You sure know how to butter a man up Stay-Puff

DEUS EX MACHINA

We hear Locke say "This was supposed to work.", this either points to that he has done this before or he was shown visions of it working. We do know however, that Locke has had trouble interpretating the visions he receives.



He also says "Don't tell me what I can't do." again. This time to Boone.

He tells Boone; "The island will tell us what to do.". Then Locke has a vision/island communication and it "replays" Yemi's plane crashing. This is similar to how it showed Horace chopping down the tree.



The island is good, as it even knows how Locke can get to Boone and make him realize Locke is getting some sort of secret information from the island. "Theresa falls up the stairs. Theresa falls down the stairs." is all Boone needs to know to continue following Locke into the jungle. Notice Locke did not tell Boone the condition he saw Boone in during the vision.



I still don't know the reason Locke's mother appears in the vision the island shows him.



So, um, I wonder exactly which of the STD's Sawyer has because from his reaction it looks like he has at least one of them. Wonder if Kate has one as well now and therefore Jack. Hmmm, I also wonder if TPTB have just forgotten this little point of information. Interesting though that it was Jack who conned Sawyer into revealing his sexual past. Right in front of Kate.




When Locke begins to loose the use of his legs, it was the island protecting him and it showed that the island can give and the island can take away. With Locke's legs not working properly, Boone decides to make the climb up the cliff to the plane. Ironically, when Boone tells Locke that he should see Jack about his failing legs, Locke says that "Jack wouldn't know the first things about what's wrong with him". As a spinal surgeon, Jack would in fact be the most qualified person on the island to understand Locke's back injury.



In the flashbacks the Locke/Cooper saga begins. Notice the footballs are in aisle 8 for regulation and 15 for nurf.

We also know the Boone/Bernard radio transmission story as well.

Is the nurse both Locke and Michael have in the hospital the same woman playing two parts or is it the same nurse? See, I'm still not convinced the flashbacks are really flashbacks that happened to the survivors but rather implanted memories by the island/others/Dharma as part of a brainwashing technique used a la Room 23.



The writers sure do have a way of making us feel sorry for Locke, or is that pity? Locke has a moment of weak faith and despair at the hatch. Desmond, who is inside the hatch, but we wouldn't know that until next season, turns on the light that gives Locke his inspiration to go on.



We find out Locke's mother was in the same mental institute as Hurley but probably not at the same time.



Deus Ex Machina (pronounced as "Deh-oos ecks mah-kee-nah") originated as a theatrical device in ancient Greek theatre. This device consisted of a physical crane that lowered a character down onto the stage, the character representing a god. This god would help the characters with a sudden twist in plot. This term would come to mean any device within a plot that provided a sudden change, or solution, in plot.



Deus Ex Machina literally translates into "God from the machine" in Latin. In script writing, the term Deus Ex Machina is often used to refer to a solution to the story, a means to an end that comes out of nowhere and has nothing to do with the story, sometimes leaving the audience feeling cheated.



DO NO HARM

Jack promises Boone that he will save him.

Jin has super hearing.

Sun is Molly Pitcher.



One of the most gruesome things I have seen on this show is the cutting off of the leg idea that Jack comes up with.



Jack confides in Chrsitian that he may have only decided to marry Sarah because of his commitment to her; on the Island, Jack puts himself in danger in order to follow through on his commitment to save Boone's life.



This time it is Jack that screams Locke's line "Don't tell me what I can't do." to Sun.

Listen real close to when Kate falls and breaks some of the bottles of alcohol she has in the backpack. Do you hear the "f" word like I do?



Boone, like Rose before him, offers to let Jack "off the hook". Boone tells Jack to let him go, something Jack admits to not being good at in his flashback. In the flashbacks we also see Jack with a half empty bottle of alcohol as he dips his feet in a pool. Christian joins him and tells him; "Commitment is what makes you tick, Jack. The problem is that you're just not good at letting go."



One life ends as another life, elsewhere on the island, begins. Kate tells Claire, "This baby is all of ours" during the delivery of Aaron. In Eggtown we find that Kate has apparently taken responsibility for Aaron, making good on her statement.



There are theories that the statement made by Locke that Boone was a sacrifice the island demanded meant that in order for Claire to have her baby and for it to be born alive someone had to die. A sort of island imposed population control.

The ending montage was very nicely filmed.



"Primum non nocere" - "Do No Harm", refers to a phrase widely assumed to be a part of the Hippocratic Oath, while it actually does not appear there. It refers to an important rule for physicians: to always consider whether any sort of treatment could harm a patient.




It notably applies to Jack's disregard for this rule in general; he tends to try to save his patients, no matter the cost.