Last episode of Season 1 Lost

The last episode of Lost did not come as that much of a surprise to me. However, this only because I had heard about what happens from other people. It was a very suspenseful episode with lots of open endings to make you want to watch the next season. It also contained a juxtapostion between Clair's baby, Aaron, being returned bit Walt being taken. The tensions between Locke and Jack always going to arise sometime as they have very different beliefs, but the stuble way that the tension between the two increases leaves you wondering what will eventually happen between the two. The glimse of the heroin in Charlie's bag leaves you shaking your head and hoping that he throws it about before taking any. The episode is a contrast from the first
part of Exodus which left us with a false sense of safety, this is destroyed in this episode and we are left waiting in suspense for the next season.

More development on Jack

Confidence Man: In this episode we find out Jack's other side, when he allows Siad to torture Sawyer for Shannon's asthma inhalers. It shows how Jack can be so focused on saving one person, that he disregards, or neglects his humane duty to another. It shows that Jack has a ruthless side to him that he sometimes lets out, perhaps not for the best.

All the Best Cowboys Have Daddy Issues: In this episode we are shown in more detail the relationship Jack had with his father, through the use of flashbacks. We see how Jack had to decide whether or not to dob his father in, or to let him get away with going into surgery intoxicated, which resulted in a woman dying. Jack only tells the authorities when he finds out that the woman they had been operating on together was pregnant and his father had not told him. This meant that Jack did not know to try and save the baby as well. It shows that Jack is prepared to tell on his family in order to do the right thing, even if it will ruin his fathers life. Jack is prepared to do this so that his father never hurts anyone else by going in to operate while intoxicated.

Lost- White Rabbit

Cultural References

-Alice in Wonderland (white rabbit who leads Alice to the hole, and how Alice goes looking for the White Rabbit in the hole, like Jack searching for his Dad who had lead him to Australia)

Themes involving searching

-Searching for Jack's father, now and in flashbacks. We learn that that was the reason for jack being on the plane, he was taking his fathers body back home.

Examples of conflict

-Choosing to save Joanna or Boone when they were both drowning.

-Jack has to choose whether to step up to the role as leader or not

-The need for water, as it is running out

-Trying to find out who stole the remaining water