Surely even the most ardent, um, skeptic can make the claim that plot hasn't mattered. This season is pretty directly related to season 1. The lighthouse doesn't change anything - it's the mechanism behind what everybody's been saying since Season 2 - that Jacob has a list of people he's chosen and brought to the…

Yeah, I'm going to amend that: Jack smashing the mirrors was either entirely beside the point, or was itself the point. That sounds ridiculous, but my point is it's obvious that getting Jack up there to turn the wheel (Jacob likes to make people turn wheels) was either specifically to get him to break the mirrors…

I didn't think it was filler either, that just seems to be a relatively popular opinion here. I thought the reveal of a huge wheel with everyone's name on it, and that the numbers are compass points (especially with all the compassy stuff we've had in the past, Michael having to follow the exact right course, etc),…

Free will is the variable in Faraday's equation, and it's the variable in the game, whatever that ends up being. Once your pieces start to move of their own accord, the game changes (if you'll pardon the on-the-nosery).

I agree that Jacob didn't seem especially concerned with the mirrors. That's all beside the point, whatever the point is. But about Jack: He's had to swallow a lot of seriously weird shit lately. Destined to go back to the island and crash mysteriously again, in 1977? Sure! Zombie Sayid? Why not! But I think because…

Stuff Happening
I'd just like to point out how much better we're doing right now than we were in say, Season 2, in terms of "nothing happened/nothing was answered." Filler episodes used to be Sawyer and Hurley wackily catching frogs, or hey, check out Jack's tattoos. Now a filler episode has Claire batshit nuts and…

Tim Tebow's girlfriend?
This changes everything.

You're probably right, but that raises the question of what it actually means to be the Leader. What kind of power does it give you? Widmore and Eloise, who were co-Leaders (right?) know all kinds of shit that Ben didn't know, or Locke. So what is the Leader's job, and why does someone like Widmore want it bad enough…

Whether or not they were there specifically to get Charlie to do his job at the Looking Glass, the fact that Desmond saw so many possible ways for Charlie to die before he eventually did introduces the idea of alternate timelines (and the idea that what happens, happens) all the way back in s3, which is cool.

I just wanted it to be AlternaSawyer because I like the idea that they'd find each other in 2007. And my immediate impression was that her flash-sideways was to the other present, the other 2007 where they'd ultimately end up, not the plane crash.

Re: Midnight's Children: Awesome.

I've always been so heartbroken for Locke, since the beginning. The fact that he was used, over and over, and then his freaking body is used too, that's just fucking sad. I went back this week and watched the Pop-Up-Video episodes on hulu, but I couldn't even make it all the way through the Jeremy Bentham episode…

I don't know how many times we saw Juliet fall, but I cried like a girl every single time.

The island's underwater in 2004. Maybe it gets donkey wheeled out of there at some point between then and 2007 when everybody's hanging out there. And um. Blow dried. I'm giving myself a headache. I am super happy to have this show back.

I think they needed her to have that "cup of coffee" glimpse at the alternate timeline as she was dying. So she could tell them it worked. And so we can later go "zomg!" when she says the same thing to Sawyer in the other universe. Or something.

Jack could very well remember Desmond from his "see you in another life, brotha" conversation he had with him in the gym. Assuming that happened in that timeline.

See, and a lot of other people (myself included) were bitching about how the "take everybody to the Temple" plot went nowhere, but there it was. So I didn't mind that at all. Also, Sol Starr!

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Since this show has become so terrible that no one will mind or even notice an off topic comment, I would like to second your mostly-enjoyment of Prison Break. I watched the whole run recapping it for a recappy type site, and it was great fun to write about. Silly enough to ridicule but not a chore like…

Yeah, that was one of the funniest things in this episode, I thought it was charming slapstick, not atrocious slapstick. I disagree with your assessment, professional television reviewer! I actually liked this episode a whole lot. I love Awesome. Can't get enough Awesome. Especially now that I occasionally think of…

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