“Jughead”
Season 5, Episode 3
This review & commentary contain spoilers. If you don’t want to know what happens in this episode, don’t read this review.
The Review
“Jughead” was an interesting episode. There were two distinct plots unraveling simultaneously, one has Desmond trying to track down Daniel’s mother and uncovering a very interesting secret while the other is action-packed, has explosions, a hydrogen bomb, and more time-travel excitement.
A few high points: we get to see more about “the Others”. We learn more (although realize then how little we know) about Richard, which actually makes him more interesting. The time-travel skipping is still going on for the islanders, and it’s still kind of cool.
The low point is Desmond. Desmond and Penny are just not interesting. Sure, Desmond has a mission sent to him from the past, but he’s borrring. And Penny is worse.
It was also interesting that we take a break from the Ben & the Oceanic Six storyline in “Jughead”. That was okay too. Overall, the episode was another winner.
Characters
Too much Desmond (and Penny), Locke and Richard, and Daniel are the center of “Jughead”’s plot. Desmond is on a mission (sent by Daniel) to find his mother, which takes him on an interesting direction. Locke and Richard are pretty good set-up pieces both to explore the Others and to lead into future things (I presume) and Daniel continues to be the main thread on the island.
Grade: B
Running Commentary (or Greg’s Inner-monologue)
Wow. Penny has a soccer ball in her belly! No, literally, it looks like a soccer ball. It’s worse than Claire’s. Or maybe it’s the same fake baby-bump on a differently shaped lady, but it’s still funny looking!
I know Desmond and Penny were in kind of a panic and an emotional state, but I think I would have preferred that the “doctor” at least wash his hand before jumping down there and reaching in with his rusty tongs.
Heather says Penny died. I say it’s because the doctor didn’t wash his hands. Ohp, there’s Penny.
On the Island
How many ties does Red need to ask Daniel if he knows what’s wrong with her before, either a) he tells her, or b) she beats the snot out of him for not telling. And I now her name is Charlotte, I chose not to use it.
How is it that two people just got blown to bits and I didn’t have any idea who they were? How many frack’in people are on this island!!! Oh look, there’s more. And they have a collection of claymores, rifles and bows. How come they don’t have lasers? Or thermal pulse cannons? Or since J.J. & company went there… phasers? You know, if the island goes through time willy-nilly, why not further in the future? I know it’s one of those rules that only the cool time-travelling kids get to break.
Penny & Desmond
Okay, Penny & Desmond are kind of like The King of Queens on a boat. Neither is really interesting, so to Greg they sound like:
Desmond: blah-blah-blah-blah
Penny: blah-blah-Why didn’t you remember until two days ago-blah-blah
Desmond: blah-blah-blah
The Island
Okay, the claymores weren’t the guys with the bows and rifles. You realize the implication is that means that there are even more people on this island. This island isn’t “Lost” it’s on some kind of “Map to the Stars” for militant lunatics.
Of course Juliette speaks Latin. Oh, that makes perfect sense: the “Others” speak Latin. I suppose it’s easier to teach a bunch of people a dead language, as opposed to making up a new one.
Miles “sees dead people!”…. four U.S. soldiers, one dead from radiation. Great Scott more people wind up on this island than visit Graceland. It’s amazing the island doesn’t sink from the weight of all the folk traipsing around it. I heard Disney was thinking of putting a theme park there.
Richard!
Desmond
Blah-blah-blah…was trying to send rats brains back in time…
Faraday… greeeaat… another person. Because, oh never mind…
Prisoners
Okay, so Daniel and the other two are the main characters on the island tonight. That is more than a little disconcerting. I know they’ve been around for two or three seasons or so, but seriously, outside of Daniel, I still don’t really care about them. And really, really don’t want to waste any time on their back-stories!!!
Hydrogen bomb?!?
Sawyer & Locke
Well, it is kind of interesting to be learning more about “the Others”, even if it means that they have more of them populating the island.
The “Richard Alpert” mystery is kind of interesting.
Don’t shoot him! Where’s he going to run off to? Right… his camp…
Desmond
Hey! The woman who opened the door looks like the girl from the hunting party on the island! I wonder if it’s her sister?!? Uhm, nope. Doesn’t look like it.
