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Post by Hollywood Heidi on Jun 2, 2018 17:44:13 GMT -8
4x08 Meet Kevin Johnson  Original Air Date: March 20, 2008
Centric: Michael centric
Directed by: Stephen Williams
Written by: Elizabeth Sarnoff & Brian K. Vaughan
Summary: After Sayid encounters Michael, the story of how Ben's spy got to the freighter is finally revealed. Back at Locke's camp, Ben sends his daughter, Alex, to a safer place so that she may survive an approaching attack. (tv.com)
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Post by DarkSideCookie on Jun 3, 2018 10:55:27 GMT -8
5 stars! Yet again lol. At first, I wasn't willing to rank this episode that high, not because it wouldn't have started interesting right away, but because I still can't stand Michael.  Okay, it admittedly got better with every further minute that we saw him regretting and suffering from what he had done to Ana Lucia and Libby... *sobs* It made me happy and sad at the same time btw when we got to see Libby back on the screen! Funny fact about me: Once a character goes mad in the way of hallucinating and stuff it raises higher on my list of liking lmao! What is the matter with me? XD Haha, how everyone was looking at Ben in the beginning when Locke had summoned everyone to speak the truth. Interesting new fact that no one who had been on the island can die on land! :-O I've to admit that yet again I didn't recognize someone right off. It was the Other who had told Michael about the job Ben has for him. I knew I've seen his face on the island before. Was he the guy who was torturing Sawyer and Kate back at the time when they had been held captive at Othersville? It was neat to see some familiar faces in the Michael flashback onboard the freighter. Naomi seemed so nice and friendly there. Also, the guy who had been the pilot of the group that had appeared on the island recently (sorry forgot his name) seemed like he really wasn't going to kill anyone but to be glad that there might be a chance they find survivors from that plane crash. That little flag coming out once Michael had activated the pretended bomb! XD I wasn't expecting the bomb to function, to be honest, but didn't that either. I loved his telephone call with Ben and above all Ben's revelation that there was a difference between him and Whittaker. And his answer to Michael when he argued against that, saying that Ana Lucia and Libby had been pretty much innocent! I mean, Ben was right, but that was like a punch right into his face lol. At Sayid's question to Michael how he can work for someone like Ben, I had to think of the flashforward we've gotten some episodes before. Well, Sayid, you gotta learn how to work for Ben soon enough yourself. Poor Carl and poor Danielle... I somehow knew Danielle would die as well, right when she talked to Alex after Carl got shot. So, now there are some guys knowing about Ben's daughter. |
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Post by Hollywood Heidi on Jun 3, 2018 12:49:05 GMT -8
I went with 4 stars again. Very tempted to make it 5! The story just gets more and more intriguing. I even felt a little compassion toward Michael. What he did was totally wrong. But at least he knows it and it haunts him. He tries to kill himself a couple ways but it doesn't work. It was so eerie to hear Tom Friendly telling him that the island won't let him kill himself because he still has work to do.  Seeing Michael sell the watch Jin let him keep also was a nostalgic memory of season 1. My how things have changed since the crash. Hopefully you'll get to watch the show all over again once you've finished it and just revel in how very much happens with the story and with each person. It's amazing and feels like you're watching a huge chunk of each person's life. Holy crap, Libby! And to have the dream of her bringing him blankets was just an extra stab at Michael's guilty conscious. If she hadn't gone for those blankets... So crazy about the whole Flight 815 crash being staged. The freighter people claim it was done by Ben and Ben and his people claim it was Charles Widmore. Who really did it? Charles seems as scheming as Ben. Interesting new fact that no one who had been on the island can die on land! :-O Actually, that's not the case. Or at least that's not what Tom said. He said that the island wasn't done with Michael yet. It sounds more like if the island has a purpose for you, you can't die. If there wasn't a further purpose that Michael could serve, I'm sure one of his methods of suicide would have worked. Currently in that flashback, Michael is the only survivor that's back in civilization so it's not like the island has a lot of people to choose from. I've to admit that yet again I didn't recognize someone right off. It was the Other who had told Michael about the job Ben has for him. I knew I've seen his face on the island before. Was he the guy who was torturing Sawyer and Kate back at the time when they had been held captive at Othersville? That was Tom Friendly! The one who we first saw when Walt was taken. He was wearing the fake beard on the boat when they approached the raft. Later, he was the one on Alcatraz handling Kate for awhile. Remember when he gave her clothes to change into and she said not with him standing there? He said that she wasn't his type. Well, we see now what he meant by that. XD He's got an eye for the menfolk.  He also assisted Jack when Jack was doing the surgery on Ben. He's the one who held the radio for Jack to talk into. Out of all the Others, Tom was the nicest and most honest with them. He was shot by the survivors (I believe Sawyer and I think I remember him saying something like "this is for taking the kid") when the Others attacked the camp that last time to kidnap all the pregnant women. Lol, that little flag with the message that popped up once he activated the bomb was messed up. I agree, the phone call with Ben was such a great scene! Ben is right though. They never told Michael to kill anybody. They only said that he'd have to get Ben out. That was a gut punch for Michael. At Sayid's question to Michael how he can work for someone like Ben, I had to think of the flashforward we've gotten some episodes before. Well, Sayid, you gotta learn how to work for Ben soon enough yourself. Bahaha! Oh, the irony! That was so great. I was kinda shouting at Sayid not to out Michael. I guess to Sayid, nobody is worse than Ben. Well, he doesn't know Widmore, the guy behind this freighter operation and what he's capable of. Poor Carl and poor Danielle... I somehow knew Danielle would die as well, right when she talked to Alex after Carl got shot. So, now there are some guys knowing about Ben's daughter. Omg, I was so shocked with Karl and especially Danielle! Danielle seemed to confirm that Karl was gone, but what about Danielle? Is she dead? So sad! I also totally was holding my breath and knowing that Danielle would be sniped the second she stood up. They should have crawled! Oh man. Finally reunited with her daughter and now...  |
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Okay, it admittedly got better with every further minute that we saw him regretting and suffering from what he had done to Ana Lucia and Libby... *sobs* It made me happy and sad at the same time btw when we got to see Libby back on the screen! Funny fact about me: Once a character goes mad in the way of hallucinating and stuff it raises higher on my list of liking lmao! What is the matter with me? XD
He also assisted Jack when Jack was doing the surgery on Ben. He's the one who held the radio for Jack to talk into.