100 days of Obama, 100 episodes of Lost.  And they both just keep getting better….  Thank you Mr President for slamming the door shut on the conversation right at 9:00 so we didn’t miss one second of Lost.  That’s pretty awesome.

What is NOT awesome is that we lost Dan.  That sucks hard.  Yeah, yeah, I understand why but that doesn’t make it any easier to accept.  But I love that from the looks of next week Dan’s torch has been passed to Jack.  Jack starts reemerging as the leader.

1.  What an incredibly hard decision to make.  Do they really want to prevent the plane from crashing?  Why on earth would Kate want the chain of events to be different?  Jack just likes to fix things but I can’t see why he is so hot to stop the plane from crashing.  I’m not convinced that they will change the future though.

2.  So Dan tells Jack that they are really not supposed to be there.  I think that Jack and the others *are* supposed to be there and Mrs Hawkin is right, just like she sends Dan back to the island to be shot (by her) because that is correct chain of events.

3. Mrs Hawkin comes to Dan while he’s a boy with tears in her eyes because she knows that she is setting Dan on the course of events for his life that will ultimately lead to her shooting him.  She even tells him she has to keep him on her path.

4. I also love Mrs H’s reaction when Penny asks if Ben is her son, “Good Lord No!”

5.  Every one of the Losites has their jumpsuit on except for Juliet.  She is wearing her red shirt.  I hope they don’t sacrifice Juliet to get them all back to current time.  I thought that Dan would be the one to stay behind with the bomb in order for the others to get back, but now I’m thinking it might be Juliet and her love for Jack and Sawyer.  She’ll want to save them.

6.  Loved that we saw several scenes this week from a different angle that we’ve seen before.

7.  I think that Dr Chang believes Dan and he ends up sending all the women and children off of the island.  So when Dan tells Miles that he will “see” why he told Dr Chang the truth, Miles will see why his dad really sent them off of the island so long ago (and not because he didn’t care about them).

8.  I’m not convinced that Mrs Hawkin didn’t have something to do with Teresa going into her “coma.”  She wanted to make sure that Dan stayed on his life course and Teresa was definitely a distraction from that.  She does warn him that any women in his life will end up “terribly hurt.”

9.   Great new nicknames for Dan from Sawyer “Twitchy” and “HG Wells.”  Too bad he won’t be around for them to stick.

10.  I would love for the island to *heal* Dan but I don’t see that they will write that into the story.  Dead is dead afterall, right?  Except for Locke, and Christian, and Richard, and Jacob, and….

11.  The magazine on Dan’s couch is a “Wired” magazine and the title is “The Impossible Gets Real.”   Sounds like a little “wink, wink” from the writers of Lost to the fans of the show.

12.   I think that Widmore cares at least somewhat about Dan.  He helps to fund his research and then comes to Dan personally to ask him to go to the island.  He sends Naomi to talk to the others but comes to Dan himself.

13.  Juliet gives Kate the fence code yet Sawyer immediately forgives her.  First, I think that Juliet gives her the code because Sawyer calls Kate, “freckles.”  As soon as he says it Juliet gets this look on her face then tells Kate that “it’s over here anyway.”  She knows Sawyer still loves Kate (excuse me while I go barf after typing that).  I think Sawyer knows that he messed up with Juliet but I think he also does love her.

14. Looks like Dan has mommy issues.  The only one so far that isn’t on dysfunction junction with their dad.  Sure, his dad is a control freak, but Dan doesn’t even know that Widmore is his dad so it doesn’t count.
15.   I can’t wait to see what is in Hurley’s guitar case.  I doubt it’s a guitar.

16.  Dan thinks that they are the variables and that they can change their destiny.  But can they?  Seems like everything that has been happening is exactly what is supposed to happen.  I guess if they can then Jack will be the one that would do it.

17.  Why did Mrs Hawkin come to the hospital to see Des?  I don’t believe that she doesn’t know what is going to happen next.  She does know and there is a reason that she came there.  I was worried that she was going to steal little Charlie and send him to the island as a way to get Des back there.  But it doesn’t appear that she did, thank goodness.  And Des’ promise to Penny seems a little too prophetic… about him not leaving her again.

