My F#%king Tibia!!!!

Ah Lost, you never disappoint. Another fantastic episode in an overall fantastic season. Why can't all TV be this awesome?

Off Island
- Not too much going on off island except Ben being his awesome self and the Oceanic 6 being whiny bitches. It was interesting to see the look on Ben's face when Desmond told him he was at the church to see Faraday's mother. It was the kind of look that said "oh snap, I didn't know she was Daniel's mother", which would be big for Ben because he prides himself on knowing everything.
- Locke did some nice work as well getting around his promise to Jin not to bring Sun back to the island. Instead he comes to Ben, gives him Jin's wedding ring, and lets Ben do what he does best - manipulate.
- For like the 5 week in a row we see that Sayid has some serious angst against Ben. What could it be?!
- Ben's been protecting the Oceanic 6 from the efforts of Widmore, how nice. Surely not because he cared about them, more because they're his ticket back to the Island. Plus he hates Widmore, bonus!
- Why was Mrs. Hawking seemingly cool with Ben when he showed up with just four people instead of all of them when a couple episodes ago she was all about all of them going back.
- Looks like Desmond could be stuck going back to the Island as well...

On Island
- So much good stuff going on here. First of all we get to see the black smoke again. And second of all it confirms all the stuff Danielle tells Sayid when he first meets her. "Nadine was first to die", check. "Montrau lost an arm", check. And we get to see the mysterious Temple for the first time. The Temple, which you might remember, Ben told Danielle to take Alex and where the Others were hiding out.
- After Jin's mini-flash we get to see Danielle kill Robert just like she told Sayid. The curious thing is that Robert seemed to know a whole lot about the black smoke by this point. Its a security system for the Temple he says. Is he really crazy with the sickness or was it Danielle who had gone insane? He did seem to pull his trigger pretty easily given that he was trying to shoot his lover and mother of his unborn child. Man I hope they revisit this.
- I used to think Christian was just a shape that Jacob was taking to communicate with people and the actual Christian was long dead but this week made me change my mind. When he tells Locke "say hi to my son" that's straight Christian Sheppard, not something Jacob would say.
- Did Ben move the Wheel knowing that John was supposed to do it? Was he doing it in an attempt to get back into Jacob's good graces or is he actually playing his own game. One outside of what destiny/Jacob has planned for the Island. I wouldn't put it past him. Ben isn't the kind of guy to serve anyone, even some weird Island ghost spirit.
- So now that Locke has righted the Wheel and, if his theory was correct, stopped the time flashes then the Losties are stuck in some past time not present. I wonder when the well Locke went down was originally dug since after the flash there was nothing but earth above him.
- Charlotte, as she got closer and closer to death, started to exhibit symptoms very similar to that Theresa girl that Faraday left in Oxford after an experiment gone bad.
- For those of you who can't follow time travel and are asking "why would Charlotte remember Daniel warning her not to come back to the Island if he doesn't remember it?". That is because Daniel hasn't travelled back into the past to warn her yet, thus he doesn't remember. But he will travel back because we saw him at the Orchid's original construction. His love for Charlotte will cause him to try and warn her to not come back but he should know the laws of time travel won't allow that. If he warns her and she doesn't come back than he won't have to warn her not to come back because she won't be dying on the Island. It'd be a paradox. Also, guess I was wrong about Daniel being Charlotte's father. Oh well. Win some, lose some.
- I'm guessing the Losties are now trapped in the 70s, back when Dharma was still in power and just before they started digging the Orchid station. Does that mean that the Oceanic 6, when they return to the Island, will come into the 70s as well?