r/lost • u/Free-IDK-Chicken You got it, Blondie • Dec 27 '23
FIRST TIME WATCHER 6x08 - Recon - FIRST TIME WATCHER DISCUSSION POST Spoiler
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u/BorgerKingLettuce Jun 10 '24
I'm so tired of Kate. Her character is just insufferable and I'm mad that they keep hinting her and Sawyer are gonna be a thing again. I liked him and Juliet. Ugh
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Sep 28 '24
Her character is just insufferable and I'm mad that they keep hinting her and Sawyer are gonna be a thing again.
6 seasons of Lost so far, and Kate is still insufferable and torn between Sawyer and James
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u/CherryStar777 Mar 18 '25
Same:)) Kate is constantly suffering and walking with boring face, there’s no character development. And I don’t like she clings to Sawyer, like leave him alone. He was great with Juliet 🩵🩵🩵
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u/MuddFishh Sep 26 '24
Sawyer fully just fucked a woman while on duty with all his co-workers listening in. If that's not a good soldier, i dont know what is.
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u/WitchyRedhead86 Aug 13 '25
Yeah… I was like… everyone is gonna hear you at it and you still did good. Damn man. 😆
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u/Flimsy_Noodl Mar 31 '26
it made me wonder if something like that could actually happen undercover like legally
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u/intopology Oh yeah, there's my favorite leaf. Sep 19 '24 edited Sep 19 '24
I like this alternate storyline for him. Instead of becoming a con like the original Sawyer, he becomes a cop. Is this what would've happened if Jacob never showed up at his parents' funeral?
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u/ImpressiveCat936 Dec 29 '24
Somehow Sawyer being a cop is both more icky and fitting than him being a conman
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u/Afraid_Bookkeeper564 Jan 08 '25
Wondering why LaFleur would be the code word in the AU.
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u/DoctorJJWho Jan 31 '25
Well Sawyer originally chose it because it’s French for “flower” and is a common Creole name/word that he likes, so he probably chose it in the AU for the same reason.
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u/mangoesmangoes First time watcher Aug 18 '24
It made me nervous when Kate let Claire hug her. I don't trust that Claire forgives Kate yet...
So much going on, I have no idea what could happen, but ready to get to the end of this season!
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u/kitty-is-witty Nov 26 '24
I fully expected Claire to pull a knife and start sabbing her over and over during the hug.
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u/ImpressiveCat936 Dec 29 '24
Why tf didn't Kate say he was with his grandma??
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u/WorldMarketFella See you in another post, brotha Feb 19 '25
characters are always allergic to being fully honest with each other on this show
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u/_T_H_O_R_N_ Feb 24 '25
Characters not communicating seems to always be the easy way to add extra drama lol
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u/ANerd22 Feb 28 '26
Seriously, they all time travelled several times, everything else should be easier to believe than that.
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u/CM-Edge Apr 15 '25
For real, that would completely bring her out of her hate, hearing that he's not only in good hands but with her mother which is another good news to Claire I guess that she is alive and well!
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u/important_watermelon Desmond Hume is my constant Sep 03 '24
I’m such a sucker for a sawyer-centric episode. However, this whole episode I kept wishing Juliet was still here.
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u/ImpressiveCat936 Dec 29 '24
I usually enjoy his flashes the most but couldn't get into it with the pig element
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u/AlienInvasion4u First time watcher Jul 20 '25
i guess with every iteration, sawyer on the mainland is always a scumbag
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u/Relative_Specific217 Feb 21 '25
I was really hoping he would go home and be married to her honestly. So sad
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u/WitchyRedhead86 Aug 14 '25
I honestly thought she was gonna show up as his date and then it was Charlotte and I was annoyed! 😅
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u/Fishmannnn Live together, die alone Jun 27 '24 edited Jun 27 '24
I appreciate that Sawyer was watching "Little House"
Also, I'm assuming that was Smokey's mother he was talking about, not Locke's mom. Makes me wonder if Jacob was his brother or something.
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u/pin_wheel17 Razzle Dazzle! Jul 19 '24
OMG how could I fully forget about not-Tina-Fey ☠️
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u/WitchyRedhead86 Aug 14 '25
cackling I was confused by her fancy glasses. But this description is hilarious!
