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I always have the greatest difficulties writing something about set-up episodes. It’s obvious why: the pieces on the board are moving, preparing for a tactical strike, but how that plan will work out remains a mystery.

The Episode…

I love how, ever since the fourth season, you can pretty much take the “moving pieces on a chess board” metaphor literally. There was no way we could know that Claire would be joining the team, or that Jack would be staying behind. I even remember seeing promo pictures for this episode and being convinced Jack was with the group when Sun and Jin were reunited. Something was wrong with that scene, by the way. It wasn’t nearly as emotional as I thought it would be.

I’m not one for explosions and guns and stuff, but the moment where Jack and Locke got hit by a bomb was nothing short of awesome. It appears that the stunt team – who, apparently, kick ass – is pulling out all stops for the last few episodes. I understand perfectly: after LOST, it’s back to the real world for them – a world not nearly as flammable and explosive.

It appears the sideways stories are coming together. Two epicentres are forming: there’s Sawyer’s police station on the one hand, and Jack’s hospital on the other. I wonder how they will connect those two threads in the end? They have nothing to do with each other. Unless a deus ex machina comes along, I don’t see how they can pull it off. But they will – they always hide their dei very cleverly…

The Questions…

I wonder what happened with Sayid and Desmond? It’s obvious that Desmond is alive, and that Sayid has somehow woken up from his evil dream thing, but what exactly happened? Will they ever tell us, given there are no flashbacks? Is it actually important? I mean: we can practically guess what the talk was about. About how the dead don’t come back (well, Sayid excluded), how he has to move on, blah blah. But still, leaving it open is odd. Maybe there was no time?

In All…

As I said: setup. It’s incredible when you realize that this is the season that started with the temple. Remember the temple? The game must have changed a dozen times since they left that place, and even if the stakes were already high back then, they seem to be even higher now. I can’t really judge before I’ve seen the final episodes and rewatched the entire season, but season six? It’s pretty damn good.

Favourite Quote: Claire: “What’s going on?”
Hurley: “People are trying to kill us again.”

It’s been a while since we had a Hurley episode in the second half of a season – in fact, it’s been since “Dave”, back in Season 2, I think. The interesting thing is that Hurley episodes usually aren’t used as plot progressing episodes. They’re usually there to fill the audience in on the story that’ll be told in the coming episodes. With Hurley being the “voice of the audience”, it makes sense. This time, it was different, though. For the first time I kind of got the feeling Hurley wasn’t really speaking my voice at all. But his own voice was interesting.

The Episode…

On a directing perspective, there were three parallels in this episode – an interesting thing. I’m talking about planting and pay-off: we saw Ilana enter with dynamite in her bag, then shake it around, then put water bottles on top of it, and then finally putting them on the floor before blowing herself up. The same mechanic was used around the well (Desmond and Locke circled it for what seemed like hours before Des was thrown in) and the car crash in the end.

On the Hurley side of the episode, we got some nice closure. He finally went on the date with Libby (I can imagine the script saying “emphasize the blanket” underlined and bold) and got Michael to make amends with him. Poor Mike. I’m not fond of him, but being stuck on that island without being able to move on? I can imagine better places to be.

The Questions…

Yet, still, that car crash had me completely fooled. I thought he’d give the resident wheel chair man a little nudge to make him remember – but this? I think Desmond didn’t run over John Locke to show him what he actually is in the real island world – I think he was actually trying to kill him. Last year we had the discussion if you would kill Child Hitler – this year we’re wondering if we’d kill Hitler in a parallel universe. Jesus Christ, I can’t believe I actually like this as much as I do.

Next Episode…

The most interesting thing seems to have happened. I think we’re through. I don’t think there’s any character left that needs another flash sideways. So whom will the next episode be about? I honestly have no idea. I think, with Desmond running over John Locke, we might be heading towards a more open, multi perspective point of view on the sideways.

Picture this: John Locke, badly hurt, ends up in the hospital, accompanied by Ben. They not only run into Jack, the resident doctor, but also Sun and Jin. How the others feature into this story is sort of unclear, but this might be the start. I kind of hope they leave the character stories and move onto something a bit wider in perspective. The stakes are most certainly raised high enough.

In All…

I think the fact that Hugo’s flash sideways focused on Desmond in the end, is a way of telling us that the flash sideways as character stories are over. I hope they switch to using multiple perspectives for the remainder of the episodes: I can’t imagine them wrapping the story up if they keep on focusing on one character at a time…

Favourite Quote:

If his short appearance in the first episode of the season didn’t give it away, then surely seeing Henry Ian Cusik’s name in the cast list in every episode did: but yes! as we noticed in The Package, Desmond is back. He can finally give a spin on the seemingly ex machina Charles Widmore return – and it’s a good one. A conversation changer.

