Hey, I'm correcting a lot of people on here. School's in session!

Yeah, we save you, cuz you were alone. Certainly wasn't a crossbow-wielding badass who would burn this place to the ground. Didn't see him, or set a bunch of zombies on him. Nope.

Another person calling it a bottle episode. Do none of you understand what a bottle episode is?

OK, for real, why is everyone calling this a bottle episode?

Why are people calling this a "bottle episode"? This is entirely out of the bottle.

This was not a bottle episode. A bottle episode is one where the show saves money by using existing sets and no guest actors. This was LITERALLY the opposite of that.

An episode with an entirely new set and almost entirely guest actors is the polar opposite of a "bottle episode".

We need to find Ollie to take him on a cross country road trip.

It's two hours long, and they both just make the sandwich, all the while glowering at each other. They never, you know, say it, but you can tell both of them think the other one is doing it ALL WRONG.

I'm not familiar with it, but a quick perusal of the Wikipedia page sparks my interest.

That is likely the reason Eko is killed.

Yeah, it reeks of victim blaming. "Hey, if you didn't want us to murder you, you should have THOUGHT ABOUT THAT before you got on a plane that was going to fly over the Pacific."

Eh, that's more retcon-wank than logical. Especially since invisible-whispering and throwing objects around isn't really in Smokey's demonstrated skill set. Appear as dead people? Sure. Smoky smashy-smash? Sure. But what happens in MBTC? Not as much.

Actually, I agree with that— the fact that despite all of this, Charlie isn't using— that's more interesting. On some level it's about how Charlie isn't given the same latitude that, say, Locke is, because of his heroin-addiction past. But given that he's not using, then the questions of What IS Happening to…

Well, that's true. But it seems like the Others buy it a little TOO much, save Juliet. And, of course, Juliet was never quite "all in" to begin with. She was just a specialist brought in for a specific purpose and essentially held hostage. But their attitude is less "what we did was necessary" and more "we didn't…

And there certainly are elements of the Afterlife that are left ambiguous. Like that extremely helpful mechanic played by Jeff Kober in "What Kate Does". He's strangely prominent for a character who we never saw 'alive'. Maybe he's a guy Kate met after she left the island for good.

Maybe the Hong Kong plot tells the story of her getting downgraded from "utter badass" to "middle tier mercenary".

Well, Sarah is also a horrible person. As was her first fiance, Mr. "So if she's paralyzed, does that mean I can't have sex with her? I'm outa here."

Yeah, but the Others get all uppity about how Ethan "a good person doing nothing to you" or "we had a surgeon. His name was Ethan." If they had spun it that Ethan had lost it, he was doing things that the Others didn't condone, then we'd have something.

A week? I'm not quite there in my re-watch, but I think that Sun & Jin's reunion can at best be measured in hours.