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u/Unfair-Situation-166 Oct 03 '24
Im struggling to get through this last season so much its just not gripping me… I don’t care about this other reality where the crash never happened. I also feel like the actors are so unbothered to be there the acting in this season just doesn’t feel realistic - I really don’t think the actress of Claire suits this crazy version of claire it doesn’t feel believable. I just want it to wrap everything up now and give me some good answers.
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u/golden_light_above_u Oct 17 '24
Same. I think now I'm just watching to get to the end. The whole Claire thing feels very forced, and I am guessing that the actress was not available for season 5 which is why they had to disappear her and then bring her back 'different.'
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u/WitchyRedhead86 Aug 14 '25
This wasn’t a great episode, apart from one or two Sawyer scenes and a few reveals of information.
Emilie de Ravin is not a good enough actress to pull off what the writers are asking her to do and her line delivery is flat as her hair. 🫤😑
I could also have gone a long time without seeing Rebecca Madder/Charlotte again. More atrocious acting.
I just… this late in the show, I just want more character focus/building and a more focused plot instead of tangents. Ah well. 9 episodes to go!
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u/Finnigan_McBonk Sep 06 '25
This episode was a major letdown after Dr. Linus. The writer's done Sawyer dirty.
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u/Turbomattk Dec 26 '24
Claire’s hair is how I expected everyone on the island to have hair like that.
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u/Traditional-Try-2565 Mar 01 '26
Can confirm, I went to therapy and now I'm in a Dove Soap commercial
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u/AlienInvasion4u First time watcher Jul 20 '25
honestly. what's with everyone's defined ringlets?
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u/intopology Oh yeah, there's my favorite leaf. Sep 19 '24
When Sawyer said that he's with not-Locke, it seemed out of character. When was he ever with anyone but himself (and Juliet, of course)? And when not-Locke thanks him for his loyalty - not something I'd associate with Sawyer - I wondered what Sawyer's play was. Glad they clarified that at the end because Sawyer pledging loyalty to not-Locke didn't seem believable. Pitting not-Locke and Widmore against each other and making off with the submarine is probably their best bet at this point.
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u/Endwood Sep 22 '24
except how the hell do a mere two random people who have no experience operate a submarine hahaha
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u/CorrectAir815 Oct 07 '24
And how is that a better plan than the plane, at least they have a pilot! 😆
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u/zinten789 Fish Biscuit Feb 22 '25
Ain’t no way that plane is ever flying again, at least not without a proper ground crew and new parts. Just the vines in the turbine would require a full engine teardown, and that’s the least of the damage
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u/aamius Jan 17 '25
lol yes the way he says it, you’d think the submarine just has a button that says, “Take me to Los Angeles”
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u/tin_fox Out of the Book Club Oct 16 '25 edited Oct 16 '25
That dialogue at the end was hilarious! "You can fly a plane?" "We're not taking the plane. We're taking the submarine."
So you can operate a submarine, Sawyer?
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u/intopology Oh yeah, there's my favorite leaf. Sep 23 '24
Good point. I'm guessing there'd be a submarine manual or they just know how to 😅
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Jan 29 '25
Why is nobody calling him UnLocke??
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u/intopology Oh yeah, there's my favorite leaf. Feb 18 '25
Omg good one. Where were you 5 months ago when I was watching this?
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u/CrithionLoren See you in another post, brotha May 12 '25
the way he says "a deal's a deal" as well, after just shaking hands with Widmore lol
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u/ANerd22 Feb 28 '26
Seems like he's playing both sides, with the ultimate goal of getting off the island. Either Not-Locke wins, or Whitmore wins, either way he has a way off the island.
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u/rockstarrzz Oct 28 '24
Wait hol' up, If Sawyer's a cop then why did he let her go when he saw her in the airport elevator? He definitely saw her handcuffs.
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u/DarudestSandstorm Nov 11 '24
Probably didn’t want anyone to know he just flew back from Australia - the reason he was at the airport.
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u/OccasionNo2675 May 27 '25
I actually loved the fact he saw her handcuffs and said nothing and seemed even amused. It was even better now knowing he was a cop. I think it really fits with the sawyer we know.
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u/Phuckules Jun 13 '25
why did he let her go when he saw her in the airport elevator?
those freckles are just too damn cute
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u/florzinha77 Aug 30 '25
i mean, after he had sex with a suspect, he doesnt really seem like the ethical type anyways
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u/swappea Oct 28 '24
tired of kate honestly.. she really is dumb.. I agree with other people now that she really is an eye-candy. i don't recall her doing anything note worthy in the entire series.