OK, so I can’t believe these guys actually took the Lost dolls out of the boxes and (gasp!) play with them!

Check out the whole series here: The Fine Brothers

“Gearing up for big release of the new Star Trek film directed by LOST’s own JJ Abrams, we present the fourth episode of our 5 million+ viewed “LOST” series this time featuring Kirk, Spock, Sulu and Bones! Take a break from the economy, the swine flu, and whatever else and get lost in well…LOST.

When the Enterprise approaches a mystery planet shaped like an Island, they see a bright light…which can only mean time travel! Can Spock survive on the LOST Island where logic does not seem to exist?”

Don’t watch the video if you don’t want to know. Nothing concrete but BIG clues!

Sounds like we’ll finally see Jacob!

I’m wondering if Adult Miles will meet with Baby Miles and that will somehow relate to why he’s “special.”  I’m pretty sure that Miles is either going to tell Chang/Candle about the Dharma purge or something that will cause him to send Baby Miles and his momma off of the island.

Don’t forget that this week is a clip show.  The previews make it look interesting.  Guess we’ll see.

1.  Cute, the dead guy hid his key under a white rabbit.  We’ve seen a lot of rabbits in this show.
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2. The Circle of Trust.  Was anyone else thinking of Meet the Parents and Robert DeNiro?

3.  I’m frustrated with what they have done with Kate.  She had redeemed herself somewhat and now she’s back to meddling in things.  I know I’m not the only one who feels this way.  When we had a campaign to get rid of Ken and Barbie it worked, hopefully the writers will hear our call to bring back the old Kate too.
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4.  For as much as he’s a jerk, Roger caught right on to Kate didn’t he?  Guy may be a drinker but he’s pretty observant. “You want to help Kate?  Why don’t you just mind your own business!”

5.  There were so many good lines and dialog with Miles and Hurley this week.  I was glad that some humor was brought back in.

6.  There’s a lot of dead bodies around food.  We have Alvarez in the van by the sandwiches.  Then there is Felix in the restaurant.  Gross.

7.  Miles was chosen to return to the island not only because of his “ability” but also because he’s Pierre’s son.  Mrs Hawkins knows all about course correction and probably was instrumental in the choice of him being on the freighter.

8.  The more we see of Ben the more I’m not convinced that it’s Wimore versus Ben.  Ben wasn’t chosen by the island, Locke was.  But neither was Widmore.  I’m wondering now if it might be Widmore versus Ellie/Mrs Hawkins.  After all, when Richard agreed to take Ben they asked him if he had discussed with Widmore or Ellie which makes me think she was pretty powerful on the island.  Why isn’t she there anymore?

9. Coincidence that the kids on the island are learning about ancient Egypt?  And how many kids are there anyway?  We haven’t really seen that many.  Perhaps the education is, in Juliet’s words, Others 101.  Also interesting is the alien drawing hung above the chalkboard.
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10.  Looks like Bram knows how to get back and forth to the island and is working on the same “team” as Ilana.
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11.  It sure does look like Pierre cares about Miles as a baby.  And ironically, he’s reading him a book about polar bears.  Unlike Luke, maybe Miles will communicate with his dad so he doesn’t lose his hand.
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Hoth, check it out here.  Freaking amazing that they can work this stuff into the show.  I just hope that this doesn’t open the door to all of those theories that they are on some distant planet.

1.   Wow, did Mile’s mom in the opening look like an older Sun or what?

2.  The numbers are back in full force.  Opening scene, 316 on the microwave.  Room Mr Vonner is in, #4, Sawyer is on screen #4.  Sector 334.  Can’t wait to see the source of the serial number for The Hatch (the famous original numbers).
3.   Sawyer tells Miles that he “owes him one” for erasing the security video.  But, since Miles kind of messed up his job I wonder how that will play into the relationship with Sawyer and Miles.  Now he owes him one in another way.

