Well damn. The final season of LOST has had its missteps and pacing problems, but I think it's safe to assume that we've entered the final countdown. "The Candidate" proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that Titus is an evil, evil being, and must be stopped. There is very little room for moral ambiguity left, and the rest of the characters (I'll explain why I used "rest" soon) need to find a way to contain him.
At long last, Sawyer's plan to hijack Widmore's submarine was executed. After the group (minus Ben, Richard, and Miles, who are off trying to find a way to keep Titus on the Island) reached the Ajira 316 plane, Titus informed them that it was no longer an option because Widmore had placed explosives on it. So they go to the docks and take the sub by force. Jack, whose new zen outlook on life has convinced him to stay on the Island, awesomely knocked Titus into the ocean, allowing Sawyer, Jin, Sun, Sayid, Hurley, Lapidus, and Kate to get on the sub. However, Kate got shot, so Jack had to get on as well to treat her. And poor Claire got left behind, again, with Titus. Though she actually got lucky because of this.
When Jack reached into his backpack to get his med kit for Kate, he made the horrifying discovery that Titus planted a bomb to get rid of the Candidates once and for all. But Jack, although scared, thinks that they are safe. He believes that Titus cannot directly kill them, and that, if they do nothing, the bomb won't go off, similar to how Titus couldn't kill Jacob and how the dynamite in the Black Rock didn't ignite when Jack and Richard were inside. But Sawyer, who has very good reason not to listen to Jack's crazy theories anymore, didn't listen to Jack's crazy theory and tried to diffuse the bomb, only to make the countdown clock tick faster. Sayid, likely ashamed of having helped Titus for the last 8 episodes, sacrificed himself to try and save the rest of the group by taking the bomb and running as far away from his friends as possible. Still, an explosion on a sub is never a good thing, and the group needed to get off the sub as quickly as possible. Unfortunately, Lapidus was knocked out by a hatch blown off its hinges by the water pressure outside, and his current fate remains unknown (I really hope he made it out, but it's unlikely). Jack ordered Hurley to help the injured Kate off the sub, while he, Sawyer, and Jin tried to save Sun, who was trapped behind some debris. Unfortunately, she was also entangled in some metal beams, and no amount of effort by the rest of the group could free her. After Sawyer got knocked out by some falling metal, Jack brought him to shore, leaving Jin struggling to save his wife. Knowing that her death was imminent, I'm surprised that she didn't try to persuade Jin to leave her by telling him that Ji Yeon, their daughter, needed him, especially because the writers reminded us of her earlier in the episode. But now, both Kwons drowned, leaving the world holding hands.
In the course of one episode, three lead characters died for sure, and one most likely did as well. All that remain of the Candidates are Jack, Hurley, and Sawyer. Kate is with them, while Ben, Richard, and Miles are elsewhere on the Island. And Claire is stuck with Titus, who is plotting the deaths of his final three nemeses. Hope for the 815 survivors and their friends is nearly gone. And so we come to the last 4 episodes of LOST. It's going to be an interesting couple of weeks.
EDIT
Wow, I totally forgot to talk about the sideways universe, which surprises me because I had something that I really wanted to point out. The alternaverse plot was good, but what really got to me was how "sideways" the relationship between Locke and his father is in that universe. In both the Island world and the sideways world, Anthony Cooper was present when Locke lost the use of his legs, but his role couldn't be more different. In the Island universe, their mutual disdain for each other led to Cooper pushing Locke out an 8th story window. But in the altneraverse, it was their love for each other that brought them to the same place where Locke lost his legs and Cooper lost everything but his physical life. In this world, Locke got his pilot's license, and he wanted his father, possibly the most important person in his life aside from Helen, to be his first passenger, despite Cooper's fear of flying. Unfortunately, soon after takeoff, the plane crashed (Locke can't seem to avoid those, I guess), taking Locke's legs away and leaving Cooper in a vegetative state.
Up next: Origins...
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