Lost - Big Bada Boom!

The island is pretty much the story at this point. When the island is done with you, so is the story and your role on the show. With that I would like to give a fond farewell to our Russian friend Illana, may the pieces of you enjoy their stay in the stratosphere to which they were committed.

Welcome to our quickly diminishing Lost rehashes of fun stuff that I observed and think was cool, funny, or something that will make me feel intelligent for the next 20 minutes as I right, oops, write. =) I don't know this wasn't that great of an episode for me, it was too predictable and there were plot holes in it the size of a giant well. Let me point a couple of them out to you, mind you my memory might be a little off on what actually happened, but I think I'm good.

1) Illana is carrying the dynamite, uh why? Richard thinks that it's a good idea to blow up the airplane then why the heck doesn't he carry it? As stated in an earlier episode he can't kill himself so he might as well carry the dynamite. Heck he could have juggled the stuff and nothing would have happened. But no Illana gets a little frustrated forgets that she is carrying a bag of high explosives and slams them down. Good job! Apparently all that training you spent your whole life working towards you forget about at the worst possible time. Oh well I guess she died in service of Jacob so that makes it ok, right....?

2) How the hell did Hurley get to the boat faster than Richard? Hurley isn't the fastest guy on the island and yet he beats the guy to the boat that has been on the island for the longest period of time. Not only that, but he sets up a fuse to detonate all of the dynamite that is left on the Blackrock. Oh yeah I'm buying that.

3) Why the heck did the mental hospital director insist that Hurley couldn't visit Libby? She was there voluntarily so why couldn't she have a visitor? Instead Hurley has to pony up 100K to see her. Maybe they saw him coming a mile away, it is Hurley so I guess you could.

4) Not so much a plot hole but a hole in the ground. Seriously wasn't it pretty obvious that Locke was going to toss Desmond into the well as soon as we saw it?

I mean not to nitpick or anything, but that stuff just made me wonder.

So did anything interesting happen? I guess, but not really as much as normal, ok we learned what the whispers are, they are the sounds of the spirits that are trapped on the island, ok cool, but how does that play into it? Seems to fit in well with the whole hell theory, but it also seems like it's lacking a little bit, maybe like the numbers it will have more meaning in the coming weeks.

Jack is all at peace with the island now and as he said not trying to fix everything now, heck he's even following Hurley even though he knows that he was lying about Jacob. Wonder how he felt about that decision when he saw Locke? Wonder if he might change his mind there. Oh and speaking of changing their mind, is Sawyer going to do anything this season outside of complain about sitting around the camp and whining? I mean really is this the best that we can do with one of the best characters this season? I have a feeling that I'll get my wish next week when he wants to kill Jack, over what? Oh yeah Juliet dying, I forgot that he was all angry and wanted to die what about a week ago in island time? Talk about a burning love there, but he was over her episodes ago so I guess that I shouldn't be too surprised. But that's what's great about Lost, there can be plot holes, but with a little "SMOKE" and "MIRRORS" (think Lighthouse) you don't even realize it. Kind of like the sideways world, it's all hunky dorry for the characters until they look a little bit closer. I'm starting to understand that we're characters in this story too.

So what is going to happen next?

My guess is that we'll see sideways Locke at the hospital where Jack will need to patch him up. Also at the hospital will be Sun and Jin, Sun will need to be patched up by Juliet. Then Saywer will end up at the hospital because he'll be investigating who killed Keemy. Finally we'll see Claire giving birth to Aaron while everyone is there.

So why did Desmond run over Locke? Two theories here, either he was trying to kill the off island one, or what I really think, he was trying to get him to see the island world. Kind of a giant jolt if you ask me, but hey it might work, also puts him in the hospital to get his ability to walk back, which we still don't have the answer to. Healing powers of the island are one thing, but I seriously don't think we have our final answer there yet. Speaking of answers WWWWWWWWWWWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLTTTTTTTTTTTT
nope probably never learn that one, oops more Smoke and Mirrors for you to not think about that.

I talked to Tony this morning and he was thinking that the kid in the jungle with the black hair was the childhood Smokey. Sounds good to me, but why then? Also what is the deal with tossing Desmond in the well? There has to be more to that, otherwise it just seems like a waste to bring him back to the island, but then again I guess we needed for him to get EMP'd, just a quick use of the island if you ask me. Interesting little sub point, Desmond was only going to be a three episode character, same as Ben.

So that's all I have this week, to me it was a very large set up episode with not a lot of meat to it. I mean it had some stuff but it wasn't like the last couple weeks have been. Only 4 more to go, and still my wife is not a follower on my blog. =)