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Further Instructions:
Locke, Desmond, and Eko all survive the destruction of the Swan Hatch.
Somehow Desmond has lost his clothes.
Kick Ass, Great White Hunter Locke is back.
The Swan Hatch has imploded.
Locke was once a Hippie.
Charlie uses what appears to be the parachute from the food drop as a canopy for the community pantry.
Polar Bears like dark meat.
Polar Bears also like to play with Tonka Trucks.
Hurly has made it back to the camp.
Desmond somehow knows the future.
Paulo (Rodrigo Santoro) and Nikki (Kiele Sanchez) make their LOST debut.

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From EW.com:

Oh, for the days when the Tailies first appeared on Lost and I would think to myself, ‘’Wow, that’s a lot of new characters to keep track of.'’ Or maybe I said it out loud; I don’t remember. If many of those castaways hadn’t been killed (RIP, Nathan, Cindy, Libby, and Ana), I wouldn’t have room in my brain to give a Smokey’s snarl about Juliet, Carl, Colleen, Danny, and Ben. This season it’s raining Others, but for the love of Kelvin, what are they all doing?

We’re definitely filling up on 31 flavors of who, when what we really need is more why. There’s the forced labor at the construction site, Alex hiding in the bushes to ask about Carl, and Ben’s voyeur routine inside the Hydra. And why haven’t we seen the Other called Ms. Klugh since last year? Did she free Hurley and fall off the pier?

Of course, I don’t crave answers only about the O’s. Why does Sayid, an experienced soldier, make remarkably boneheaded plans for signal fires and stakeouts and the like — then top it off by taking a pregnant woman on a nocturnal trek through the jungle? When did that become a smart idea? With every fiber of his tank top, our brooding alpha male obviously wants revenge more than he wants to save the day. I’m holding out for a hero, but I’m casting my hopes elsewhere — perhaps Hurley will step up. Or Locke. Or Rose. (It could happen. She’s magicky.)

This episode, ‘’The Glass Ballerina,'’ belonged to Sun and her flashbacks. As a privileged little girl, she had no problem telling big lies. (She blamed the housekeeper for breaking that figurine even after her father warned her the maid would be fired as a result.) Perhaps cultivating a skill at deception gave her a sense of power in a stifling environment. I wonder if Sun went forth in life burying guilt or simply not experiencing very much of it. It was the beautiful opening shot of the ballerina falling to the floor that gave me the saddest insight into Sun’s life: A dancer, like anyone, needs freedom of movement. But the glass ballerina is frozen, manipulated by an artist into one perfect position — destined to be nothing but a pretty object whose only possibility of change is to be shattered. (Cue the shattering.)

The big Sun revelation is her baby daddy’s identity. A prior flashback already told us Jin (unbeknownst to him) was the sterile one in the marriage, and now, a new flashback of Sun in bed with Jae Lee leads us to conclude her baby is Jae’s. Yunjin Kim was fantastic in the scene where Sun’s father finds her in her lover’s bed and brusquely departs to settle the matter in his own manipulative, murderous way. I’d love to know whether Jae did actually jump (from room 1516, did you notice?) and whether Sun blames Jin for Jae’s death, despite Jin’s last-minute display of mercy. Or did she follow Jin to the hotel and trigger the suicide by rejecting Jae, whose dead hand was clutching the pearls he had bought for Sun?

Aboard Desmond’s sailboat, Sun’s burgeoning self-confidence resulted in violence below deck when she was confronted by the militant Other named Colleen (Danny’s apparent paramour). Before taking a bullet to the gut, she startled Sun by calling her by her full name and claiming there were five Others on board, adding, ‘’We are not the enemy.'’ Sun, unconvinced, shot her anyway. Jin and Sayid raced toward the sound of gunfire, which may fall under that previously mentioned category of boneheaded behavior (but I’m not a soldier). And, recalling the season 1 finale when all hell broke loose on the raft, Jin dove into the ocean and swam himself silly, this time looking for his wife. Their dog-paddly reunion was sweet, but once they got onshore, I caught a moment when Jin’s touch seemed to upset Sun more than comfort her.

The lives of the three captives remained miserably oppressive. Kate and Sawyer were marched to a construction site (are the Others really building something, or was it another day in the neighborhood of make-believe?) to dig up and haul rocks. On impulse, or to provoke their guards, Sawyer flouted a ‘’no physical contact'’ rule by passionately kissing Kate. Unfortunately it didn’t seem to cheer Kate up or advance their relationship; it only caused the stun-gun-happy Others to go ballistic. Still, being near Kate seems to intoxicate Sawyer lately. When she asked how she was expected to work wearing a dress, Sawyer forgot himself and silently agreed with Danny’s lecherous reply, ‘’You can take it off if you want,'’ until Kate’s withering gaze caused him to muster an uppity, hilarious ‘’How dare you!'’