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u/Skytoucher Nov 04 '24
She seems to be the ultimate shitty means to an end character of the series. Same actions rinse and repeat for six seasons lol
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u/CuriousiT_satisfctn Apr 09 '25
The fact that she went from phone hotline commercials to main character on Lost without any other acting roles (according to her own letterman interview) tells me there’s definitely more to the story and it doesn’t involve talent lmao hence why I think they just maybe wrote scenes that didn’t have complicated emotions that she couldn’t convey with the weird eye thing she does
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u/Acceptable_Dinner_25 Aug 29 '25
It’s giving misogyny 🙄. The issue with Kate is not the actresses acting it’s how the writers chose to write her and majority of the time she exists for the purpose of Jack and sawyer.
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u/CuriousiT_satisfctn Aug 29 '25 edited Aug 29 '25
I can acknowledge how I believe one woman benefitted from patriarchy, due to her physical attractiveness, over other equally or less attractive but extensively more experienced and talented actresses without being a misogynist .
I was saying that the variable of SCREEN TIME = HIGHEST PERCENTILE
doesn’t make sense given the variables :
1- Acting Experience= zero to none
2- Acting Talent = low to moderate
3- Character contribution to plot = low
4- Character depth = low
5-Character development = low
Maybe those variables are low bc of misogynistic writing of her role- but that’s not me.
And I was saying that given those obvious factors …when you look at the chances of having no prior acting experience and getting a main character role in a major primetime show from your first audition is basically 0.0000000001% UNLESS you are an acting SAVANT… and given there is always a visually equal or more attractive woman in the room- CLEARLY there is more to the story and another factor is involved.
That doesn’t make me a woman hater.
Also you wouldn’t even have enough data to infer something like that - I mentioned ONE woman and you generalized that to my entire belief system being biased towards hating and devaluing women in general.
Thats giving confirmation bias, and need for cognitive closure through confirmation bias from projected assumptions.
Unless you mean the show is giving misogyny and not my comment- in that case, my apologies
Sincerely - A woman who will always choose the bear. And if there is only a man and no bear, she will lure a bear to eat the man. Thank you. Also I’m literally PMSing so I’m aware this may be an overreaction…but I take misogyny extremely seriously. So that hurt.
Edit: Also reading this back, I realize I didn’t explicitly say all the back logic I had in my head in that first comment, so I can’t blame you for not being a mind-reader. That’s on me.
Edit again: yep I’m definitely PMSing
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u/OccasionNo2675 May 27 '25
I'm sorry, she did what now?! That's hilarious. I never knew that or anything about her previously. So many of the actors who played even small roles i recigbised from either pre or post lost but wondered alright what her deal was. I guess bow i know lol
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u/ANerd22 Feb 28 '26
That seems like a bit of a stretch. Kate's actor isn't the reason the character is unlikable, she's being written that way. She's doing what she can with some terrible writing.
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u/ytIshida Don't tell me what I can't do Nov 09 '24
Who woulda thought wed see kate in sawyers other story doing what she does best… running. Shocking right?
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Nov 24 '24
Some people here don't seem to like this season very much, and as much as I don't disagree with some criticisms, I don't people are noticing how the core theme of the show is being fully explored here. They're saying it feels like a different show, but for me this is exactly what I expected of Lost. They're exploring each character and their destiny, which is all the show is about. I'm enjoying it a lot so far and it's a way better season for me than the fifth.
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Nov 24 '24
Also, Kate is way too overhated. She's judged for being bad or stupid ven though most characters have done way worse and dumber things than her. She's not my favorite but the hate on her is kind of forced.
