Scarecrow's Blog From the Darkside

Y ou know the phrase, if it could go wrong, it does ? Well, that is exactly the case for Mike and Sawyer. Jin is missing and they are on a piece of raft remaining from the burning remnants of Mike's beloved raft-boat. A shark swimming around and Sawyer losing a few bullets doesn't help their cause at all! A distance shot literally points out how Sawyer and Mike are on their own island...and the shark bumps the raft causing it to gradually break apart. It's bad. It's really bad. J in’s absence certainly creates a great cloud of mystery. I just figured this is a whole other Lost episode. Those behind Lost Creative appear to be very mindful of how they can tell multiple stories and alternate their myriad of characters. When you’re a creative team with a studio behind the process considering the success rate of the previous season, it provides leeway and freedom perhaps not afforded to shows with less of an audience. I think the confidence in the storytelling is

S arah (Julie Bowen) tries to comfort Jack in the flashbacks to his wedding day (in the first season episode, “Do No Harm”), more than thankful for what he did for her as seen in Man of Science, Man of Faith , the first episode of the second season. Trying to “fix her” after a serious car crash (killing the man in the other vehicle), Jack isn’t so sure he can repair her back as it was crushed in the accident. He’s not optimistic.  His bedside manner is criticized by Hurley during a conversation about the “cursed numbers”. Hurley does feel that Jack would consider him crazy for his theory on the numbers (located on the hatch), revealing that he had spent some time in a psych ward (where a patient repeated the sequence to him, harkening back to “Numbers”), and Jack hangs on just that, not his emphasis on all the events that resulted after winning the lottery. It does remind Jack of what his father told him after a rather icy “too honest” response to Sarah’s question to