I wonder if anyone else writing about this show found it hard to formulate thoughts about this penultimate episode, since it built up such a nice momentum going into the finale that I’m almost content to wait and see how it all plays out on Sunday. (I can’t believe this is going to be over on Sunday.)

So.

Things in the Sideways World are set to converge at David Shephard’s concert, part of the grand opening ceremonies for the new paleontology wing at Pierre Chang’s museum, funded by and named after Hurley.

I did not see that particular scenario coming.

Interesting, though, that this gathering almost mirrors the benefit thrown by the Widmores — we haven’t seen Daniel or Eloise since that episode, and just as Widmore snuffs it here, it’s like that particular narrative layer has folded up. (Maybe.)

I thoroughly enjoyed this episode. It felt as though the story was truly and finally settling in for a sit around the campfire to tell us everything we need to know. (Not necessarily WANT to know. But need.)

It was an excellent blend of quiet scenes, weighted with the full force of previous seasons, and explosive violent scenes. I loved the scene between Jack and Locke in the Sideways world, as I have tended to love all of their scenes together. Loved that Locke echoed his own words from Season 1: What if all this is happening for a reason? And loved that Jack replied with another Lostian echo: Don’t mistake coincidence for fate.

Loved Ben’s scenes with Alex and Danielle, particularly that they happen after Desmond forcibly shows Ben the world that should be, so that Ben must have gotten flashes of Alex as his daughter on the island as he watched her study. And that knowing look that passes between Ben and Danielle — I’m chalking that up to “I remember you” and not any sort of romantic moment. Because the latter is a little too much for me to handle right now.

(Sidenote: I think I’m going to institute coq au vin night.)

And Ben tells Locke that Desmond was there to help Locke “let go.” It didn’t occur to me before that letting go is something both Lockes would benefit from — Sideways Locke needs to let go of his guilt and martyrdom so that he can have the chance to walk again; Smokey Locke needs to let it all go — his rage, his vengeance, his plan to kill everyone, his plan to destroy the island. Seriously. Dude. Just let it go.

Which makes me wonder whether Ben’s apparent 180 (or 360, as it were) is his plan to get Smokey to let go. Because I’m 97% sure that Ben is playing Smokey, either for self-preservation (which is completely in keeping with his character) and/or to save the island (ditto). He needs Smokey to believe that he’s on his side, so he gives up Widmore (I have to believe that revenge was always at the forefront of Ben’s mind as well, especially after Miles and Richard bring up Alex). And in using Smokey to kill Widmore, Ben appears to, possibly, once again have the upper hand as he has always had with Locke, up until the point at which Smokey/Locke convinced him to kill Jacob.

Which is not to say that Ben wasn’t absolutely, completely CHILL-MAKING in these scenes. Sinister Ben, I have missed you. But please don’t be evil.

Can’t say I’m sorry to see Widmore go, either. Much better to have the fate of the island rest in the hands of the characters we really got to know over the last six seasons.

But oh, Richard. The minute he said “I’m going to go talk to him” I knew it would go wrong because one of the things we know for sure is that you do NOT let Smokey talk to you if you want to stop him. But I wasn’t prepared for Smokey to hurl Richard so violently into a tree. Can Smokey kill Richard as he couldn’t kill Jacob? I don’t see anyone coming back from that, immortal or not. And if Richard’s indeed dead, he got an even rawer deal than Ilana and all the people on the sub. (Although it might have been better that way, as I don’t think I could take another drawn-out death scene.)

And Jack stepped up to become the next Jacob. OK, first of all, the scene around the fire made me recant what I said last week, that perhaps the whole of “Across the Sea” could have been reduced to a couple of flashbacks within another episode. Had that been done, I don’t think Jacob’s words to Kate, Sawyer, Jack, and Hurley would have been as impressive or powerful. Second, I am fully on board with Jack’s choice. He made that choice from an understanding that it was his destiny — this is why he was brought to the island; this is why he was brought to the lighthouse. These are the answers he’s wanted. He made his choice as Season 6 Jack, not as Season 1 Jack, who would’ve stepped up out of a compulsion to have to be the one in charge, in control, at all times. Both Season 1 and Season 6 Jack are still powered by their need to fix things, but their motivations for wanting to do so are different.

What I didn’t buy so much was Hurley’s “At least it wasn’t me.” I may be saying so out of a slight sense of my own disappointment, but I caught in Jorge Garcia’s delivery more than a touch of regret that he didn’t step up before Jack did.

