[Murgatroyd]

Didn't like it much at all, sorry. Posted this elsewhere, but I thought it quite rubbish and was only really content with the fact that Charlie came clean to Sun. Nikki and Paulo got buried alive, a horrid thing, and I find I don't much care. If you want me to care much about characters being buried alive, best not to introduce them randomly and pointlessly and then excuse that random pointlessness with in-jokes about having introduced them randomly and pointlessly. And in-jokes about every other fannish quibble ever raised over the course of this programme. The A-team. All that fuss over getting into a hatch. A scene dedicated to a character's using a toilet. The question about how Shannon knew where Jack kept the key to the guns. Lost is very meta sometimes, but in a really irritating way.

I just thought that was a massively self-indulgent episode, full of references of interest only to people who sigh nostalgically at the days when Boone stole all the drinking water and looked for pens among the crash survivors and totally irrelevant to anyone who saw season 1, like, two years ago and doesn't retain the sort of information you don't actually need to retain. Naturally I did quite like looking at the crash site again, but I don't think there was a vast amount of point in revisiting all these events I have on DVD anyway just in order for the writers to tipp-ex out all the little mistakes they left in the first time 'round. Specially seeing as there was no truly significant new light cast on any of the revisited events. Confirmation of why Jack and co were kidnapped but that could've been revealed at any time. And now we know who left a cigarette in the Pearl. Whoop-de-doo.

Also, correct me if I'm wrong but I'm sure Abrams or Lindelhof or Cuse or someone said something along the lines of 'I know you all hate Nikki and Paulo right now, but after their flashback you'll love them'. And I so don't. Why will I love them? Because it transpires they murdered a man for his diamonds and then spent the entire duration of the series caring about nothing but those diamonds and then eventually Nikki poisoned Paulo with a spider? Is that supposed to be making me like people?

So yeah. Buried alive. Nasty business of course. But I still don't much care. It'll be better for the series if everyone continues pretty much not to care. The best thing that episode did was to cut short a couple of very pointless storylines.