LOST Rewind: All the Best Cowboys Have Daddy Issues

[maxaholic]

Was that when Ben "activated the implant" though? I thought she was lying to Jack and the whole thing was a ploy to get the Losties to trust her

it all is a little odd because ben told someone (jack or whoever) that ethan was working on his own with claire. when she was taken by ethan, if they implanted her for further use, then they obviously planned on letting her go. but that's not the way that alex made it out.

anyway, yes, juliet was lying. she knew exactly what ben did and they both knew that getting the serum and giving it to claire would also gain trust with the losties. it worked on jack, didn't it?

Charlie didn't choose for Mikhail to bomb the Looking Glass station. Saying Charlie died of his own free choice is letting Mikhail (and Ben who ordered Charlies death) get away with intentional murder.

charlie did choose to shut the door. des was getting the oxygen tanks and gear so that they could leave. he looked pleasantly excited to be getting out of there without charlie dying. charlie shut the door. he didn't have to die.

in TTLG Charlie made a choice, hoped that Desmond was telling the truth about Claire and Aaron getting in a helicopter.

but i agree with sam that charlie probably felt that if he didn't drown like desmond's premonition that claire and aaron wouldn't get on the helicopter.

now, a whole other topic, why didn't they get on the copter? poor charlie.

[Sam G]

Walt lays out the whole story for Sawyer, who blows it off as imagination.

Kate basically tells Jack to behave himself, again, with Locke this time.

These early episodes Kate seemed to be the person asked to dispel the infighting with all the men.

Jack is upset and he takes out his anger and frustration on Kate, which seems uncalled for to me. Here we have the Ft. Lewis information.

I always liked the scene with Sayid and Sawyer - They have butted heads, called each other names, beat the crap out of each other, showed their fear but their feeling were honest and they both realized it - Sayid admits his shame and Sawyer tells Sayid he has kept his signal fire burning. They have now acquired a certain kind of respect for each other.

Locke's first rain prediction.

Jack hears what he thinks is Claire's scream.
Has the big fall and come to to Ethan - "No More Warnings"

Was Ethan really there? Kate never saw him, didn't hear the scream.

Is it possible for one person, even very strong, the be able to hang Charlie?

Locke is feeling "IT" and they find the hatch. (One of the JJ Abrams Magic Boxes)

[planetsong]

I just rewatched this episode. I've always felt the pregnant woman who dies on the operating table would turn out to be someone important, because they show her face a lot. It looks a lot like Ilana to me. Does anyone else think so? In one of the recap shows before a season finale (season 3's finale maybe) they lingered on a closeup of the dead woman's face, I thought suspiciously so, because it was in a segment where they were talking about how the characters were connected off the island. Could it be Ilana's sister? Or, knowing what we know now about time travel, could it be Ilana herself, in her future but Jack's past? She has full lips, the same shape of the face, the same turned-up nose as Ilana.
Here's some pictures of Ilana:
http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Ilana

And Beth, the woman who dies in "All the Best Cowboys Have Daddy Issues":
http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Beth...e_Daddy_Issues)

[MysteryFan]

Originally Posted by CharliesHeroin

And I just have to add, Charlies hanging scene is just one of the most emotive scenes of Lost. The acting is amazing - Jack and Kate just draw you in and make you feel their desperation and despair. Even now I can't make it through this scene without crying, no matter how many times I watch it and even though I know that Charlie survives.

I totally agree - that scene still makes me cry and it is one of the best of the series. I remember when it first aired, I was swearing if Charlie died I'd quit watching Lost. It was so sudden, so sadistic with that scary Ethan popping up everywhere. And I love how Kate was crying - mourning Charlie's loss and comforting Jack's failure, when Jack just started pounding Charlie again. I love season one!

One thing I hadn't noticed before (probably obvious to the rest of you) was how Charlie's amnesia resembled Claire's. I put his down to shock when I first saw this episode, but now I see how similar it was to Claire's amnesia. Hers lasted longer, but then they had more time to drug her. I expect Ethan had drugged Charlie too (but not with his drug of choice of course).

I also wondered again about Jack's line "won't let him do this again". Ethan just beat him up when he says that about his father. He was flashbacking to his father killing the pregnant woman and lying about it . . . what I keep forgetting is that Jack has been seeing his father alive on the Island. It's like he's projecting his father onto Ethan, or maybe thinking Christian has something to do with this. I wish Jack had talked more about Christian's appearances, b/c with his scientific perspective, I want to know what he thought about all of that. Locke's "maybe it's real" speech may have been working on his subconscious all this time.