Another hatch. Another slew of questions. We entered the Pearl this week, the “?” hatch and really, I don’t know what to think. Is this whole island what Jack originally assumed it to be? A place to experiment on people in the Swan. I’m lost. On another note, Eko and Locke were great together this week. These two are meant to think together. They are practically the same.

          The thing that drives Eko is his faith in God and more specifically, his faith in Yemi. If he sees a dream where his brother is telling him to go find the “?” he will run to try and find it. This week, he got a message to help John get back on his path of faith. First Ana Lucia came to him, and then Yemi. He had to help Locke. And you know that if Eko is told to do something, he will do it…to the very end. This guy doesn’t give up.

          Locke was ready to just give up on the island. He was tired of pushing the button. Where was it getting him? Nowhere. All this is a joke. Where one’s faith ends, the other’s begins. Eko has now become an all-out fanatic of the Dharma Initiative. He has faith that his brother put him on this mission for a reason. I could never think like that. Will he pursue this just because his brother told him to or because he really believes in it? I can’t understand how he could feel compelled to continue after watching the Pearl Orientation video.

          I’m also guessing that his faith in Yemi is fuelled by the flashbacks we saw. Whether you believe in the weird girl coming back from the dead, is it remotely possible that she saw Yemi. How would she have heard of his brother if she weren’t dead? He gave a message to the girl. He wanted her to tell him that he’s proud of him and that he’s a good priest even if he’s faking. This is how Eko knows that his brother is constantly watching. This is why he trusts the dreams he has of him. It’s all real for him.

          What do we think of the Pearl? Is everything in the Swan fake? Dr. Kandle said that the subjects in the Swan were given order that they think is important. Why wouldn’t he directly say “orders that are important?” I just think this will be a major letdown if all of this turns out to be a game. But then again, how can the safety of mankind rest in the hands of two man in a hatch on a deserted island? That’s just ridiculous come to think of it.

          So if that’s the case, what’s up with the electromagnetic thing in the middle of the damn hatch? These are all questions that don’t make sense to me. On one side, it makes sense that this whole thing is fake. On another side, it makes sense that this whole thing is more or less important. I have no idea.

          The way the Pearl is set up though suggests that it follows the routines of the people inside the hatch. I don’t know what all the other cameras are for. Maybe they’re for watching all the Other hatches from the map. That’s a possibility. I’d also love to see where those notebooks fly to. How many have been completed? In addition, can I just say how smart it was to have the question mark be visible from the cliff up top? What an imagination. And to have under Yemi’s plane. That was even smarter. Eko’s core reason for being on that island is connected to that plane. He thinks that it was fate that he made it to the island where his brother died. That was interesting.

          As for Libby, she almost made it out alive. Libby! Why did she have to die? I almost wanted to start balling when I saw Hurley sit next to her and talk to her. Michael was feeling horrible. Kate started crying on the bench with Sawyer. Jack was getting emotional. It was a hard moment. I can’t stand feeling bad for Hurley. This is a guy I always want to be happy. Why does he have to be sad? This is just a mess. She was just about to tell them about Michael. I hate when that happens. Libby, just spit it out I felt like telling her. She went out with class though.

Spotlight on…Eko

-          Eko is taking someone’s confession. He now lives in England. The man who is confessing is British. He says he has a passport for him. Eko wants to go to the US. A woman comes to see him. She says her daughter drowned and died. She then came back to life. She wants to tell the Vatican.

-          The doctor that did the autopsy on the girl made a recording. During the autopsy, the little girl just woke up. Everything was caught on the recording.

-          Eko goes to visit the family. The father says there was no miracle here. She was in the water for a long time and she suffered hypothermia. It made her look dead. His wife is just a zealot. Nothing happened. He says miracles don’t exist.

-          The daughter comes to see Eko at the airport. She says she has a message from Yemi. While she was between places, he spoke to her. He wants Eko to know that he’s a great priest and that he has faith in him.

Tales from the Island

Eko: John doesn’t understand. The work that he’s been doing in the hatch is now more important than ever. My brother Yemi told me I had to keep going. The work in the hatch has a reason now to be completed. John has lost faith. He thinks this whole thing is a fake. We watched an Orientation video in the Pearl. The people in this hatch were supposed to document everything they saw in John’s hatch. John thinks this whole thing is an experiment. They are experimenting on people. I know I have to keep going.

Quotable Quotes

-          Ana Lucia: “You need to help John.”

-          Eko: “Eko, bring the box.”

-          Sawyer: “Who’s going to watch over Libby while you’re out playing Daniel Boone?”

-          Locke: “Why did you hit me?”

Eko: “Because you were being difficult.”

-          Eko: “Tell me John, haven’t you ever followed a dream?

-          Eko: “Pushing the button.”

Locke: “That’s all a joke. Rats in a maze with no cheese.”

-          Sawyer: “Jack-o here knows his heroin’s in my stash, with the guns. So I can either show you where it’s at or let poor Libby suffer. That’s pretty much it, doc?”

Jack: “Yeah. Yeah, that’s pretty much it.”

-          Kate (about Ana): “She pick-pocketed your gun? How’d she do that?”

Sawyer: “Well, if I knew how she did it, she wouldn’t have been able to do it, not would she?”

-          Eko: “How can you say this is meaningless?”

-          Hurley: “I’m sorry I forgot the blankets.” That’s really tough.

Some Final Notes

-          I knew that vision of Ana Lucia was fake in Eko’s dream. You could tell it wasn’t real just by the way she was standing.

-          Everything revolved around the question mark this week. Yemi was first pushing the button then he pushed Locke down the cliff. I really like Yemi. I hope we see more of the character.

-          Sawyer called Locke “Gimpy McCrutch.”

-          I jumped when Libby woke up and spit blood. That was a big moment.

-          Who would have thought that the question mark hatch was located under Yemi’s plane? That was a great idea too.

-          Jack injected Libby with heroin. At least she wasn’t in pain before she died.

-          I liked when Jack told Kate to follow Sawyer to his stash of guns. All the time, they were hidden under him in his camp.

-          The father of the girl in Eko’s flashbacks was the psychic in Claire’s flashbacks. He says he’s a phony and that there aren’t any miracles. He’s a psychic and he knows better than anyone.

-          The ground over the Pearl was salted so nothing can grow over it. Who thinks of these things? All these details.

-          The final scenes in the hatch were heartbreaking. Everyone is so depressed.

I loved it. 5 stars

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