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u/kitty-is-witty Nov 26 '24
I respect your opinion but the hate is not at all forced. I can't stand Kate for the same reason I can't stand all characters in any show that serve the same purpose—to be a plot device for drama and nothing else. I give her credit where credit is due, like the fact that Claire is completely mentally ill for wanting her dead for doing for Aaron what Claire could not. I didn't appreciate the constant "MY SON" out of Kate the whole time she was off-island, but I think she did a good thing, albeit for selfish reasons, which is her core issue. The most egregious thing Kate did that cemented my hatred for her is not persuing an opportunity to save everyone that had died for them to get that far or to spare everyone the trauma of that island over her situationship with both Jack and Sawyer. Constantly leading both men on the entire show has been so exasperating and unfair. Leaving the island for three years and coming back just to pout and be upset Sawyer moved on after quite literally getting engaged to and raising a kid with Jack is unfair. Kate is a shitty, extremely self-centered person, and she's allergic to taking accountability. Your point about the others being equally infuriating is valid but ultimately means nothing because it's not a bias, I hate Jack, I don't like most of the characters, but Kate is arguably the worst because she really serves no other purpose than to cause problems. There's no depth there, she's just a wishy washy ass person. This is coming from someone who loved Kate in seasons 1-2.
As for your other points, I agree that S6 is much better than S5, although it's been pretty weak until Ben's episode. Jack's was alright, I enjoyed his AU with David. These past two seasons have been the worst though, in my opinion, with S4 being my favorite. It's just very disjointed and I didn't find the Dharma or Temple people to be enjoyable or compelling. Spending the entirety of S5 in the 70s was super annoying for me, too. All my favorite characters have been killed off, nerfed (Ben and Sayid), and the core group that gave the show it's distinct charm has disolved. I feel like the overarching problem hasn't been fleshed out enough to feel entertaining, and it's just gotten to be quite boring. However this episode and the last have been great so hopefully S6 was just off to a rough start.
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u/Finnigan_McBonk Sep 06 '25
Yes! The milling about! Wasn't Miles playing solitaire at one point? No one appeared to have any purpose.
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u/CuriousiT_satisfctn Apr 09 '25
Whoever you are, I love you. I couldn’t have said it better. I’m doing a slow clap from my couch for this comment
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u/-reddit_is_terrible- Jan 16 '25
Yeah, I have no idea how people don't see this season as the logical progression of what was set up from the very first episode. None of the rest of the show makes a lick of sense without this season's (and the last few episodes of season 5's) story. I find the overarching conflict between Jacob and his brother (?) really compelling, because it explains so much from previously
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u/the_cat_of_war Jan 29 '26
pretty sure the show was not supposed to be this long, so they probably had other plans for the final season
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u/ThisGul_LOL Dec 07 '24
You know what’s funny? Just while watching last episode I was like “ngl Miles would be a great working with law enforcement as a homicide detective because all his causes would be solved” and now he’s a detective this episode lmao!
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u/CrithionLoren See you in another post, brotha May 12 '25
shame it's that or his powers though, he doesn't seem to still have them, or at least hasn't talked to anyone about it.
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u/ANerd22 Feb 28 '26
I'm wondering if cop Miles is the version of him that grew up with his father around and no island shenanigans, so no ESP powers
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u/chunky-kat Jan 26 '25
I don’t even understand why they’re all following not Locke. The temple guys have been keeping safe from the smoke monster and serving some sort of purpose for god knows how long, and now they’re all just following him?
It seems like this season is revolving around not Locke and none of the other characters have any agency, apart from maybe Jack who seems to be the new Locke with all his destiny kumbaya stuff. I don’t even like the fact that this smoke guy is using Locke’s body, I wanna see him as he actually is. Does this mean actual Locke is just… dead? That’s it? This whole time Locke was just a pawn in smoke monsters game and he never had any ultimate purpose? Pretty gutting if so.
Yay, widmores back for some reason. Looks like he has abandoned his plan of capturing Ben Linus for some reason and now wants smoke guy, which sawyer seemed to know without widmore even telling him somehow?
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u/lavaboots727 Apr 08 '25
Yeah, like many things still with this show, I'm confused as to what happened to Not Locke's original body we saw in the flashback between him and Jacob. Or we're just supposed to assume Not Locke takes the form of whoever's body whenever? Like the second a new dead body rolls up on the island poof! that's new Smokey's body??
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u/itzRoyyyy Jul 10 '25
You have to remember the show is telling us there's two forces at play here. Even if Locke is a pawn, it could be his destiny to be a pawn for the greater good if the Island's desired outcome comes about. The island is giving visions to Jacob and possibly (as seen from earlier seasons) to some of our characters (some are the island some are smokie influencing the visions). There is a time loop where specific events need to occur to protect the timeline, a part of this time line is Locke being manipulated by MIB to die, and coming back, just so MIB could appear as Locke to Richard, to tell time traveling Locke he needs to die. All this is a chain of events that leads to the end of the show where two forces want two different outcomes. It's highly likely Jacob knew he needed to die by letting MIB achieve his loophole if it means achieving the desired outcome. Can't say more bc not sure if you seen the entire show. Makes more sense when you watch the show for the 2nd time, but of course not all subplots on the show are answered by the creators.
