JI-YEON!!!!

Hey guys, I realize that I haven't been recapping in awhile, and I highly apologize. We're just about a week closer to the finale, so I guess it would be best for me to bring everyone up to date with what's up on the Island. Let's start off where we left off in season four's seventh episode "Ji-Yeon".
Oh, by the by, did I mention that from now on I'll be doing episode recaps with the help of PICTUREVISION?! IT'S LIKE TECHNICOLOR BUT AWESOMERERRRR! (Actually I just discovered the "Add Image" button, so yeah. OFW. :P)

And so now... I present to you...

(Warning: some foul language involved.)

OKAY. So like after the "PREVIOUSLY ON LOST..." thingy, guess where the episode opens?

On the freighter, yay! With Frank Lapidus, nonetheless. How fitting for an episode about Koreans. Anyways, Frank takes a walk around the freighter, he talks to Keamy and OMG we see Regina for the first time, but she's like paranoid and reading books upside down and all of us are like OFW.

So Frank talks to Sayid and Desmond. He's like "Room service, homies?"

Sayid: "You're not black."

And then Frank was like "Riiiiiiight. Well I hope you enjoy your beans. BTW, nice job doing a PrisonBreak from the sick bay. Nobody has any idea how you did a David Blaine thingy with the door."

So Sayid was like "I thought you opened the door."

And then Frank was like "Whatever, bizatches. I did not open the door."

Desmond like flashbacks to Minkowski who was all James Taylor and "You've Got a Friend" and we all thought at that point *COUGHMICHAELMUCH?COUGH*

So anyways Sayid told Frank "I still want to talk to the captain."

And Frank was like "Nuh-uh."

But then Sayid was like "Foschizzle, bizatch. I'm the real west side shiznit."

And Frank was like "That's my niggah."

MEANWHILE...

Back on the beach, Sun is like thinking about a lot of things like being preggers and things she could teach in Jin's next Jinglish 101 class like "I am a Slave4U" or "LOLERZ TXT U LATR!!!"

And speak of the devil, Jin arrives and he's all like "Tally ho, my darling wife. You look distraught. Shall I come to comfort you?"


So Sun is like "Sayid and Desmond left three days ago and I totally miss them but not in the I love them kind of way just the friendly kind of way because I totally love you and I would never have an affair with bald English-speaking Koreans who would gladly teach me English and be killed by my father's henchmen such as yourself."

And Jin is like "... Udders?"

Sun is like "NVM" and Jin then says in perfect Jinglish "Let's talk about baby names, lolz."

And Sun + us are like "OMG Jin we love you and hope you never die."

Jin's like "Our baby will be called Ji Yeon and she will be the cutest baby on LOST, surpassing Aaron and his chubby-ness."

And Sun is like "Mwahaha... Get me off the Island first unless you want me and the frikkin' baby to die sad, sad deaths."

So Jin is like "Deal."

And some a-hole on the other side of the world probably said "NO DEAL!" and probably half of the people who read this will be like "OMG Mi you are so corny you slay me." :D

So anyways we flashback to the future and Sun is like in Korea and all, and apparently she watches Expose in Korean. Die-hard LOST fans are like "OMG the spirits of Nikki and Paulo live on!"
And then Sun stumbles and everything and we're all like what's wrong? And then Sun is like "I'm preggers and in deep pain" and all of us are like OMG!

SUN IS ONE OF THE OCEANIC SIX!!!

L O S T

So like then we see Jin and he's like OMG I'm rushing to the hospital I've got to buy a panda.

So he buys a panda and we're all like Awww how sweet, but obviously the LOST writers and producers, sitting high in their dark volcano lair, are all like "More than meets the eye, biatch!"

And all of us were like "Transformers?! Lololerz."

Back on the Island, Jate/Jacket + Charladay return to the beach and we're all like "I sense another shipper episode coming soon" and the writers grin with evilness in their smile.

So for a moment Jin speaks perfect English, not Jinglish, and Kate is like "I don't listen to Good Charlotte anymore."
Sun was like "OMG she hit you?" and Kate basically told them everything that happened in the last episode.... And we were all like "Dude, we kinda knew that like forever ago" and Kate closed her statement with "I don't think they're going to rescue us" and we were like bitchplease but I was still like "OMG u r hot"

And then Desmond woke up and suddenly we weren't suprised that he woke up wondering why Sayid wasn't on the bed anymore and we were all like "They're surrounded by water and there's virtually no women on that boat! Good God!"

