As the last of the Fall 2006 premieres arrive, Lost finally makes it’s debut for season 3. Most of you probably remember that last season Jack, Kate, and Sawyer were captured by “The Others” while Hurley was sent back to camp and Michael and Walt went off in a boat out into the ocean. Although all the other major characters are listed in the credits as usual, it’s probably fitting that we only get to see the “big three” characters interacting with “The Others” as this season begins. Hopefully as the rest of the characters get into the mix, this season will be as good as the past two.
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We begin this season with some people in a typical suburban neighborhood happily enjoying a book club meeting for the book Carrie by Stephen King. Then as an earthquake shakes the entire house, we snap back to reality and watch Oceanic Flight 815 come into view and crash along the beach on the other side of the island. Jack, Kate, and Sawyer all imprisoned in their own separate cage / room / bathroom where they awake to find that they have all been drugged and subjected to various unknown blood tests. Are the Others simply a happy group of people that live on the island, but interrupted by the plane crash?
This episode is another “Jack-centric” episode following his flashbacks as to what happened to his marriage and how his father slipped back into alcohol addiction. Apparently his wife has grown away from Jack and has been meeting with some unidentified man. Could this guy pop up on the island as well? We’ve already seen Kelvin and Desmond appear in flackbacks only to make it onto the island. Anyway, he meets one of the “Others” named Juliet who seeks information from Jack and attempts to provides him with food and water.
Meanwhile on the island, Sawyer meets another guy named Karl in a similar cage and attempts to escape before suddenly being attacked by Juliet. It seems to be that all 3 of our “heroes” are within relative close proximity with each other. Who is this Karl guy? Is he an “Other” also? Soon after, Kate gets put into Karl’s cage after having breakfast and an apparant scuffle since she has cuts from the handcuffs on her wrists.
When we get back to Jack, he finally lets Juliet in to give him food, but instead attacks her and makes it out into the hall where he opens a hatch. To his surprise his cell is actually underwater in one of Dharma Initiative’s bunkers named “The Hydra”. This is the third station that has been found following the Swan and the Pearl. As the episode ends we reveal that “Fake Henry Gale” is really named “Ben”.
I was a little disappointed in this episode because the finale from season 2 was so good. It seemed to lack much of the action that I usually look for in a premiere and was a dropoff from this past Monday’s Prison Break. However, I did like how it was more cerebral in the sense that we got some insight into who “The Others” are and where they were when the plane crashed. Look for the rest of the main cast to return next week when the focus shifts back to the main camp and Hurley returns without his three buddies.
Jack going in for the kiss just like Michael Scott. Henry Gale aka Ben eating pancakes soaked in syrup just like Dwight Schrute.