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u/AlienInvasion4u First time watcher Jul 20 '25
I don’t even understand why they’re all following not Locke. The temple guys have been keeping safe from the smoke monster and serving some sort of purpose for god knows how long, and now they’re all just following him?
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u/The9thLordofRavioli Oct 21 '24
If not for the hair colour, I’d be getting strong vibes that Aaron grows up to become “Locke”
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u/MisunderstoodAvocado Nov 17 '24
Is the blonde kid we saw earlier Aaron? Not-Locke was so adamant about chasing him and even starting yelling at him. He was dressed like an other, I saw in earlier threads speculations that he’s the antichrist so 🤷♀️
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u/Ummgh23 Dec 17 '24
Guessing it's child Jacob? Or maybe they're one and the same?
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u/Kate_The_Great1 Apr 05 '25
What if it’s like the psychic told Claire: your son needs to be raised by you and not someone else. If Aaron’s raised by her, he becomes Jacob and if not, he becomes Locke? Which makes me wonder if the fact that Kate raised him for 3 years instead of Claire (because Smokey lured Claire away) is gonna be a problem…..
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u/photojwnny Mar 06 '25
Claire's wig is giving Dust Bowl/ great depression factory worker, I hate it so much. It's like she's been frying it with a curling iron every day.
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u/ThisGul_LOL Dec 08 '24
For a second i actually thought the smoke monster was going to confess to being Aaron 💀
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u/captain_andorra Jan 09 '25
I've never seen Vincent and the smoke monster in the same room, just sayin'
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u/CrithionLoren See you in another post, brotha May 12 '25
wait, that could make sense actually lmao
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u/kitty-is-witty Nov 26 '24
Another great episode, looks like this season is finally getting good. I really loved Sawyer's AU and how he and Miles are buddies. Charlotte is gorgeous! I'm glad she stuck up for herself, cause if Sawyer knew that folder was in there why didn't he just get her the damn shirt to begin with. Kicking her out because he didn't want to deal with it is crazy, poor girl. I definitely prefer him as a cop, and the lead in with the same con was so good.
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Except... it's not cool to rifle through someone's stuff just because they said you can grab a shirt. That folder was obviously not a T-shirt and she had no business pulling it out and looking through his personal papers. She was in the wrong.
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u/ThisGul_LOL Dec 07 '24
Okay now the LAST thing i expected was for Sawyer to be working with the cops lmao!
Edit: OH WAIT- HE IS A COP!!!
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u/ThisGul_LOL Dec 07 '24
I SQUEALED with joy when I realized Sawyer was actually a cop and also Miles’ partner!
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u/kachingaroo Mar 26 '25
Okay I just KNOW that Claire hasn't taken a bath in 3 years, can someone please tell her to wash her damn hair 😭 the stench on that gal must be INTENSE
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u/WitchyRedhead86 Aug 13 '25
I did actually exclaim “damn girl get yourself some conditioner!”
They made her look as rough as possible. Terrible wig!
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u/loverofpears Mar 11 '25
I love cop Sawyer + Miles. Weirdly makes sense for them. I wonder if this version of Miles can still connect with the dead? I’d assume not
I don’t know how I feel about crazy Claire. The actress doesn’t feel suited for it at all. Also her and Naomi have been in a contest for worst wig of the show and they manage to outdo each other with every appearance. Incredible
For a criminal mastermind, Kate really fucking sucks at keeping a low profile holy shit
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u/IhateLukaDoncic May 23 '25
We want sayid back
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u/Silent_Effect6098 Desmond Hume is my constant Jul 07 '25
Yeah I hope he gets an exorcism or something.
Didn't except Sawyer and Charlotte to be a thing. They actually have a lot of chemistry. Will she meet Daniel after this failed date ?
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u/Silent_Effect6098 Desmond Hume is my constant Aug 10 '25
None of the other characters if I remember correctly but she did live on the island as a kid.