4.   It looks to me like workers who have “accidents” at the Hatch construction site get taken to the Orchid to be experiments for the Donkey Wheel.  Why send live people when you can shoot dead bodies through it.  Sure, you don’t know what happens on the other side, but you can see what happens on the Island end of things.

5.   Alvarez didn’t get a bullet hole in his head digging the ditch.  Remember the magnetism in the hatch (think Sayid’s cross)?  I think that it pulled the filling out of his mouth and through his head.  Oopsies!  Horace is also talking to Pierre and says that he “doesn’t know if it was caused by the electromagnetism.”
6.  I’m digging the punk Miles with the spiked hair and the piercings.

7.  Miles has daddy issues.  No wonder he fits in with the Losties.  I’m not convinced that Pierre kicked Miles and his mother out when he was a baby.  I’m thinking that Pierre may have known that that the Hostiles would take them over or something bad was coming and actually saved them by making them leave the island.
8.   I’m also convinced that Pierre knows that adult Miles is his son.  We’ve been told that Pierre knows about time travel and remember the video from Comic Con?  He knows it’s possible and doesn’t seem the least bit surprised when Hurley points out that they have the same name.

9.  Having Hurley back on screen was a very welcome sight.  He’s hilarious and I love that he asks so many questions.  And re-writing The Empire Strikes Back?  Excellent!

10.   Maybe Hurley isn’t so crazy afterall, that he can talk to dead people and play games with dead people.  His gift is just a little bit *different* then Miles’. But what I want to know is why Hurley never talks to Libby?
11.   Mr Gray is the brother-in-law from Breaking Bad.  For anyone that hasn’t seen that show you must go immediately and rent a coyp and watch season one.

12. Oh boy, back to whiney Kate.  I agree, she needs to keep her mouth shut about Ben.  It’s nice that she feels bad for Roger, but she helped to save his son so can’t she take any relief in that?  She’s meddling where she needs to just back off (take a tip from Jack, Katester).

13.   I guess we can see where Miles gets his sense of humor from.  Pierre tells Hurley to keep quiet or he’ll be shoveling polar bear turds on Hydra Island.  But that douche is Miles’ dad.  Some great lines tonight.

14.  Looks like a major reveal tonight.  Widmore was the one who purchased the plane and sunk it in the ocean to look like 815.

15.   Jack in the classroom – erasing the information about Egypt on the blackboard.  Considering hieroglyphics are Egyptian, I would like to know why they are teaching the kids about the culture and what it has to do with the island.

16.   Jack defends Kate to Roger.  How sweet.  *cough, cough*

17.   Guess we also know now why Miles asked Ben (when Ben was captive) for $3.2 million.  He wants the money not to turn him in to Widmore’s people.
18.  OK, how does all of this huge construction equipment get to the island?

19.   Hm, shadow of the statue riddle again.  Makes me think that Ilana (with the same riddle) is working for Ben.

20.   Uh oh, Juliet’s in a red shirt.  Not a good sign for her.

21.   Remember the eye from the cabin that appears when Hurley is there?  I’m thinking that was Pierre.  I’m starting to think that Pierre might actually be Jacob.  If not, then he’s in that cabin for some reason.

22.   DAN!!!  I was just as glad to see Dan as I was when Locke came back.  But what the heck was he doing in Ann Arbor, hanging out with the Degroots?  And now that Dan is back, he can help the Losties get back to modern time and probably causing the “incident” in the meantime.  AND!  The tie is gone!

23.  The 100th episode.  Dang!

Oh Ben, what have you done?  He broke the rules by coming back (according to Widmore) and he used the guise that he was coming back to be judged.  So Locke gave him the little *push* he needed to go to Old Smokey for the judgment but I think Ben ended up worse than he started.  Was he judged, yes he was.  But what he ended up with was instructions by the one person he loves the most telling him to do what he dreads the most – following Locke.  Can I get a “HA HA!”  Be careful what you wish for people because you may get more than you bargain for, just ask Ben.

