So continuing the trend of no answers, but answering everything this season is moving forward with a gentle closure for the entire series.
Two episodes ago, we were re-introduced to Crazy Claire in the closing moments of the ep just to follow it up next week saying, ‘Remember that big reveal? Yeah, we are not touching on that just yet.”
Last week was all Locke/Flocke.
This week its mostly Jack. A little Hurley, but mostly Jack.
Jack has a kid. Maybe I missed that, maybe it was sprung on us, but yeah. Teenager. Sure that wasn’t mentioned before (or it got missed in the mess of useless facts in my head), and the Sideways Reset shows him attempting to salvage his family relationships – especially his son – and settling his father’s affairs. We also hear mention of “his mother” who could be Jack’s first wife … but we don’t know. Seems they left that out for a reason, but there is no reveal yet.
Which leads them to finding his will, in which he mentions Jack’s sister Claire. That is what I like about the Sideways Reset world, is that we see how their lives intermingle even without the Island. In the early seasons of the show we catch common threads like Locke working for Hurley’s box company, Claire and Jack and a bevvy of other crossover madness, but even the new people are getting their own little brush with the cast after the fact.
Messing with the reset we get the Samurai crossing paths with Jack.
But then we get back on to Claire. Remember her? Yeah, she’s all loony and still pining over her lost baby Aaron. Whoever took him has to die, and while she is soft on Jin she’s less than cordial with the Temple guy she kidnaps. Jin tells Claire that Aaron left the Island with Kate, but then without reason, he backtracks saying it was a lie directing her rage at the Temple before meeting Claire’s friend … Flocke.
Bwuh? This week didn’t blow my mind, but I cant expect them to ALWAYS surprise me – just most of the time.
Until next week… Get Lost.
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