LOST – Eggtown

First of all lets look into the meaning of Eggtown. A wikipedia search of Eggtown gives this result

Egg-town is a pejorative term that refers to the days of bartering, during the Great Depression. A traveling salesman would have to barter his candy or tobacco or shoelaces for different commodities. A poor exchange would be for eggs, a relatively common item that is also highly perishable. Nobody wants to trade for eggs from a traveling salesman because they have their own, so the salesman who accepted an egg in exchange was forced to accept a bad deal. Salesmen would use the term like “If I were you I would stay away from Bogart. That’s an egg-town.” Of course, the lack of trust among salesman was also high, and it was likely that one salesman would lie to another about the quality of a town’s customers to keep them for himself. Invariably, the second salesman ventures into to Bogart only to find it is truly an egg-town. He is either persuaded to not visit a town that has good customers or is tricked into visiting a town that can only offer eggs. The term “egg-town” represents a deal with undesirable outcomes in either case.

Eggtown here probably refers to the deal that Kate made with Miles or the deal Kate made with the Court.

Second of all I have to say, I’m riiiiight~. All my predictions for the people who got off the island are true. See here to check it out. So now we know as I had predicted that Kate was looking after Aaron and that Claire probably didn’t make it off the island. Probably Aaron is not one of the Oceanic Six and there are still two people not accounted for and the producers have said in an interview the other two of the Oceanic Six will be revealed by the end of episode 7. Might be either Ben or Aaron. More about the Oceanic Six later on. Let’s get into the episode.

In this episode we got a hell lot of Kate and we finally know how she was not convicted in the future and more of Locke’s craziness. I really hoped Locke would get into his groove and prove himself and his faith. But the guyer has officially gone off his rocker when he put a grenade into Miles’s mouth. WTF??? Locke is getting frustrated by the minute while Ben seems to be in control still. Ben is an enigma and he is the focal point of this whole show now. Hopefully we get a Ben flashback this season. Anyways Locke is getting crazier by the minute and Kate is still breaking Sawyer’s heart. I feel sorry for that guy and I think Sawyer has run out of story and is going to be the rumored major death that’s going to happen this season.

The back story of the episode was Miles using Kate to get to Ben to ask for 3.2 Million Dollars. Why the exact number? That’s anyones guess. In Kate’s flash forward we learn that she escapes all her charges by making a deal to stay in the state for 10 years. Jack helps out as well by giving a totally fake account of what happened on the island. That’s the story that the Oceanic Six are going with probably for reasons yet unknown. According to Jack’s story only 8 people survived the crash and two died. Probably Jin and Sun? Then we later learn why Jack is not with Kate is he doesn’t want to see Kate’s child, who we much later on learn is infact Claire’s Aaron. The only reason that Jack doesn’t want to see Aaron is, he learns later on the Claire is her half-sister and want’s nothing to with his nephew, because he’s probably disgusted by his father’s affair. This felt like a filler episode for me as I kinda knew the conclusion since they gave so many hints about Kate and Aaron through out the episode.

Back to the Oceanic Six. According to the producers Ben might as well be one of the Oceanic Six. Just as I had predicted earlier on ( I’m too good, I know I know *bows* ) he might have taken the identity of a person on Flight 815. You can check out the interview here. If Ben and Aaron turn out not to be one of the Oceanic Six I’m going with Sun and Jin since they are the only one left.

Next week’s episode is going to be killer. A Desmond episode always is!

Quote of the Episode :  

Ben to Locke after Locke knows what “Ben is trying to do”.

“Excellent John. You’re evolving.”