ok, now the shape of these is becoming clear. they all hinge on some irony that comes from knowing the true outcome of the situations. this scene is nice, but wholly unnecessary - it's basically a metaphor for jack and ben's entire interaction through season 3. unnecessary maybe, but still cool. michael emerson is so damn good.
something else i've noticed that surprises me is that all of these mobisodes are directed by the show's lead director jack bender. i wonder if this was a condition for the actors to take part? 'i'm not acting in some shittily produced 3 minute thing premiering on phones that a first year USC grad is directing for free!'
so here are the season 4 plot points that this mobisode wants to remind us of:
• jack and ben both know how to play.. in season 4 will they find themselves on the same side? gasp.. i just had a thought.. what if it's ben in the coffin? what if ben becomes redeemed in some crazy way, just like, wait for it... snape.
• ben is right and jack is wrong: jack will want desperately to come back to the island some day. that desire will hang over everything that happens next season. i wonder if they'll even give us another jack flash-forward before next season is out (i doubt it. they will show other characters flash forward, but not jack, except perhaps in the season finale).
ben says to jack that when the days comes that he wishes he could come back to the island, "i hope you remember this conversation." granted, there is an entire season of information coming to us in one short month, but this little tidbit, to me, is the closest thing to any evidence at all as to who is in the coffin. if i had to bet on it, it's ben, hands down. when the 'true enemy' arrives on the island, i think ben and jack are going to find themselves on the same side.. and after losing his kingdom, it makes complete sense that ben would hang himself.
i'm just sayin.
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