Really good stuff, yes, though I'm not sure how many of the promised answers we genuinely received. Maybe one?
- Jack's pretty blind to think there's genuinely nothing odd about the island; Locke's equally blind to say 'miracles happen' without noticing that more often than not they're really, really horrible miracles (magic cancer anyone?)
- On Jack's side though, he gets about a thousand points more than Locke for lying in order to save the lives of the people left behind rather than to save the blithering island, and Locke loses countless for having the temerity to blame Jack for whatever happened next ... Ben seemed happy enough to let him leave.
- Poor Jin. Ben doesn't kill the innocent my foot.
- One moment that totally epitomised the theory of information-giving in Lost. Ben asks Locke if he told Jack what they were doing; Locke says 'I tried to'. Drivel! He tried to convince him to stay on the island - he said nothing about moving it. That's why bad things happen.
- I love how this programme becames 100% about Desmond every time he has a significant scene. I was so relieved - that was the most moving reunion scene Lost's ever had, I think. Aside from their phonecall.
- Hasn't Walt grown?
- I'm glad Keamy's dead, though it shouldn't have happened like that, with so many other people getting caught in the middle.
- Why is Claire so adamant that Aaron
mustn't go back?
- I weirdly enjoyed the Orchid scenes with Ben loading up the vault, even though two of my least favourite characters were involved. It was old-style comic Lost.
- But the best scene was realising Hurley had been playing chess with Eko's ghost.
In conclusion, I hope Sawyer gets hero of the week for this one. That was properly magnificent of him. Oh! And Michael, but I still find it hard to think very well of Michael. And I hope everyone hates Ben. Yeah, right, that'll happen ....
(That said, I hope whatever Ben's planning will help the people who are left on the island - I wonder who's after them exactly? Or what? - though this episode really didn't give me much hope for Ben's concerns for random people back on the island. 'So?' etc. I think he's motivated much as Locke is ... he wants the island, not the people.)