It's been difficult for me not to read Doc Jensen's write-up of Thursday's episode. I like to wait until after I've written my piece so that I'm not so heavily influenced by his brilliance. Of course, I could never be as astute as the Doc, but I do like to formulate ideas of my own.
This shouldn't take very long. I was in Helsinki all week on a business trip, and I got home at nearly 1:00am Friday morning (after a 28 hour day, literally). Therefore, when I watched Lost - which I HAD to before going to bed - I didn't take notes. I just wanted to watch.
I was very pleased with this episode. Freakin' Michael Emerson!!!! How I love him! If he doesn't get an Emmy this year, well, screw the Emmy's!
So, here's what I remember (seriously, I fell asleep for like 30 seconds at the very very end):
- Ben and his retractible billy club - dangerous duo indeed! BTW, weren't there TWO horses? Each of those guys had a horse, so what happened to the other horse?
- Mr. Moriarty is a very special guest of that Tunisian hotel. But that lady looked really afraid of him. And she should be.
- LOVE when Sawyer freaked thinking that Ben was going to shoot him, then turned his fear into awe, then finally understanding that Ben was actually handing the gun to him.
- Who wasn't hoping Claire would die? She's pretty much dead weight at this point. Especially with that AWFUL wig.
- As much as I didn't want it to, I knew that the Ben/Beefcake standoff would end badly, very badly. Again, Michael Emerson is oh so amazing! His face!!!
- I completely accept the reason that Sayid begins to work for Ben (even though ben TOTALLY played him). I just can't believe I didn't think of that reason already!
- Gosh, memory fading here... what happened next... OH - I think it already happened, but I do NOT believe that Jack was taking antibiotics... LIAR!
- Uh... oh yeah... back to Ben & Co. So, Ben went in his secret chamber... Um, is that when the flashforwards occured? And then, the monster came. So, was Ben flashing forward, summoning Smokey, or BOTH?!?!
- We still don't know what the monster is... :-( But - it kicked those Fighting Freighters' asses!!!
- Oh yeah, the doctor from the Freighter (aka, the guy from CSI) washed up ashore with his throat slit. I love that Bernard had a part in figuring out that Crazy Physicist was LYING when he said that everything was fine. But where, or where, is Rose?
- Back to Ben - Ben says goodbye to Alex, and it's really truly the first time I cry for him (yes, I cry). I didn't even feel that sorry for him in his first flashback episode. Ben really does have feelings, and I am glad that for once, I didn't have to doubt his intentions.
- So when Locke's camp is making it's way to the beach, I loved Sawyer's protectiveness of Hurley. And him calling him Hugo. So sweet. And I'm sad that Sawyer's fate is to stay on the island. I hope that staying on the island doesn't necessarily mean bad...
- Near-future Ben goes to Jolly Ol' England and sneaks his way into Widmore's bedroom. This is where I get confused. They seem an awful lot like God vs. The Devil here - but who's who? Ben says they can't kill each other... WHY? However, if Ben can't kill Widmore, he will go after the next best thing - Penny. NO! Not Penny!!!
Ok, I'm done here. I may have forgotten a few things, but oh well. Hopefully I'll be more coherent when I watch the next episode. Yay!