But anyways Sayid was still proper and English with "Good morning, baby. Can I pour you some coffee, honey? You were wonderful last night, by the by."

And Desmond was like "Penny?"

And Sayid was like "NVM"

Suddenly, a mysterious noteslipper slips a note through the door holes of the door which can be totally used for slipping notes!

AND GUESS WHAT IT SAID?

So Daniel, the most awesome memeber of the F-Team, was like fixing a computer and we were all wondering who would build a hotter fembot: Daniel or Sayid?

And then Sun introduces herself and Daniel shows off his awesomeness by saying "I'm Daniel", then nodding, then briefly smiling, and we were all like "DANIEL YOU ARE THE COOLEST GUY EVER."
But Daniel was being really shy and Sun was being pissed off and hormonal which is okay coz she's preggers and not naturally bitchy.

Jin showed off his Jin-glish to Jack to score some cocoa puffs, and then Sun was like "Hey Jack, I'm here to discuss something with my husband that does not involve going postal and leaving your team. Mmkay?" And Jack was like "Sure thing."

Juliet was dense enough to realize their evil scheme so she was like "You need to get off the Island, Sun. Stay with us." But Sun was like "I'm going to do what's best for me and my baby... Breastfeeding is best for babies up to two years!"

Meanwhile, Sun was being rushed into the hospital and Sun was like "Get Jin plz."

We were all like "Thank God Jin's safe and off the Island and not dead" and the only thing the LOST writers and producers could do was continue their evil smiles and Mwahahas.

So Jin was like on the phone, but we were like "Who could he possibly be talking to? Sun's in labor." And then he leaves his panda bear in the taxi and the taxi leaves him and then a bike runs over his phone and Jin has a major BF and all of us are like "Poor Jin."

So Jin walks back and he's like "I need another panda" but the store dude is like "it's on reserve" and Jin is like "I've got the money bizatch" and we're all like "Jin sounds aggressively like Jin pre-Island."

So Sun and Jin are ready to go the Camp Lumberlocke and leave Camp Lumberjack (Get it? 'Coz his name is Jack..........) but they don't know the way there so Kate is like "Do you need me to draw you a map?" and Sun is like "Yes" so Kate is like "Sure thing."

And then Juliet comes storming in like a Gestapo officer and she's like "STAY IN CAMP LUMBERJACK."

But Sun is like "Heyl naw" so she takes Jin and says "If we hurry, we can get some ho-ho's and cheez-it's while they're fresh."

And then Juliet does the most BITCHY THING EVER: "Jin, your wife had an affair." AND WE WERE ALL LIKE HOLY SHIT THAT KANYVING BITCH IS THAT HOW YOU SPELL KANYVING? IDK It's kinda like Ka-Knive-ing.

And Sun naturally responds...

With a bitch slap.

But Jin is like all confused and "... Udders?" and we're all so sad about it because Jin is like about to cry.

And they end up crying about it anyway, but Jin won't even talk to Sun and Bernard wants to go fishing with Jin and Jin's like "Okey dokers, skipper" but then Bernard realizes they're crying and he's like "Oh shit. Bad timing."

But they end up fishing anyways.

Then Bernard says "We're the only married guys on the Island, you know."

Then Jin gets all smirky and he's like "MARRIED."

But then Bernard is like "Oh dammit... I mean, not to each other...... Brush and floss twice a day. I am Rambo."

And Jin feels so inspired because Bernard is talking about karma and stuff and he's like "You do realize I am Korean, right?" but Bernard is like OFW Karma is great anyways.

So on the freighter, Doc Ray is like "The captain would like to see you now" and Sayid and Desmond are like "What are you? His nurse?"

But when they get on the deck, they realize OH NOES The helicopter is gone so they slowly start to freak out, but Desmond is the only one who's spaced out enough to notice that the Regina chick from the start of the episode is like Iron Maiden and totally like Jack at the end of last season.

And Desmond's like "We've got to save her, brotha!" And we're all like "BROTHA!!!!"