A Hydrogen Bomb
Blah-blah-blah romantic banter between Daniel and the dying red-head. Blah-blah-blah.
That girl does look like the lady from Daniel’s past.
Oh good, Richard is going to tell Daniel, “the truth”.
Richard has a chain of command.
Lookie, the guy ran off to his camp!
Ellie. Dang another name. Frack!!!
How old is Richard? Old. Hmmm, that’s kind of interesting.
Oooh. Daniel sees the resemblance to the other lady too!!! That’s pretty cool.
Daniel: You want to know who I am, I am the best chance at disarming that bomb.
Yeah, he’s all that! I like him!
People on the island have great complexions.
Oh… they’re fifty years in the past. Wow, Richard is old.
Juliette: Why don’t we all put our guns down?
Let’s go back to blah-blah-blah. That was the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard.
Desmond v. Widmore
“namaste" at the top of the painting
Oh yeah and blah-blah-blah California blah-blah-blah
Locke & Richard
Locke: Jacob sent me.
Widmore?!? Charles Widmore?!? WOW!!!
Desmond
Desmond: Blah-blah-blah-Good day? Blah-blah-blah…
Penny: Blah-blah-blah-Why are you lying to me? Blah-blah-blah…
Awww… they named their son Charlie! How cute. Heather thinks they named him after Charlie from the Island.
Penny: Blah-blah-blah…
Richard & Locke
Richard: I certainly don’t want to contradict myself…
Isn’t time-travel a bitch.
Flash. Dang. Time-travel is a bitch.
Locke told him where and when he was born. That’s going to be important.
Miles: I’m fine too.
Yeah, it’s sad that people on the island care less about him than I do. I don’t care about him at all.
Oops. One less person. Eh, that’s okay.
Postscript: While writing the review, I think I figured out who the woman with the rifle is and why she looked familiar to Daniel and why I thought she looked like the lady Desmond went to see. She is the woman Desmond goes to see in the future! We learn, late in the episode, that the islanders are in 1954. Depending on when she goes back (presumably a few, at least one – Widmore- do go back), she could meet Daniel’s mother. Her sister was being experimented on by her. Or however that part goes, I wasn’t paying attention. Desmond: blah-blah-blah and all. Thin theory, but I’m going with it for now.
A few high points: we get to see more about “the Others”. We learn more (although realize then how little we know) about Richard, which actually makes him more interesting. The time-travel skipping is still going on for the islanders, and it’s still kind of cool.
The low point is Desmond. Desmond and Penny are just not interesting. Sure, Desmond has a mission sent to him from the past, but he’s borrring. And Penny is worse.
It was also interesting that we take a break from the Ben & the Oceanic Six storyline in “Jughead”. That was okay too. Overall, the episode was another winner.
Characters
Too much Desmond (and Penny), Locke and Richard, and Daniel are the center of “Jughead”’s plot. Desmond is on a mission (sent by Daniel) to find his mother, which takes him on an interesting direction. Locke and Richard are pretty good set-up pieces both to explore the Others and to lead into future things (I presume) and Daniel continues to be the main thread on the island.
Grade: B
Running Commentary (or Greg’s Inner-monologue)
Wow. Penny has a soccer ball in her belly! No, literally, it looks like a soccer ball. It’s worse than Claire’s. Or maybe it’s the same fake baby-bump on a differently shaped lady, but it’s still funny looking!
I know Desmond and Penny were in kind of a panic and an emotional state, but I think I would have preferred that the “doctor” at least wash his hand before jumping down there and reaching in with his rusty tongs.
Heather says Penny died. I say it’s because the doctor didn’t wash his hands. Ohp, there’s Penny.
On the Island
How many ties does Red need to ask Daniel if he knows what’s wrong with her before, either a) he tells her, or b) she beats the snot out of him for not telling. And I now her name is Charlotte, I chose not to use it.
How is it that two people just got blown to bits and I didn’t have any idea who they were? How many frack’in people are on this island!!! Oh look, there’s more. And they have a collection of claymores, rifles and bows. How come they don’t have lasers? Or thermal pulse cannons? Or since J.J. & company went there… phasers? You know, if the island goes through time willy-nilly, why not further in the future? I know it’s one of those rules that only the cool time-travelling kids get to break.
