Well, that was all a bit of a Cocketease now, wasn?t it? If ever a Lost episode did so much and accomplished so little, then colour us surprised. But as all the candidates come together, we at least have the game set for an explosive finale – that's if they have enough pyrotechnics left in Hawaii.
Finally, after what seems like years, Lost?s most emotional, romantic and sexually charged pairing were reunited in blissful harmony – and when Jack and Locke finally came together, it didn't disappoint. Cocke seems to be playing the good guy, telling Jack about how he penetrated his father?s body and led Jack to water because he loves him or something.
Still, Jack doesn't know which way he's leaning. On one side he's got Jacob with all his destiny policies; Cocke?s talking about change; and then we've got Widmore in the middle. we're not quite sure what he's doing but when he looks at us our toes feel all tingly.
It was a bit of a reunion episode this week with Jack and Locke, Jack and Claire, Jack and Claire again and then Jin and Sun. Things have settled down with Claire recently; she's kinda forgotten that she's a few bananas short of a split and seems to be back to her bland self. She finally got her reunion with the brother she didn't know about and it looked more like an awkward morning after than some sort of sibling gathering. It's okay, though, we got another reunion twenty minutes later in the flash-sideways. Yay.
That's not all that happened in the flash-sideways. No siree, Bob. Desmond was still swanning around and chatting to the passengers of 815 and they all seem to be coming together in the same place. Even Illana got a look in this week, now as some English lawyer, proving to be as interesting as the chunk of her forehead that's left from her Island counterpart.
The Island story proved just as uneventful, with all the characters gradually moving together for the final few episodes. So far, series six has consisted of characters gradually walking towards each other while Sawyer chirps “Son of a bitch” like someone?s pulling a string that's hanging out the back of his arse.
Jack decides that he still has a destiny and sticks around with Cocke. Evil Tina Fey Clone soon shows up, threatening the team with big explosions. Why Cocke just doesn't turn into smoke, jump down her mouth and make her explode from the inside, is beyond us. This gets the group going ? wait for it ? on another walk across the Island. Exquisite writing.
Oh and remember that huge well that Cocke pushed Desmond down last week? Well, it was about knee-deep after all, and Cocke in all his infinite wisdom decides to send Sayid to go finish the job ? could he not be arsed to kill him at the time? Except, Sayid might not be the shaky accented zombie we've grown accustomed to this series and appears to have set the Scottish time-jumper free.
Realising that this whole thing has got a bit out of hand, Sawyer, Kate, Hurley, Frank (he's still in it), Sun and Claire go for a boat ride towards the submarine in a break for freedom. That's until they reach Widmore?s camp and are quickly held at gunpoint. We do get another brief reunion moment between Sun and Jin before it all ends. They?ve been apart for nearly two seasons and there's more emotion in a mucky Kleenex than in this scene. This moment should?ve been a love-struck pairing like Desmond and Penny; it was more like Michael and Vincent.
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