Unlike last week, this episode saved Ben-related shockers for the final minutes. Jack’s silent treatment toward Juliet prompted Ben to formally introduce himself to Jack, presumably to get him talking. ‘’My name is Benjamin Linus,'’ he calmly stated. He also claimed to have lived on the island his whole life. And in an effort to prove he was in contact with the outside world, Ben played Jack footage of the Red Sox’s World Series win on videotape. Finally, Ben made a promise: ‘’You cooperate with us, and I will take you home.'’ Jack is no Dorothy, so that bait might not work, but he’s in a shaky place emotionally. Oh, and naturally, Ben wouldn’t define ‘’cooperation.'’

A speculation: I suspect the Others are primarily interested in one of their three captives. It could be that the prisoner in isolation, Jack, is not their ultimate prize and that the men are pawns. Here’s to my friend Holly for tipping me to her supersinister theory: It’s possible that Ben’s ‘’two weeks'’ comment in the season premiere, over breakfast with Kate, is an indication that the Others know her ovulation cycle and want to inseminate her, perhaps with a mini-Ben! Kidnapping Aaron didn’t work out; the new plan may involve impregnating our feisty but healthy fugitive.

What do you think? Why would the Others drive a wedge between the captives by isolating Jack and strengthening the bond between Kate and Sawyer? Is Ben being truthful about his identity? Is Alex a rebel Other, or is she setting a trap? And will Jack betray his friends for another look at ESPN?

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So the episode opened with, what else but a glass ballerina! It then fell, went Ka-booey and broke. We then saw a little Korean girl get startled and run towards her piano to play a tune or two. Mr. Paik came in, scolded her, but Sun, the little Korean girl, blamed it on the maid. The father asked once again, and Sun said it was the maid.

What the glass ballerina represented was the vulnerbility of Sun. Her fragile heart and mind. She wants to be good, she wants to be perfect but she has minor screw ups. It also represents that Sun is, and was, a pathological liar. Shes been lying since she was a little girl and so this kinda contradicts her episode last season titled, “The Whole Truth.”

But, enough about metaphors, the episode also provided quite a handful of answers, and, of course, another handful of questions. For starters, Jae and Sun did in fact sleep together. To make matters worse, Mr. Paik, Suns dad, walked in and caught them. What confused me was when Jae Lee called Mr. Paik, “Sir.” Now, if I remember correctly, last season it was Suns mother who urged and pleaded with Sun to behave and be good so Jae will find her attractive. It was Suns mother who complimented Jae and made sure everything went great. Now, heres where the confusion comes in, if Mr. Paik is a higher socialite, why was Sun trying to win over the affection of Sun and not the other way around? Those of higher class must be priased, therefore it should of been Jae who was kissing Suns ass and visiting her.

Now, with an answer comes a question. Are the Others all one giant love orgy? When Collen caught Ben and Juliet talking she got jealous, then, later outside, Collen and Pickett shared a little intimate scene. This is beginning to look like Big Love.

Answer: Sun and Jins last name. Im unsure of the spelling but it goes a little something like this: Wakone.

Question: It was revealed that Jins job was to kill Jae. Not because he knew that he slept with Sun but because Mr. Paik said he “shamed” the family honor. At first Jin didn’t want to but when Mr. Paik told him it wasn’t an option Jin did what he had to. He went to the hotel and beat up Jae, telling him to flee the country and never return, not even make contact. “You don’t exist.” Jin left the room and went down to his car. When he got into his car Jae came slamming down into the hood, dead. Now, was it suicide or other forces of which we were not shown.
Answer: Bens full name! Benjamin Lynos. And he said he’s lived on the island he’s whole life. He mentioned the date the plane crashed, Sept. 22, 2004. And that it was now 69 days later. Bush was re-elected, Red Soxs won the World Series. Jack didn’t believe him so Ben showed Jack the game. Which also answered, for definite, that there is an outside world. Also, a keen observation. When Ben entered the room in the final scene, the soup that Juliet had left him in the beginning of the episode still went untouched.

