I'd be much more on board with an animated gif of Sun unbuttoning her sweater.

Both?

Yeah, come on. Who's got a DVR and some free time?

"9. Sure, Sayid has been reduced to a murderous zombie, but he still wants to FEEL, dammit! "

haha.

FM: "Oooooh, you're gonna be pissed."
Me, in kitchen where I can't see tv: "...is Sun taking off her shirt or something?"
FM: "Yep."
Me: "SONOFA-" [mad dash for living room]

what happened before the title screen? i missed it.

This entire season summed up:

Sawyer: You're the smoke monster, so why don't you just go yourself?

Locke: If I could do that do you think I'd still be on this island?

Sawyer: No, because that would be ridiculous.

Good episode, partly because it was all Desmond and secondly because sideways/opposite world is being made clearer. Eloise wanted to right her wrong (killing her son), so she orchestrated the atomic explosion.

1. Say what you will about Widmore, but he really does have the most delightful bedside manner.

2. What Widmore doesn’t always seem to have is the greatest eye for detail. If you’re going to place a chair with restraints into the gigantic electromagnetic orange crate, it might also be a good idea to bolt the chair to the floor!

3. Doesn’t Widmore have enough money and connections to find someone more competent to run the controls than the fat kid from Kate & Allie???

4. Fisher Stevens is the most obnoxious chauffeur since Bruno Kirby in This is Spinal Tap. I kept expecting him to read Desmond a few passages from Sammy Davis, Jr.’s Yes, I Can.

5. Speaking of annoying, this very well may be the most annoying version of Charlie yet – and that’s saying something! I doubt he’ll ever top “running wildly in an undersized hospital gown” Charlie.

6. Why does Zoe always look like she just got finished changing the oil on a ‘67 Dodge Duster? Isn’t there any Dharma soap laying around somewhere?

7. And while on the topic of unsightly appearances, will there ever be a time-changing electromagnetic detonation that will finally produce a version of Faraday without that ridiculous mullet?

8. It was really disturbing to hear Faraday introduce himself as Daniel Widmore, though not as disturbing as it would have been to hear a classical piano solo in the middle of “You All Everybody.”

9. Just as her son’s hairstyle remains unchanged in every dimension of time and space, so does Eloise’s overbearing personality. I mean, even knowing the fate of the world requiring her focus, she’s still worried about HOW A SALAD FORK IS SITUATED?!?

10. Something tells me Sayid would make a TERRIBLE chiropractor.

I enjoyed last night's episode, and it really helped feed the hope I've been nurturing that the whole Jacob/MIB thing will actually turn out to be something pretty interesting in the end.

I'm hoping that Jacob and the MIB aren't just these ancient supernatural entities but were in fact, at least at one time, just regular dudes who, through some time/dimensional travel/altering shenanigans involving the island, ended up in these strange supernatural existences on the island. The MIB may not just be some primal, demonic force of evil, but, as he said, an actual guy who doesn't really have his own body anymore. And him escaping the island meaning the end of existence as we know it may not just be him destroying everything because he's evil and hates our freedom, but because he wants to alter the flow of time or something in a way that would essentially eradicate the present and bring things to a state where he thinks they should be. Maybe the alternate reality created by the bomb detonation is sort of like a miniature version of what the MIB wants to do, but what he wants to do would either be done so long ago or on such a large scale as to transform the present into something totally unrecognizable.

...Anyway, I thought I was done theorizing about this show, but sometimes it's too hard to resist. I guess that's a sign that the episode I just watched really was pretty damn good? Definitely better than that hugely disappointing Richard one.

I agree that it was a much better episode. Although I may have found it better because it suggested possibilities instead of giving half-baked answers, which is the hook that got me into the show in the first place. I don't know if they can ever overcome the idiocy of that Richard episode though.

Strangely, still watching.

I'm really into this season now, finally.

after last night? come on, what the fat was that? a friend described it as being like that scene where sun runs into a tree, extended over an entire episode. except it was rehashed fat romance. desmond and locke is about the only interesting thing going on. richard and ben are useless. hopefully jack gets it back on course next week.

maybe because I rewatched last week's just before I watched the new one, it was like one long episode for me and I finally feel like they're going somewhere. The last two weeks it actually held my attention and I wasn't up and doing something else while it was on.

Libby's aged so badly that now she and Hurley look like a reasonable match.

true, drinky. maybe that's why it took shoulder-length hugo a hot minute to remember her.
i thought last week was excellent, but that this was a serious dip.

I didn't think last night's was that bad, really. A little frivolous, and Desmond in the alternate reality on a crusade to make everyone remember is kinda silly. It added a nice touch of slapstick violence, though. Locke vs. Desmond on the island and Desmond vs. Locke in the alt-reality were both pretty funny. But yeah, it was all kind of like Sun running into the tree.

Yeah, I didn't feel that way at all. There actually seems to be something happening in the Sideways world now.

I agree, since at first it was like "hey isn't it weird how this sideways world sorta mirrors the real world." Now I am excited to see how the two worlds come together (as some people had predicted after the premiere).

I also realized last night how both Lost and Fringe seem to be addressing the notion of alternate universes, albeit in slightly different ways.

Exactly. Before the last two episodes there wasn't a whole lot of intent on the part of the sideways characters with respect to the rest of the story, aside from their day-to-day lives. Now there seems to be purpose.

And yeah, agreed about the Lost/Fringe similarities. And I fully admit to being a sucker for it too on both shows.

based on this, i will not be checking out fringe.

It's interesting to read what aspects of Lost tend to capture in different viewers. I like the science (fiction) aspects within both shows the best, even more so when characters are exposing others to electromagnetic fields to varying effects.

i love fringe. you are missing out!

I'm hooked on Fringe as well, but it has its cheesy moments. JJ Abrams has definitely done the 'cid and shrooms and thinks he tapped into an alternate universe. That's my theory anyway.

I was tied up in meetings all day yesterday, which is why this week's list doesn't have 10 and is just now getting posted here:

1. If you’ve got Libby, Libby, Libby at your table, table, table, you will like her, like her, like her even though she’s mentally unstable, stable, stable.

2. Hurley may think his $100,000 donation will be used to remodel the looney bin rec room, but I wouldn’t be at all surprised if it ended up being used to refurnish the boardroom over at the Susan Ross Foundation.

3. I wonder if in his infinite wisdom and generosity, CEO Hurley allows all of Mr. Cluck’s employees to submit reimbursement claims under their Flex Spending Accounts for buckets of chicken when “taken” as an anti-depressant.

4. Ilana has shown signs of a temper before, but I had no idea she was so explosive!

5. Alpert and Ben: reunited, and it feels so good.

6. Of all the character changes this season, none is more troubling to me than Zombie Sayid. He’s become nothing more than The Locke-ness Monster’s version of Igor.

7. Desmond’s car wasn’t a Toyota, so we can rule out a sticky accelerator…it must have been equipped with ANTI-LOCKE BRAKES.

8. I don’t blame Desmond for being so pissed at Locke, though, after being sent on a most impromptu search for Baby Jessica. Somebody tell The Locke-ness Monster it’s not 1987!