1.  I don’t know how long Ben will follow Alex’s instructions and Smokey, or whatever entity appeared to him, may have known this.  Setting Ben up to fail?

2.  I love how Ben “Dr Phil’d” Frank by asking him how the plan of having a boat of commandos come to the island worked out for him.  Dr Phil always asks people who are making bad life choices how it’s working out for them.  But Frank does make a good point to Sun.

3.  I’m not loving the Mediveal Widmore look.
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4.  When Widmore questions Richard on why he saved Young Ben Richard says two items of interest.  First he says that Jacob wanted it done followed by “The Island chooses who the island chooses.”  I took this to mean that Jacob IS the island and therefore if Jacob chooses Ben to live then The Island chooses Ben to live.  What this means… Jacob somehow is a manifestation of the energy of the island?  The second item of note is that when Richard tells Widmore that Jacob wanted Ben saved Widmore doesn’t question this.  I assume that this means Widmore cannot talk to Jacob.  I don’t think everyone can talk to Jacob, only a few chosen few.  I still question whether Ben could really talk to Jacob and that is why he was so shocked that Locke could hear Jacob.  Only a special few can hear what Jacob says.

5. Are we really sure Locke was ever dead and didn’t just appear dead?  I know, I know… the episode is titled “Dead Is Dead.”  Which is true, but if he wasn’t DEAD then he is alive now.  In other words you have to be DEAD to be DEAD.  So if John was always alive then it explains how he’s back up and walking around the island.  To back me up, I believe and have read that when you have lost everything then those are the most brave and free people in the world because you are already at the bottom.  If Locke believes that he really was dead then there is nothing else that he can lose at this point thus freeing him to be this new and improved Locke we see on the island.  It’s a more believable explanation then that he has somehow been resurrected.  I guess only time will tell.

6.  I can’t wait to see what’s in the big silver crate.  Kind of reminds me of Season One when Kate was so desperate to find the silver suitcase that the Marshall had been carrying.  I’m still thinking there is some type of honing device that is going to help Widmore locate the island.  Ilana has some boys helping her too which makes me think she had some people on this plane with her even though they weren’t sitting up front with her.  It reminds me that Sayid had them taking the transceiver to the highest point they could in order to send a signal out to anyone trying to locate and save them.  If this equipment is going to send out signals they may have to move it for a similar reason.
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7.  I would have loved for the writers to have had Ben introduce himself as “Henry Gale” to Ceaser.

8.   The question is, why did Danielle tell Sayid that she never saw who took her baby but that she does hear them?  Watching the epi back, it looks like (per the screencap below) this is all she really sees of Ben in her tent.  I can’t see that she really ever gets a good look at him.  This would also explain why when she had Ben trapped in her net that she didn’t realize it was the same man from that fateful night.
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9.  The island must have wanted Alex and Danielle dead, for whatever reason.  First Robert tries to kill pregnant Danielle, then Widmore sends Ben to do the job but ultimately it’s Keemey’s group that finishes the job.  Maybe in the grander scheme of the chain of events Danielle and Alex don’t fit in and have somehow interfered so in order to course correct they must both die.  Really, Alex does later help the Losties live and escape so maybe she somehow changed the course of what was going to happen.

10.  The shoes!
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11. I know there is some chatter about those in the past changing the future.  I’m starting to think that there might be something to it.  When Ben first gets off the boat with John (after leaving the second island) he does have somewhat of a confused look on his face, almost as if he can already see that things have been changed.  Is it just me here thinking this?
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12. They’ve been off the island for three years.  I would assume by the state of Otherville, the Others that did leave for the Temple didn’t go back there.  But, the interior of Ben’s house is in such disarray it seems to point to the fact that more happened there after they left three years ago.  Why would the houses be such a mess (like books all over the floor)?  Unless the past was changed which made the future different which means we haven’t seen yet why the houses are in such disrepair.

13.  Ben does tells Locke earlier in the epi that all 6 (5 really) are back but he doesn’t know yet where they are.  So I believe it when Ben looks at the picture and seems surprised to see Kate and the others in the picture.
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14. I still want to know what Locke had to go do while Ben was down summoning Smokey.