Other things:

Jack’s neck started bleeding — something he first noticed on the flight back from Sydney, still as mysterious as ever. A literal bleeding in of the original timeline into the sideways timeline?

We get teased with the prospect of finally seeing who David’s mom is. Any guesses?

Who let Desmond out of the well?

I liked the breakout scene, featuring Ana Lucia as a shady bribe-taking cop.

Strange men keep giving Kate dresses.

Speaking of Kate, what did you think about Jacob’s explanation for why her name was crossed out?

Finally, as we look toward the finale (!!), what do you most want to see happen? What’s left unanswered for you?

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I’ve been reading a good deal of posts and tweets and other sorts of status updates about this episode, all from people who were absolutely devastated, reduced to a blubbery mass of tears, over what transpired in the second half of this episode.

Me? Not so much.

It upset me, for sure (my refrain last night was “THAT WAS NOT OK”), but just as I wasn’t terribly moved by Sun and Jin’s reunion a couple weeks ago, their deaths didn’t have much of an emotional impact on me. I couldn’t really figure out why until Alan Sepinwall offered a succinct reason: “the show lost sight of the two as individual characters.” (Read the rest of his review here. After I read it last night I had half a mind to simply link to it for this post.) I’ll add this: after they were brought back together, the show didn’t have anything else for them to do. Ji Yeon, as with so many TV babies, is a complete afterthought (the second-most popular reaction to this scene, after “noooooooooo!”, is “What about your daughter?”). I had a feeling in the last episode that one or both of them were doomed. And the show could not sustain just ONE of them dying. That would’ve been worse. So while I don’t think killing of Sun and Jin was fair, I do recognize it as a sort of necessary thing. And while I don’t think it was the most amazing piece of storytelling that Lost’s ever done, Yunjin Kim and Daniel Dae Kim were both incredible.

There were other things that got to me more, including but not limited to:

Hurley breaking down on the beach. That was more gutting for me than watching Sun and Jin die. (Conversely, Jack crying at the ocean? Seemed gratuitous and strange.)

The brief glimpse of Jin in the hospital in the Sideways world, just after he dies in the real world.

Sayid’s exertion of free will. That was a noble death. Or second death. All the zombie-like behavior he’d been displaying paid off in that brief moment when Sayid was himself again.

Sideways Jack and Locke’s scene at the end of the episode, when Jack quotes Faraday (“what happened, happened”) and Locke (“I wish you had believed me”) and talks about how it’s OK to let go even though he hasn’t quite figured out how yet. I could watch that scene over and over. It’s just beautifully acted.

And other things that I thought were awesome:

Sideways Cooper’s fate was more satisfying to watch than Real Cooper dying. Even though Sideways Cooper was apparently a helluva guy. I love the spin that the Sideways world gives that fraught relationship, making Locke responsible for his father’s condition rather than the other way around.

The bomb countdown SPEEDING UP after Sawyer removes the wires. For all the times that countdowns stop at 2 seconds to go, to have a bomb programmed to fast-track detonation is something I’ve never seen before, and I laughed out loud.

The return of Action Jack. As with Sayid’s zombie existence, I’d gotten so used to Jack’s passivity, which appears to be in full swing even at the beginning of this episode, that when he pushed Locke into the water I punched the air and whooped. It’s possible, though I feel strange saying so, that I am fully on board with the return of Jack as the show’s hero.

(Huh. I just remembered my dream last night involved getting chased by zombies in some sort of mountain village and barricading myself and others inside a school. I’m going to blame Buffy, Lost, and my addiction to Plants vs. Zombies for this.)

Yay, Bernard!

And seriously, for all my meh-ing about Sun and Jin dying, the submarine scenes were truly Lost at its best. They recalled Charlie’s death, they reminded us that the water is always ominous on this show, and they were excellently dramatic and intense.

I am a little pissed off that Frank seems to be dead, though.

And I only have one question/potential problem: a few episodes ago (“Everybody Loves Hugo,” to be precise) Richard and Ben and Miles trooped off to blow up the plane. Clearly they didn’t accomplish that goal. So what the hell happened to them and where the hell are they?

