selenak

First of all, I must rant a little. Why oh why did they have to make Juliet lose serious cool points by behaving all Gothic heroine harassed by Gothic villain flying in the arms of Gothic hero in that last scene with Jack? I mean, I actually don't have anything against the Jack/Juliet 'ship which has been signalled since early s3, considering Jack got a bit more interesting when interacting with Juliet and it is one of the things ending the most boring triangle this side of that geometric shape on BSG, but not like this. "He thinks I'm his and he knows how I feel about you?" Oh, please. DO NOT WANT. Do not destroy an intriguing female character on this show by making her act like this. Grrrrr. Argggghhh.

Mind you, that Ben has feelings for Juliet isn't exactly a surprise, considering his distinct lack of a lethal retaliation for her trying to kill him a couple of times, which otherwise is somewhat atypical for Ben. And that backstory bit makes sense, too. (And yet more proof that Juliet's taste in men is lousy. In addition to Edmund the jerk she's been married to, there was Goedwin who was nice enough in his manner but apparantly hitting on every woman he got close to, considering he had sex with Ana Lucia as well. And now Jack. 'Nuff said.) But seriously, Juliet, the same Juliet who cooly blackmailed Jack (well, tried to) into killing Ben mid-operation last season going "omg Ben is going to get every man I ever loved killed what SHOULD I DO?!?"

Thankfully, we got the Ben and Locke scenes in the C-plot. Now THAT is how you write a relationship. I can't help but notice that Drew Goddard has a theme of meal-sharing (with Locke doing the preparation) between those two while they spar; see The Man from Tallahasee. (It's been a while since s2, so I suppose it could have started back when Ben was Henry Gale and Locke brought him dinner then, too.) I was a bit afraid that they'd make Ben too easily superior and the winner, but they did let Locke get one zinger in in the form of the exact sum of money Miles wants, which evidently came as a surprise to Ben. As to what Ben told and showed Locke, it's probably true. We certainly had ample foreshadowing of Charles Widmore being at least involved, and given the fact Naomi had the Desmond/Penny photo, he almost HAD to be the one financing the boat. Methinks he also has to have Dharma connections, given he knew what Ben did to all the Dharma staff a few years back. And I think now it's certain who Ben's spy among Widmore's people has to be. Given that it's someone Locke knows and whose presence is supposed to surprise him, it has to be Michael. Which probably means that Walt is around as well (with the different time factor between the island and the land used as an excuse for the actor's aging), which interestingly enough means the Walt vision Locke saw when he was bleeding in the mass grave might not have been a projection of the island after all, but could have been actual Walt. Hmmmm.