15.  It’s still bizarre to me that Ben keeps Smokey contained by a water trap.  Is Smokey like the Wicked Witch and can be killed by a little water?  And how do they get Smokey back?  Does Ben have to go back to the cave and plug the hole back up or is it somehow self containing and the water fills back up and slowly draws Smokey back in?  Are there other places on the island that can also control the Monster?  Mysteries everywhere.
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16.  You know I love this show but seriously, they needed to do something better with Ben’s hair.  I’m sure there was somewhere in the budget that they could have made a better wig for him.  And Mandak you are right, he does look a little bit like Hitler.
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17.  Locke assures Sun that he’s the same man he’s always been…. because he was never dead!?

18.   Maybe it’s not such a mystery how Locke knows where to go and how Locke knows where Smokey is.  Remember that Locke spent a lot of the first few seasons wandering around in the jungle.  The island can’t be so big that he couldn’t have found his way around quite a bit.  And, Locke is an explorer, an adventurer, a tracker, so he knows a lot about keeping track of things in this kind of environment.

19.  Ben wants Sun to apologize to Desmond but for what?  Sure, trying to kill Penny was bad, but bad enough that Ben sends back an apology?  Yes, we saw Des beat the living daylights out of him but it doesn’t explain why his arm was in a sling and it surely doesn’t give Desmond a reason to come back to the island (which I think he will).  I think that there is more that Ben does that we haven’t seen yet.

20.  Seems like Ben and Sawyer have something in common.  Sawyer was ready to walk away with the couple’s money until the little boy walked out and saw him.  Then Sawyer leaves the money and walks away.  Ben is ready to shoot Penny then little Charlie comes walking out and he lowers his gun.  Would he have shot her anyway if Des had not come and stopped him?

21.  What lies in the shadow of the statue?  I’ll tell you what lies there… the well.  And what is in the well?  The donkey wheel!  I still think that this is a riddle that Ilana has been instructed to use to make contact with … whoever she is supposed to make contact with.  But, I also think it’s a real question and if she finds the Orchid Station and the wheel there could be terrible consequences.

22.This hieroglyph has already been discussed to death (no pun intended) in other places but feel free to add your comments or further discussion.  I think it speaks for itself with the image.
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23.  I’ve said it before, but the smoke scene with Ben is a) cheesy and b) way too similar to the scene where Dorothy is whirling around in the tornado.  Either there were too many budget restraints and this is the best they could do or they did it on purpose.  I really don’t want to believe that somewhere in a production room they were sitting there saying how great this scene looked.  I choose to believe it was done on purpose.
            

24.  I think that the difference between when Eko meets Yemi and Ben meets Alex is that Ben repented and Eko did not. The question is now, will Ben stick to his word or will his urge to control and run the island get the better of him?
25.   I’m so excited that Miles gets to do his thing next week.  Also, check out the upcoming episodes as it looks like the Season Finale is going to be fantastic!

26.  I was also wondering if Ilana and the contents of the mystery box will somehow assist in bringing the 1977 Losties back to current time.

OK, it’s wrong how much I love this show.  I keep wondering how they are going to top themselves week after week but they just keep doing it.  I don’t think that another show will ever be as captivating to me.  I’m glad they won’t drag it on forever but dang it, I’ll miss it when it’s gone.

1.   I almost forgot about how much I hated Keemy.  Seeing him in the recap tonight reminded me just how evil he was.

2.   I thought it was kind of funny how Charles was riding the horse with his long, flowing hair.  Looked kind of Midevil.

3.  Jacob didn’t want Ben to live and neither did the island.  Richard forced that hand.  It seems like Ben was thrust into the leader role but he wasn’t really meant for it, Locke was.  So Ben didn’t really have a rivalry with Widmore, it’s more with Locke because Locke was born to be the leader.  But, Widmore and Ben both wanted the leadership role thus creating the rivalry.  And we’ve seen what Ben does to those who challenge or get in the way of what he wants (Juliet).

