S3 Ep1 "A Tale of Two Cities"

(started 5/21/10 09:50)

Did this have to start with "Downtown" by Petula Clark? I always end up on a tangent in whatever I am doing when I hear this song. On our honeymoon in London, the hub-unit and I went to this basement-dwelling Spanish restaurant where this tiny Indian man set up his keyboard and proceeded to play the meekest set of ambient dinner music ever, in the middle of a loud bar section. It was like he snuck up on the microphone every time he approached it. By the third song we were pretty much wetting our pants in laughter, yet we couldn't make ourselves leave, for fear we'd never hear such an 'amazing' set of music again in our lifetimes. He had a way about him that was mesmerizing. Call me sometime if you want to hear the audio version of this anecdote. Will be pleased to oblige.
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Welcome to the Bitterville Book Club, where we see Henry Gale, who is really named Ben. They are "discussing" a Stephen King book when there's a rumbling from the sky. Outside, the Oceanic plane is crashing into the island. We see that other people in this community include Creepy Cruise Cousin Ethan and Goodwin the Peace Corps guy, who Ben tells to scatter to different parts of the wreckage and to pose as survivors and make a list.

The camera pans back and we see a neat, orderly subdivision, pretty houses and yards. These people are wearing regular clothing, not the crazy monochromatic Polyphonic Spree garb we saw at the season 2 finale.

So, they changed into rags and burned their houses down to live in huts? Good Subterfuge.

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Present day Kate, Sawyer and Jack are shown in captivity. Henry has a particular liking for Kate wearing a dress. She is warned that the next two weeks will be difficult for her. Sawyer lives in a bear cage and doesn't take direction well - go figure. And Jack spends a lot of time with Juliette the Book Club leader. Jack tried to escape and gets clocked by Juliette.

The Others are back to wearing civilized clothing at least. No more terracotta.

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PCL Jack is determined to find out who Sarah is seeing, even thinking it's his father at one point. He has crazyeyes.