Lost delivers again this week with an awesome ep (the best of the season so far perhaps?). I went into this week knowing that we'd find out how John got into his wheelchair, but I wasn't expecting so much revelatory island stuff as well.
I'll start out on the island. Sayid, Kate and John have a go at getting Jack freed. Kate and Sayid are captured almost instantly (they were watching Jack! Who knew he was a good piano player?). John however succeeds in getting into Ben's room, which we find out was his whole motive in the first place. He wants to blow up the Others' submarine for....reasons, I'll get to it in a bit. Alex ends up helping John get the C-4 from Sayid's pack which was also a great opportunity for Sayid to drop some real mom truth on Alex and a little later Rousseau actually sees Alex for the first time! So so great. After a lot of head games with Ben, John finally gets Alex to take him to the submarine, which we also find out is how Jack and Juliet are going to get off the island that very night. Now at this point I couldn't figure out whether Ben wants John to blow the thing up or not...but it happened nonetheless. Was this John's third huge mistake in 3 episodes (don't forget he blew up the farmhouse, killed the Russian guy and now this)?
Now to John's backstory, which was the best and most gratifying backstory this show has given us in a very long time. We're brought to the time in John's life after his girlfriend's left him and when he's a very depressed and bitter man. John gets a visit from a mysterious young man who turns out to be the son of a woman his dad is about to marry only to con her out of her millions. This propels John into action: no more screwing with people's lives then skipping town. He pays his dad a surprise visit in a flower shop and "convinces" his dad to leave town and call off the wedding. Then presumably a few days later, the FBI are onto John because the young man who visited him ended up dead with John's contact info in his pocket....convenient. John pays daddy visit number 2 where his dad swears that the woman he was about to marry was so distraught over her son's death that she called off the wedding herself....problem solved right? Well as John reaches for the phone to call up the woman to corroborate his dad's story (his dad told him to!) his dad lunges at him and pushes him out the window! John fell 8 stories and survived, only to be paralyzed, both physically and emotionally. This scene was so perfect; there were so many theories about how John became paralyzed but the actual execution of this storyline made so much sense. John's daddy issues were so engrained in him the moment he landed on the island, which makes his miraculous healing even more profound, aaaand this explains why he wanted to blow up the submarine, because this island is the one place he's healed from all the pain his father's inflicted upon him.
Right?
Back on the island Ben told John about a box they have in which whatever you envision to be inside will appear the moment you open it. Sounds shady. Cut to the very end of the episode and Ben's about to show John just what's inside the box. Really? Seriously? I almost expected the episode to end right as the door was opened, but we weren't tortured that bad. In the seconds leading up to this moment I whispered to Brandie "it's his dad, it can't be his dad...no way..." But lo and behold the source of all of John's frustrations and fears was sitting there, bound and gagged....HIS FREAKIN' DAD'S ON THE ISLAND!! Even though I thought this might be true, it nevertheless didn't stop me from getting shivers all over. The look on John's face was mirrored in every true fans face as well....how is this the case? What the heck's going on? These questions don't leave me as frustrated this week, because so much good stuff was revealed, I know only more good stuff is to come. This was long! Until next week!
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