Here's your well-reasoned, non-fanatical discussion for Episode 3.06: I Do

This week's contributors: Ally, Starr, and Laila

Hippocratic What?

So Jack is holding Ben's life hostage until Kate is well on her way to freedom. Three big questions emerge from Jack's dicey move.

First, why the hell didn't Kate explain that they were on a separate island and could therefore not escape? I'm sure that would have had a decent impact on Jack's calculus before he started running the table in the operating room. I kind of think it's one of those things meant to annoy you, the viewer, because you know and they won't say it on the show. It's not unlike a soap opera. It's annoying but it keeps viewers watching.

Next, I'm still kind of confused as to why Jack decided to do the operation after he saw Kate and Sawyer getting it on (see below). Jack had been on the outs with Kate before they were captured, and I just don't see why he'd put it all on the line for her. It made much more sense for him to act in his own interests and get off the Island. Maybe him seeing it was premeditated by the Others as part of a con job and Jack is going over the top on them.

And the obvious question: what will happen? Some people think Jack's up a creek without a paddle because they are on Hydra Island. It's not inconceivable that they give Kate a boat to get back if Jack demands it. He seems to have some pretty potent despotic power right now. Starr doesn't think that they care enough about Ben to let Kate go. However, it seems that Tom's reaction (the Other who had the radio) was concerned enough that Ben is important enough to them. It's also not unfathomable that Jack demand some serious weapons be brought his way to blast his way home after the surgery. There's one problem, though. What about Sawyer? What is the plan for him? Does Jack care? Is him staying part of Jack's calculus, or is it assumed that Sawyer goes with Kate?

Kate and Sawyer Make a Sexytime

Niiice.

It's sweeps, so it's not a surprise that Kate and Sawyer got it on now. Should we call this affair Katyer? Kawyer? Those are both pretty terrible.

Anyhow, a couple of things about this. Did it strike anybody else as odd that the alarm didn't go off when Kate broke into Sawyer's cage? It definitely went off when Karl escaped, if that was in fact a real escape by him (see below). That being said, did the Others allow or want it to happen? It could have been for any number of reasons. Did they want Kate to get pregnant so they get another baby? Was it part of a con job to get Jack to operate?

The whole thing brings up some interesting theories. So far, every girl that has had sex on the island (that we know of) has died. That includes Anna Lucia and Shannon. I don't personally buy the "sex, therefore death" theory, but some people do. One of the more ridiculous sex theories ones I heard said that Sawyer keeps cockblocking Jack (as with Anna Lucia and Kate). Watch out, Juliet.

"LIFT UP YOUR EYES AND LOOK NORTH"

Locke got what he thinks is a divine message from Eko's Jesus beating stick. It says, more or less, to go north. I think that everybody is assuming that Hydra Island is north and that is where Jack, Kate, and Sawyer are. I don't think this is the case.

If you look at the picture below, you can see Sawyer looking at the Island from Hydra Island. Notice Sawyer's shadow. The sun is setting behind him, casting his shadow in front of him, meaning that Hydra Island would have to be due west of the Island. I imagine some will think I'm being too analytic about that, but I have yet to see the writers let a detail like that slip. I think that whatever is north has nothing to do with Hydra Island. Maybe it will be another hatch or the Others' village.

Benjamin the Baby Daddy?

Alex is back again and leaves us with all kinds of hints. She is apparently some kind of nuisance to the Others. They clearly can't kill her and be done with her, so she has to have some sort of stature with the Others. She asks about Benjamin, but is forcibly removed shortly thereafter. But, right before Ben went under the knife, he asked Juliet if Alex asked about him. Juliet told him she didn't.

This makes me kind of think that Ben is somehow connected to Alex. We don't know for sure that Alex was conceived by Rousseau's husband (who she shot). It was just assumed. It could be that Ben and Rousseau are Alex's parents, or that Ben raised her when the Others kidnapped her. She has to have some kind of in with someone high up in the Others' camp, or else she'd get killed. Her stunts are probably tolerated only because Ben doesn't want her killed. This also makes it seem even more likely that there are factions in the Others' and Alex is on a side opposing Ben's group.

Jacob's List

This was a very subtle, but important hint dropped. It's mentioned that Jack was not on "Jacob's list". We know that there was a list of people to be kidnapped by the Others, and this Jacob characters is apparently the author of that list. But who is Jacob?

I did some searching on Wikipedia and found that Jacob from the Jewish Bible has a 12th and last son named Benjamin. Could it be that there is someone above even Benjamin in the Others' hierarchy? Seems like it.

Other Updates

Remember Karl, who was in Kate's cage before she got there? Alex came back this week wanting answers about him, but implied that she thinks he is dead.

Last week we talked about the eye patch guy. It donned on me that the glass eye that was in the storage facility where the survivors of the plane's tail section stayed is his. Why is it there? Is this one eyed guy Jacob?

Last week we also wondered why Ben had a tumor while others were miraculously healed. Apparently it really is a tumor. So... why are the survivors getting healed by the island's power while the Others aren't?

Lastly, Laila says: Nikki and Paolo really need to be eaten by the polar bear.

Word. I think that would qualify as dying in "spectacular fashion", as Matt O suggested last week.

Post your thoughts.