see her in a new light, only for her final flashback where we learn that she never intended for anyone to get hurt in the robbery showing yet another side to who she is, proving that despite her criminality, she is still a compassionate person with some moral boundaries. I also love how both the flashbacks and island plot both culminate to explore Kate’s lack of trustworthiness. In the flashback she’s deceiving others for her own personal gain by pretending to be a victim of the robbery, and in the present we see her do the same as she takes advantage of Jack and Sawyer’s care for her in order to get what she wants, and it’s really nice how this episode functions as a way to delve into this aspect of her character. 

With all of that being said though, I do honestly have quite a few gripes with the way that Kate’s character is being handled as of right now. I’m honestly just tired of the show over-using the mystery of her character and her backstory for the sake of keeping the audience engaged through their desire for answers, and I really hope that we know her full backstory by the end of the season because the lack of clarity surrounding who she is is beginning to become detrimental to her character. By the end of this eppy, although she obviously can be quite caring and has her redeeming qualities (for example, the fact that she didn’t want anybody to get hurt in the robbery), I felt like from the information I do know about Kate she comes across as very dislikable. She’s untrustworthy, selfish, etc, and even if she didn’t want anybody to get hurt in the robbery, staging a goddamn bank robbery with a bunch of inhumane thugs (over a fucking TOY PLANE too) and not expecting anybody to get hurt is insanely stupid and naive and so even her “redeeming” qualities don’t do much to make me like her more, and I really don’t think that making Kate’s character seem like such a bad and dislikeable person was the show’s intention. While I’m sure that if I knew more about this man she loved and supposedly killed I would feel more bad for her, as of right now seeing her cause so much hurt, distrust, trauma and death over a toy plane just makes her seem like an awful person, and once again I feel like because of my lack of context to help me empathise with her, the show makes Kate look really bad in a way that it didn’t intend. Aside from that, knowing so little about Kate’s character makes it impossible to give her any depth and makes her feel really bland since her actions, motivations and characterisation are so difficult to interpret or understand thanks to their lack of context. The fact that I don’t have the full picture about who she is just leaves me not understanding who she really is even though she’s had a huge amount of screentime poured into her character, and not in a good way. 

Moving on from Kate’s character though who is a bit all over the place for me right now in terms of how I feel about her and is a mess in terms of writing, I thought the side plots here were great and handily my favourite part about this eppy. Charlie and Rose and Sayid and Shannon are both great dynamics that each serve their own purpose in this episode, with Charlie/Rose tying into the more emotional, character and thematically driven aspects of the show, whereas Sayid/Shannon drive the plot forward a little more. The Sayid/Shannon plot with them trying to translate Danielle’s writing was nice to see as it drove the plot forward (although that development is still quite minimal), and I’m really glad that the main plot of the show seems to have gotten on its feet because while 1x3-1x8 was a great stretch, it was also a bit lacking in momentum or direction considering how it didn’t really follow up any of the mysteries in the pilot. Also while I still don’t really like Shannon or find her to be very interesting, I did like seeing her arc in this eppy of proving her worth and value to the other survivors, disproving Boone’s belief that she’s not important as she grows and becomes more selfless by the end of the episode. 

Still though, Rose and Charlie are the true standout and their interactions here were so beautiful, particularly for how Charlie’s behaviour here delved into and dissected how people can react or respond to trauma in such a meaningful way. In the wake of what happened to Claire, not only does Charlie shut himself off emotionally and socially, but is also filled with dread and pessimism as he begins to blame himself for what happened, a response to bad events such as Claire’s disappearance that comes across as crushingly realistic and relatable. With that in mind, it was so nice to see Rose, someone who’s shown that she’s able to cope more healthily and still see the beauty in life amidst her struggle, help Charlie out of this emotional state. As Rose’s ideals start to spread to Charlie and bring him solace, it delivers a beautiful and powerful message of hope, persistence, but most importantly, faith. That idea of faith and clinging onto it even during your worst tribulations seems to be turning into a more and more prominent idea with this show and it’s one that I adore so much. 

I also had a few other notes that I couldn’t really find a way to fit into the other points and paragraphs here. As I mentioned in the intro, the lack of focus on Claire’s disappearance and overall more calm vibe of this eppy is a little underwhelming, but at worst it feels contrived and detrimental to the characters, particularly Jack’s. Considering Jack’s devotion to finding Claire in the last eppy as a result of his own guilt and desire to save others, seeing him only mention her once here really dampens that aspect of his character and honestly feels pretty out of character. Maybe he has less guilt or motivation to save her after he helped save Charlie, which redeemed his failure to help others during the failed surgery in the 1x11 flashbacks? I don’t know. I also find Jack’s sudden interest in Kate and her background after not caring and wanting to give her a second chance earlier on in 1x3 to feel a little odd. I can understand how Jack would get tired of Kate’s lack of trustworthiness, but having him go from not caring about her past to immediately wanting her to open up more just feels a little bit sudden, I wish it had been explored or explained better. 

Lastly, I feel like everyone moving from the beach is a pretty overlooked yet important piece of development for the survivors. Not only does it mean that the group will face more danger since the beach was deemed as safer than being in the forest (although with less supplies), it also shows how the group are starting to come to terms with the seriousness of their situation. They’ve now accepted that they need to survive first and foremost as they lose hope of being saved, considering that the beach was the one place where they could have been spotted. It’s a really great way to show how the cast is collectively evolving and becoming more jaded and resigned to their life on the island. 

So overall an eppy that has quite a lot of issues, but because this is Lost S1 which even at its most flawed is both so enjoyable and has such a wide array of amazing qualities to praise, I still like it a lot. 

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