I checked out after maybe three episodes, too. My issue with the show was twofold: 1) Unlike Lost, which used the plane crash more as a framing device than a drama engine, this show put all its cards out immediately and then tried to make us care about those cards, and 2) this show's writers are dumb. It may be that…

The EMP thing was dumb dumb dumb. What, do the radiological checkpoints have to forward their information to CTU, have them verify that the data, then forward it back? And are none of them equipped with Geiger counters?

What bugged me more about the brain scan thing
was the fact that the ultimate clue - the patient holding hands with a paternal figure who was supposed to be her father but was apparently the other father - made very little sense in the context of the cause of her illness. I get the whole Holmesian "when you've…

Well, it looks like an episode in which Kate plays a non-trivial role, which in my book can be lumped into "Kate episodes". If there's one thing I hate more than Kate as a whole, it's the love-quadrangle-turned-triangle.

Hurley's stupid questions
I think this show is one situation where I'm willing to sit through the show basically saying "this is what has been going on" for an hour, since they've done such a bang-up job establishing everything and making me care about that answer.

One upside of the "Chase speed dating" scene
is it shows the show still recognizes one of Chase's prominent features, i.e. he's a handsome twat, which the show played to great comedic effect in the first couple of seasons. Watching him trying to downplay all his qualities and succeeding in spite of himself thus gave…

According to Lostpedia, 108's surname is Wallace. So, that's, uh, something.

I actually think she nailed it. The role doesn't want another Rousseau, it wants a "look how this character has changed from how she was" method, and that kind of method requires a delicate hand. If Emilie de Ravin had made the malice very apparent, rather than implied at least at the start, it wouldn't have been…

The diplomacy one is funny. You are not funny.

Blatant trolling from, uh, a baby.

Candidacy
I'm still flabbergasted by how simple and how ingenious the "candidacy" strategy is. It fits into Jacob bringing people to the island… it reflects Ben's desire to be "chosen" and how the Smoke Monster interrogated Eko before killing him about his sins…

Also worth noting that the numbers of the candidates are (unsurprisingly) 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, and 42.

I see I'm not the only one who saw that first shot of Smokey zipping around and thought Evil Dead 2.

The plot went off the rails well before then. Hell, the "alright, here's the 12 percent for arbitrary reasons" cop-out ending pissed me off.

This episode was a moving-pieces-into-place episode. Not particularly interesting, but necessary because 24's writers are lazy.

Yeah, but consider:

Not bad
Fun ending, albeit way too abrupt. There was too much "let's end every plotline" in the writing this time.

Nice, uh, inverstie.

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