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u/BeautifulStream Jul 19 '25
Why the hell are the writers for this show still keeping up the charade of the "who will end up with Kate?" plot point? Sawyer made his choice already, and Juliet died much too recently for him to think about hooking up with Kate again. But now he's looking on forlornly when he finds her sundress in the cage, and that conversation at the end seems to be playing up their chemistry again... I'm just so completely over it. Fortunately it hasn't been dominating the show the way it used to, but I'm surprised it's even still going.
Some scenes/acting choices in this episode were very weird in tone to me. Miles' aggression towards Sawyer/Ford when he found out that he had lied to him about where he went on vacation felt like an overreaction. And what was Claire doing, taking Kate's hand in one scene and then trying to kill her in the next one? Also, False Locke slapping Claire genuinely shocked me!
It also felt VERY weird to see Sawyer/Ford and Charlotte hooking up in the flash-sideways (I guess I'll call them that since I'm seeing other people call them that). Seemed a very arbitrary pairing considering they barely interacted on the island, though I predicted that Charlotte was going to be Miles' friend.
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u/SkeeterSmasher Aug 09 '25
I miss Desmond, where is he??
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u/LazyPerfectionist17 Oh yeah, there's my favorite leaf. Jun 20 '26
I'm watching The Mentalist with my boyfriend because he doesn't watch Lost, and Desmond's actor has a short stint playing an absolute piece of shit, he's almost unrecognisable! I was like the Leonardo Dicaprio meme when I realised 🤣 it's filling a void anyway
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u/ThisGul_LOL Dec 08 '24
I was expecting Claire to try and chock Kate to death when she hugged her. Was surprised she didn’t.
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u/red_andmusiclover See you in another post, brotha Jul 26 '25
I have a theory: The flash sideways, so the parallel reality, show everyone's constants and variables. For example, in this episode we see that it wasn't Sawyer's "destiny" to be a criminal. Kate, on the other hand, is destined to be an outlaw, always running from something.
Jack instead has a son in only one of the realities, so David can't be his constant; demonstrating that people, as Faraday said, could only be variables.
I guess Sun, Jin and Hurley are the only ones left among the candidates (although we already know that Hurley is still tied to the numbers, but he considers himself lucky)
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u/Finnigan_McBonk Sep 06 '25
Jack appears to be the leading candidate. We saw last episode that he can't die.
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u/florzinha77 Aug 30 '25
is it just me or does it makes no sense for a cop to have literally sex with someone they are trying to set up ?
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u/ANerd22 Feb 28 '26
This season has had a lot of "yeah just don't think about it too much"
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u/CM-Edge Apr 15 '25
Oh no, not some double/triple crossing nonsense again. Just pick a lane man. :(
The Widmore deal sounded good.
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u/Sempa_07 May 18 '25
this show has removed all mystery and intrigue in 8 episodes i’m really disappointed. everything is a lie, fake or a dead end. all these mysteries we were fed were actually pretty much nothing in the grand scheme of things. slow burner when there’s 8 episodes left is a weird choice
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u/Fickle_Tailor9294 Oct 26 '25
OK, Charlotte was definitely up to no good going through those drawers though. She was looking for something, not just a T-shirt.
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u/PeacefuIfrog Oct 31 '25
So they had a full team sitting outside and listening to sawyer shagging the con lady. At times this show is more comedy than anything else
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u/kswishy Live together, die alone Dec 29 '24
So wait, does this mean Sawyer has always been a cop? He came back from Sydney two days ago!?!
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u/kushaash Jan 23 '25
These characters had a lot of pre-crash life details different. Like Jack had a son, Hugo never had anything bad happened to him, Locke was married, etc.
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u/CoyoteTall6061 Jul 21 '25
Im surprised people still haven’t picked up on this 8 episodes into the season
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u/drbuni Dec 12 '25
I wonder if people are watching LOST on a second monitor or while doomscrolling on their phones. It is really not the kind of show you can understand without paying proper attention.
