All this new responsibility and split factions is starting to make my head spin. Sawyer and Kate are in bed with Smoke/Locke, but they apparently aren't loyal. Staid is evil, but also merciful towards Zoe/Tina Fey? Sun and Jin are around, but they really just want to be together and go home. Richard and Co. just want the plane to blow up.. and stay out of their way! Jack and Hurley are learning to let go apparently and protect the island and each other by other means. And Desmond, well, Desmond is kind of an anomaly here. If all the characters of Lost were a deck of cards, he would be the Joker; the wild card mixed in with the Kings and Queens of the island. Jacob and El Smoke/Locke are of course the players of the game.
Desmond obviously is hiding something. To extend the card game references, he seems like the only character left (other than perhaps Jacob) with an Ace in the hole. That's good, because the mysteries of this show are beginning to dwindle. I mean, we still don't know how they're going to eventually meld the two alternate realities. And we also don't know who the hell the Kid in Rags is. Desmond seems though to be an on-going mystery throughout the series. How did he become the way that he is? Is he "The One"? If he's not "The One", then who is? Is it Jack? Hurley? None of the above? Is there even a "One" to begin with? Who is Smoke/Locke really? These are big questions remaining.
A couple mysteries were solved this week. One of them is "the whispers". I groaned when we were ham-handed an explanation via Hugo and Michael spelling it all out for us. I think we could've figured it out ourselves, but this show promised us answers, so I guess it feels like they have to explain them letter for letter? I don't know. I think I'm just a bigger fan of explaining by showing, rather than spelling it out so blatantly. Hugo has been like the Harbinger of explanation for the audience. I could probably pull up a reel of instances where Hurley has said what the audience has been thinking this season. It makes his dialogue more of an annoyance, and I'm used to Hurley's dialogue being just humorous and light-hearted. But again, this comes with the territory of gaining rank in the show. Maybe things will start to balance out next week, as both camps seem to be mostly merging.
God, this sounds way too much like a bad episode of Survivor. I'm wondering who they'll "vote off" next week. I guess I forgot to mention that Ilana evaporated into TNT ash quite randomly this week. Ben noted it odd that Jacob purposed all these things for Ilana, and there she goes, up in a puff of smoke. I agree with Ben here, it's extremely weird that they would introduce a new character this season only to kill her off so unexpectedly. And sure, she wasn't doing a whole lot, but come on. Give her the grace of facing off with the Smoke Monster and losing, or dying to save one the of the candidates. It seems very distasteful on the part of The Island. Very distasteful indeed.
Maybe people won't agree with me, and as hard as it is to write about a Hurley episode, I thought this was one of the weakest episodes of the season. The only saving grace for this episode was the twists and turns that we got to go through with Desmond. What is he hiding? Why did he run over John in the alternate universe? I'm going to ask Lost a series of questions, and I want them answered immediately!
Also if you didn't catch the end credits, there was a particularly spooky bit where they played the song from Willy Wonka where he sings in the tunnel. CREEPY, to say the very least about it. And yes, the danger must be growing because the rowers keep on rowing.
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