UPDATE: OK, I can’t believe I went and posted this thing without mentioning the biggest part of this whole episode, namely that now we know for sure that a) Smokey always intended to kill all the candidates and b) that he can’t actually do this himself. I think I neglected to include it earlier because it’s something that we all pretty much already knew, right? Or at least suspected? I’ve been working with that theory from the beginning, so. Yeah. Still. That’s pretty huge. And it looks like next week is going to be more about Jacob and the Man in Black, perhaps giving us more from MiB’s perspective. Can’t wait.

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Well, now.

Well.

I didn’t take many notes as the show aired — compared to last week’s “Happily Ever After,” this was a relatively uncomplicated, straightforward episode in which characters move, the plot moves, and no new mysteries or questions crop up. In that, it was highly satisfying. There were still a few things I could’ve done without — the explanation for the whispers is one of them — but I’ll get to that in a sec.

Hurley has been the most lovable character throughout Lost’s run for a number of reasons. He’s the kid who always gets picked on, the kid who never gets chosen for big adventure, the kid who gets beaten down time after time but still believes that people should be treated with respect. Plus, he’s a sci fi nerd. He is The Underdog, and everybody loves The Underdog. It is profoundly satisfying to watch Sideways Hurley because he’s living the Underdog Makes Good narrative. He’s preternaturally lucky and supremely successful, and he’s also still essentially Hurley, believing that everyone deserves compassion and respect. Hurley the Humanitarian. Look what happens when a boatload of money falls into the right hands.

There’s a theory floating around the Lostverse that describes the Sideways Universe as a world in which all of the characters get what they most wanted in the Real Universe, though it comes at a price. I’m having a hard time applying it to Hurley. Actually, I’m having a hard time applying it to most of the characters, based on what we’ve seen of their Sideways existences. It’s easy with Locke — he gets Helen, though he’s still in a wheelchair. (Possibly he gets Helen AND his father’s acceptance.) Desmond gets Widmore’s approval, but not Penny. Sun and Jin get to be together, but Sun gets shot (endangering their unborn child). Sayid gets to be with the woman he loves, but not really. No idea how this theory applies to Kate, Claire, Sawyer, and Jack, and with Hurley . . . all I can think is that the lottery money isn’t cursed, but then it never was. He was never in a mental institution in the Sideways world, so maybe his most urgent desire was to not be paranoid and delusional. Anyway. This is mostly a sidenote that got out of hand. Back to the episode.

Libby! About damn time. Hurley placing a fresh flower on Libby’s grave tugged at my heartstrings; seeing her again after all these years was immensely satisfying. Libby’s ability to remember the Real Universe, and Hurley’s flashes of it during their first kiss (again with the heartstring tugging), means that there’s at least two more ways to break through the Sideways Universe, aside from having a near-death experience. Granted, Libby’s mental state and her ability to see the Real Universe is kind of a chicken-egg situation, and I’m not sure which came first. However, she was in Santa Rosa in the Real World as well, and I can’t help but think back to Season 2′s “Dave,” which ends on that shot of Libby in the Santa Rosa rec room, staring intently and rather madly at Hurley.

Do you think Libby knows what’s going on here? That’s my question. I like the idea that she does. It’s reminds me of the way all the Glory-fied crazy people in Buffy the Vampire Slayer‘s Season 4 know what Dawn really is.

It was equally satisfying, as it has been all season, to watch Island Hurley come into his own. He’s had the occasional Moment before, but he’s carrying himself now with such quiet purpose and strength that he’s almost a different person from even the Hurley in “The Lighthouse.” And yet, he’s still essentially Hurley. He can’t keep the truth about not seeing Jacob from Jack. And that conversation, where Jack says that he’s pretty much OK now with following someone else, that was a nice moment. In my notes, I have it as “Jack learns an Important Lesson. Finally!”

I wasn’t expecting to see Michael again, but I did like how he appeared just after Hurley chides Libby for being the one dead person he hasn’t talked to, as though the island is taking the piss. “We’re not going to give you Libby, but here’s her killer. Psych!”

What I didn’t like? The explanation for the whispers. The idea that the Island is purgatory for souls who can’t move on is so unsatisfying for reasons I can’t fully articulate but should be obvious enough that I don’t need to. And maybe that’s not really what it is, purgatory. Maybe “moving on” means something other than “to Heaven.” What I’m hung up on is why Michael’s even there. I thought he’d fulfilled his duty to the island or whatever at the end of Season 4, on the freighter. Just before all that C4 blows up, Christian Shepherd appears to him and says, “You can go now.” Was it another “Psych! Just kidding. We’re going to need you to do this one other thing, but then I promise you can go” situation? Man, the Island is an asshole.