But then the Captain comes out and makes an asshole-ish first impression by saying, "Don't save her! She's got cabin fever!"

And Sayid was like "She's got cabin fever?"

And Desmond was like "She's got cabin fever."

And everyone on the freighter was like "I've got cabin fever!"

But before everyone could break into song, the Captain was like "Someone has broken our engines."

And Sayid was probably thinking "Hmm... The only people who I know have technological experience are that Daniel guy, Michael, and myself. However, I sure didn't do it and Michael is so obviously not on this freighter, so it must've been Daniel!"

And Desmond was like "Good thinking, Sherlock!"

So in the Captain's office, he shows them a mysterious box and we're all like OMG it's another LOST reference to mystery boxes, but then the Captain was like "This box is from Oceanic 815 with all the passengers dead." And the Captain knew it was obviously staged, so all of the actually observant LOST fans were all like, "WTF Widmore stages a fake crash and then hires someone and makes him think someone else did it?"

OK so back on the Island like Juliet says "I'm sorry I was being a bitch."

"Sometimes breastmilk doesn't work the way it should."

"I mean, what if you have AIDS? That can't be good, right?"

Okay so back to the future, the docs are like "Damn that bitch is huge" and we're all like Lololertz but WTF is Jin?

And then Sun gives birth and it's like the circle of life for everybody. And even though she's covered in blood, we know the baby's probably cute if she wasn't... covered in blood.

So anyways back on the freighter, the Doc is bringing Sayid and Des to a new room. He's all like "I'm sorry the last room we gave you was quite crappy. I can assure you that this next room is much crappier."

So then the Doc calls up this guy Johnson, and we're all like, hey cool it's the first black guy on the ship.

We haven't had much black people on LOST since Eko died.

I mean like the only black Islander right now is Rose, but--

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-- I mean, Michael! HOLY CHRIST IT'S MICHAEL! I'M SO SURPRISED! I TOTALLY DID NOT SEE THAT COMING!!!!

But Sayid is all cool about it. Maybe all that cabin fever made Sayid forget WTF Michael was.

I sense an ass kicking coming along.

And then Jin and Sun finally have their retribution and we're all like OMG it's an awwww moment coz he made Sun dinner.

And Jin's like so accepting about it and everyone's so happy and we're all like OMG this is like a Korean version of that scene in the Constant with Penny and Des.

And then we get back to the Adventures of Jin and the Stuffed Panda! A lot of us are like really confused because apparently the panda bear is not for Sun but he's like "I heard the Ambassador is now a grandfather. XOXO Gossip Dude."

And then he tells the nurse that he hasn't been knocked up since he got married two months ago. AND THEN THAT'S WHEN WE WERE LIKE "DOUBLE-YOU. TEE. EFF???"

So we get back to Sun and she's apparently finishing the lipstick job from the start of the episode. The doorbell rings and lo and behold:

IT'S HURLEY!!!! And he's come to devour the baby!!!

Relax folks, I was only kidding.

OMG Baby Ji Yeon is so cute. There will sooooo be a total showdown between Ji Yeon and Aaron on the cuteness battleground.

And then Hurley is like "I guess we should see him." And all of us are like, "See who?"

And then it hits us. The Adventures of Jin and the Panda was not an adventure in the future. It was a flashback.

IT ALMOST GETS AS EMOTIONAL AS LAST SEASON'S CHARLIE SWANSONG SCENE. EVERY LOST FAN AROUND THE WORLD PROBABLY CRIED WATCHING THIS. ME INCLUDED.

We miss you and love you, Jin.

L O S T

BEWARE OF SPOILERS ABOVE!!!!

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I'm Back!!!

Sorry I haven't been posting in awhile. I've been caught up recently in things and now, I'm proud to say I'm back to give you readers more thoughts and more immediate LOSTage! My next post will be the long-delayed back-to-back Ji-Yeon Meets Kevin Johnson uber-review! Prepare for the return of more LOST!!!!

Getting Ready for the Hiatus

Well, thanks to the Writers' Strike, the inevitable occurred and everyone in the production team a.k.a. Darlton decided that they needed to cut Season 4 in half to support their huge and intelligent team of writers. On Good Friday, the eighth episode of Season 4 will premiere and it will kick-off a one-month hiatus that will be spent filming the last episodes of Season 4. There were rumors actually that ABC was planning to show the eighth episode, entitled "Meet Kevin Johnson" after the hiatus, which ends around April 24 or 25, because they felt that the episode was more of a mini-premiere than a mini-finale. Honestly, I'm glad that they picked to show it prior to the hiatus. Why?