The Episode…

In my opinion, Desmond episodes are usually awesome. They often tend to break the storytelling rules set by the series. Flashes before your eyes was a first step towards time travel; the constant was a full-blown mind fuck with an emotional ending. Happily ever after follows these two episodes: after a magnetic experiment, Desmond is sent into his own flash sideways. As always, we get an episode with little to no cast members in it, but a lot of theorizing and speculating possibilities.

I loved the little appearances made by ex cast members: the interactions with Charlie were great (and they finally explain why he wanted to die back on the plane), there was the funny George Minkowski, Eloise Hawking made her creepy return (and seems to be all-knowing again), and last but not least, there was Daniel. His speech was the best ever.

The Questions…

Some interesting questions got raised after watching this episode – the most important of which is towards the reason of the Flash Sideways device. It’s become apparent that the Flash Sideways are the “fake” stories, the ones that should end. In these stories, everyone seems to get the thing they desire the most on the island (Ben wants a normal relationship with Alex, Kate doesn’t want to be afraid to be on the run, Hurley wants to be lucky…) – with the occasional “wish blowing up in your face” part (e.g. Sun and Jin).

But where does that leave Desmond? What is his task? Or what does Eloise, who knows that this reality is fake, have to do with it? I thought they had resolved her storyline – she was all-knowing because she had read Daniel’s diary – but apparently there’s more to it all. Are they going to be able to resolve this in so little episodes?

Next Episode…

Next week’s episode is titles “Everybody loves Hugo” – it’s not hard to know who this is going to be about. I’m excited about this episode: when we first saw Hurley in the flash sideways, we were dumbstruck that he was lucky all of a sudden. After this episode, however, it’s perfectly reasonable. What will they tell us? Surely it can’t feature a lucky guy for fourty minutes…

In All…

This was undoubtedly one of the top season six episodes. It was exciting, emotional and completely caught me off my guard with the plot twists that kept happening. I wonder what will happen to Desmond next? Has he really become a messiah?

Favourite Quote: Widmore: “I can’t take you back. The Island isn’t done with you yet.”

We’re past the mid point of the final season now. The end is rapidly closing in, but just like last year, I kind of get the feeling nothing’s happened yet. On the other hand, a few episodes ago, they were still kicking ass in the temple or on Flight 815 as it safely landed in LA. Where are we know? Waiting for the ass-kicking on the beach to start, I guess.

The Episode…

I love Jin and Sun. Especially Yunjin Kim has a soft spot with me, ever since her chilling performance in “There’s no place like home”, the season four finale. Her performance was so breath-taking, one of the best ones to date on lost, that I – since then – started wondering why we haven’t seen more of her.

It’s funny how the roles are reversed now: in the first three seasons, Sun’s role was bigger than Jin’s, because Sun was the one being able to communicate. Now, because Jin speaks English, he’s got some more things happening to him – things he’s in the center of. Like being kidnapped by Charles Widmore, for example.

Ever since they got back on the island, however, I have the feeling the writers have been having trouble giving Sun a satisfying story. All she does for about an entire season is follow the rest, hoping to run into Jin – not very exciting for a woman I thought had a lot of pep.

So it’s nice to see their sidestory. A lot of past friends of ours returned: Patchy, Omar, Keamy… I wonder if the crash saved their life in the “real” timeline? I wonder if they were going to have Jin killed in LA aswell, but for a different reason? The whole secret relationship thing had me fooled; it blew my mind twice. Blame me for being naive, but it was a truly awesome feat to pull off.

The Questions…

The biggest reveal of the week, however, was my being right about Desmond being inside the submarine. As soon as Widmore mentioned electromagnetical pockets, I was convinced Desmond would return soon. I wonder how hey got back? The shot with Sayid in the water was priceless, by the way. I wonder if Naveen laughed his ass off at the silliness of it, and then marveled in the end that it did, in the end, look good?

Next Week…

Happily ever after focuses around Desmond. This raises an interesting question: will we get a flash sideways, or a flashback? I mean: I would love to find out how he ended up in Widmore’s hands, but on the other hand, the idea of a flash sideways featuring Desmond sounds awesome aswell.

Oh, and this episode title does not sound good. I hope they don’t hurt Des. Or anyone else for that matter.

