TV Wednesday On Thursday: LOST

** SPOILER ALERT **

The first few episodes of the season weren't very inspiring. At least from a blog post standpoint. Back and forth, back and forth. This time, that time, more bloody noses.

Last night's episode gave us more payoffs in the story line than we've seen in a while.

• First, lets talk about the smoke monster. It has the ability to grab things with no hands! Or arms, as Frenchie found out. So now we know it is a security system that lives in a hole under the Temple. It either has the ability to fuck up people's minds, or people's minds are fucked up when they come in contact with it. Hence, Rousseau's melt down on the beach. She said that her comrades were different after their run in with it, and it turned out she was correct when her baby daddy tried to shoot her with an unloaded rifle. Why didn't Old Smokey just kill them all in the jungle rather than grabbing one and dragging him back to its lair? Was that guy lunch?
• While we're speaking of Rousseau, we found out that Alex isn't really Ben's girl at all. At least biologically.
• Jin is alive and we found out that his time travel has been the same as the other Left-Behind Losties. Even though he wasn't near them, it must be that everyone within the island's bubble is moving at the same time to the same time period.
• I'm still a bit confused about Faraday. We've seen him at the university conducting experiments. We've seen him working for Dharma at the Orchid station. Charlotte, bless her bloody nose, told him that he told her to get off the island and never come back when she was little and part of Dharma, too. This also shows that it hasn't always been the case that babies couldn't be born on the island (which is why Juliet was recruited).
• Speaking of Charlotte, she went koo koo before she bit the dust. She was rambling. I wonder if those ramblings meant something. And what did she tell Jin in Korean?
• Ben's been driving around in a van. Is the name of the company an anagram for anything?
• John Locke is developing some big man tits this season.
• Locke's got some bad luck with those legs of his, eh?
• Locke is willing to sacrifice his life for the island. What are the missing pieces that make him willing to do so?
• So Jack's father is still dead. Why can't he move the wheel himself? Is he tied to Old Smokey? Why doesn't he have that thing move the wheel of fortune?
• Interesting that John was supposed to move the island and not Ben. Is that what caused all the problems, or was it really because the Oceanic 6 left?
• Is Faraday in cahoots with Ben? He told Desmond to find his mother, and then when they all showed up at the church, Ben seemed to imply that he'd gotten as many of the group together as possible.

That's it for now. I came up with these random thoughts. I'm going to start snooping around some Lost sites to see if anyone picked up more than I did.

Thanks to a tip by Alan, I've discovered that Sawyer has nicknamed me Sally Slingshot. You can get yours at ABC.com.