Because in the eighth episode, someone will die.

Mark my words when I say this: I have absolutely no idea who this character is since I am still sticking to the spoiler swear valid until May. I do not know who the hell will die. I have some clues but it's still not helping. I'd rather see the person die before the break and let it reverberate throughout the hiatus rather than see someone get killed when the show kicks off again in April. Seriously.

The Philippines, F*CK YEAH!

As some of you know, I am a huge fan of the Team America: World Police theme song entitled "America, F*ck Yeah!" My friends are big fans too. So, bored as we were, we decided we should make our own national version of the song, and if ever any of us gets elected to be President, we would change the national anthem to our version of the song.

The song's best part is when the band elaborates all the things that America has "pioneered". This is our list:

• Jolibee
• Ayala
• Friendster
• Gary V.
• MRT
• Bibingka
• Adobo
• Tito Boy
• Jeepneys
• The Cellphone
• YM
• Cheap porn
• Fake shoes
• Pirates
• Wrestling
• Nurses
• Prisoners
• De La Salle University
• Wowowee
• Advils
• Askal
• Halo-halo
• Lightbulbs
• Charter Day
• Students
• Yoda
• George Clooney
• Bb. Pilipinas
• Teledrama
• Basketball

GO PHILIPPINES!

Bad English Teachers

With the advent of that Bb. Pilipinas video, I thought it might be time to share a little story my dad told me once.

When he was much younger - grade one, I think he said - he had a horrible English teacher. She raised up a pin and a pen, and showed it to the whole class.

Teacher: Class, this is a hairpen and this is a ballpin.
Dad: Patay.

Carrie

I finished reading Stephen King's Carrie this morning. It was creepy. Definitely shorter than all the other Stephen King books I've read, but still definitely a good scare. I read that it was King's first released book, so that gave me an idea that what I was reading was raw Stephen King. In LOST, it plays slight relevance as Juliet's favorite book of all time. It was cool nonetheless and actually gave me an idea about the new show I'm writing about moon colonies and stuff. Look it up here soon.

THE OTHER WOMAN!!!

TALK ABOUT DOUBLE MEANINGS! The new episode of LOST ACTUALLY HAS SOME ANSWERS!!! But with more answers comes more questions... *sigh*

This week's episode "The Other Woman" was fairly great. I mean, it wasn't as excellent as last week's episode, but it comes a little short of it, catching up in last week's trail marks. Nonetheless, I became excited with the new episode since we finally got some -- and I emphasize SOME -- answers. There is much cheese, much creepiness, and much suspense in this week's LOST. Let us venture into "The Other Woman"! (Woah.)

