Lost Was a Little Dull This Week, Huh?

I have to admit, I'm a little bit disappointed in last night's episode of Lost. My head didn't explode once.

It almost did, right at the beginning, where the episode tried to fake us out with that flash-forward of Juliet's that was really a flashback. Sneaky, that retraining us to see forward into the future and then looking back into the past. I was thinking, "Whoa, Juliet's seeing a shrink after she's rescued, and upset at being treated like a celebrity, so she's one of the Oceanic Six. Okay. How are they explaining the fact that she wasn't, you know, on the Oceanic plane?" But before my noggin could even work itself up into a critical mass for exploding, we were back in the past.

And it turned out to be kind of a yawner. I guess we learned some things we didn't know before -- like that Juliet was fooling around with the Goodwin guy -- so why did it all feel like old news? I mean, we already know Ben is a major creep, and it seems like all Juliet's flashbacks were doing was confirming that. We get it. We're good with that. Let's move on.

I can only guess that when Ben revealed to Locke (and not to us! what a cheat!) who it is he has on the freighter -- Charlie? Boone? Jack's dad? Baby Oscar all grown up and traveled back from the future? -- it was enough to startle Locke into giving Ben his freedom. I can't guess why Locke would think that he should give Ben his freedom, but frankly, pondering it isn't make my head explode either.

I did figure I had it figured that it wasn't Penny's dad's people out on that freighter, because Penny told Charlie the freighter wasn't her boat ... although maybe she would say that if she knew Charlie was Ben's mole. Or if she had no idea her father knew anything about the island and was looking for it. Or if something else entirely is going on. Like Ben is lying about Penny's dad.

See, Lost people, this is what happens when you're not making my head explode: I start to get a little bit mad. I start to suspect that you're not gonna tie up all the many, many loose ends you've been throwing at us since the beginning. Hello, black smoke monster? Hello, Dharma Initiative? Hello, who the hell made the plane explode in the first place? Cuz it can't have been a coincidence that this plane full of these people just happened to crash on this mysterious island. It just can't.

I'm gonna be so pissed if that turns out to be the case.

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MaryAnn Johanson (email me)
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