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Babies, Fake Beards, and Mind Games
by Liz

Oh my sweet LORD, that was a good episode! Seriously, I've been putting off writing about it because I'm fairly overwhelmed by all the freakin' fantastic things they let us in on last night. Not that they didn't open a whole new can of questions stemming off the new information they gave us, but they DID answer...um...well, they definitely let us in on...and now we know for sure that...uh...DAMN IT! I think they tricked us again with their clever editing and fancy plot writing. Well, at least we were shown what happened to Claire when she was abducted. Sort of. In pieces.

The characters are so classic. Here's a typical exchange:

Rousseau: I am Rousseau, I have information that--
Claire: AAAAAAAA!
Kate: Go the hell away, Rousseau.
Rousseau: But, this information, you don't underst--
Claire: AAAAAAA!
Rousseau: *leaves*
Claire: On second thought, I NEED to speak to Rousseau! Right away! Something's telling me she might have information that would be useful.
Kate: Yes, we will track her by following her footsteps. This will be a long and tiresome journey, why does she have to be so hard to find? Let's get guns.

or

Kate: I trail ends here, I guess we oughta pack it in.
Claire: *keeps looking*
Kate: *perplexed* What are you looking for? Why are you running in that direction like you recognize it? Let's just go home! No trail! I'm so confused!

Anyway, so let's just catch up. Ethan takes Claire, ostensibly, so he can give the baby injections and keep him from becoming "infected." Claire is so drugged up that this sounds like a perfect plan. This does make me wonder exactly what he told her that would make her think giving up her baby was the best possible course of action. I think there must be more to it than the infection thing. Plus, how much do we believe the infection thing? Could it be a simple disease that most people are already vaccinated for? Is it a fake scare tactic? Could the infection be the psychic trying to enter a new body?

We also know the Others are a bunch of Fakey McActors with their theatrical glue and costumes. Is this to give them a scarier demeanor, more in line with island castaways, than scientists. This has all the markings of a science experiment gone awry and a rogue bunch of scientists who are determined to see it to the bitter end, no matter the cost.

There is talk that Henry Gale is at the camp to finish the job that Ethan botched, namely to bring back a census list. Oh yeah, Henry Gale. Did you guys think Mr. Eko was going all hari-kari on us? Holy! We sure did. I thought I would be able to find something about priests cutting off some of their hair as a symbol of absolution or something, but I got nothing. Also, how LAME that Henry is playing Locke so easily. Locke should know better than to fall for mind tricks like that.

Finally, drugged up Claire is saved by Alex, Rousseau's missing child. They don't tell us why Alex doesn't escape with Claire or why Rousseau hasn't had more luck in tracking the Others, even though Claire pretty much stumbled across their medical lair in a half daze.

Next week...
Sun! Damn, girl, remember when I told the ladies all up in season one that they had to use some sort of birth control? Now look what you've started: island babies.

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