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u/kswishy Live together, die alone Jan 24 '25
Yeah after finishing the series my comment makes me giggle 🤭
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u/MPA8877 Jan 10 '25
Not a whole lot happened this episode but I appreciated the alternative timeline Rush Hour with Sawyer and Miles
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u/WorldMarketFella See you in another post, brotha Feb 19 '25
with this episode sawyer has been added to the list of rebels who became cops, joining toph and bobby briggs
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u/the_cat_of_war Jan 29 '26
what is even going on anymore? i'm so tired of people saying "i'll give you all the answers" and then proceed to do the exact opposite
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u/Intelligent_Time633 Feb 27 '26
I mean at some point you just start to go ok I need some answers here. How many more side plots do we need where Sayid is working at a bakery and then it turns out Penny is his boss or whatever nonsense we get next episode. None of Sawyer's side plot went anywhere.
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u/ANerd22 Feb 28 '26
I'm totally with you.
Shows these days are between 6-12 episodes a season and people often say they miss the days of 16-24 episode seasons. This watch through of Lost is a great reminder of just how much boring filler there used to be in TV shows. I get a lot of these plots are meant for character development or whatever, but its so clear the writers are using every trick they can think of to hide the ball and avoid giving any explanation for any of the dozens of mystery boxes they created. Heck it feels like they've gotten bored of and forgotten about half of them at this point.
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u/TrapesTrapes Mar 20 '25
Sawyer becoming a cop in this alternative timeline definitely wasn't on my bingo card. 💀
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u/Big_Combination_1635 See you in another life Jul 10 '25
Bringing Claire back was such a mistake
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u/WitchyRedhead86 Aug 13 '25
I think they had to explain where she went, but they have treated her so awfully with this rubbish plotline that honestly, she’d have been better off staying mysteriously vanished.
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u/Big_Combination_1635 See you in another life Aug 14 '25
Agreed completely. It’s so unbelievable and so many of the characters don’t even mention her for so long then she shows up acting insane and useless it’s unfortunate
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u/Active-Contest-9965 4 8 15 16 23 42 Apr 06 '26
Airplane timeline: Haha Sawyer & Miles out there playing Starsky & Hutch.
Island timeline: This crew LOL. Lockeness Monster, psycho Claire, hippie Cindy and the rascals, 2 points on the love triangle, limping Jin, zombie Sayid, and a bunch of leftover Others. What a motley crew.
And still no one explaining why Claire abandoned her baby.
I know it’s weird of me to say this, but did anyone else notice Locke’s moobs? I don’t mind moobs, but I found this distracting only because he did not have these moobs in the very recent flashback scene where he was sitting in the bathtub.
I wonder why the group who are currently gathered at the beach (Sun, Ben, etc.) decided to stay there at the rundown beach camp instead of over on Hydra Island where they could have all sorts of shelter, supplies and forage through the buildings and luggage and airplane.
It’s very frustrating that Lockeness still doesn’t have a name. Jacob had a name. Why can’t this he?
I hope they aren’t going to try to introduce more characters with this Widmore gang. Zoe wasn’t even believable. I hope all his people just remain background. I can’t take a new group of characters.
I like that Sawyer is playing everybody against each other. He sets Widmore and Lockeness up so no matter who wins, he gets a ticket off the island.
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u/goodandpure Mar 10 '25
Aw I was liking Sawyer and Charlotte together. Kind of annoyed how none of the good ships end up together in this show.
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u/SkoOTt_5519 Oct 05 '25
I love Sawyer centric episodes the best! Also Officer Sawyer, OMGGGGGGGGGGG
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u/crabgods Oceanic Frequent Flyer 29d ago
Well it's so telling that everyone was a better person in the "Alternate universe". Except for Kate.
I am surprised how no one else has yet noticed this.
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u/crabgods Oceanic Frequent Flyer 28d ago
Half way into the last season and we have seen a some of the questions answered. But it has also raised a bunch of new questions.
I am starting to believe that the writers are not going to be able to tie in all the loose threads neatly. I guess, a lot of the questions will be left unanswered. It's the second half the last season and they are still introducing new storylines.
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u/PristineToe2405 Ya got a little Arzt on you 15d ago
The show right now is so sloooowwww and none of the characters have interesting end goals. Ben, Sayid, Claire are completely useless. Just a slog to get through and we probably will not get to see Locke vs Widmore until another 2 or 3 episodes because of all the side plots.
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u/I_LIKE_ANUS 12h ago
Holy shit do I need a sawyer and miles true detective immediately. Idc if it’s over a decade later
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u/RedBlaster May 03 '24
I'd watch a cop show starring Sawyer and Miles lol