>: 46 THREE MINUTES

another great episode, they really ratcheted things up a bit, yas.
everyone got a nice beat or two, the entire cast except for rose and
bernard. feels like a while since we've seen claire or the koreans.

so...13 DAYS AGO. that freaked me out. first ..ago caption we've been
given and don't think there hasn't been reason to before now. so,
we're right back in The Hunting Party. nice to see the other half of
some of what already went down.

"when they take me out, there's huge rocks with a big HOLE in the
middle by the beach. you'll know when you see."

yes, walt, but what's UP with those ruins? put it on the list of questions.

kick off TODAY with michael burning a piece of paper. what's on it,
d'ya think? the names of the people who just happen to be in the swan
waiting for the, ah, postmortem. again probability stretches past the
bounds of coincidence. i really hope the BIG ANSWER has something to
do with probability manipulation because otherwise having hurley in
there with the other three, the four michael happens to need..well, i
said it's a stretch.

only 11 rifles and pistols total? no, the others took five away from
them. ah, sweet 16.

(we didn't need to see 13 DAYS AGO every time, michael without the
sling on his arm was enough for me)

great takedown of michael by zeke. were these the shots that jack and
locke heard and started running toward in the hunting party? i think
so, zeke says they're right behind them. that's going to be an
interesting episode on the rewatch.

eko's parable about the young english boy and the dead dog in hell was
excellent, love that shot of those hands wiping the blood of the
floor, wringing out the rag.

charlie found some of the vaccine in the palette! man, that is
probably going to be real important in a season or two. lasts 9 days,
216 hrs.

sad how happy everyone is to see michael back, what a coward.

kate digging ana-lucia's grave. didn't see that coming. that little
square she had with jack and sawyer sure took an odd turn.

michael was gagged in the clearing the entire time! that's nuts, of
course, i just believed zeke when he said he had no idea where michael
was. and alex is still worried about claire. that was the one snafu,
zeke was supposed to call out to alex by name to bring out kate and he
did not (we never saw her face, of course, because she didn't wind up
bringing her out, but he definitely called her name)

everybody have an irish drink for ana and libby. 'we got caught in a
net'. classic.

i didn't fully process this line from sawyer last night (after being
referred to as 'him') re: sayid coming along. 'yeah, well HIM says
even though pippi longstocking and the damn grape ape'd make ideal
candidates for the dirty dozen, we might wanna bring the red beret.'
so. many nicknames.

thought eko was about to have an electromagnetic revelation but that
damn button went off. man, he just completely switched gears, down
with the church, up with the button. and charlie with no purpose.

finally, we get to see the others' camp. or at least their fake camp.
new dharma logo with a square in the bagua. that one dude who took
michael's blood freaked me out, his parting line 'see you in the funny
pages' is the salutation used by joe quesada, EIC of marvel comics
(who has tapped both lindelof and grillo-marxiuch [sic] to write
projects).

her name is miss clue? did i hear that right? what's the story here?
zeke seems deferential to her, like she outranks him. 'did walt ever
appear in a place he wasn't supposed to be?' well, ask the dead
blonde, she'll tell you all about it.

(i really didn't need all the TODAY/AGO titling, the shifts were obvious enough)

great how sayid read michael, even michael seems to sense it. we know
the torturer can see through anything.

did the island send vincent to charlie with the statues? great scene,
him hurling the virgins mary into the ocean. and THERE'S locke, took
him a while to crutch his way back home. two appearances and not a
word said.

'i screwed her.' james ford wins again! him realizing that jack was
the closest thing he has to a friend puts a lump in your throat before
the lock and load 'at least we get to kill somebody' for the break.
live, sawyer.

miss clue has big, freaky eyes. why can't THEY go get fake henry back?
why can't they grab the four? i don't think our people have upgraded
anything to the point that they pose a challenge to the others. is it
the swan? is it location? ethan seems to have been the only person to
deal directly with them and he was a mole. is the fact that they're
over by the swan in the middle of all that cerberus activity an issue
for the northern others, who were camped much closer to where the tail
landed?

walt! you look a year older! wait, you are. this brings up an
interesting point, something's going to have to happen with him, we
can't have him around in a couple years with hair on his chest and
what not unless we get a time jump forward, everybody else still looks
like they could've crashed three months ago, but the kid is about to
hit puberty. they make him take tests, no surprise there. 'do you want
me to put you in the room again?' is disturbing in its vagueness.

how can michael be so stupid to believe them and betray his fellow
survivors? loved the 'who's james ford?', was already wondering if the
list said that or sawyer. she spells jack's name shephard, it's
usually shepherd, yes? go, minutiae.

and everyone gathers for the funeral. they really should have shown
rose and bernard here, they were fellow tailenders and then every
character would've been shown, a rarity. locke takes out the big knife
and gets up, healed by the island. heading where? i didn't get the
vibe that it was anywhere close. is he pulling a sayid and heading up
the beach? strange development. he looked out on the ocean first,
didn't look like he saw what was coming. but looked like he was
leaving the group.

'and here we are again.'

so, sayid wants to use michael to create an advantage. tense tense.

you knew hurley was going to change his mind to go with michael
mid-eulogy. and everything falls into place. i was sure ready for the
strings to swell for the last shot of michael, throw in some ominous
low-register over that lone cello and out. but...

'BOAT!'

adrenaline surge. who's this? smart money is on our favorite wild-eyed
irishman, we know he had something docked on the island and that
vessel looks like the kind of thing one might use to race around the
world. did it slip loose, is he even on it? below decks? is it even
desmond or anything to do with the dharma initiative/others at all? or
an entirely new wrinkle?

well, a great deal will undoubtedly take place next wednesday. it
certainly looked like everything was a lock for some sayid army
shadowing michael's gang of four, now who even knows if that
expedition will take place? it was crazy enough to drop those two
ladies from the cast, but there's no reason to assume that everyone
isn't fair game again next week. remember, last year they: blew up
artz before the title, left us with raft burning, walt abducted out of
nowhere, sawyer shot into the ocean and jin diving after him, and
finally blew up the hatch with desmond staying in shape and quietly
making his own kind of music below. people were furious.

i can't wait to see what will happen next.

namaste, island faithful. and good luck.