1x20 "Do No Harm"

[DharmaVan]

I know it added a nice level of tension to the Boone medical scenes, but I didn't like the way Jack was treating the rest of those who were only trying to help. Way out of control for a doctor who should be able to handle emergencies.

from Lostepedia transcript:

Yelling at Charlie
CHARLIE: Where's Shannon?
JACK: I don't know.
CHARLIE: Well, she's his sister. You don't think...
JACK: I don't know where she is!

Belittling Sun
[Shot of Jack examining Boone's leg. Sun enters holding a small stick.]
SUN: Give him this -- for the pain.
JACK: I think we're a little beyond herbal remedies here.
SUN: [putting the stick between Boone's teeth] It is not a remedy.

[DharmaVan]

Two other tidbits in this episode I thought were nice:

1. It was cool that Jack was able to communicate with Jin regarding Claire's delivery through Sun who's just recently admitted she speaks English. It helped break the tension that's been going on between Jin & Sun as well.
2. Kate says to Claire, "You are not alone in this. We are all here for you. This baby is all of ours, but I need you to push, okay?" I'm still holding out for special Aaron to have important significance in Season 6.

[Noman]

This episode also rocks because it is the first time Jin does something hilarious.

Charlie starts to walk over towards Claire to see if he can help. Jin stops him and shakes his head.

Cracks me up every time.

[beccabee]

I thought Jack was justified at snapping at Charlie. He has to try and save the dying person- couldn't one of the other non-doctor people be in charge of finding Shannon? I mean, seriously. How would Jack just... divinely know where she is? Basically, I thought Charlie was the douche there- if he was so concerned with Shannon being there, he could have gone and found her.

[DharmaVan]

Originally Posted by beccabee

I thought Jack was justified at snapping at Charlie. He has to try and save the dying person- couldn't one of the other non-doctor people be in charge of finding Shannon? I mean, seriously. How would Jack just... divinely know where she is? Basically, I thought Charlie was the douche there- if he was so concerned with Shannon being there, he could have gone and found her.

Good point.

[Jack Shephard's twin]

Don't know if it's just me and it may be doing it a disservice to the episode but I always look back at this as Deus Ex Machina Part II, just tags on from the end of that episode, I've always felt personally watching this episode is like watching the second part of 1x19. I don't see how anyone can have a go at Jack in this episode. So he says a few strong words to some people, the man is pumping his blood into a dying man, and with Sun's help just can't let go. If that doesn't entitle a strong word to one or two people then Lord alone knows what will. This of course is the first episode that we really see Jack's 'letting-go' problems, I wonder how hard the decision was for him to just give up on delivering Claire's baby and staying with Boone.

I'm half and half on Kate even now at the end of Season 5, but she really came into her own in this episode. She made it clear while she thought Jack was still coming that she couldn't deliver the baby, yet when Jin/Charlie came back and told her that he couldn't come, she stepped up and helped Claire deliver Aaron (Rather ironic after what we know happens in the future) and really earns top marks for me in this episode.

In the flashback, it's not a particularly adventurous sequence of events, but it fills it a huge gap in Jack's backstory. I mean the amount of flashbacks that involve his marriage. You've got obviously this episode, The Hunting Party, and also A Tale of Two Cities, whilst we've got the mobisode The Watch and also the flash-forward Through the Looking Glass. I've always thought that at some point they'd end up back together, although it's looking less and less likely now after the writers playing on the Kate/Jack angle for five years now.

[efmbman]

Originally Posted by Noman

This episode also rocks because it is the first time Jin does something hilarious.

Charlie starts to walk over towards Claire to see if he can help. Jin stops him and shakes his head.

Cracks me up every time.

Agreed... that was a great moment of levity in a tense situation.

[spartan32]

Originally Posted by jfishthedish

I'm a little confused about the timeline of this episode and the previous one, "Deus Ex Machina"...In "The Little Prince", the time skippers see both Aaron's birth and the light that Locke sees from the hatch occurring on the same night, but in these two episodes theses events seem to take place on different nights...

Locke bangs on the hatch door right after dropping Boone off at the caves, at night. Jack proceeds to try to save Boone, and sends Kate to the beach for alcohol. Kate arrives at the beach early the next morning, and Claire delivers Aaron that night...am I missing something, or is this a mistake?

I think this is confusing too. The light from the hatch the night Locke was banging on the hatch door didn't look like it would have created that huge spotlight in the sky. The light that came on when Kate was being lowered down the hatch looked closer. But if Locke said so I won't disagree.


Also...ever since the hiatus I know some of us are looking too far into things, but did anyone else think anything of the lighting on the faces between Jack and Christian by the pool. It reminded me of the scene between Ben and Widmore when Ben broke into his penthouse. The whole yin and yang thing. Just thought I'd throw that out there.

[hailey]

hey...nothing to do with the episode....but i was watching jeopardy and in a category about celebrity lipstick there was a question (well answer...) that said something like this....

Evangeline is the name of the lipstick colour by this ABC show's Ms.Lilly. All the smoke monsters are wearing it.



hahahahahahaha

[Just Thinking]

About Boone- I thought he was pretty heroic in death, after not thinking much of him up to that point. I remember seeing the first trailer for Lost before it started and the scene where Shannon and Boone discuss her "trauma". I thought "this is going to be awful" and almost never watched. He took himself so seriously, and wasn't too competent, although he tried hard. But his last act-knowing that Jack needed to let him go and letting him "off the hook"- that was some pretty brave , wise stuff from a kid who should have been crying and scared to death of dying.

I wonder what he wanted to tell Shannon? To say he loved her would be the obvious thing- but maybe he wanted to say he forgave her- showing that he really was over his obsession and had resolved his issue.