Thinking About "The Other Woman"

I love reading other peoples' diaries. Not that I get a chance to that often. And no, I'm not inviting you to read mine. But I love those little glimpses into someone else's mind. Because of this, I'm a fan of The Lost Diary. He watches Lost (usually with a group of friends) and posts his thoughts in a blow-by-blow live-blogging style. Much fun. (You can also read his musings over at TMZ.com). I'll try it sometime. And let you read it. Maybe :)

I'm still don't know what to think about "The Other Woman." I'm pretty sure it was a solid episode; it just paled in comparison to the rather awesome ones preceding it. It seemed to exist mainly for the taped-over-the-Red Sox reveal of Charles Widmore's boat involvement. And to further prove to us that Ben is creepy, that everyone (I mean EVERYONE) has a screwed-up love/lust story, and to confuse our viewing relationship with the Freighter Four even more. Who are they bad guys here? My brain can't handle it. Because, as it stands, everyone sort of is. Locke, Ben, Widmore, Freighter Four... And Jack for kissing Juliet. Ugh. (And if we're to throw Ben's obsession with Juliet into the mix, it's a love...uh...pentagon?)

The real winner is Shakespeare. The Tempest reference is a fun one. So get out the theater books, folks, and get yourself acquainted with my beloved bard.

The Lost recap over at EW.com helps us out here:

A Tempest by any other name (part 1)
''The Other Woman'' gave us a new Dharma facility, a power plant known as the Tempest. Much can be said about the name assigned to this station — beginning with this piece of insight, offered by reader Keith Stuart, who was inspired to do some pre-broadcast prep after reading about the Tempest in my Doc Jensen column on Thursday. Stuart reminds us that The Tempest is, of course, a famous play by William Shakespeare and that Lost seems to have much in common with the Bard's final masterwork: ''It is a comment on the Renaissance pastoral genre, in which the natural environment is often characterized as a restorative, magical force. In the play, the troubled royals are washed up on a strange island and find that they must grapple with the social and political problems of their normal lives, but within a strange new context of magic and disorientation. Sound familiar?'' Sure does! Keith thinks of Ben as Prospero, ''the magician at the center of the island's seductive madness,'' though he declines to say who's the equivalent of Prospero's imprisoned fairy, Ariel. Maybe he thought making a connection to Juliet was too obvious. Still, thank you, Doc Stuart, for doing all this heavy lifting for me/us.

The Tempest discussion continues, so head on over to check it all out. (The article also addresses the tsunami that struck the Pacific on December 26th, 2004. Which means it should hit next episode if we're to believe they're in the Indian Ocean...

Merry Christmas, Losties.

TAGS: Juliet, Season4, Tempest, The Other Woman
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