In some ways, last night’s episode could be considered flawed but I think it made up for it by creating new mysteries and those small moments that sometime come back with huge ramifications.
If you haven’t seen it, I’ll put my thoughts after the jump. (Get it jump, because everyone jumped out of a plane that the guy that played Jobe in the Lawnmower man flew. Bwaahaahhaa, I crack myself up.)
As I said, it was the small moments last night that I think carried the show. Let’s make a list, shall we.
- First of all, the look on Locke’s face when Hurley revealed they were going in the wrong direction to get to Jacob’s cabin. You never know with Locke (and have I mentioned that Terry O’Quinn deserved that Emmy because the man can say more without saying anything that anyone I’ve ever seen.) I think he likes being the spiritual guru. Having Hurley sees it doesn’t make him “the chosen one.”
- Yeah, jumping girl Charlotte. Charlotte Staple Lewis … let me think. Oh YEAH, CS Lewis.
- No sister for Naomi. You know, sometimes those Losties don’t think ahead that there might be a code but I guess I wouldn’t either. Have you considered that the last four episodes, including those from last season, have been one long day? Sayid must be tired as he was almost executed and has had to save Jack’s ass. Again.
- Ben’s remarks to Karl about “if you are sleeping with my daughter …”
- Ben’s remarks to Sawyer. This was significant, of course, because he played on James Ford’s insecurities about not being good enough and it appears that Ben is almost always the person that says those things that haunt the Losties outloud.
- I liked the introduction of the Fantastic Four who jumped on the island and that it was revealed pretty early that they were there for nefarious reasons. But are they there for nefarious reasons? On Lost, one never knows.
- Remember from season two when there were a bunch of raggedy ass children wandering around the island and then we find that the stewardess was taking care of the two from the tail section? Where are those kids? That’s bugging the hell out of me.
- Polar bear in the desert? Anyone, Anyone. (A touch I liked mind you, much like Hurley drawing the picture of the igloo last week.)
- Was the photo of Ben taken in the real world because it looked like he was in front of a modern computer.
- Is Michael Ben’s mole?
Okay, that’s all I have, although I usually think of a thousand things after I do this each Thursday. That’s why Lost is so good.
Newscoma 
Stewardess Cindy, the kids, and also Richard Alpert are still camped out at the “temple” last we saw them in the 2-hour finale last season. It isn’t like Lost to just forget about characters, so they’ll be back. Since the Others that went to the Beach are all dead (and I’m assuming the rest of the Others know all this since they have walkie-talkies too) they’re all that’s left. I wouldn’t be surprised to see them try and rescue Ben. There’s much more to Alpert than we know – he predates Ben as an “Other” and helped engineer the original Dharma massacre.
Barry – That’s not all that’s left. The “others” had people out on assignments in the real world.
The mole has to be Michael, just like the “he” that future Kate had to get back to in the future is Aaron. Do the four freighters know that they are not supposed to survive their mission? Knowing the crash wreckage was wrong, finding Dharma’s polar bear, stuff they shouldn’t know.
Did you hear that screaming last night? That was me protesting them setting up Sawyer’s death. Nooooooo.
Cathy, I just meant the Others left on the island. Unless there are more Dharma Stations like the Looking Glass we don’t know about, they’re it.
That means there are actually at least three groups of people wandering around on the island – Jack’s, Locke’s, and the rest of The Others.
If Ben can’t be expected to tell Locke’s group about the rest of the Others, certainly Alex and Karl would.
I’ve read several people speculate the mole on the ship is Michael – he may well be, but I struggle to see the logic of it. Ben let he and Walt go, why would Michael suddenly start working for Ben and not go home?
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Have you considered that the last four episodes, including those from last season, have been one long day?
Actually I don’t think it is… but I’ve found myself quite confused how it goes from night to day to night so quickly in these last few episodes, so I might be very mixed up. But I think where it ended last night was a full day after Charlie died….
It was night when the Others captured our little Band On The Beach.
But it was day by the time Charlie shut off the Looking Glass, Ben caught up with the Band In The Hills, Hurley saved the day (and the Band), and John wreaked his havoc.
But it was night again (ending the first day) by the time the Band On The Beach headed to meet up with their friends in the hills, Hurley found Jacob’s cabin, Naomi finally died, and Locke’s New Band headed to the barracks. And that’s when the boaties parachute in and we meet Dan.
However, Miles, Charlotte, and the pilot are all introduced to, and create havoc in, our various Lostie Bands in the daytime… so now it’s day 2 of our little Invasion Adventure… yeah?
Or did I miss something…?
I totally agree about Terry O’Quinn. He really needs to get an Emmy for all this. It’s goooood.
Locke played on Sawyer’s weakness too in order to keep him from killing Ben. The whole thing about killing him in front of his daughter had just as much impact as Ben’s words.
Does anyone else see that the boat-people are Dharma folks?
Barry, Saiyd clearly starts working for Ben after leaving the island, so one is to assume that ben (a very cuning sob) has some compelling argument as to why he is “right”, so I think it is a good possiblity that Michael is teh mole.
“I’ve read several people speculate the mole on the ship is Michael – he may well be, but I struggle to see the logic of it. Ben let he and Walt go, why would Michael suddenly start working for Ben and not go home?”
YUP!
I think that Michael is Soooooo the mole.
Heh.