The Candidate Revisited

Ok... I'm ready to watch it again.

Just thought I'd give it a little more detail. Notes on the ep. So here we go... just straight through the ep. Probably a lot of repeating...

Off Island:

- Locke wakes up and tells Jack "I know you" the first of a ton of hints about the other world. Sure he met him in the airport, but it felt like more.

- Jack thinks Locke is a "candidate" for a new surgery. The first reference to the title.

- Bernard seems to remember the Locke case pretty closely... and he seems to almost understand what's going on.

- Jack really gets the Flight 815 references this ep.

- Poor Anthony Cooper. Just kidding.

- "Push the button" "I wish you had believed me" more overlapping of the worlds

- Claire and Jack share another mirror moment, and an Apollo bar, and an 815 reference... really starting to bug Jack

- Sounds like Christian's fate was almost identical in both worlds. Wonder if there's anything to that.

- Nice of Jack to let Claire stay with him.

-Locke seeing Jin... and he recognizes him... another hint at the world's colliding... but also a hopeful reminder that there COULD be some saving them all still. Not sure if I like it or not.

- Just an AWESOME scene by M Fox and Terry O'quinn.

- "I wish you believed me" again.


On Island:

- Widmore locks em up, and he seems to know about the list of candidates. Not sure how. Either he IS working with Smokey, or maybe Eloise told him... since she knows everything else.

- Sayid says the Others scattered... I hope we see them again and they maybe meet up with Richard's team.

- Why DID Locke save Jack from the mortar blasts? I guess he knew he needed him to get to the other candidates.

- Sawyer gives us confirmation again that Kate's name was crossed out in the cave... still dont know about the lighthouse.

- Sun gives Jin back his wedding ring, but no mention of the DS ring from Charlie for Aaron. I guess we definitely won't see it now.

- You'd think Widmore's pylons would be tougher to knock out then just cutting the power.

- Kate still wants Jack to come home

- Sawyer thanks Jack. Nice of him.

- So the plane was gaurded my Widmore goons, did they rig the plane? Seems like Widmore would know that Locke wasn't ACTUALLY gonna get off the island that way. Either Widmore's an idiot or he really did want all the 815'ers to die.

- Who rigged the plane? Richard's team? Guess they didn't really care that it would kill their "friends".

- Still think it's lame that they REALY thought the plane would take off... and still might?

- Locke shows them the C4, when did he have time to rig it? Oh well.

- I think Sawyer thought the water would neutralize Locke.. maybe it slowed him down... I dunno.

- Two dudes on the sub... hope they made it out ok. Just kidding. Fuck em.

- Awesome line from Jack in response to Locke's pleading to leave the island: "JOhn Locke told me I needed to stay" BOOM cross check into the water.

- Locke is really lucky Kate got shot. Otherwise Jack never gets on the sub with the bomb. Another point for the Widmore is on Locke's side argument.

- Claire is a sniper!!!!

- They leave Claire again? Sawyer is a dick.

-Just remembering the Locke / Claire season 2 or 3 stuff. Kind of crazy they're still hanging out.

- God no. The bomb.

- I think Jack is exactly right about the rules

- Jack's line about trusting him was probably a pretty dumb thing to say to Sawyer, since the last time he trusted him around a bomb it got Juliet killed.

- Sayid's line to Jack... "It's going to be you Jack" Could be as simple as, you'll be the one to stop Locke, or does he somehow know more about Jack being THE Candidate

- Sayid goes out saving his friends, and is a GOOD person. Strong exit. I got chills. There's a really cool slomo shot of him running.

- Like I said... still holding out hope for Lapidus.

- THERE IS NO SAYID. Powerful stuff.

- When Sawyer gets knocked out I remember saying "Jesus Christ!"

- More powerful stuff with Jin and Jack. They both know they're dead. Pretty emotional.

- What can you say about Jin and Sun. At least they died together. That made it a little easier to take. Seriously rough stuff. Great job by both of them.

- That damn (great) song.

- Just the four of them left... for now. (same four who were called to other side of the island in season 2 with Michael. Im sure its just a coincidence, but kind of neat).

- They all breakdown. More great performances.

I think this goes down as a top 10 episode.