“Jack asked me how I knew… knew for sure that this man was lying. How I knew for sure he was one of them. One of The Others. I know because I feel no guilt for what I did to him.”

The literary device of subtext is a beautiful thing. When executed properly you understand a [...]

My pal Sharon pointed out a parallel I overlooked regarding Charlie and Locke in Fire + Water.
The only thing I got out of that episode was that Charlie and Locke share a similar situation. Charlie’s bro sold C’s beloved piano for his own gain — to get clean. Locke’s dad took L’s kidney. Then Liam [...]

If Jack is a good person who sees the error in his ways and goes emo with guilt, then Kate is his shadow. Kate’s problem isn’t our problem, for the majority of us anyway. Lost’s Neilsen ratings for female viewers 18-35 who are locked up in the federal penitentiary system aren’t measured so perhaps we’ll [...]

“The terror was just so…
…crazy, so real…
…and I knew I had to deal with it.
So I just made a choice.
I’d let the fear in.”

Jack first monologues for Kate after his heroic effort that save many of the surviving passengers of Oceanic flight 815. It’s a quiet moment where he reflects upon an incident during the [...]