Okay, so the one thing that is absolutely driving me crazy with this episode is the way it is screwing with the time line. We learned in Expose that Paulo was reading a newspaper at the airport in Australia dated September 24, 2004. In this episode we see Ben show Juliet the date of September 22, 2004 just after the plane crashed on the island when she gets to see "live feed" of her sister and her child. I realize that the time difference from Australia to Miami includes a cross of the international date line...but wouldn't that make it September 23rd? Am I crazy, or do we think this goes to the time-loop theory of LOST? Paulo and Nikki were not seen in the original crash scenes leading many to believe Desmond has re-set time and that Paulo and Nikki took the place of Bernard and Rose on flight 815. Not sure I buy into that...but it definitely got the gang buzzing...
Okay and the weird "everyone dies when they are pregnant" obviously wasn't the case with Danielle and Alex (unless of course Danielle is another 'plant' by the Others). Danielle survived, although appears pretty insane. Is it only women who get pregnant on the island, or all pregnant women? Juliet mentioned that she believed the problems occurred during conception. So that would mean that Claire (and Danielle) were safe. So was Juliet lying when she said that Claire was showing symptoms (back when Ethan was alive and "taking samples")? In this case, how much more important is it to know who is the father of Sun's baby! If it was her lover from home, she could be "safe" but if it was Jin from some romantic rendezvous on the island...uh oh! Poor Sun, she can't get a break. Does Juliet know that Sun is pregnant? Is Juliet hoping that Kate is now pregnant and really following her around to see if non-native island dwellers will show the same symptoms. I guess this would go to the cause of the, whatever, that makes women unable to have children...a genetic mutation from living on the island (with the ability to affect the Losties), a reaction to "the incident" making all women present at that time "infected". My personal opinion is that "the incident" (the one from the 80's, not the "sky turning purple" one) caused something to happen to the women...especially since it apparently strikes them at conception.
If the island can heal, why would it harm the pregnant women? We can't forget the women's bodies are trying to "heal" themselves. Juliet says their bodies are treating the fetus as an unknown/foreign body and thus rejecting it (like a botched organ replacement). So their bodies think they are "curing" them...Perhaps it's a risk-analyzer or something (think i-Robot when the robot decides to save Will Smith's character instead of the little girl because it had no feelings and he had the "higher chance of survival" and it let the little girl die).
What about Jack. Do we think he is innocent of any knowledge that Juliet is conning the Losties? I am still suspicious about his reaction to the gas from last episode. I wonder if Ben didn't approach him as well and promise to get him off the island with Juliet if he helped her infiltrate the Losties' camp. Jack gets shadier and shadier every episode.
And finally, some random thoughts...
Juliet...the actress is amazing and I really think her character is desperate to get off the island and will screw anyone over that gets in her way. She's not there to make friends with anyone...obviously. A lot of people think "Jacob" is someone we've already seen on the island. I am not so sure. I think it's a different character, if an actual person at all. Lots of Buddhist references throughout the show are leading more and more people to believe that this "Jacob" is not alive (anymore) but is more of a Buddha-esque figure. Their god, if you will. This all making Ben just a leader...perhaps all the previous leaders of the island are named after the biblical Jacob's sons...Benjamin being the youngest (and after Joesph was sold into slavery...the only child left by his "favorite" wife, Rachel)...and when Ben goes...that's when the "world will end" which is where the numbers come in (The LOST Experience from last summer confirmed this with the producers who have said that "for now" this is the answer for what the numbers mean)....the numbers are part of this crazy mathematical equation that predicts the end of the world. Each number stands for a different property (global warming, natural disasters, over population....) and when all the elements are "just right" the world will implode (I'm guess here...possibly explode...but everything seems to implode on LOST...so I'm going with implode). It is said that Dharma was trying to change the numbers....to not let the world end....or perhaps, more likely in my mind, to not let the world end on the island.
I think I am done for now. If I edit anything I will make the text italicized so it is easy to spot!
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