>I think it's funny that MIB
>told Richard the same thing
>Dogen told Sayid about trying
>to kill XLocke - both
>before sending him to do
>it and after he came
>back. "Don't give him
>time to speak ----
>you let him speak."

Based on that, don't you think MIB would have offered the same advice to Ben when he "killed" Jacob at the end of last season? Jacob spoke to Ben, telling him that he didn't have to do it... that he had a choice. MIB would have known that Jacob wasn't really dead when he pushed him into the fire pit, so what did he gain in this game he is playing with Jacob?

Overall, though, I did like this episode. It gave me some answers I already "knew", but it's still good to get the confirmation and check the questions off the list. It gave me a good story about Richard getting his wish to live forever, then realizing the curse (and frustration) of a wish granted.

I also liked how the writers had Richard tell everyone that they were really dead and were in Hell. You would know from earlier interviews with the writers that it had been confirmed they weren't dead, but I liked the bit of a joke by the writers to throw that in early in the episode.

I liked the MIB reaction at the end of the episode, as well... kind of his way of taking Jacob's analogy about the cork in the bottle and saying, "But what if I just break your bottle, instead?"

If you don't have time to do it right the first time, when are you going to find time to do it again? - Anonymous