Sawyer decides to come with El, who promises to answer the most important question ever: "Why am I on this island?" It's all well and good, until Sawyer bumps into Richard again. Richard spouts more voodoo eyeliner wisdom and tells Sawyer that he needs to get the hell away from whoever the fuck is in John Locke and get back to the safe house at the temple. I swear, if I were just coming to this show, I'd say this was the equivalent of teenagers playing Capture the Flag. Sawyer's like, "WHATEVER", and keeps following El further across the island to a part that, huh, we've NEVER SEEN BEFORE.
That's something that gets me about this show. Is this island like so hugely massive that it actually has areas that none of the main characters have seen before? I mean sure, they didn't show any idle wandering going on around the island, but you'd think that on some sort of late night walk they could've stumbled across a ladder running down a cliff to the SECRET VOLCANO LAIR where Jacob decides on candidates to take over his job. Or all the different Dharma stations with several different entrances. And I get it, this is a show that needs to be unraveled slowly with time. The island is like an onion, and Richard is like that dark ring closer towards the center that makes you wonder if this onion is still good to eat or not. But I'm probably getting ahead of myself.
Okay so anyways, El is still preaching about getting off the island, and for some weird reason Sawyer wants to go with him. How come when John Locke was still John Locke no one ever listened to him or gave a damn, but when he's inhabited by the PRINCE OF DARKNESS everyone is like, "Oh sure yeah, I'll almost die to serve your unbelievable purposes!" So now we're left with El and Sawyer "fleeing the island", even though we know that's not what's going to happen.
A few curious things though - since the alterna-LAX world was kind of boring, not overall surprising, and had almost now real reason for us to be concerned about it, I'm pretty much going to disregard that whole section of the show. Which was, a lot - about 20 some-odd minutes. I think that in order for us to have a reason to pay any attention to the "sideways flashes" we're going to need bigger reasons than "HUH! BEN IS THE HISTORY TEACHER." Why should we care? We all know that this sideways timeline isn't the timeline that matters. Or maybe that's what the show's creators want us to believe.
Either way, I didn't find any of it terrible significant. What I did find significant was that there was a child version of Jacob running around bleeding in the woods. What I find even more curious is that Sawyer could see him, but Richard (dark onion ring) couldn't. What I also find curious was that the numbers (4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42) all correlated with characters that Jacob thought would be good "candidates" for his job. Curious, curious, curious am I. But again, this show has failed to give us concrete answers as to why, or how. It seems to think that what is going on is enough. But we all know that there's a man behind the curtain, and we all know that Richard will ferry us to him. Just how deep does the onion ring go, there Richard?
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