In All…

Yunjin Kim acting that she was shot was enough to rate this episode an A+ for me. I don’t know why, but I really felt her pain. It was nice to see how Jin ended up in the freezer, but on the other hand, it was also a bit of an anticlimax. Sayid just ran off. I’m wondering more and more how they are going to tie these flash sideways up. Time is running out, and we still don’t know what they’re there for or why we’re watching them.

But they’re entertaining, and that’s good enough for me.

Favourite Quote: Miles: Unless Alpert’s covered in bacon grease, I’m not sure Hurley can track anything…
Frank: Hey. Don’t talk about bacon.

For years, we’ve been yearning for the long-awaited Richard Alpert flashback. So, naturally, the expectations were through the roof. Luckily, the creators anticipated our anticipation and upped the ante: not only did we get a lot of Richard Alpert goodness, but we got a moving character story aswell.

The Episode…

Let’s start with the most shocking revelation: the island is a cork. It keeps evil at bay, stopping it from spreading. Interesting is, that I was so wrapped up into Richard’s emotional story, that I completely overlooked this revelation the first time around. But it is pretty important. Do we finally know what this place is all about? Is Jacob telling the truth?

You have to hand it to Mark Pellegrino: his performance of Jacob was different than the ones we’ve had before. Before, Jacob was reassuring, sort of like a deity. This time around, though, we got to see a much rougher side to the man: he seemed devious, if not a bit treacherous, and hella pissed off. It’s interesting, and of course raises the question: who is good and who is evil? It’s hard to say, so I’m just going with it.

Two mysteries got solved at the same time: a tidal wave (I suppose summoned by either Jacob or the Man in Black) flung the ship into the statue, breaking the stone and causing the Black Rock to land in the middle of the jungle. That is of course what makes sense: the ship is intact, whereas the statue broke down. Odd, but I’m going with it. I remembered something else at that point: when are we going to find out why no one could make babies on the island? I always figured it had something to do with the statue, but I guess I’m wrong.

The Questions…

This episode delivered – I don’t think it raised any questions with me. But now we know why Richard doesn’t age, and how old he is exactly. But we found out much, much more than that. We now know that there’s a reason to like him.

Next Week…

The Package is an episode centering around Jin and Sun. That means we will finally figure out who the watch is going to be delivered to! I wonder if they’ll see each other again, or if that will have to wait until the series finale… At any rate, I love Yunjin Kim’s performances, so I can’t wait to see Sun step out of the shadow and do something different than cry “Where’s Jin?” all the time. Poor Yunjin, completely underrated.

Maybe we will find out what’s behind Widmore’s door next week? Could it be Desmond?

In All…

Richard’s connection with Isabella brought back a lot of good old start-of-series memories. I more than once thought of Desmond and Penny – that’s just how good Richard and Isabella seemed. It’s amazing how they can set something like this up out of the blue and make it look like it’s always been there. You don’t cry foul because they can’t possibly have thought this out when they introduced Richard in the third Season, because the emotions he feels just seem so real.

If I liked Richard as a mythology character before, I like him as a human being now. His backstory was presented in such an epic, slow-moving way. Someone told me she was completely involved, which she found stupid because she knew he’d make it in the end. But isn’t that the force of true storytelling in movies? That you’re constantly living in the present?

Favourite Quote: Ilana: He is. So, Richard, what do we do next?
Richard: [Laughs]

I’m having a bit of trouble combining school and creative writing with a personal life, so the LOST reviews are a tad late. Also, as the story starts wrapping up and more and more questions get answered, it’s getting harder to write a lot about the episodes. Which isn’t necessarily a bad thing.

The Episode…

Oh Sawyer, you’ve returned back to your roots. You’re no longer the security man slash husband – you’re back to good old conning people. Or are you? In the flashforward, it appears our favourite Southerner is exactly what he was in the last Season – with the exception of the sparkling love life. But now that our man has run into Kate, that’s bound to change.

It seems that, as the season progresses, the flash sideways get consistently better. Especially this one was a perfect mirror image of the man we’ve come to know and love on the island. Even Miles was there: it seemed like the perfect reproduction of the DHARMA times. Interesting is, that they’ve shed light on the deepest of Sawyer’s psyche: he would either become a cop or a criminal. Enough said.

But enough about Sawyer. This episode also gave us some insight in the true dynamics between Locke’s bunch of baddies. For those wondering whether Claire was under complete control of Locke – your question has been answered. As with every group of bad people, it appears that everyone’s got very diverging ideas of the end goal. Claire is just in it to get Aaron back – a goal for which she tried to kill Kate. And, as in every group of bad people, she got smacked around by the leader, survival of the fittest style.