• We kick off with Juliet making some kind of pattern with sand and rocks in a decorative feng-shui kind of thingy. Although she means for it to be an equal wavy pattern, I laugh at how unequal it is. Perhaps it is a metaphor to her life?
• How far back does this flashback occur? Is it pre-Island or Island? I haven't heard anything about a flashforward, so I don't think we can properly say that she may be one of the Oceanic Six. But then again, how would the public consider that since she was not one of the Oceanic survivors?
• Another woman enters and introduces herself as Harper Stanhope. This seems to be some kind of appointment, although I can't really quite say who's seeing who since they're both kind of doctors. Harper could be pregnant and asking Juliet about it. Juliet could be whatever she's seeing Harper for.
• Oh. Therapy.
• OK, so they seem to be off at a good start here, but my spider-sense tells me that there will be much tension as the episode moves on. The awkwardness between them is as large as a Vegas sign.
• Juliet doesn't like being treated like a celebrity. Oceanic Six-ness?
• We hear again Michael Giacchino's wonderful score suddenly come into the scene. I love he blends in the music with the emotion of the scene, lest make it. It really makes you wonder stuff like "Is Juliet really one of the Oceanic Six or are they just playing with my balls?"
• Oh, wait, she's not. TOM / ZEKE / MR. FRIENDLY IS BACK!!!
• And he's sporting a 'stache, nonetheless! Is it for real this time?
• OK, so the first flashback of the episode basically occurs following Juliet's arrival on the Island. It's probably her first week, as Harper mentioned earlier. Brings you back to "One of Us" when she first arrived on the Island.
• Aww... This is the day Ben gave Juliet her house. I think he likes her, and I totally wanna tease on that, but here's a new question: where was she living prior to that?
• Present-day Island: Juliet is re-setting up some bamboo for one of the tents or structures at the Beach. Once again, we are audience to some classic Beach-time, and even feel brought back to the final scene of "One of Us" when Juliet was tying the knot on one of the tents. We noticed back then that this was a metaphor of how she was able to tie in and blend in with the castaways while she was still working for Ben. Now I think we come to a similar metaphor, which I view as this: Juliet is finally setting her roots as one of the castaways, but has trouble setting in the way she has trouble putting up the bamboo for the tent. Yet, the castaways are ever-so-helpful to her as Sun is in helping her set up the tent.
• Jin attempts to speak to Jack in Korean. More Jin-glish please!
• JIN-GLISH! "You said... they ah friends."
• They have like all their torches up ready for the search. And then the storm rolls in. SO MUCH FOR THE TORCHES. HAHAHAHA.
• Woah. After hearing some whispers, Juliet encounters Harper in the jungle. Will we finally find out where the Others are? I've been dying to see them again!
• Some things that Harper mentions caught my mind... First of all, she has a message for Juliet from Ben. How is Ben doing this when he is still captive in Locke's basement? How is he getting his people to sneak in, get messages, and deliver them without getting caught? Second, Harper mentions that Daniel and Charlotte are headed for the new DHARMA Station "The Tempest." I then take it that this has almost no relation whatsoever to the station introduced at Comic-Con, "The Orchid." If so, what really is the importance of the Orchid, and why was it shown to us at Comic-Con as a Season 4 preview?
• According to Harper, the Tempest is storing some kind of gas, which supposedly can kill everyone. The Purge, people?
• Some more whispers, and suddenly, Harper is gone! Was that really Harper we saw in the jungle? Or was it a manifestation produced by the Island? Maybe Smokey or Jacob? Perhaps we can rule out Smokey since Ben apparently and allegedly knows nothing about it. Jacob is a slight possibility, which means Ben has the upper hand on annoying Locke. But still, how are these messages even getting through from Ben?
• The next flashback we see cuts to Juliet weeping in what appears to be a pharmacy. She hears a sound and investigates. It's the return of GOODWIN!
• Apparently, Juliet was weeping because they lost another pregnant woman. This is probably her first loss. Goodwin is great at consolation.
• WOAH. HARPER IS MARRIED TO GOODWIN. TENSION, PEOPLE, TENSION!
• Juliet knows that Goodwin lied about his burn, which was not caused by electrical faults, but rather by chemicals. What kind of chemicals does Goodwin handle? Does he really work at the power station on the Island? Is this power station the Tempest?
• OK, Juliet confirms it. The Tempest is the power station of the Island. How does it power up the Island and why is it holding gas? Is Benjamin telling the truth about giant hamsters running on wheels underground and that's what powers the Island? DON'T RULE IT OUT!
