I know we didn't get any mysteries solved this week, but I think by bringing Danielle back into the story we are taking a big step forward. She's been on the island for 16+ years and she's not an Other. I think she'll bring us some answers.

I thought this was a good episode and a good episode to bring us back to the "Island."

The theme of hope applies to many things -- hope for this show after all; hope for the cursed Hurley; hope for a reunion of Danielle and Alex; hope for the return of Jack.

I liked it and feel we needed something like this after all the torture and torment Kate and Sawyer went through while with the Others.

And, I'm glad to see Danielle back and can't wait to see how she reacts when she gets to meet Alex!!

I think I am on a different page than everyone.

I did not think was such a great episode. I like Hurley but I just felt it added nothing to the overall "mystery" of the show. Are we back to the numbers now? Did we need to see why he ate so much? Have we learned why he was in the institution yet? Yeah we get it...more daddy issues.

I did like the episode but maybe not for this season.

I know I am in the minority too but Sawyer is just not working for me anymore. I know we are supposed to be loving him but I'm not. It's too easy. He is being written very one dimensional now. I can compare the Jack/Sawyer/Kate triangle(and not even as a romantic one) like Star Wars with Sawyer being the Han Solo character.

I know that liking Jack is very unpopular.
From the beginning I did not care for Jack and still don't really, but his character is intersting to me. He seems to have more behind him or more layers. I like the storyline with the Others and what role Jack is going to play with them. Is this the split of two groups that we heard about a long time ago?

A PhoenixMons Creation

Zomibiebaby,

We're on the same page..this epi...not that good.

I agree that people thinks it's cool to bash Jack. I happen to like him.

Unfortunately, I'm afraid people are going to start thinking it's cool to be a LOST-basher as well. I'm not calling anyone out on that, just making an observation

I think it's perfectly fine to throw in a episode here and there that doesn't "answer life's big mysteries". I think Hurley said it best, last night - "We haven't had much fun lately".

We did find out that Rousseau has learned her daughter is probably alive...

I partially agree. I think this must have been stuff from the cutting room floor on past seasons re: Hurley. It didn't really add much new and interesting to the Hurley story line.

I'm still enjoying everyone else, though. It was nice to see everyone back at the beach, interacting. And the discovery of the van (and poor Roger) was fun.

This season I'm starting to enjoy LOST just as much for the character story lines as the mystery. Maybe the producers finally rammed that down my throat enough in interviews, that I started to listen.

Zombs, I lvoe you, but I couldn't disagree more.

I find Sawyer to be an incredibly complex and interesting character, full of surprises. This guy has so many layers, I don't think anyone could ever peel all of them back. And the hints we do get of what is underneath I find incredibly vulnerable, touching, and intelligent.

Jack is just the opposite to me. He strikes me as a massively self-centered and egotistical jerk with a messiah complex. He likes to think of himself as all mysterious and complicated, but I don't see him that way. The more they show me of him, the less I like him and the less interesting he is.

And the whole Others thing just bores me to tears. I don't care about them and I don't care about what happens in their world. I keep hoping that I'll find something interesting in this story line and there have been hints (which have gone nowhere so far) that it is all significant. But, so far, I haven't seen anything that makes me feel invested in that whole thing.

I prefer the beach Losties, hands down. I was so glad for this episode because, finally, the characters I care about and who I invested 2 years of viewing and obsessing about were finally on the screen.

And I thought the last 10 minutes of the show was brilliant. The episode reintroduced us to some best-loved characters interacting wonderfully and then slammed us at the end with some real forward movement in the plot and some great character development for Sawyer. I found it satisfactory in every way.

And, I admit, no Jack or Others made it very enjoyable for me. *shrugs* It just doesn't interest me. Perhaps further developments will change my mind, but I'm not into it yet after all this time.

Geg,

Nice post....

It's weird, but for some strange reason when I read your posts, I hear them in the voice of Sandra Oh from Grey's...

LOL! That's pretty funny because I'd have to say that of all the characters on that show, she's the one whose personality probably is closest to mine.

Pretty insightful of you.

We'll just have to agree to disagree.

To me we are supposed to like Sawyer and he is easy to like. I agree completely with how you describe Jack...self-centered, egotistical and a messiah complex. He is very hard to like and that is why he is intriguing to me, especially for a protagonist in a show. I still am not sure if Jack is one of the "good guys" or one of the "bad guys". It is very ambiguous.

As for Sawyer he appears to me as a con man who deep down just wants to be loved. Seen it before. But as you say, things could change. I don't dislike him, just find him a cardboard character so far.

A PhoenixMons Creation

Hooray for this ep!


And hooray for Roger Workman!

The nice thing about Lost is that it is a show of many faces and themes all rolled up into one. I happen to prefer the more "mystery" oriented incarnations, but this one was interesting, although not in the typically exhilarating way of Lost like in the Desmond episode. Anyway, too much of the same thing becomes a bore. This was inventive and something different. It still felt a bit like falling action though after the reunion on the beach. The one cast member being missing and a need to reunite the whole group is getting a bit played out though. I mean, if Jack made it back, then there wouldn't be much driving the story. Neither can the others and the losties reconcile, because the others have a way to get home, and the show would basically end, since they'd send the losties on their way, unless of course locke, kate, or rose destroyed the boats.

anyway, a little human drama was cool, and now there's a hippie van on the island. maybe they can make use of it somehow, although once that tank of gas is out, that's the end of the van

for poor Roger WorkMan, who went out on a beer run, flipped over and died and no one ever cared enough retrieve his remains. Or the beer.

Amen.

Or the
beer

Amen and Amen

DRONES