The Questions…

As for the questions, I’m going to take a new approach. Every episode has a mystery set up for the next episode, so, due to lack of usable predictions this year, I’m going to smash my keyboard randomly at those.

This week: the door on the submarine. What’s behind it? It would be awesome symbolism, à la hatch, if it would be Desmond. It would even make a bit of sense: Widmore knows that Desmond (and Penny) still have a destiny on the island, maybe he brought him (and her) back? Alan Dale said he read all his lines, and left unsatisfied about his character – but then again, Dale started hating LOST shortly after he received a guest spot, so meh.

Next Week…

Next week’s episode is called “Ab Aeterno” and focuses on Richard Alpert – our favourite non-aging man. It’s an episode we’ve been waiting for for a while; I expect that it’ll be very, very good.

In All…

At some time during Season 3, I started thinking that there was no way to possibly make Sawyer an interesting character – flashbackwise. I tend to think that the writers figured the same thing, so he was left untouched until season five. But the real revelation came in this episode: Sawyer is a man with a psychological duality; he can be either a cop or a criminal. In a way, it’s kind of like as if the writers only started to understand their own character just now.

Favourite Quote: Charlotte: “Yes, I’m exactly like Indiana Jones.”
Sawyer: “You got a whip?”
Charlotte: “Maybe.”

Benjamin Linus must be one of the more brilliant characters ever to grace a TV show. He’s cunning, malicious, intelligent and knows how to bend the rules like heated steel. But on the other hand, he’s a senstive kid that couldn’t help some of the things that happened to him, things that changed his fate forever. He’s a victim of a loveless life, a ghost in the shell. So, in a way, you can’t help but pitying him – even if he is odious.

The Episode…

The interesting thing about the character, from a dramaturgical point of view, is how they could give him a satisfying end. It was my belief that Ben had done so many things over the last few seasons, that it was nearly impossible to still redeem him. But lo and behold, within forty minutes, he found his redempting without dying. And I believed it.

It was refreshing to see Ben acting like a normal person, a motivated high school teacher, a loving son, a good friend. Sure, he still had the treachery somewhere inside him, but it was to be used for good. And this time, it did save Alex instead of costing her her life. Finally, they interact like normal people. Finally.

I did not expect to see Charles Widmore coming back to the island – I thought that Faraday’s death in Season Five pretty much cleared all of that up: he’s a rich guy with a temperament looking for the island. But in his daughter’s love for Desmond, he saw that he had blood on his hands and redeemed himself. Apparently, I was wrong. The old geezer is back! I can’t wait to see what he’s up to.

I loved the parts with Richard, Jack and Hurley. A normal series would (a thought I already had during the jammed gun scene in “Meet Kevin Johnson” back in Season 4) make the dynamite explode, the boat burn down and have Jack and Richard come out of the flames, action hero style. LOST will have none of that and says: “Less is more, let’s keep it cheap and have the fuse malfunction”. Great. Jack’s creepy motivation made sense backwards, I was put off by it at first but it worked in the end. Is he a believer, or am I being tricked again?

The Questions…

It is certain now: Richard Alpert was on the Black Rock. I wonder if we will still have a Richard flashback? I get the feeling that everything we need to know, has already been said, and the story is told. Would Richard’s story count as a flash sideways, given that it happened before Jughead? It’s complicated. It would be nice to see, as it would shed more light on Jacob and fake Locke – but I’m not sure if they’ll do it.

Frank missed his flight because he overslept. He was probably drunk, too. Damn, I laughed hard at this. Frank rocks.

Next Week…

Next week’s episode is dubbed “Recon”, so it will undoubtedly be about Sawyer. Will we see Juliet again? Whose side is Sawyer really on? I’m excited, but slightly scared he’ll end up with Kate again. It looks like the action’s shifting back to the beach, back to where it all began. Wonder if that’s where the final battle will take place? And what would a final LOST battle entail?

In All…

I think this was the best episode of the season so far. The mythology episodes are awesome, but when the series is done with, it’s going to be the character-driven episodes I will go back to. This one was stellar, Ben’s final scene left me teary-eyed. Stunning performance by Michael Emerson.

Welcome to the team, Ben.

Favourite Quote: Ben: Just let me leave.
Ilana: Where will you go?
Ben: To Locke.
Ilana: Why?
Ben: Because he’s the only one who’ll have me.