• We catch up with Daniel and Charlotte who have taken a break to look at a map. Daniel is pretty nervous and seems to be feeling enormous pressure for what he's about to do. Why is there so much pressure on him? Are his future actions really going to haunt him for years to come if he plays it out?
• Ah, Kate appears. She sat out last week, but comes back after her exile from Team Locke.
• And if Kate was a cat, she'd be curious enough to be killed. Charlotte, however, just bashes her skull with the butt of her gun. It would've been scarier if she shot her.
• Juliet: "It's very stressful being an Other." HAHAHA.
• Juliet assures Jack he doesn't want to see her file. Why not? What's so bad about it?
• In another flashback, we find that Ben and Juliet are working together. Juliet is explaining something about the pregnant women to Ben, but Ben's just going koo-koo for cocoa puffs over Juliet. Come on, we can all see it. You know it. I know it. Hell, everyone in Otherville probably knows it.
• Juliet probably even suspects it when she sees Ben's hand move close towards hers! Although she makes a quick save and pulls away before he can make a move.
• Quick note: According to Juliet, the immune system turns on the fetus during the pregnancy, but why this happens, we still do not know.
• WOAH. GOODWIN JUST WALKED IN ON THEM. JULIET AND GOODWIN ARE TOTALLY CLICKING BUT BEN IS JUST LIKE "GODDAMMIT." This IS really awkward for Ben. Cheers, folks.
• Damn, Harper is pretty straight to the point: "When did you start sleeping with him?" Word gets around Otherville really, really fast, don't it?
• Harper threatens Juliet about her affair with Goodwin. She's using it as blackmail on Juliet for Ben. DAMN.
• Cut back to the present: THAT IS A LOT OF BLOOD. WHAT IS GOING ON? Oh, wait. Locke's just killed another rabbit, never mind.
• Claire expresses interest in wanting to know where Miles came from and what Ben knows about the freighter. Personally I think that this means real trouble for Locke already and that his team is losing trust in him simply because he does not know what to do next. He's not keeping Ben alive to tell him about the Freighter people. He's keeping Ben alive because he thinks Ben knows what to do next.
• The best part about this is that Ben really is where he wants to be because he's in a position where he can usurp leadership from Locke, who is very flexible to what Ben says to him. It's like in Season 2, where just by mentioning that he assumed that Jack was the leader of the group, he already undermined Locke and made him believe that he had just a minor role in the world and his destiny was all just a waste. Ben is like a grandmaster chess player who knows how to manipulate and use every single piece of the game to his advantage.
• Claire has a good point on how the Freighter people could think that they are hostile: Locke killed one, Ben shot one, and they're holding another one prisoner. If you look through the Freighter people's point-of-view, you can almost entirely see the same point-of-view that the castaways had when the Others were "attacking" them.
• Ben is enjoying his time in the basement, re-reading "Valis" by Philip K. Dick. Hey, where are Alex, Karl, and Danielle?
• I love Ben's comment on the rabbit served to him: "This didn't have a number on it, did it?" HAHAHA.
• I find it really amazing how our images of each character evolves throughout the season and how the writers keep finding new and inventive ways to reveal even more about the characters that we didn't know already. Take for instance this scene with Ben and Locke in the basement. It was earlier referenced by Ben that they were in a similar situation in the Swan hatch. Now if we flashback to that point in time when everything was still in Season 2, we should think of our ideas and impressions of the characters. Ben, as we assumed back then, was Henry Gale from Minnesota who crashed on the Island in a hot air balloon. He seemed to know something, was very manipulative but never gave a clue that he was manipulating everyone, and gained everyone's trust until Ana-Lucia came back with the picture of the real Henry Gale. Now here is what we know about Ben: His name is Benjamin Linus, born outside of Portland to Roger and Emily Linus. He lived majority of his life on the Island, but occasionally slips in and out from time to time. He was the leader of the Others and the only person among them who talked to the mysterious Jacob. Oh yeah, and he killed the DHARMA Initiative, which included his own father. Brilliant!
• HAHA. It's Locke's turn to make fun of Ben. He gives Ben one dollar out of $3.2 million.
• Ben notes that they have a common enemy: the person who sent the Freighter.
• It's obvious to us, but not to Locke, that Ben is trying to gain Locke's trust so that he can get himself to an even better position to grab Locke's leadership.
• Flashback: A scene slightly reminiscent of Swept Away and other similar-- DAMN, JULIET! DAMN!
• Juliet and Goodwin discuss the privacy of their affair. Juliet however is worried of what might happen if Ben finds out about Juliet and Goodwin.
