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Jeremy Paxman is doing the full Morris, about the spree shootings earlier today, so it seems like as good a time as any to escape into the brighter, sharper world of Lost.

Oh, yeah, I forgot… Previously on Lost, three beloved characters got obliterated. One literally, and two disposed of at the bottom of the ocean, where their bodies won’t ever be retrieved. Sigh.

So, we start on Jack’s eye – this shot is a favourite convention of the show, and if somebody hasn’t already compiled all of them together, somewhere, it’s bound to happen soon enough.

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So we’re scant episodes from the end of the line, and Lost decides to take another step out of it’s ongoing story to tell us a tale of the distant past. As with “Ab Aeterno” a few episodes ago, I’m guessing it’ll give us some interesting but not vital background, that this late in the day will frustrate those of us eager to see how it all pans out, but that we’ll probably appreciate a lot more on later viewing.

I think if I was writing the final season of a show like this, with the working knowledge that geek love is a painfully co-dependent and resentful sort of love – as likely to exert the full, grumpy weight of thwarted expectation and entitlement as it is to just revel in the exhilaration of being taken on a fun ride for forty minutes of every week – and I knew that we’d managed to get the incredibly versatile and captivating Alison Janney on for an episode, I think I’d probably be unable to resist the mischevious instinct to use her as a mouthpiece for a fond yet firm assertion that I felt the audience needed to hear, too.

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So Jack saved Locke, and he thinks he’s a candidate for a surgery that Jack is developing. John Locke doesn’t want to be a candidate, though. He seems to recognise the phrase. Jack could do with having House MD on his side.

Jack wakes to Sayid telling him that they’re on Hydra island. Sayid even makes a joke. Actually, I reckon Sayid might be back on the turn again.

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Jack’s sweetest moment in ages was last episode, where he deferred to Hurley. Now he asks Hurley’s permission to go and talk to non-Locke. It is a lovely moment.

And now non-Locke admits what we had already worked out – that he was the vision of Jack’s father from way back in that first or second episode. He says it was because they needed to find water. And that makes a certain amount of logical sense, but it’s difficult not to see that it was a pretty cruel choice to make on non-Locke’s part.
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I am so far behind it is unreal. And you guys are all trying to talk about the finale and I have to go like LAH LAH LAH LAH with my hands over my ears, so here we go. Going to shimmy through.

So, like, Libby! I love Libby! I’m so glad they’re actually doing something with her character. I already know that Mr Sulman will have been thinking of me when he saw this episode, because I’ve been going on about her since, like, she died and that.

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So Desmond wakes up, and apparently he hasn’t been quite conscious since we last saw him, when Benry attacked he and Penny.

Is it me, or is this the first time Jim Robinson has actually been civil to Desmond? He seems generally nicer this season, doesn’t he?

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I got the feeling that last week’s episode of Lost was deliberately intended as a breather episode before the final half of the season kicked off, and I’ve been looking forward to this one all week. Not sure if I’m dissappointed that it’s a Kwon episode or not – I love this couple, but they seldom move the story forward very much, and that’s what people want right now.

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A Richard episode? What the..? Maybe we’ll get some answers about Richard, yeah?

(Spoilers, yes?)

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What, no previously on? But however will I know what’s going on in this episode?

It’s pretty cool, actually, because this one soon gets into a call-back to a familiar plot fragment that hasn’t been referred to in a couple of seasons. I much prefer it when they trust the viewer to remember this shit for themselves.

SPOILERS PERSIST!

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Benry! Benry! Benry! Benry!

Benry:

Yes, yes, I know the rest of you are probably over calling him Benry, but I’m not even remotely tired of it yet…

There was a time not that long ago when an episode that started with Benry looking confused and terrified would have been both a quite appealing prospect – he was an ‘orrible individual, wasn’t he? – and a novelty bordering on an impossibility. One thing we’ve known about Henry Gale, since not long after his introduction all the way back in Season 2, is that he is always in control.

However, this season has shown us genuine growth and development in his character, with him taking a genuine knock with the discovery that Locke wasn’t Locke but Non-Locke, and that he had been played for a fool. Manipulation, after all, is the field in which Benry really made his name, and for him to be manipulated himself is unheard of.

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