Series six of Spooks was almost great, though. It would've been better if the Iranian plotline hadn't petered out at the end, but still, pretty damn good.

First Keeley Hawes and now Christopher Fairbank. I can only hope the pattern holds and David Oyelowo or Matthew MacFayden shows up at some point this series.

Ah! Epiphany.

Juliet says in DOC that it only affects women who conceived on the Island.

"Fie-yuh. Exclamation point. Fie-yuh. Exclamation point."

There's also the two women in the Looking Glass, whose cover has them assigned to Canada.

I think that's only if you go through the magnetic field, instead of the safe bearing of 325/305 degrees.

My mistake, I meant Tom shows up between days 75 and 79, so there's a four day buffer in there, as well.

The injury via suicide attempt thing doesn't count, though. That's part of the protection Jacob granted his Candidates.

If this had been a book series, without having to worry about real world logistics and actor schedules, it probably would've been even better.

Actually, they axed the outrigger shootout because it was supposed to be Ilana shooting at them, and Lindelof and Cuse killed her off prematurely.

Like I said to another commentator last week, this show was all about the dichotomy between the facade/deception and the truth, and the truth often had a pathetic quality to it.

"The Variable" works well where it's at, but Miles's abrupt decision to stay on the Island during the S4 finale definitely seems like it was the result of a cut episode and epiphany for his character.

I absolutely love that line reading, because he is so at the end of his rope by that point.

Those alternate endings were definitely fakes, because their deaths would never have had the same impact on Jack as the guy who kept telling him how special the Island was. It's only the shaman/priest who could properly goad Jack into becoming a knight of faith.

I never felt it needed to be expanded; it's right there in the title. Jack is a stranger, and these people have strange ways. We, the viewers, don't really need more than a glimpse of their ways to understand the shape of it.

Well, so did Mr. Eko.

I feel like they wouldn't have specifically shown the Man in Black taking Yemi's form in season three if they hadn't been building up to something with that. Plus, there's that great foreshadowing in "Dead is Dead" where Ben tries to summon the Smoke Monster and instead Locke walks out of the jungle. Or the…

Lost was, and always has been, a series of morality plays. The answers were always secondary to the character work.

Now for my Woody Allen impression. I'm a neurotic nerd who likes to sleep with little girls.