Lost - Left Behind

SPOILERS AHEAD!!!

Juliet is a sandwich monster!! This episode did not reveal many things but confirmed that Juliet is a sick maniac sandwich manufacturer. She must have worked at Deli or Subway previously. The way she beat Kate also showed us that she is not to be messed around.

Kate was about to go crazy when she saw that Locke was acting like one of them yet again after Jack. It's like everyone around her has been taking crazy pills lately. Can we consider that Locke is now one of them? I am not so sure. He is an opportunist and will be with them as long as he has something out of it. Maybe the others gave him his father and asked in return not to blow things up for a while. Nevertheless, Locke had and will have his own agenda. So we can presume that he will not be "joining" the others. Business is something else.

Also he said that he knows what Kate had done and the others are not forgiving. This means that the main purpose for others' existence may be to punish each of them for their former mistakes.

Hurley's banishment con was really clever even though everybody saw it coming in the halfway but Sawyer. He could be pretty thick sometimes. However, obviously when he becomes a decent human being, he has the leader capabilities. Charlie does not have the balls, Hurley does not trust his mental condition, Claire has her own baby to lead, Jin has linguistic problems and Sun who is the strongest candidate against Sawyer, has her husband to deal with. This con made Sawyer see that being nice to people does not necessarily mean being vulnerable. He could make a good leader in the absence of the four (Jack, Locke, Sayid, Kate). However if he gets used to it, there could be problems when they come back.

The gas masks were very ridiculous. There are 4 people to gas and they all wear masks in the jungle. Aren't you a little bit overcautious people? And what is the explanation about how these people disappeared. Sayid was not able to track 50 people's trails. They turned the ghost step mode on again.

Kate's backstory is getting really boring and repetitive. It revealed or added nothing to the character. We only noticed that there is more coincidence by seeing Cassidy teaming up with Kate in order to make her see her mother. Her mother said "You can't help who you love". Kate is in a similar situation. Also she said that she did not want to be rescued. Kate killed her step father for herself. Same as she is trying to save Jack.

Juliet is a sick sandwich making kung-fu knowing pathologic liar. I think the disease Russeau talks about is pathologic lying since almost all the others are affected. I don't believe for a second that Juliet was gassed while making tea. I'm pretty sure she carried an unconscious Kate out to their place in the jungle, cuffed them together, and then played her. Watched her reaction as Kate announces her intent to track back to the barracks. Juliet immediately wants to wait until dark because she wants the rain to wash away whatever traces she might have left behind. If they'd both been dragged there by a third party, she wouldn't be so nervous about Kate wanting to go back.

I think there are two possibilities. The Others really did leave Juliet, but left her as a potential double-agent. They'd do this without telling her, which would give her no dangerous knowledge of where they were going. The other possibility is that Ben and Juliet are still working together, and Juliet is a plant in the beach camp. I think Ben would be promising Juliet something she wanted - another trip off the island. I still can not believe how they agreed to take her with them to the beach. Come on guys listen to Sayid once in a while.

Smokey is back again with some flash tricks. It looked like it had 3 heads and there are some weird theories going on on the web. It did not show things to Juliet like it did to Eko. Also it just turned back when it could not enter the fence. Come on now. If Kate can go over the fence, smokey can do it to.

It was a rather mediocre episode. Nothing special. 3 out of 5.