But I did like the knockout rolled-out ending. All of our original castaways, save Jin, are together. Finally! The look between Jack and Smokey was deliciously drawn out and intense. I wonder whether Jack will point out to everyone else there that Sayid is not really Sayid anymore. I don’t think that Kate or Sawyer have cottoned to this yet. (Speaking of Sawyer, I’m a little disgruntled that he hasn’t been doing much of anything other than confronting Smokey with things that Smokey has done. “So you went for a walk, huh?” Enough of that.)

That Smokey was going to toss Desmond down the well was telegraphed from the minute we saw the well, but did Desmond know that was going to happen? I’m thinking he did, because I’m still working with the idea that the latest EMP he experienced gave him the ability to see the entire picture of what was and what needs to be. Because he’s still so very ZEN about all the crap going on.

And if I’m not mistaken that’s the donkey wheel well, right? Although Smokey did mention that there were other wells all over the island and so maybe he tossed Des down a different one. That this happened in tandem with Sideways Des RUNNING OVER LOCKE was nothing short of super fantastic. Locke’s face, as he’s lying on the ground watching the Real Universe flash before his eyes, looked very much like his face after he was pushed out of the window, so that’s interesting even though I’m not sure what it signifies, if anything.

Other observations:

• So long, Ilana. I think you deserved something a little more dignified than going the way of the Arzt, and I hope we still get the backstory on how you became a Jacob disciple (Jacobite? Ha), though I guess that’s not likely, what with 5 episodes left.
• Small moment, but one I loved: Ben following Richard.
• Also loved Ben confronting Des, on the suspicion that Des is a pedophile stalking his next victim. LOVED that Des says he has a child named Charlie — subtle indication that he’s fully conscious of both his existences.
• Finally, the mysterious island boy! We’re agreed that he’s the same boy that Smokey saw earlier in the season, the one who warns, “You can’t kill them,” only older, right? Are we still agreed on the premise that this is Jacob? So now we’ve seen kid Jacob and pre-teen Jacob, yes?

Jacob’s a phoenix.

I’m only half-joking.

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Whee hoo! Sorry for the delay, but I didn’t want to post this until all the blog transfer stuff got sorted. Don’t get too attached to the way it looks — I just wanted something other than the default generic blog theme. And with that, here’s this week’s episode nutshellified:

Well. That was some fucked up shit. G’night everybody!

(Kidding. Obvs.)

Dork observation: This season’s episodes have been repeating Season 1 in terms of who each episode centers around, they’ve both gone from Jack to Kate to Locke to Jack. Tuesday’s episode should have focused on Sun, then, but instead it focused on Sayid. And yet! S1E5 was called “House of the RISING Sun,” while S6E5 is called “SunDOWN.” Neato!

“Sundown” had the first Sideways world installment that didn’t feel as though it forced connections between people (yes, I noted the passing glance between Sayid and Jack, but at least Jack wasn’t the attending physician on his brother’s case). Keamy was the last person I would’ve expected to see back, but it made absolute random sense that he’d be the shark who’d loaned Sayid’s brother money. And that it was Jin locked up in the meat locker also made total sense — Keamy was the one who was going to get the watch from Mr. Paik. I think he’s wearing it, too. (I didn’t get to watch the previews for next week — does it look like it will focus on Sun? That would be nice, because what the hell happened to her when Jin was taken away?)

I was weirded out not that Nadia was married (the minute I saw the flowers in Sayid’s hand I knew that’s what would happen) but that she married Sayid’s brother, even though Sayid still loves her. The whole “I don’t deserve you” business was so Victorian romance literature, too, and I’m not sure I liked it. Also, remember that Sayid’s brother is the one their father berated and belittled for not killing a chicken. Then Sayid had stepped up and killed the chicken for his brother, so it stands to reason that his brother would turn to Sayid for help of the killing kind again.

I don’t think it much matters at this point, but was Sayid’s trip really to translate contracts for an oil company? Or is that a cover for what he was doing in the original timeline — which was to help the CIA capture his former friend-turned-terrorist. It was Nadia that the CIA dangled in front of Sayid as bait for helping them. But in this timeline he’s clearly been in contact with her already, so maybe the terrorist aspect doesn’t exist in the sideways world. (Doesn’t explain why he carries her photo around with him, unless it’s to always remind him that he’s not worthy. Sideways Sayid = Sydney Carton.)

