"LaFleur" Postmortem

Fantastic. The episode was fantastic. It was the perfect hour of television that had TV viewers buzzing with excitement. Friends emailed me. Theories starting spinning through my workplace. And I officially started loving Sawyer.

Doc Jensen sums it up best:

If Jack is the Man of Science, and if John Locke is the Man of Faith, then I nominate Sawyer as Man of Heart. To hell with it: Can we just say he's the effin' man?!

It's no secret that the show's heart is what hooks me. There are days when I grow weary of the flashes and sci-fi insanity and I start craving character development and heartbreaking romance. I want to care about these people. I want to swoon, cringe, and throw things at my television set. So seeing Sawyer, the criminal, as the head of security, happily in love with Juliet, supposedly over Kate, confronted with the woman he thought he'd never see again? TV-drama perfection.

(And wasn't Elizabeth Mitchell phenomenal? I swear the acting is getting better with every episode this season. Emmys should be generously bestowed on the cast next year. Please, somebody, acknowledge them.)

So a baby was born. On the island. A live baby. VERY big deal. It's worth mulling over Sawyer's theory that perhaps they're not dying YET. Some crazy event has yet to occur on the island. And I'm of that camp that believes some history rewriting is going to take place. Especially since Faraday (also awesome this season) no longer seems intent on preserving an unaltered future. And who does this baby grow up to be? Caesar? Miles? Carl?

Oh, and then there's little-girl Charlotte.

It's a nice change of pace, this new lack of flashes. But it presents a new set of problems. It's now "Back to the Future," with no clear way to reconnect with present day. Theoretically, the younger half of our friends haven't been born yet. Or should be children (see Charlotte). Wednesday's show flipped between 1974 and 1977, perhaps paralleling with previous seasons' one-the-island and three-years-later flashes.

The four-toed statue looks Egyptian. And Doc Jensen brings up the whole "Egyptians used to wear eyeliner" thing. And Richard Alpert is a beautiful ageless man in eyeliner. Hmm. Oh, and there's that ankh necklace. There is an Egypt connection. That's all I know. I need to revisit some history classes.

An aside: Didn't Sawyer asking Juliet to stay on the island for another two weeks (which becomes three years) feel a little like a grown-up "Dawson's Creek" moment? Maybe it's the dusk-by-the-water vulnerability. Or maybe it's just me recovering from Joshua Jackson's "One Week." I digress.

The Sawyer-meets-Kate moment was brilliant. And conflicting. I love the complication of it all, but must admit that Sawyer and Juliet are quite the powerhouse team. Runners up to Des and Penny. And perhaps Kate and Jack deserve each other. Thoughts?

Read Doc Jensen's recap while I try to make sense of Horace, a new baby, John's supposed flash-stopping accomplishment and the implications of being stuck in an era that anticipates a violent purge.

TAGS: Juliet, Lafleur, Lost, Postmortem, Recap, Sawyer
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