Lost 4.11: Cabin Fever

Now THAT’S the kind of Lost episode I like! Lot’s of stuff about Jacob, more Desmond on the freighter, Locke and Ben giving each other the evil eye, Richard! Abbadon!! Perfect.

So, are they trying to tell us Locke is Unbreakable? So much of the episode reminded me of that movie. Now we know for sure that Richard doesn’t age. He was there when Locke was born and then visited him again when he was a bit older, looking for “special” children (like Walt?) for his school. I’m guessing that has something to do with them running tests, like what they did to Walt. I was kind of confused over that “choose which object is yours” scene. I don’t think Richard ran away because Locke got it wrong, I think he was just alarmed, like his choice told him something, but I’m not sure what exactly (well, I mean, it’s a knife and only so much positive can come out of that). I’m kind of getting ahead of myself in asking this but, what made them change their mind about him?

Now I KNEW the man pushing Locke’s wheel chair was going to be Abbadon! This totally changes my views of what role his character will play. He might just be a good guy. When he was telling Locke to go on a walk about, I had this feeling that he knew exactly what he was doing, like maybe he’s been through it too. But this scene reminded me even more of Unbreakable (movie SPOILERS coming up) because in that film, the twist was that Sam Jackson’s character set up a series of events to find someone else who was Unbreakable. It really looked like he was going to throw him down those stairs for a moment. Does this just mean that he’s special, as in an immortal? Or is no one really immortal, and maybe it’s all time travel?

I was hoping they would spend a bit more time in Jacob’s cabin, but man that scene was freaky. I was on the edge of my seat! So now once and for all people can stop speculating that Jacob = Christian, thank goodness. But what confused me the most was seeing Claire just sitting there, chillin’ in a creepy old cabin with her daddy, like it was nothing. She HAS to be dead. I don’t want her to be, but I don’t think she’s alive any more (but maybe she isn’t dead either *cues twilight zone music*). There’s no way she would leave Aaron and be cool with it like that. Or maybe Claire is Jacob!

“We have to move the island” ….. Alrighty then. I guess that’s why some of the survivors end up getting stuck there.

Okay, words can not express how much I hate, hate, HATE Keamy. I hope he dies in a fiery inferno. And he talks like he has cotton balls stuffed in his cheeks. Did he have to kill the captain? He was probably the last decent person on the freighter. And whats this talk of them torching the island. Did they mean blow up? (I figured the thing he had strapped on him was an explosive device) Because that would take a really long time to do by hand.

Sayid leaves on a raft to get the rest of the survivors, and Desmond stays behind saying “I’m never setting foot on that island again”. In the words of Tim Gunn, this worries me. I know he’s not technically Oceanic, therefore he wouldn’t be a part of the oceanic 6, but this all makes me think that something happens to Desmond before the rest of them set foot back on US soil. He should be a bigger deal than the rest of them.

There were some nice easter eggs in this episode too: the record player in the beginning, the Geronimo something-or-other poster in teen aged Locke’s locker, backgammon, the drawing of the smoke monster (which is probably more than just an easter egg).

Something tells me this will be the final shot of the season, but I’m hoping it actually is in next weeks episode.