TV Thursday On Friday: Lost

**SPOILER ALERT**

I admit that I'm feeling a bit guilty for recommending that Cowbell jump into Lost. I don't think there could be a more complex time to join in the fray.

I skipped last week's post since it was all about Desmond's time travels and any discussion would have been even more confusing than the episode itself. So now we have flashbacks, flashforwards, and time travel. We did see a bit of hints of time travel in episodes past, but I'm having trouble following what's going on and I've been watching from the beginning.

The producers have their sights set on the end game of the series and are packing in a lot of scientific babble so it all makes sense. Watching the repeats on Thursday's at 8 with the special on-screen commentary has been valuable to understanding what is going on. I mean, come on, who would have known that was a bad Enrico Fermi equation on the board? Enrico Fermi, btw, was instrumental in the development of the atom bomb. There must be better ways to say these things are related to the island's electromagnetic field without all the mumbo jumbo.

Here are some of my random thoughts from the past two weeks:
• Clever way to open the episode to make us all think Juliet was potentially an Oceanic 6. The conversation sounded like a flashfoward when it was actually a flashback.
• Poor Desmond, he's really in a bad spot. But isn't he hot when he's all cleaned up?
• In a previous post, I asked how long it would be before Ben got loose. As it turned out, not very long. He must have given Locke something juicy when he revealed who his spy is on the freighter. My guess is Michael although I'm not sure why he would leave Walt unless that was part of the deal he struck when Ben let them go.
• Could the freighter spy be Richard? I'm still waiting to find out if Richard is one of the people from the original crew aboard the Black Rock. Remember how he looked the same in the flashback of Ben as a boy? He was one of the original "others" before Dharma got there. Who knows how old he is?
• Just when I was liking Juliet again, we saw more of her bad side. Sleeping with the married Goodwin (although I understand that because he's a total babe). What I didn't like is that she seemed to have no problem with kidnapping the kids from the tail section and wasn't at all concerned with saving people in a plane crash.
• Did Mr. Widmore learn about the slave ship from that manuscript he bought at auction? Or did he already know there was something about it and that's why he wanted it? He must be tied into Dharma in some way.
• Is Penny evil, too? Or does she just have an evil father?
• How is Ben able to conjure up spirits that can talk to people? He sent the shrink to talk to Juliet, but Jack saw her too. Is she alive or dead, or just an apparition?
• How did the freighter crew know about the Tempest station and that there was lethal gas there?
• Jack and Juliet shared a wonderful kiss. Was Kate watching?
• Juliet is "Ben's"...because she looks just like "her". Who is "her"? His previous fling? We've seen his mother and I don't think she looked like her.
• Juliet said Ben is going to win. What does she know? Does she have inside info? We did see Ben in Sayid's flashforward.

Okay, Losties, let me know your thoughts!
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