- Yes, Sawyer totally called Miles "Donger." O Writers who sit around and concoct awesome names for Sawyer to call people, we salute you.
- Yes, the point of all the mostly-naked Jack shots in the fast-forwards for those of us who don't consider Matthew Fox to be terribly beefcakeworthy was presumably to confirm that there's no appendix scar there. Rose's comment about the island's role in Jack's appendicitis seems awfully likely, no? Up until that moment, I was feeling pretty frustrated about Cuselof's decision to focus one of their five precious post-strike eps on the ongoing saga of Jack's hubris.
As for events outside Juliet's beachside ambulatory surgery center, I think we've now seen the impact of the post-strike truncation of the season. Claire/Miles/Jack/Dad!? would normally have gotten much more screen time, as would the voyage of the Korean speakers to the medical station. I can't imagine that those two events would have shared an episode with both Jack's appendectomy and a significant amount of fast-forward time in a season of regular length. (And either the Ben search party was much bigger initially, or else Smokey isn't actually as deadly as all that.)
Then there's the fast-forward. Jack's transition from the confident, smooth surgeon we saw at Kate's trial to the paranoid, visibly cracking drunk from the end of tonight's episode felt a little forced to me; then again, there are still a lot of holes to fill in the timeline. I do wonder, though, why Jack and Hurley are so fragile while Kate seems so strong. And what's Kate doing for Sawyer? Ain't nothing but daddy issues on this show, so my money is on something to do with Clementine.
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