Spoilers ahead… Don’t read this if you haven’t seen “Enter 77”<\/b><\/p>\n
Very good episode. A few predictable things (notably the ending, after John entered 77), but overall, a good episode.<\/p>\n
A few thoughts, based on what we saw tonight:<\/p>\n
The One-Eyed Man, (I think his name was Mikael) was probably doing what he could to fix communications between the island and the outside world. The station was important enough that Ms. Klugh told The One-Eyed Man to shoot her so that Sayid, Kate and Locke wouldn’t have any leverage over them. Why would that be?<\/p>\n
With no leverage over The One-Eyed Man, Kate, Sayid and Locke should have been in a weaker position. I think that’s what Ms. Klugh was counting on. I think she was trying to keep them from figuring out how to communicate with the outside world. <\/p>\n
Sure, the communication links were broken, but sooner or later someone on the outside was going to figure that out and probably fix it. As far as the people who are in communication with The Others know, everything is status quo.<\/p>\n
Are The Others keeping up a ruse? Trying to keep up appearances that whatever they’re working on is proceeding as planned?<\/p>\n
I think that’s a reasonable explanation. Had Locke actually been able to communicate with the outside world, the people The Others had been communicating with would probably do something, and come to investigate. I think its entirely possible The Others haven’t<\/b> told the outside world about the plane crash in the hopes that whatever they’re doing can proceed as planned.<\/p>\n
Any other thoughts about why Ms. Klugh wanted The One-Eyed Man to shoot her? I don’t think she would have said a single thing about who she was, or why she was there, so I’m not sure what other explanation (than the one above) makes any sense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"