the blast door map

ah, now we're back. this one is currently only available on verizon phones, but you can see a low quality version here. be careful when clicking into that lost spoilers website.. there is so much information leaked about season 4, it's not funny, and i'm working very hard to retain the blank slate required for full appreciation of this series.

so here we have an excellent example of what the previous mobisode failed at: adding dimension to a supporting character.

this mobisode shows us a very early meeting between jack and ethan, shortly after the crash. it establishes ethan's early interest in claire, and humanizes him a bit by allowing him, for the first time, to have real backstory: his wife and baby both died in childbirth. and now, after all this time, ethan is a real person, with a real goal to tie together all the unspeakable acts he's about to commit. it incorporates a teeny retcon about where all the medication came from.. how interesting that the others would surreptitiously provide meds to the survivors, and there's a sly, nicely delivered line 'you're definitely not alone.'

what i like about this so much is that at this point, there is nothing sinister going on - these aren't the motives of 'the others.' it's merely reconnaissance. ethan is a real person who has suffered loss, who fixes juliet's plumbing, and who gets sent on a mission by ben.

written by damon lindelof. go damon!