If the sixth season of LOST was a movie, I’d say this is the end of act one. The good guys are defined, the bad guys are defined, now on with the middle part of the season!

The Episode…

Finally! I’m going to say this right away: I’m so glad they’re finally out of that temple. I wasn’t a huge fan of Dogen and Lennon – there was just way too much stuff going on for me to want to focus on them. I like them, it just wasn’t the right time. It seemed like the temple was an energy sucker – all the time spent in there amounted to nothing for me: once they had all arrived, it was just a question of getting everyone out before the shit hit the fan. Simple as that.

I like how the writers, at some point during season four, stated that Sayid was a “bad guy”. It’s nice to see they stuck to their word, and have him run to the dark side. He will probably find redemtion in the end, but I think it’s a daring move to shove a fan favourite (not mine, by the way) in a nasty position. I think that for the first time, I’m actually engaged in Sayid: he’s not pretending anymore.

If you hadn’t felt the dilemma through the course of the last few episodes, you’ve now officially had it thrown in your face: do you want Kate to give Aaron back to Claire, now that she’s gone totally off her rocker? I’m deciding against it, I hope Kate manages to do the right thing. But what is the right thing? In a show that’s taken six seasons to define what is good and what is evil… not an easy thing to do.

The Questions…

This wasn’t such a hot week for the questions. Again. I guess that’s a good thing, keeps it from getting to expectible.

Next Week…

Without a doubt, next week’s episode will feature a lot of Ben, the vilain I have come to know and love. Incidently, Ben is at the top of my death poll. He’s done so many nasty things that it’s hard to think of something he can do to attone for his sins. I wonder what schemes he’ll be up to in the alternative timeline?

In All…

Great episode, the start of something fresh. Using catch a falling star and put it in your pocket at the end was briliant – and somehow fitting. So now Sayid and Kate have joined the bad guys. I wonder if Kate only followed to observe Claire further? It’s obvious she’s not a bad person – but Bad Boy Locke certainly has his eye on her next. You know, the patricide and all.

Favourite Quote: KEAMY: Hey, you want some eggs? I can, uh… make whatever you want. Fried, scrambled, uh… We still got that poacher? Where’s the poacher? Want poached? ‘Cause I can make you some good poached eggs.

I’m always a bit biased when a Jack episode is about to hit. But this time, I was curious enough what our wacky doctor would be up to in his Sideways story, that I was actually looking forward to it. Looking back, I don’t know if I’m disappointed or just annoyed that Jack doesn’t seem to have learned as much as I thought he did.

The Episode…

The episode focused heavily on Hurley and Jack. Hurley warned Jacob at the start, that Jack would just do his own thing and go with it, and he was without a doubt right: Jack smashed up the lighthouse mirrors, thus rendering the thing useless. It’s the ancient version of the tempest – the Dharma poison gas station – a little tidbit that gets mentioned but never explained. A shame: we’re in six seasons, up to our ears in questions, drowning in them, and we need another ancient building added to the mix?

Apparently, Jacob condones Jack’s behaviour: Jack has to learn it all by himself. I kind of understand this, but I’ve waited five and a half seasons and he still doesn’t understand. Isn’t it time to take our hero by the hand and show him what it’s all about? Jack episodes can never calm me down, there’s something inside me that wants to slap him around the head and tell him to see reason.

But hey, the B-side of this episode was pretty nice: we got to see creepy, creepy Claire again. She’s hitting people with axes, keeping baby squirrel bones in a crib, shows more cleavage than before and has a very, very nasty friend. She’s jumped way up in my list of interesting characters. What does this mean for Aaron? Seriously, you can’t expect Kate to give Aaron back to a mad woman – even if Kate is, well, Kate.

The Questions…

We got tossed a little bone this week: LOST has not forgotten about Adam and Eve. They’ve been absent for about a hundred episodes, but we know they’ll be back. I’m curious – Hurley gave the obvious answer as to how they could’ve ended up there, and Hurley is the audience’s voice… Does that mean Hurley is right, and so are we? That never happens!

Not that many answered questions this week, unfortunately. But I do think that Hurley is the top chosen one at the moment.

Next week…

Sundown. A Sun episode? It would match the parallels this far with the first season centricity. But to be honest, I’d rather have them break it soon. I’m kind of missing the characters I do like: Frank, Ben, Richard… But hey, I guess Sun’s one of those. All she’s been doing is looking for Jin, maybe it’s time for her to do something else?

