You're Going to Kill Who Now?

This week’s episode was like a chess match, every piece being moved into position for next week’s season finale where LOST will ultimately say “checkmate” and all our minds will be collectively blown all over our living rooms. Start breaking out the tarp now so you’ll limit the mess to a minimum.

First let’s start with our friends in 1977:
- Daniel is starting to look pretty darn dead. I’m beginning to think he might not make it…

- Did you see Charles’ covert pat on Ellie’s stomach when they were side baring in the camp? I’m thinking she’s already got a Lil’ Dan in the oven.

- Looks like Dr. Chang is stepping up to fill the void of awesomeness left behind in the wake of Daniel’s death. His grilling of Hurley was classic, “You’re 46?”. Looks like he’s got enough authority to get people moving off the Island. Even a touching moment where Miles saw why his dad made him and his mother leave. I can’t be the only one who wanted Miles to run down there and give his dad a big hug and then both of them start playing a little father son catch. But even Dr. Changtastic (I’m copywriting that!) can’t seem to get Radinzsky to shut the hell up. That guy is a loose cannon.

- Jack has completed the metamorphosis from a man of science to a man of faith. Now his faith is saying “lets blow this mother fucker up!”. Kate of course, being Kate, doesn’t go along and gets captured. Thus she’s in the sub as it departs, much to Juliet’s displeasure. Cat fight eminent. Every time she and Sawyer seem to be out of it Kate shows back up to be the annoying third wheel. But given the previews for next week somehow they get back on the Island…

- So how’d the Others get Jughead down in the tunnels in the first place? As Richard said it’s a 4,000lb 12 foot bomb, that isn’t exactly the most mobile thing out there. And it’s probably still blasting out radiation, is that going to cause future implications? Is the series finale going to have Jack and Sayid dying from radiation poisoning?

- Are Miles, Hurley, and Jin headed back to the beach? Or are they going to somehow rescue Sawyer, Juliet, and Kate from the sub?

Now back to 2007:
- NeoLocke is one confident bastard. And he’s operating just like old Leader Ben – telling people where to go or what to do but not telling them why. And he’s totally manipulating like Ben too. Sun is going to be quite ticked off when she finds out Locke wasn’t really trying to save their people, instead he was focused on killing Jacob.

- Speaking of killing Jacob I’m guessing a lot of people are taking that as a bad thing. Remember back when Locke first saw Jacob Jacob’s ghostly voice pleaded “help me”? Given what we now know about the Island and its unique time shifting properties, I’m thinking instead of physically time shifting like the Losties were doing at the beginning of this season Jacob’s mind has shifted leaving his body god knows where. He is looking for the sweet sweet release of death, and thus Locke will be “helping him” by killing him. And that’s my Crazy Lost Theory of the Week™.

- Still on the subject of Jacob, Ben didn’t really seem to fight Locke’s accusation that he never was able to see Jacob. Was Ben using Jacob in a Wizard of Oz type role to keep the Others placated?

- I thought for a second at the beginning of this episode when we saw Richard building a ship in a bottle we were going to get a Richard back story episode that was going to boggle the minds and senses but alas we didn’t. Although the ship got me thinking – did Richard come on the original Black Rock and that’s why he likes ships? Or has he just always been on the Island. It is clear he is like the Island’s ambassador to the Others. Meant to guide and advise the Other’s Leader. And it looks like he’s never had to work with a proactive Leader like Locke. Even he is starting to have second thoughts about Locke. Or is he in awe of what the Leader that they were looking for can really do?

- Another cool point for NeoLocke – when he took them straight to where his past self was going to show up with a bullet wound and sent Richard to help him. Nice to see that callback and it further proved that NeoLocke knows what he’s doing. He even had Richard give himself the compass so that past self could then give the compass to past Richard in the 50s so that future Richard would have the compass to give to future Locke at that very moment. You’re eyes just crossed didn’t they?

Well that’s about it. Why don’t you all discuss it in the comments below. Last week had very poor participation. I’m going to go into week long meditation now in preparation for the season finale.