4.  OK, if you are loving the new Locke raise your hand.  He’s had a rebirth, literally.  I was loving all the straight talk and no “BS” John Locke.  This guy’s not the pushover softie anymore.

5.   Hm, what is in the big silver mystery crate on the beach that Ilana and gang are trying to open?  I think there are guns but they said it “needed moved” so maybe some homing devices so outsiders can find them?

6.  Interesting that Ben is trying to tell Cesar that Locke wasn’t on the plane but he’s not going for it.  Ben is switching roles now and he’s the survivor and Locke is the Other.

7.Remember that Jack’s tattoo says something along the lines of “He walks amongst us, but is not one of us.”  I was reminded of that when Widmore tells Young Ben that just because he lives with the DI doesn’t mean he’s one of them.
8.  Widmore ordered Ben to kill Danielle.  But how could they have not known that she had a child?  It’s interesting that Ben has such a soft spot for the children.  He also lowers his gun when he’s about to kill Penny and little Charlie comes out from the boat.  But the scene where Ben steals Alex was just horrible.  And we still don’t know what all the smoke signals were about when Danielle stole baby Aaron and tried to trade him for Alex.

9. Ben mentions that Danielle should run when she hears the whispers.  But I don’t necessarily think he controls them.  Need to stew on that one a bit.

10.  Locke calling Ben’s bluff about the smoke monster, just awesome.  What we’ve been waiting for for awhile.  Some straight talking.

11.  Ben knows about Ilana and Cesar not being “just” passengers.  I’m not convinced that Cesar and Ilana are necessarily working together though either.  So many new elements to consider.

12.  Why would Widmore think that Danielle was a threat to the island or was he just being a bully?

13.  Did Ben think that instead of killing Danielle he was doing her a favor by stealing Alex?  Seems pretty messed up.  Almost seems like Kate’s excuse for taking Aaron, to protect him, but in reality she wanted the baby.

14.  Ben doesn’t remember the rest of the O6 in DI, even though he was there.  Ben looks pretty shocked to hear that Sun has been talking to Christian.  We don’t know the connection yet with Ben and Christian.  Will be very interesting to see how this all fits.

15.   So cute when Ben was swinging Alex.  Almost made me forget that he’s a kidnapper.  But I do believe that she is the one person that he truly ever loved.

16. Has Ben been controlling when Smokey comes out to play?  Looks that way.  But before Ben was in control someone else had to be calling it’s moves.

17.  Ben’s wigs were really awful.  Too much in special effects and nothing left for hair pieces?

18.  I like how Ben tells Sun he can’t control what comes out of the woods and then John walks out.  Funny.  But what was our buddy Locke doing out in the woods?  And, he can’t control Locke anymore.
19.   Ben has killed many, many people.  The only one he thinks he must atone for is Alex.

20.   We assume that Ben doesn’t kill Penny but I don’t know that for sure.  The last we see Ben is in the water.  I only hope that it’s true.

21.  “What lies in the shadow of the statue?”  A riddle, like the snowman riddle Desmond has when they first go into the hatch.

22.  I loved this epi but the flashes of Alex in the smoke monster were a wee bit cheesy.  Again, seems like the budget must have been a little thin this week.  But the meaning was still there so I’ll forgive them.  It was all just so Wizard of Oz like when Dorothy is being swirled around in the tornado on her way to Oz.
23.  Alex comes to Ben like Yemi came to Eko.  Only Eko turned against him and was killed whereas Ben does not.

24.  Has the smoke monster given Ben back the innocence it took away from him as a child?  I can’t wait to see!

Here is a link to a fun little quiz over Seasons 4 and 5 (to date).

Take the quiz here.

I missed the question about money.  Yes, I missed one.  How did you do?

Should the Losties really be going back and course correcting?  What if their purpose is to go back and change something?  I appreciated that Jack refused to help Ben.  Sure, it violates the Hippocratic Oath, but I appreciate that he’s operating more on faith now and doesn’t have to control and fix everything.

