LOST 4.4: Eggtown

I don't have much to say on this Kate-centric episode. As with most LOST episodes, I enjoyed it more the second go around. But this entire episode serves as little more than a set-up for the final twist.

And boy, I think that final scene is great.

But most of the episode was kind of hit and miss. I still don't buy into the Locke as dictator bit. He was criticizing Ben last year for living in houses and cooking chicken...now he's all about it. GIVE THE MAN SOMETHING TO DO. When Locke isn't doing things, the show tends to flounder.

I like that the Kate-as-fugitive storyline is finally finished. And now that it's finished, I'll be interested to see how Kate comes into custody of Aaron.

So yeah, it was another "set-up" episode. Set-up episodes are good, but I can't wait for the payoff episodes. I have a feeling that they're coming soon.

LOST 4.5: The Constant

HOLY CRAP! Not only was "The Constant" the best episode of season 4, it was one of the best episodes of LOST that's ever been produced. This was episode 5, but to me, this almost felt like it was as good as any of the season finales. I flippin' LOVED it.

One of my gripes of season 4 thus far, is that with Hurley and Kate episodes, they're more character driven than mythology driven. And I didn't find either one of their episodes all that engaging. But with "The Constant," it was both character driven and mythology driven.

It was great to see that the LOST writers were able to make a story where the dramatic push is driven through a storyline that seeks to explain things.

And it seems like last night's episode laid some groundwork that answers will start to be delivered through.

Some questions and answers that last night's show raises:

- Now that it's been answered that peoples' consciousness can move between/through time, what does that mean for the nature of people's flashbacks. Are people going to be able to go back into their past and change things?

- Did Oceanic 815 really crash on September 22nd, 2004, or did it also go through the timewarp of the LOST island? So Charlie asked "where are we," but should he have asked "when are we?" Did they crash in a timeline when Christian Shepard is still alive? Is that why he showed up on the island?

- I think that it's concluded now that Rousseau's "sickness" was the sickness that Desmond and Minkowski were talking about. The sickness of being stuck in a loop where you keep jumping back and forth between this time and another time.

- Hurley's mental ward friend, Leonard, was at one time stationed close to the island? Was he also stuck in a loop where he couldn't stop jumping back and forth between the island and the present day. Was the reason why he couldn't stop reciting the numbers because his consciousness was still stuck on the island?

- And to add onto a point above, Daniel remarked that the mouse was "stuck in time." What if the plane crashed in a timeline where Christian Shepard was still alive and that the Universe course corrected his consciousness into the only place where it would live...into his island crashed body. Is Jacob under a similar predicament?

That's all I have for now. Brilliant! Brilliant! Brilliant!

- Matt