'LOST' Recap: Season 6, Episode 7 - Dr. Linus
The final season of LOST has begun! Last night's episode focused on Benjamin Linus and provided us with, possibly, the most exciting, fascinating, and revealing hour of the show to date. Will the other castaways learn that Ben killed Jacob? Will Ben be forced to deal with his horrendous past on the island? And what else do we learn about what the heck is going on? There's only one way to find out!
I'll just start off with this statement: Last night's episode, "Dr. Linus," was easily the best of season 6 and one of my top 10 episodes of the entire series. It was riveting and revealing and contained two of my favorite monologues from the show as well.
The episode began with an introduction to sideways-flash Dr. Linus, who teaches European history in California. Note that he teaches at a high school where Dr. Artzt works and where Locke is substituting!
(PS: I am loving how interwined all their lives are becoming in these flash-sideways.)
Ben's flash amplified his main problem: selfish manipulation. We learn that his best student is no other than Alex Rousseau, but she's not his daughter in this version of events. And through his History Club sessions with her, he learns that the person he despises most, the school principal, is having an affair with a nurse.
And this presents an interesting predicament for Ben. After using Dr. Artzt to hack the nurses email, he realizes he can manipulate another person to get what he wants: the job as principal.
However, when he does pull this off, it backfires. Alex has asked the principal to write her a letter of recommendation for college. And the principal will not write this if Ben decides to go ahead with his bit of blackmail.
This directly parallels events on the island, as Miles outs Ben as the killer of Jacob and Ilana chains him to a tree and forces him to dig his own grave. When Fake Locke/Man In Black/Smokey provides a channel of escape to Ben, he attempts to flee, but, given the chance to shoot Ilana and join Locke's forces, he doesn't.
And both timelines converge when Ben, for the first time in the entire series, chooses to save someone else and accept the responsibility of his actions.
Ben's redemption as a "good" person was incredibly moving to me, most especially when he broke down in front of Ilana about the truth behind his motivations for everything he's done since season 2. He was losing his power, the power the Island and Jacob gave him, and he just wanted to be desired. And in an even more emotional moment, Ilana accepts Ben back.
And, while all of this was wonderful, emotional, and incredibly written, it still wasn't the best part of the episode! Which is why this ruled so much. Because episode 7 marked the return of two dudes I want to know more about. And we got so much information about one of them!
Guys, guys, GUYS. How fucking absolutely phenomenal were all the scenes with Richard, Hurley, and Jack? We got absolute confirmation that Richard came to the Island on the Black Rock, that he was most likely a slave (FROM EGYPT????), and that Jacob touched him and gave him a gift that not only prevents him from again but PREVENTS HIM FROM KILLING HIMSELF.
Which lead to this scene:
Richard's monologue preceeding this, in which he nearly started crying about losing Jacob and losing his chance to know what Jacob's plan for him was, was SPECTACULAR BEYOND WORDS. MORE RICHARD ALPERT. FOREVER AND EVER. Also please come make out with me ok thanks.
I was totally amazed that Jack ALSO cannot die, which is only mildly disappointing because how awesome would it be if the main character totally died right now? I am a genius Y/Y?
But yeah. Who still thinks Jacob is a good guy? Because OH MAN, he is DESTROYING EVERYONE'S LIVES.
Any other thoughts or things I missed? I am so excited to see how this pans out.
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