1.  Are we so sure that Claire’s mom is on the up-and-up?  After all, she was meeting with Ben’s lawyer.  And, just a few short months ago was in a coma and now miraculously, and conveniently, she’s up, walking around and meeting with shady lawyers.   I’m going to hold judgment on her until we see a little more.  I still think that Aaron is going to show up on the island and maybe she’ll be the one to bring him.
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2.  Jin says that Sayid is headed North. Everybody heads north in this show.  When Michael went looking for Walt remember which way he went (North)?  Remember Eko’s stick… “Lift up your eyes and look North.”
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3.   I want to know if Hurley is still seeing his dead friends now that he’s back on the island?  Any more chess with Mr Eko?

4. Kate is using Cassidy as her confessional.  She tells her about the crash, the survivors and even that Aaron is not her son.  Is it fair that she puts all of this on Cassidy?  I don’t want to believe that this will come back to haunt her but on the show you never know what kinds of connections people have.  Heck, for all we know Cassidy is a Widmore.

5.   Listen to Jack, new man of faith, “Did you ever think that the island wants to fix things itself?”  Poignant moment or Jack making excuses?  I like to think that Jack is going to let whatever happened, happen.

6.  I don’t think that it’s such a far stretch that Juliet is now “doctoring” Ben and that none of the DI is questioning it.  According the conversation between Roger and Kate, when you get to the island you just get “stuck” in a job until they deem you worthy of a better position.  So Juliet was working on cars and they had a doctor so they really didn’t need her to step up until now.  If I was Roger and it was my kid who had been shot, I still would have been asking questions about her qualifications to be able to operate on my child.  I’d also be insisting that they pull the doctor out of the Looking Glass and get him up on land to help my kid.
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7. Hurley’s question to Miles about why Ben doesn’t remember getting shot by Sayid as a kid is answered by Richard.  His memory of the event will be gone.  Not all of his memory, just of that event.  However, I think that someone must tell Ben about it because Ben is convinced that Sayid is a cold blooded killer and I think that is because he knows that Sayid is capable of shooting even a kid for the greater good.

8. Yet another example of no one asking questions.  Why doesn’t Kate ask Juliet why she thinks that the Others can help Ben?  Wouldn’t you wonder if they had a surgeon or a doctor or what her thoughts were?  I guess you wouldn’t think to ask if it might be a mystical temple with healing powers, but you would want to know something.  It’s season five with only one season to go, I want answers!

9.  There is just no way it’s a coincidence that the woman with Aaron looks just like Claire.  Ben probably has someone following Kate just looking for opportunities like this to mess with Kate and the others.
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10. So Cassidy sure is working hard to convince Kate that Sawyer is a bad guy.  Kate must not have told her everything because Sawyer didn’t necessarily break her heart, she left him.  Yes, he was a real jerk acting so excited when he found out she wasn’t pregnant, but he did want to be with her and he was upset when she left him in Otherville.  I remember Kate mockingly asking Sawyer if she was supposed to stay there and play house with him.  So Cassidy has her own motives and wants kate to hate him as much as she does.

11.  Uh oh, Claire’s mom is in a red shirt.  You know what that means…
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12.  Kate is done running.  As much as it hurt her, she stopped.  She did the right thing by giving Aaron to his grandmother.  She is even going back to the island to find Claire which had to be incredibly hard for her.  Now maybe we can move forward with the evolution of Kate from being “lost” to somewhere good and I hope that in the end it doesn’t mean Jack or Sawyer (sorry guys, I think this chick needs to move on from the island after she finds Claire).

13.  I think that part of her insistence to help young Ben also has to do with her feelings of protecting the children.  That she would do anything to protect them.

14.  If Richard doesn’t answer to Ellie and Widmore, then who does he answer to?

15.  The Temple, circa 1977.  Why does Ben and the Others in “current” time go there to hide from the Freigther gang?   Why does Smokey live there?  What are the healing powers?  Does any of it have to do with the “Dark Territory” that Danielle had mentioned?
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16.  I think that Locke’s welcome to Ben to the Land of the Living was meant to be an ironic statement and didn’t have anything more behind it.  And, might I add, I missed Locke!!!!
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17.  Ben’s judgment day is next week.  That could mean lots of things but one thing is for sure, it’s bound to be a great episode and hopefully full on answers.

