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Meh?

Am I right?

Mostly meh, anyway. I don’t think it’s wrong to expect Lost to follow up one kickass episode with another, because they’ve done it many times before, but this was so far from kickass that now that I’m sitting down to write this I find myself mostly disappointed in it. But anyway. Some good things did happen, and some fun callback stuff happened, but some pretty ridiculous stuff also happened, so. Onward.

Let me get this straight: In the Sideways world, Sun and Jin are secret lovers but not married. Mr. Paik learns of this tryst and sends his daughter and her lover as bodyguard to LA for Keamy to kill Jin. That seems extravagant, even for Paik. I call contrivance.

I did like that Keamy and Mikhail were working together — the two guys who just! won’t! die! (And Keamy STILL didn’t die! Hilarious.) It took me a couple scenes to figure out why Mikhail looked different — he didn’t have his eye patch. And then Jin shot him in the eye at the end. Ha!

Also liked that Sayid gave Jin the means to free himself, but didn’t cut him free himself. Kinda Jacob-like, to only give someone the means to free oneself. Even though Island Sayid is an Apocalypse Now soul-dead zombie.

Knew Sideways Sun was going to get shot, and it stands to reason that she would be pregnant — that would’ve been the something she wanted to tell Jin at the hotel. Nice for the Sideways plot to end there on such a cliffhanger — will Sun survive? Will the fetus? Might JULIET make an appearance?

On the island — I don’t know how I feel about the whole aphasia thing. I think it’s mildly ridiculous but I don’t really mind it so much. I like the symmetry inherent in the way it’s Jin who speaks fluent English now, and Sun who can’t. I like that Sun’s speech was taken away so that the full force of her objections to Richard’s plan to blow up the plane couldn’t be understood. And of course, Island Sun loses her ability to speak English as we learn for sure that Sideways Sun never learned English at all. So that’s a nice connection. Even if the whole thing felt like something better suited to daytime soaps.

I thought Jack’s talk with Sun was well done as well, tomato metaphor notwithstanding (that was more than a little ridiculous. “No one told this tomato that it was supposed to die.” All I needed was a reappearance of the moth from S1). Jack seemed very Jacob-like. On a more shallow note, I like how shaggy Matthew Fox’s hair is right now.

So Widmore’s people took Jin because Jin had mapped out the terrain for the DI in 1977 and they need him to help them find other pockets of unusual energy. Because . . . they can’t read the maps themselves? They’re maps! Whatever. I don’t like Zoe (or maybe it’s the actress — either way, I don’t like her at all) so I don’t have a problem with the idea that she’s a freakin’ geophysicist but she can’t read a map.

And the electromagnetic pockets — this is what’s going to keep Smokey on the island, channeling that energy into something larger than the pylons? To use as a weapon or means of moving the island? How moving the island keeps a cork in things I don’t know. Is Widmore looking for something specific? Maybe he’s looking for something off those maps, which would then render my disdain for Zoe’s lack of map-reading skills moot. Still don’t like her.

But then Jin sees pictures of his daughter for the first time and if you hadn’t prepared for this like Jenn had then you don’t know Lost, my friends. That was very, very sweet. Also nice to see Bpo Bpo again.

Oh, and of course, DESMOND. So Desmond is “the package” (I’ll say!), which means I was right! Sort of! when I guessed it would be Desmond that Jacob was referring to in “The Lighthouse.” Because he is special, the rules don’t apply to him, etc. so it stands to reason that he would be instrumental in stopping Smokey/aligning these timelines. And man, the look between Desmond and Sayid was like an episode in itself.

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