Episode two of the new season continues at the same heights of quality established in the season three finale and begins with a great WTF moment – the discovery on the ocean floor of the wreckage of Oceanic 815! Then cut to Daniel Faraday the guy that parachuted onto the Island as the end of the last episode inexplicably crying at having seen the wreckage on the TV news. Presumably this is a flashback.
Locke is acting like Colonel Kurtz – nice one Sawyer.
I think Ben is more of a manipulator than an outright liar as he mostly does tell the truth but spins it in such a way as to make people do what he wants them to do. He is pretty much several steps ahead of anyone else and so it’s never clear what his motives or intentions ultimately are.
It’s only a matter of time ’til he gets us Johnny and he’s already worked out how he’s gonna do it.
Again Sawyer’s perception of others is spot on in my opinion.
Faraday proves to be just what the viewers are seeking as he’s pretty forthcoming as to answering questions and seems pretty knowledgeable. Confirms that the freighter isn’t there to rescue them but is cut off from revealing what their primary mission is by another new character Miles Straum, Ghostbuster. Lost has skirted near to the supernatural before but Miles’s ability to converse with the dead is right in that zone.
Meanwhile the third of the people from the freighter Charlotte Staples Lewis is out of the frying pan and into the fire when having landed badly from the helicopter she’s now discovered by Locke’s party. In flashback we’ve seen her discover in Tunisia a Dharma collar round the skeleton of a polar bear, evidence of multiple Dharma sites round the globe or some freaky dimensional rift thing. “You’ve been living here this entire time?” Is it just me or does her incredulity here suggest that in the outside world a greater period has passed than the 90 days that have passed on the Island.
This might tie up with the fact that it doesn’t seem long enough for Frank Lapidus to have fallen to being a pilot for a Caribbean tours company from having been an airline pilot for Oceanic. But then as he was almost the pilot of Oceanic 815 he might have felt survivors guilt and quit immediately.
Bullet proof vest, guns and Naomi’s “Tell my sister that I love her” indeed being a code heavily suggests that the freighties came expecting trouble. But trouble from whom? They’ve come for Ben and if they have any knowledge of him and the Others then it seems like a wise precaution. But none of them were particularly surprised by the Oceanic 815’s survivors presence on the Island and it has to be remembered that they in their encounters with the Others have proved themselves to be dangerous also.