18.  Hopefully we’ll get some Desmond next week too.

Spot on writers!  Ben would survive.  It happened once and happened again.

I love the new and improved Jack.  Won’t save Ben, puts a shirt on when Juliet walks in on him nude, and listens to Sawyer? Jack the new man of faith.

Kate scored a few points tonight for doing the right thing with Aaron.   She’s on the right track.  We’ll see if she can keep it up or will go back to whiney.

1.  What is the creepy relationship with Roger and Kate?   Ew!

2.  What a cute baby they have for Aaron.

3.  Cassidy is back.  She was a reality check after seeing the softer side of Sawyer.  Yeah, he was a pretty creepy guy back home and did some pretty terrible things.  Guess I wanted to forget who he was but she made some good points – like why Sawyer really jumped out of the helicopter.

4.  Why does Kate trust Cassidy so much?  She told her the whole truth and Cassidy doesn’t seem very surprised by the story.  They left them behind on some crazy island and this doesn’t surprise her.  Is it just me or is Cassidy suspicious?

5.   Now Roger is becoming a concerned father?  I’m wondering what would have happened if Jack would have saved Ben.  What a twist!  Ben may have ended up being a relatively normal guy but because of Jack’s refusal to help he actually contributed to Ben becoming Crazy Ben.  Wow!  And Kate is directly responsible for Ben going to Crazy Town by begging Juliet and Sawyer to help save him.  I love it!

6.   I’m very glad that Jack had the conversation with Kate that he already saved Ben once because Kate begged him.  Is Jack on to something that maybe The Island wants to fix itself.  The Island has the ability to heal and to supposedly prevent people from dying (think Michael in the car crash) so it does pick and chose who lives and dies.

7.  Why would the doctor be in the Looking Glass station for a week?  Seems like he/she would have more use on the mainland.

8. Kate understands what Roger is talking about when he says that a boy needs his mother.  She lets Claire’s mom watch Aaron while she goes back to the island to get Clarie.  Good, noble cause.

9.  I think Hurley is wrong.  I think Ben *does* remember that Sayid is the guy that shot him as a kid.  That is why Ben was so insistent that Sayid was a killer and was confident he would kill to protect his friends.  After all, Sayid would shoot a 12 year old boy to protect his friends, why not dozens of perfect strangers?  Or, Ben doesn’t remember being shot as Richard says if they take him he won’t remember the incident.
10. Juliet knows the Hostiles/Others can help save Ben but she must know what the consequences will be.  She knows this by living with them all of those years.  I would hope that Sawyer will come back and ask Juliet what it all means, but it seems like Hurley and Jack are the only ones asking questions lately.

11.  Ah, the cog in the wheel – the scene at the dock seems to be the cog and all the spikes (stories) of the Losties spread out from there.

12.  I would guess that Ben paid the blonde lady who looked *just* like Claire to take Aaron off by the hand to freak out Kate.  Way too much of a coincidence.

13.  All right, so Ellie and Charles are making the calls for the Hostiles.  Mrs Hawking and Widmore.  Ben must really pull a number on Widmore when he’s older to get Mrs Hawking on his side.  But what on earth must they have to do to Ben to save him.  I’m going to guess it’s something affiliated with the smoke monster considering they are in the Temple and we know who lives there!  Why does he lose his innocence?
14.  I say Ellie and Charles because the guy working with Richard asks him if he should ask them first before they take Ben.

15.  Yes!  Locke is back!  I was missing him.  Now we need to bring back Daniel and Desmond too.  Ben looks genuinely surprised to see Locke.
16.  Clever editing?  they make it look like Ben is talking to the young Danielle.  But he doesn’t look like young Ben.  But maybe it is, maybe we’ll see the scene where Ben takes Alex from her.