the blast door map

ok, lets tackle the 'missing pieces' one by one.

"the watch"


this was not a great way to begin the mobisodes. and maybe they knew this, and so released this one first, but as a teaser of what was to come, this didn't promise very much other than a series of scenes that didn't give background to any of the characters, but rather to their props. in one of the podcasts, damon and carlton joked about doing an entire episode from the perspective of mikhail's glass eye.. and i filled with dread at the thought that it might actually be happening here.

but now that we've seen all but 4 of the missing pieces, it's clear that the overall purpose of these episodes is to bring back latent issues to the forefront of our minds, presumably because they will be important in season 4.

there is some deep irony in this one pleasant moment between jack and his dad, considering how it all falls apart, and there's even a slight hint of christian's affections for sarah embedded in the text, but like 'king of the castle,' this mobisode seems to exist mainly as a big debbie downer 'waaah wahhhh' to underscore the tragedy of jack's eventual fate.