Also, if you’re going to introduce a boomerang in Act One, you’re going to have to have it break a vase in Act Three.

On the island . . . DAMN. Two main things:

1. How many times in the last five seasons has Sayid either directly stated or implied that he was already dead? Something dark has been growing inside of him for a long time, I’d say from the time he tortured Sawyer.

2. Why is it that Sayid always has to prove himself through violence?

The initial fight between Sayid and Dogen was pretty fierce, but I was taken out of the moment when Dogen sees the baseball fall off the table. Like it’s his Rosebud or something. And when Sayid asks Dogen point blank why Dogen didn’t kill him then, Dogen responds indirectly with the story of how/why he’s on the island. I didn’t much care for that. And besides, I thought Dogen didn’t kill Sayid then because he’s not able to kill candidates any more than Smokey.

Do you think that Dogen knew Sayid wouldn’t be able to kill Smokey, or was Sayid not able to do it because Smokey managed to speak first? Was Dogen hoping that Smokey would kill Sayid instead? Because that makes no sense, as Dogen must know that Smokey’s not able to kill the candidates (or is that something that I made up?), and it’s an awfully big risk for Dogen to send out a man who will be easily corrupted because his scale tipped the wrong way. And when Sayid actually kills Dogen and Lennon (shades of Michael killing Ana Lucia and then Libby), in the miracle pool of healing where he had actually died as well, it was like Sayid had found a new source of strength. And he was so scary looking. The look he gives Ben? shudder.

And now because Dogen is dead, Smokey can enter the temple (I’m not sure why he can’t before, why Dogen’s breath somehow makes the ash work as protection). We see Smokey wreak the same sort of disaster that he did at Jacob’s place, only on a larger scale. Alana and Frank and Sun and Ben showed up out of nowhere (I missed you guys!) and I really thought that Sayid was going to kill Ben. Again. (“Why! Won’t! You! Die!”)

But everyone got out of the temple — we don’t see Ben actually leave though, which makes me wonder in a fuzzy sort of way — and Kate goes with Claire and Sayid and is TOTALLY PERPLEXED/creeped out when she sees Not-Locke. It would appear as though Smokey is perplexed as well, but I don’t think he’s going to look a gift horse in the mouth. Definitely curious to see what’s going to happen there.

“Catch a Falling Star” was never creepier.

So in terms of advancing the plot, this was a good episode. At least we got to see Frank and Sun et al, even if for a short time. Is Jin still at Claire’s camp? And where is Sawyer?

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Abandon hope, all ye who haven’t seen this week’s episode. Like last week, I’ll start with some BS about last week’s episode, so don’t look down, and hit “n” now.

What I forgot to mention in last week’s super-lengthy post on “What Kate Did”: Jack and Dogan have an brief, quiet conversation in which Dogan explains that he does not speak English in order to keep himself at a distance from his followers — a buffer, for when he gives them orders they don’t like. Specifically, he says, “I have to remain separate from the people I’m in charge of.”

At the end of that horrible horrible Season 3 episode, we learn that the Chinese characters tattooed on Jack’s arm mean “He walks amongst us, but he is not one of us.”

Similar, wouldn’t you say? Way to justify the bad episode, Lost people.

Onward. In scattered fashion.

1. Locke-centric episodes are always good, aren’t they? And “Sideways World” (as I guess it is officially known) Locke is in such better shape than Original World Locke. How great was it to see Helen? And they’re getting married!

2. Helen suggests eloping and says “we’ll just get my parents, and your dad” — so does that mean that things are OK with Cooper? Is Sideways Locke in the wheelchair for a reason other than his dad pushed him out a window? He still must’ve been conned out of a kidney because he and Helen meet at that anger management group — although again, maybe this is another sort of destiny issue when they’re supposed to have always met each other so they meet under different circumstances, but that’s all speculation.

3. Hurley’s streak as luckiest man alive continues when his Hummer does NOT get scratched by Locke’s wheelchair ramp. Excellent callback to Season 1, in which we learn that Hurley owns a box company.

4. And Hurley tells Locke that things are going to work out, sounding very similar to Jacob at the moment Locke falls from the 8th floor window.