Question: Collen mentioned to Sun, after revealing her last name, that if Sun were to shot they will in fact be enemies. That, as mentioned before, they are not enemies. Sun, of course shot her and then escaped the boat. The boat was than taken by Tom. The question is, if they are so damn good why not just come out with it and stop hiding it.

Answer: The fact that the Others had no clue about Desmonds boat leads me to believe that Kelvin didn’t work for the Others! Cause if he did he would of surely told them about the boat. So…

Question: How did he end up on the island. He, being Kelvin
Other highlights of the episode includes, Kate seeing Alex! Alex mentioning Karl! Alex mentioning the dress is hers and!!!!!!!! SAWYER KISSING KATE! Woo! Also, the main plot for the Others was capturing that boat. Making sure the Losties couldn’t use it to escape from the island.

Overall I give the episode a 9 out of 10. Few clips of Jack boosted the rating so… YAY NO JACK! But, im still feeling sad that Locke, Eko and Desmond are missing, although previews for next week show they’re coming! Woohoo bring it on!

Now for the theories:

Alex mentioning to Kate if she has seen Karl and that Karl wasn’t suppse to be locked up lead me to believe that Karl is, as I thought, not an other. Or perhaps he is a “almost-converted-into-other” Other. Just how Alex is one. More easily labeled, rebels!

If Jack does cooperate, just as Michael did, he will be set free. So, where does this coordinate lead to? Im itching wherever it does, whether its freedom or hell, once there the Losties will try and help the rest. My theory is, Kate chooses Sawyer and so Jack is set free, after cooperating. Once there, his episodes will involve him, maybe with Michael?, trying to save the others from the outside world.

So now, drop a comment or two and lets make this into a discussion.

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Glass Ballerina:
Sun was having an affair wit Jae.
Sun’s father finds out about her affair, and sends Jin to “deliver a message” to Jae.
Jin beats up Jae on Mr. Paik’s order.
Jae either commits suicide, or is thrown off his balcony by someone after Jin leaves.
Jin has terrible taste in parking.
Jin does not appear to know of Sun’s infidelity.
Sayid is using Rousseau’s map to navigate around the island.
Jin can understand more English than Sun thinks.
Jin knows how to load an automatic handgun.
Sun kills an Other.
The Others steal Desmond’s boat.
Sawyer loves the sight of a woman wielding a pickaxe.
The dress that was given to Kate once belonged to Alex.
According to Sawyer, most of the Others have never seen real “action”.
The stun guns that the Others carry have safeties.
Henry is watching Sawyer and Kate from the pearl, or someplace similar to the pearl.
Ben’s full name is Benjamin Linus.
The Others have access to the outside world.

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From EW.com:

The long, dry season is over.

When we said adieu to Lost last May, the story had reached a fever pitch. All the hullabaloo culminated in one very exciting season finale (Michael retrieving Walt, Fake Henry reappearing as the chief Other, a Locke meltdown, a Hatch meltdown, a shocking phone call to Desmond’s ex), but I dare say every bit of it was topped by the opening minutes of season 3’s premiere episode.

I’ve been on my share of face-freezing theme-park roller-coasters, but that was a ride. Talk about a new perspective. (First of all, that island is humongo. How could a land mass that big be unknown? Can a South Pacific expert — the region, not the musical — please explain?)

But let’s not get ahead of ourselves. Just listen to the rhythm of the gentle bossa nova! In a parallel to season 2’s premiere, a lilting pop ditty once again underscored our thrillingly disorienting introduction to a new setting. Who can forget our first glance at life inside the Hatch, as Mama Cass entreated Desmond to ‘’Make Your Own Kind of Music'’? This time, we encountered both a new setting and a new character, with the soothing sounds of Petula Clark’s ‘’Downtown'’ playing inside the modest, modern house of a woman who was later identified as Juliet. Now, normally I’d resist the idea of another lead player joining such a sprawling cast, were it not such an immediately impressive addition: the talented Elizabeth Mitchell, who redefined ‘’inner monologue'’ in her first 30 seconds on screen. Give that casting director a raise.

(FYI about ‘’Downtown'’: The 1964 hit was written by Tony Hatch. Seriously.)

In an episode overflowing with stellar moments, my favorite was this first glimpse of Juliet. She opened her eye, started her CD player, and approached a large framed mirror on her wall, lost in thought. I was transfixed: What was upsetting her? Trouble at the office? Bad breakup? She kept fighting the tears, but why? (It’s all right to cry. Rosey Grier? A little help?) She subtly, decisively blinked away her blues and then reality, in the form of burnt muffins, called. Food tumbled from oven to floor just as her first book-club guest arrived. Another harried start to another ordinary day in suburbia.

