I'd agree that there's a difference, but the difficulty in articulating it probably comes from the fact that we've already seen the direction that the story takes. You only get the one chance to be surprised by the twists and turns, so while something like the end of Through the Looking Glass continues to blow my…

*****The Other Woman: Upon watching this live on ABC in 2008, I felt like it didn't add a lot to the story. My opinion hasn't changed that much since then, because after the really awesome Juliet-centric episodes of Season 3, I really wanted that to continue. But for whatever reason, this one just didn't really…

You should check out the Classic reviews if you haven't done so already. Myles McNutt finished Season 3 more than a month ago, so you can see how your opinion compares to the rest of us who have already commented on those boards. And if you do catch up, come over for Season 4 and beyond. It's pretty quiet since…

Stef, where you been? We've tried to start Season 4 but we're getting very little discussion. I'm going to try to alert other regulars on here as well, but if you want to jump in at some point, go right ahead. We covered the first five hours, but more discussion is welcome.

While I do think Widmore was behaving normally as well, I also believe that he may have been following Eloise's timeline from Daniel's journal, as we will later see in Season 5. (I'd say SPOILER ALERT, but hardly anyone's reading so doesn't seem to matter)

*****The Constant: Great review, Daniel. I have really grown fond of this one in rewatches, although I still think The Shape of Things to Come is the best episode of Season 4. How many other shows have done this well by a character after introducing them after Season 1? (Not only Desmond, but Ben as well)

"Homer, what are you doing?"

D'oh!

The A.V. Club

"You want me? Come and get me!"

"Dude, the Fountain of Aging must be on the sun itself."

"I wish I could come with you to say good-bye, before you all turn back in to grown-ups but I'm grounded for knocking the school over."

"Word! We'll all keep getting younger and younger until we suffer a fate worse than death: Pre-life!

Hooray! I'm a teenage heartthrob again!

Pazuzu!

I'm also going to try this again, because I think if we can just get maybe a dozen people in here, we might get a good discussion going. So I'm going to try to call out some names of the regulars and if you're still checking in on this blog, please come and join us every Wednesday, same time as when Myles posted his…

Okay, Daniel, since you've got The Economist covered, I'll take the next one…

I think the best way to get to his blog would be to click on this (http://www.zap2it.com/autho…, you may have to go far into it to get to Season 4, but there's still a lot of good stuff there. As a matter of fact, I've been reading some of the articles again as I rewatch Season 6.

I felt like that was a big surprise at the time to see Ben off the Island, but it's definitely one of those things that makes sense in hindsight. It was unfortunate that Sayid never really got to have any sustained happiness off the Island, which I guess makes it fitting that, as you said, his ending was tragic.

I agree, while it clearly wasn't planned out at that point (seriously, how could we expect it to be?), the Light vs. Dark debate always held up well for me. I don't know if you ever visited the blog at Zap2it when Ryan McGee was writing for Lost, but he brought up that topic on multiple occasions. A lot of it was…