5. When Rose tells Locke about living with cancer, and accepting that there are things that she can’t do, I was reminded of their conversation on the island, after one of the (many) times Locke’s legs are hurt (I think it’s when the blast door of the hatch falls on him?) when she tells Locke conspiratorially that they both know that his leg will heal faster than Jack told him it would.

6. As nice as it was to see Helen and Rose, it was hilarious to see Ben. As a European history teacher! Complaining about the other teachers not making coffee when it needs to be made!

7. Locke’s alarm clock made the hatch noise. NICE.

On the island:

1. Seeing things from Smokey’s POV was pretty rad. I still want to know how a man became able to shift into smoke form.

2. The kid: A young Jacob? Why would he appear as a youngster, though? Was he brought to the island as a kid? Or has he risen from the ashes? Or is this kid someone completely new? Locke can see him but Richard can’t. And Sawyer could see him. I think this has something to do with candidacy.

3. Why would Richard not be a candidate? Maybe because he was brought to the island in chains; that is, his path was not made up of free will choices in the same way that all the choices the Oceanic Flight 815 people’s were. And all of the candidates, with the possible exception of Jin, have seen people who are meant to be dead or otherwise could not possibly be where they are. Jack sees his dad, Hurley sees everyone, Sayid sees Walt way back in Season 2. Sun does see Christian after coming back to the island. On the other hand, all of these people with the exception of Sun have time-skipped.

3a. Or maybe Richard’s not a candidate because he’s got a different sort of job. (See note about Ilana, below)

4. All the candidates had corresponding numbers, and those numbers were THE numbers. Whatever that means. Curious: we don’t see Kate’s name. Curiouser: One of the Others, back in Season 3, had complained that “Shephard wasn’t on Jacob’s list.” Two possibilities: 1) The Shephard referred to in the cave isn’t Jack. 2) The names in the cave aren’t Jacob’s list.

5. I caught “Littleton” as a name on the ceiling, with “313″ next to it. Also “Mattingly” and “Domingo” and “O’Toole” and “Jones” — Mattingly and Jones were names on the uniforms that some of the Others, including Charles Widmore, were wearing when they captured Juliet, Sawyer, and Faraday in Season 4. Curious, indeed. I am also pretty sure but not 100% sure that I saw “Chang” written down. Pierre, or Miles?

6. It’s possible that Frank is a candidate, according to the end of last season. On their way to the temple, Bram asks Ilana why Frank’s even with them, and she says that he may be important, and he says “You think he’s a candidate?” And she doesn’t answer. Ilana is on some sort of mission for Jacob; she’s also one of the few people on the island that Jacob did NOT touch — he visits her, but wears gloves, like he’s going out of his way to not touch her. I wonder if Ilana = the new (or a failsafe) Richard? As in, not a candidate, but essential to the protection of the island?

7. This issue of candidacy is one of those answers that prompt new questions, and while I’d hoped that this final season would have fewer of these in favor of more straightforward answers, I realize that it’s still early in the season. But according to Not-Locke, everyone was brought to the island because they are candidates for taking over the position of Island Protector. He doesn’t believe the island is anything special — such a change from Locke when he was alive, and the only thing that mattered was protecting the island. I think this is our cue to not trust anything he’s saying — CLEARLY the island is special.

8. And trust, instead, how flipped out and terrified Richard is. Richard tells Sawyer that Not-Locke is planning on killing everyone on the island, I think through manipulating them into killing each other, the same way he got Ben to kill Jacob — because as the young kid who may be Jacob said, “You know the rules. You can’t kill him.” I think he means that Not-Locke can’t kill all the candidates himself. Why would he want to kill all of them? So that Jacob won’t have a successor, and Not-Locke wins the game.

8a. Not-Locke tells Richard, “Come with me, and I’ll explain everything.” Sounds a lot like the Devil tempting Eve with the fruit of knowledge. (Please let there be more to this than a biblical analogy. That said, it may behoove us to (re)read Paradise Lost.)

9. Not-Locke throwing the white stone into the ocean: “inside joke.” HEH.

10. I would not have pegged Sawyer as a Stooges fan. But I guess that’s appropriate. (“Search and Destroy?” SUBTLE.) And I loved that Sawyer knew right away that Not-Locke wasn’t Locke. How many times has Sawyer followed Locke somewhere during the course of this show? I can think of “The Brig” in particular — another case in which Locke manipulates Sawyer into doing something — but I think there are more instances.

11. “This is the weirdest damn funeral I’ve ever been to.”

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