In All…

A solid episode. But I’m still not that convinced about the lighthouse. Maybe it did appear now because they were looking for it? I am starting to wish for the sideways stories to go somewhere interesting. It’s too much new information and we don’t know if it’ll ever be useful. Throw us a bone here, we know you’re going places with this, but being in the dark for about 20 minutes per episode… it’s kind of mean.

One of the reasons I like LOST so much, is because you can rest assured that a) a bad episode is still good compared to most other shows and b) a bad episode will always be followed by a great episode. And because I believe that all is eventually right in this world, I am happy to anounce that, after having watched The Substitute, these rules still stand.

The Episode…

In the Sideways story, we got a lot of refreshing set-up. At a first glance, it didn’t seem like that exciting a story, but a lot of hints were given to the dramatic changes in Locke’s life if Jughead had exploded. Apparently, something in the explosion caused Locke to not have problems with his father. It’s a thought worth pondering: what could this have been? But, more importantly: how did John end up in the wheelchair, if not by his father’s hand? There’s probably some sort of couse-correcting involved, but what kind… it’s a mystery.

Locke having a good relationship with his dad caused another thing: he is still together with Helen. I wonder if she’s going to get cancer and die like she apparently did in the main story? Or was that a lie by Widmore to get Locke back on the island? I liked how destiny shoved him away from Jack and back into Ben’s hands. It was clear that for the final season, the writers would want to squeeze the last life out of the wonderful Emerson-O’Quinn duo, but Ben as a high school teacher? …It blew my mind.

The much more interesting reveal came on the island, however. In 2007, Sawyer willingly allied himself with the Monster, and thus got introduced to not one, but two of the core secrets to the series. Does this mean Sawyer is now a “bad guy”? My guess is that Sawyer will con our Man in Black in the end. It’d be like Sawyer to do that.

The Questions…

This episode made me fall in love with the nemesis. Apparently, he’s not just some diety, but was a man in the past, a man with an obviously backstorywound. Who’s the little kid he (and Sawyer) saw? Was it Jacob? Did they try to kill each other to discover the island’s secrets? I’d say the sickness is probably involved somewhere in there, but I can’t put my finger on it just yet.

In other news, Richard Alpert took an interesting turn aswell. Never before have we seen him this twitchy and in the dark. After Jacob’s “what about you” to Ben and now his supposed betrayal to Richard, I’m starting to wonder which side is dark and which side is light all over again. Is the monster truly a bad guy? Funnily enough, Richard’s mentor role has been taken over by Ilana. She seems to know everything about everything, but isn’t really letting out more than she wants. I can’t wait for more information on her!

And, going to one of the core answers in this episode: yes, it is destiny that they ended up on the island. They are possible candidates to fill Jacob’s shoes. At the moment, Hurley seems the most logical solution. But let’s ask ourselves: do we really want anyone to fill Jacob’s position? Would that be a satisfying ending?

The second core answer – which was not in my questions list because I just figured they’d let it be – concerned the numbers. Apparently, the numbers fit right into Jacob’s love of lists: every number corresponds someone. At the moment, only Sawyer, Jack, Sayid, one of the Kwons and Hurley are still contending. Where is Kate? Wasn’t she touched by Jacob in the season five finale aswell?

Next Week…

If they keep the season one structure copying up, next week will be all about Jack. I wonder if he’ll meet someone interesting in his Sideways? I can’t imagine his life having changed so much – his dad even disappeared just like he did back in Season One. It’s so tempting to look at the cast list whether Christian is on it, but I promised myself I wouldn’t this season.

Anyway, looks like we’ll be seeing more of the temple, the place where the action seems to be happening. Sun, Frank, Ilana, Ben and Richard should have arrived there by now. Poor Sun, missing Jin all over again.

In All…

This episode rocked my socks off. I felt so amazed looking at Jacob’s messy list and the implications it had. But it truly were the little things that made this so great: the little boy, Locke getting along with his father, Helen, Hurley’s car not getting hit by Locke’s because he is the luckiest guy on earth… There’s just so many details, I could watch it over and over again.

Favourite Quote: BEN: Alright, I know I sound like a broken record, but how many times do we have to go over this? If you have the last cup of coffee, you remove the filter and throw it away. Fear not. I will make a fresh pot.
LOCKE: Actually, I was just hoping for some Earl Grey.
BEN: Tea? Now there’s a gentleman drink. I don’t believe we met. Ben Linus, European History.
LOCKE: John Locke, Substitute.
BEN: Well, Welcome.