So Brown Bear Daughter and I are caught up on back LOST episodes, and we watched the one tonight.

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I’ll start with my good list/bad list.
LIKE: Hurley, my Number One Best Guy on the Island, Jin telling ghost stories in Korean, Sayid, still the most level-headed of all the men on the island, Spunky Sun, Rose (I want her back).

DISLIKE: Locke the Loser, Kate the User, Jack the Sap, Juliet the Spy.

AMBIVALENT: Charlie (kind of whiny but still cute), Claire (a good match for Charlie), Desmond (still running), Sawyer. I like Sawyer With Attitude, but Sawyer Mooning Over Kate is a little hard to stomach.

Ben’s in a class by himself. What a complicated character! Could he really be as omniscient as he appears to be? Definitely not likeable, but Ben’s keeping the whole story going.

Joseph Heller and Catch-22. Has anyone here read Catch-22? I haven’t although I know the basic meaning of the phrase; isn’t it supposed to be an Army term, d—— if you do, and d—- if you don’t? Desmond was in a bit of a sticky predicament. So if he hadn’t saved Charlie, would the parachutist have turned out to be Penny after all. Of course not. How many times can he manage to save Charlie’s life? Maybe Dominic wants off the show at the end of this season.

Why did the monks decide to “fire” Desmond? Because he drank a bottle of their best wine? Did I miss something there?

Desmond keeps having these visions. He’s a prophet, like Abraham. Maybe he keeps having the visions of Charlie’s death because he’s supposed to save Charlie’s life each time. Otherwise, it seems that if Someone really wanted Charlie to die, He’d quit sending the visions. Desmond’s never told NOT to save Charlie; what would you expect him to do? Or are the visions Satanic? Or is someone praying for Charlie? Poor Charlie. It might be hard to be Desmond, but it would really be a pain to be Charlie. I always thought Isaac had the more difficult test of trusting his father, too. After all, Abraham heard directly from God; Isaac had to trust that his dad wasn’t insane, climb up on the altar, and see the knife coming down.

I have some questions and observations abou the previous episodes, too. Did the Others take Locke’s father with them when they left? If so, why were they so reluctant to “forgive” Kate, who as far as I know had done nothing to them, and perfectly willing to take Locke’s dad, a nasty piece of work if I ever saw one?

The Nikki and Paolo episode was a detour, but it was a nice imitation of a murder mystery. I read that Sawyer was even reading an Agatha Christie mystery, Evil Under the Sun, during the episode.

Oh, and I knew that Juliet was evil from the beginning. I don’t know how evil she is; she may have been blackmailed into working with Ben. Nevertheless, she’s bad.

And Jack is blind. I hope Sayid decides to ask some questions—and get some answers. I’m worried about Sun’s pregnancy.