Penny & Desmond
Okay, Penny & Desmond are kind of like The King of Queens on a boat. Neither is really interesting, so to Greg they sound like:
Desmond: blah-blah-blah-blah
Penny: blah-blah-Why didn’t you remember until two days ago-blah-blah
Desmond: blah-blah-blah
The Island
Okay, the claymores weren’t the guys with the bows and rifles. You realize the implication is that means that there are even more people on this island. This island isn’t “Lost” it’s on some kind of “Map to the Stars” for militant lunatics.
Of course Juliette speaks Latin. Oh, that makes perfect sense: the “Others” speak Latin. I suppose it’s easier to teach a bunch of people a dead language, as opposed to making up a new one.
Miles “sees dead people!”…. four U.S. soldiers, one dead from radiation. Great Scott more people wind up on this island than visit Graceland. It’s amazing the island doesn’t sink from the weight of all the folk traipsing around it. I heard Disney was thinking of putting a theme park there.
Richard!
Desmond
Blah-blah-blah…was trying to send rats brains back in time…
Faraday… greeeaat… another person. Because, oh never mind…
Prisoners
Okay, so Daniel and the other two are the main characters on the island tonight. That is more than a little disconcerting. I know they’ve been around for two or three seasons or so, but seriously, outside of Daniel, I still don’t really care about them. And really, really don’t want to waste any time on their back-stories!!!
Hydrogen bomb?!?
Sawyer & Locke
Well, it is kind of interesting to be learning more about “the Others”, even if it means that they have more of them populating the island.
The “Richard Alpert” mystery is kind of interesting.
Don’t shoot him! Where’s he going to run off to? Right… his camp…
Desmond
Hey! The woman who opened the door looks like the girl from the hunting party on the island! I wonder if it’s her sister?!? Uhm, nope. Doesn’t look like it.
A Hydrogen Bomb
Blah-blah-blah romantic banter between Daniel and the dying red-head. Blah-blah-blah.
That girl does look like the lady from Daniel’s past.
Oh good, Richard is going to tell Daniel, “the truth”.
Richard has a chain of command.
Lookie, the guy ran off to his camp!
Ellie. Dang another name. Frack!!!
How old is Richard? Old. Hmmm, that’s kind of interesting.
Oooh. Daniel sees the resemblance to the other lady too!!! That’s pretty cool.
Daniel: You want to know who I am, I am the best chance at disarming that bomb.
Yeah, he’s all that! I like him!
People on the island have great complexions.
Oh… they’re fifty years in the past. Wow, Richard is old.
Juliette: Why don’t we all put our guns down?
Let’s go back to blah-blah-blah. That was the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard.
Desmond v. Widmore
“namaste" at the top of the painting
Oh yeah and blah-blah-blah California blah-blah-blah
Locke & Richard
Locke: Jacob sent me.
Widmore?!? Charles Widmore?!? WOW!!!
Desmond
Desmond: Blah-blah-blah-Good day? Blah-blah-blah…
Penny: Blah-blah-blah-Why are you lying to me? Blah-blah-blah…
Awww… they named their son Charlie! How cute. Heather thinks they named him after Charlie from the Island.
Penny: Blah-blah-blah…
Richard & Locke
Richard: I certainly don’t want to contradict myself…
Isn’t time-travel a bitch.
Flash. Dang. Time-travel is a bitch.
Locke told him where and when he was born. That’s going to be important.
Miles: I’m fine too.
Yeah, it’s sad that people on the island care less about him than I do. I don’t care about him at all.
Oops. One less person. Eh, that’s okay.
Postscript: While writing the review, I think I figured out who the woman with the rifle is and why she looked familiar to Daniel and why I thought she looked like the lady Desmond went to see. She is the woman Desmond goes to see in the future! We learn, late in the episode, that the islanders are in 1954. Depending on when she goes back (presumably a few, at least one – Widmore- do go back), she could meet Daniel’s mother. Her sister was being experimented on by her. Or however that part goes, I wasn’t paying attention. Desmond: blah-blah-blah and all. Thin theory, but I’m going with it for now.
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