Except, of course, it wasn’t. As soon as a book clubber mentioned an absent Ben — whose opinion was clearly valued by many in the room, though not Juliet — I recalled last season’s fretful exchanges between Others (in the medical hatch and on the pier) about a nameless ‘’him.'’ Well, he’s nameless no more. A loud, earth-shaking rumble brought all of Juliet’s neighbors out of their houses, including Fake Henry, whose real name we promptly learned. (I may have to call him Benry for a while. First impressions and all.) Can I get an amen for the return of Michael Emerson? Those eyes! That voice! That receding yet still very sinister hair! Those eyes!

So far we’ve seen the crash of Oceanic 815 from two very different perspectives. Now a third point of view: a small community of neighbors staring into a bright blue sky, witnessing a jetliner full of people break in two. What’s arguably just as horrifying as the interior shots of the disaster that we’ve previously seen is Benry’s reaction to the tragedy overhead. He quickly dispatched Ethan and Goodwin, like two clean-cut soldiers in ‘’sleeper cell'’-mode, to infiltrate the survivors. His orders — ‘’Don’t get involved….I want lists in three days'’ — were chilling.

I have to applaud the choice the writers made in structuring the rest of the episode. After the jaw-dropping aerial shot showed us a well-hidden, well-manicured Othersville, the episode sharply narrowed its focus, mostly to explore Jack’s state of mind. We haven’t spent this much time with our hero in ages, and it felt great to care about the guy again! In flashbacks, we learned more than ever about the nature of his emotional burden and Dad-related regrets. (Meanwhile many Sarah-related questions were raised: In the heartbreaking scene in which she and Jack met to finalize divorce terms, was she walking away smirking?) Inside the Jack-jail, he kicked and screamed and heard possibly hallucinatory voices through a possibly defunct intercom, then met his interrogator, Juliet. She informed him he’d been drugged, offered him a grilled cheese sandwich, and pretended to know little about him before eventually sharing the contents of a dossier that had been compiled about his life. (Let’s quote Michael here: Who are you people?) At the same time, she exhibited fleeting signs of genuine concern for him. Was that an act? Just when we started to think Jack was no match for a manipulative Other, he lured her into an ambush and dragged her toward a door that she was terrified to open. Benry popped into the hallway to warn Jack, who opened the door anyway and unleashed a wall of water — at which point Benry had the bad manners to slam a different door in Juliet’s face as he rushed to save himself, causing her to nearly drown. Could that have been an accident? No. It could not.

Throughout, we got a just-right dose of Sawyer and Kate, bringing the total of original castaways in this episode to three. Unlike Jack, Sawyer adapted to his captivity with enough of a cool head to keep himself calm (and fed). At first I thought the lab-rat metaphor going on in his cage was overkill, but as usual, it may not be what it seems. For that matter, Chachi, a.k.a. Carl, may not be either. Kate’s disconcerting breakfast at Benry’s Seaside Bistro left her shaken — frankly, I failed to see the point of the scene. But have we ever seen Sawyer as tender with her — or anyone — as when he shared his Dharma cookie with her? She’d had a hard time, what with her clothes disappearing and her wrists being handcuffed again. I had to wonder if even more was said to frighten her than what we saw. What did Benry mean, anyway, telling her the next two weeks would be very unpleasant? Was there more to the exchange we’ll learn about later?

Which brings me back to perspective. The island is being shown to us from entirely new angles, the way we continue to see the characters in new ways that turn what we think we know on its head. The producers may be promising more action this season, but I’m dying to know whether we’ll ever learn any one character’s full story. If that’s even possible.

Here’s the obvious downside to focusing so exclusively on Jack, Kate, and Sawyer this week: We’re already one hour into the season with no idea what’s happened to another key trio, Locke, Desmond, and Eko. Surely, they haven’t all met their end, though the Hatch seems likely to be gone for good. Call me impatient, but how soon can we find out what all the noise and glowing fallout was? We’re still essentially in season 2 as far as the original Lost characters are concerned. Perhaps we should look at this as a month of Lost premieres, as there are now so many castaways to catch up with.

What do you think? Are Desmond, Locke, and Eko alive, and are you upset that wasn’t addressed in this episode? Is Juliet a threat to Benry’s authority? Was Sawyer’s brief escape a setup? And was Jack channeling Ugly Betty when he walked into a glass wall?

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