LOST: Man of Science, Man of Faith

[fajrdrako]

So Jack is the man of the title - not so much a man of both science and faith, as a man torn between the two. Or did I misunderstand? Is he a man of science, trying to cling to his science and deny his faith?

I wonder what happened to his wife later.

My LOST supper party went well. We watched "Exodus 2" at about 7 p.m. - the last episode of last season, which blackbyrde hadn't seen yet. Then we watched the overview thing at 8, talking during it because we'd mostly seen all the episodes. Then the new episode.

There was a fair amount of shrieking and face-covering and laughing and speculation.

My comments:

- Desmond: what the heck? We thought it was him (from the hair and the fitness) but couldn't sort out the sense. Many theories abounded: Cylons, clones, evil twins, leprechauns, ghosts.... Was Desmond in the hatch waiting for his relief? Or his boss/employer/leader?

- Not much Sayid. No Sawyer, with or without his shirt. Huh.

- If I were Shannon, I wouldn't be running around in the jungle in the dark after Vincent. She may think, or pretend to think, that no one ever asked her to do anything before, but we've seen several occasions where people asked her to do things. Boone asked her to help set up the camp when she was sunbathing. (She continued to sunbathe.) Sayid asked her to watch his suitcase in the airport. (She framed him with security.)

- Scary scene with Walt. Dripping.

- My friend were all laughing at Jack's hair in the flashback scenes but I thought he looked great.

- Why did Jack go down the hatch? Why did he change his mind? Was he feeling concerned about Kate? Was it that he decided to go for faith over reason, or was he just restless?

- We concluded that the big room with the geodesic dome in the underground complex is under water. That means the tunnel must be awfully long, though, if it's half a mile inland of the caves and the caves are inland from the beach. Still... I keep wondering why that cable leads from the beach into the water. The one Sayid tripped over in "Solitary".

- Why the old-fashioned computers and electronics? The old record player? The technology covered various decades .... I speculated it was one of the secret headquarters of U.N.C.L.E., with a jungle instead of a dry cleaning shop on top.

- is Jack central to something, or is it just chance that he ended up on the island? I liked his conversation with Hurley about the numbers.

- Did Charley take the heroin or not?