What Did Jack Become in the Night…
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By AppleofmyEye
- What Did Jack Become in the Night…
- Created: May 3, 2008
- Last updated: Aug 14, 2008
- After episode: 4.10: Something Nice Back Home
- Status: Current
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Christian’s visit with Claire is not coincidental with Jack’s sudden surgical crisis, but because of it.
— AppleofmyEye
Why now?
Why did the writers take a break from time travel, toxic gas, jungle executions, Jacob’s cabin, ticking time wombs, the struggle between light and dark, good and evil, faith and science and suddenly pause for Jack’s appendix? And why not tease us with ambiguous symptoms prompting us to question if Jack is moving in time or got pregnant on the island? Why set up what looks to be a huge island battle of huge import only to take a time-out for a cramp? Since when do the writers spoon feed us a case of appendicitis and an appendectomy in 58 minutes with commercial interruption? I remember months of Sawyer eating polar bear biscuits waiting for Ben’s kidney sack to be sutured up. Why the need for appendicitis? Did the writers try to keep it neat for us? Did the writers just need Jack to have a life threatening episode? If so, why? What exactly happened to Jack? Did Jack just develop appendicitis, go under the knife, and spring back good as new? Hmmm.
Now begs another question: what is the deal with Claire and Christian? Claire has been attacked with infected needles, kidnapped, given birth, drowned — why does Christian appear to her and Aaron now? More specifically, why does Christian show up to see Claire and Aaron when his son is having surgery a few jungle miles away in a beach hut? Why is this the night to see his daughter Claire?
Either Claire has something going on more relevant to Christian — if so, what? Or Christian’s visit with Claire is not coincidental with Jack’s sudden surgical crisis, but because of it. If this is the case, what happened to Jack? Did Claire and Christian play a role in Jack’s surgery that night? (Was Jack raised by another?) Or did Jack really wake up the same person he was as when he went under?
Dear, dear! How queer everything is today! And yesterday things went on just as usual. I wonder if I’ve been changed in the night? Let me think: was I the same when I got up this morning? I almost think I can remember feeling a little different. But if I’m not the same, the next question is, Who in the world am I? Ah, that’s the great puzzle!
What shape have things taken?
Key characters
| Short Name | Full Name | Episodes | Theories |
|---|---|---|---|
| Claire | Claire Littleton | 2.15, 2.12, 1.10, 1.15, 1.21, 3.12 | 384 |
Key episodes
| # | Title | Aired | Central character | Theories |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4.10 | Something Nice Back Home | 5-1-2008 | Jack | 140 |
True, it seemed awfully weird to have a flash forward with any a little information in it, instead of a alot and have most of the ep about Jack being ill, Miles finding the graves of people we KNOW are dead, and the best bit of the episode right at the very end. disappointed with the ep to be honest
Good post +1. It is nice to see I wasn’t the only person that found something “odd” about the episode.
I really like your observations. Jack’s illness was interesting, especially since the writers made sure we all know that “people don’t get sick here, people get better”-Rose. So the illness was definately used for some yet unknown purpose. Interesting to think back on Ben’s illness too and why did the island let him get sick, and now Jack. I thought there were some side explanations too. Like, what leads Jack to have a break down in the future and plead with Kate that “we have to go back”. He begins his mental tail spin after talking to Hurley about Hurley having conversations with Charlie, and then seeing his dad at the hospital soon after (is this event what changed Jack in the night?) Also, maybe that is why he later in an intoxicated rage shouts “go upstairs and see my father” in the flash forward, because he is talking to dad. Maybe his content of conversations with dad make him decide that he will have to eventually go back?? Also - in one of the ABC Lost website snip-its, there is a scene in episode one where Christian instructs Vincent to ‘wake my son, he has work to do’. - this show is fun : )
I think that it is pretty relevant that the only other person to become “ill” on the island is Ben. It seems at this point that Ben has Locke right where he wants him and the only thing that he has no control over is Jack and the rest of the losties on the beach. It just seems to me that Jack has been to the island before and left therefore the magical healing powers of the island no longer apply to him.