Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cthulhudrew" data-source="post: 3153363" data-attributes="member: 4090">I wouldn't be surprised to learn it is somehow connected with the whole Others "good/bad" list idea. The last thing he shared with Smokey before he was crushed was that he wasn't repentant for the deaths he'd caused in the past. The previous time that he and Smokey had met, there were flashes of images of Eko's past in the creature, and he seemed to still harbor dreams of repentance at the time (the "Jesus stick", working on the church, etc.)Which was actually one of the things that bugged me here, that Eko didn't seem as repentant as he did all of last season. Anyway, I was disappointed in such a waste of a good character. Eko brought so much to the show last season, and he had so much more to contribute, unlike, say... Claire, who- now that she's given birth- is about as useful to the show as she had been before. Which is to say, not at all.The life and death of Eko episode seemed rather pointless, all told. I liked it (aside from the death, that is) but it just didn't seem to be necessary to end it like this.Actually, just one more gripe about this episode. In the beginning, when Juliette sees Jack on the beach, she asks "He let you come outside?" I just wanted Jack to say something smartassed like, "No, I broke out and cleverly disguised myself as one of the mourners at the funeral." I can't stand it in real life when people ask questions to which the answers are self-evident, and especially in television when words are at a premium.As to Jack and Ben and Juliette- frankly, I think the best thing Jack can do at this point is refuse to do the surgery. On the one hand, if he does it and saves Ben's life, he's still a prisoner and stuck with Ben. On the other, if he does it and kills Ben, then he's left with Juliette who is as much an unknown quantity as Ben. Clearly, she is not above attempting to manipulate others (even if she makes an effort to be up front about it), and I find it pretty reprehensible for someone to try and manipulate someone else into what is, basically, murder- regardless of the character of the person being murdered. She's no better than Ben as far as I can tell.</blockquote>

Verification