Lostpedia: "Something Nice Back Home"
Jack sees a vision of his father in the future, while his relationship with Kate begins to fall apart.
Juliet and Kate must work together to save Jack when his health is seriously compromised; something goes wrong as Sawyer, Claire, Miles and Aaron head back to the beach.

"Lost": The Spoiled Bastard 2 May [re 4.10 "Something Nice Back Home"]:
This one focused on Jack and Kate in momentarily blissful togetherness. It was a flash forward sequence. Kate was in the shower. Jack looked happy. They were raising Claire's baby. Jack was, at least momentarily, past his father issues, and all was good.
Except that Sawyer called - or didn't - from the island (or not). In any case, Kate's a player and even though she fessed up to fulfilling a promise she made to Sawyer, it was enough to send Jack back into booze and pills (not to mention seeing his dead dad in the waiting room of his medical practice). Oh, and Crazy Hurley said that Jack wasn't supposed to raise Claire's baby (which is a prophesy from Season 1). So much for paradise.
-Given that Kate had worked the grift a bit with the mother of Sawyer's child, I'm guessing it's her on the phone. But I'm usually wrong about these things. 'Don't let your child be raised by another', the medium said to Claire, and here I thought he meant 'an Other'. But maybe he meant what he said, by anyone other than Claire herself.
-I thought it was a great episode, I love it when they weave in stuff from past seasons. I think Sawyer asked Kate to look after Cassie and Clementine (his former girlfriend and daughter) and when Kate looked her up, she realized they knew each other and they became friends. But she promised Sawyer not to let anyone know he had a child so she can't tell Jack. Sawyer and the others must still be alive on the island. Jack is paranoid about Kate cheating on him because his first wife did. And he worries about Kate still caring for Sawyer because his first wife left him for another man and he fears if Sawyer ever came back Kate would leave him too. I think Jack does know that Aaron is his nephew at this point because he didn't want to see Aaron after Kate's trial. Aaron was a reminder that his father had cheated on his mother and he couldn't deal with that.
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'Lost' Dueling Analysis: Something Nice Back Home - WPost Celebritology:
Jen: After last week's Hurley comment,"Australia is the key to the whole game"?oh right playing a board game w Sawyer & Locke (fakeout where we see them talking, before we see the board, Hurley saying We're all gonna die, that's a mistake, Locke saying It's his mistake to make Hurley) and this week's "We're all dead. We never got off the island" ?when Jack is visiting him at the mental hosp? -- I am starting to think we will understand what is going on by simply believing everything Hurley says.
Am I the only one just heartbroken every time I see poor Aaron without his mother? And when he walked in on Jack saying Kate's not even related to him, I just wanted to hug him. Which also means maybe Jack does know Claire is his sister, but when and how he found out is unclear.




Lostpedia: "The Shape of Things to Come"
Ben tracks down Sayid off the Island to help him in his plot against Widmore.
Locke's camp comes under attack, and Jack tries to discover the identity of a body that has washed ashore.

"Lost": The Spoiled Bastard 25April [re 4.9"The Shape of Things to Come" ]:
Last night "Lost" was back to originals and it came out of the gate with lightning speed.
I loved the start - Ben in the desert. The pacing was pretty great, action-wise.
This was an all-about-Ben episode that also just happened to have Claire survive a rocket attack, Sawyer dance between bullets (um, a picnic table?), a trick door in Ben's place that leads to a cave which apparently has a hotline to the Smoke Monster, and a scene where Ben is playing piano while sitting on a bench that houses a loaded shotgun. "Lost" is back. Have at it.
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