• ALRIGHT! BACK TO SEPTEMBER 22, 2004, BABY! OCEANIC 815 IS DOWN AND OUT FOR THE COUNT!
• The scene has been slightly edited however to include Harper having a stare-down with Juliet. I think the purpose of this scene is to clue us in that Ben is sending Goodwin to his eventual death at the hands of Ana-Lucia Cortez. However if Ben already knows this is going to happen or not, I still am not sure.
• Juliet and Jack find Kate half-unconscious (but not half-naked DAMMIT) in the jungle. She must be really disoriented. Juliet however has left them behind and gone off ahead to the Tempest.
• Next we find Locke bringing Ben to the living room to find out who owns the Freighter. FINALLY SOME ANSWERS!
• The Red Sox tape? Is Terry Francona behind all of this?!
• Oh. Ben thought this information is important than the Red Sox game, so he taped the video over the game... Ass.
• SWEET JESUS CHRIST! IT'S THE APPEARANCE WE NEVER SAW COMING! CHARLES WIDMORE OWNS THE FREIGHTER! CHARLES WIDMORE HAS BEEN LOOKING FOR THE ISLAND! CHARLES WIDMORE WANTS TO EXPLOIT THE ISLAND!!!
• But why?
• Man this episode should have been renamed to "THE REUNION OF EVERYONE WE KNOW."
• Last time we saw somebody doing video work for Ben, it was to show Juliet how Rachel was doing with her newborn son. Apparently, Alpert was doing the camera work there. Who's doing the camera work now?
• OK. Here comes the part where Ben is finally going to reveal that the man on his boat is-- DAMMIT COMMERCIAL BREAK.
• And voila! Feast your eyes on the new DHARMA Station, the Tempest! The door seems to be very bulky. How come?
• Ben and Juliet have dinner together, and Ben is as excited as little boy eagerly waiting his favorite television show like say for example, I dunno, LOST?
• And where is Alex when all of this is happening?
• Juliet is taking care of Zack and Emma. Why are they on "the list"? What the hell is "the list" for that matter?
• I have a feeling that Ben knows what he got Goodwin into. He's even trying to clue in to Juliet that Goodwin and Ana-Lucia are getting inappropriately close with each other. Ew.
• I'm curious about one thing: did Ben send Ethan to the fuselage for a similar reason?
• There sure are a lot of computers in this station. The more you think about it, it's like the more stations we see, the larger and more advanced they get. I specifically wonder about this station, the Tempest. How exactly does it power the Island? What is this toxic gas for?
• Daniel however is all geared up with a gas mask and a radiation suit. Boy, we're being prepared very much, aren't we?
• Daniel claims he is trying to stop the gas from being released. Should we believe him?
• And now, a tough-as-nails fight sequence between Charlotte and Juliet! Finally, some hard-boiled girl-on-girl action!
• So Charlotte is probably trying to stop the gas from being released. But why? Who triggered it to be released in the first place? Who is the hand of Ben that we do not see in the big picture here?
• Hey, is it me or do I hear classic sound effects reused from the Swan station computer and alarms?
• OK, so Daniel was telling the truth about stopping the gas from being released. How did they know that the gas was being released? Who triggered its release? And if it was for a cause to save everyone on the Island, then why didn't Daniel and Charlotte tell Jack in the first place rather than storming off?
• The next flashback shows Juliet discovering that Jack is a spinal surgeon. She delivers the news to Ben, who brings her into the jungle to show her Goodwin's corpse.
• Michael Emerson's acting is as great as ever, so if I'm interpreting his tone and emotions correctly, he is being sarcastic about his sincerity for the death of Goodwin, which means he knew that Goodwin would die on his mission.
• HOLY CRAP. BEN TOTALLY NEEDS A CHILDHOOD AFTER TELLING JULIET: "HOW CAN YOU NOT UNDERSTAND? YOU'RE MINE!" DAMN THAT IS TOTAL CREEP MODE TO THE MAX!
• Charlotte and Daniel bring Kate into the station, leaving Juliet and Jack behind. Here comes a scene for all you Jackets out there.
• They share a kiss and a hug, so I don't really know anymore who Jack ends up with.
• Hurley and Sawyer make their late mark on the episode by playing a game of horseshoe tossing. Sawyer makes a close hit, but it's Hurley who ultimately makes the point. Seriously, why is Hurley better at all the games than Sawyer? I mean, he's even better at killing people! While Sawyer just shoots people, Hurley runs over dudes!
• Man, Ben really is going places. The look on Hurley's and Sawyer's faces when they see Ben walking free is priceless. They have probably lost faith now in Locke, and this is probably going to be answered in future episodes.
• I just love how Ben acts like he really is part of Team Locke towards the castaways: "See you guys at dinner."
• If I was Sawyer and it was 2008 on the Island, I would have been like, "Don't let him touch the wine. Or the Wii."
• LOST.

OK, so kind of long, kind of short, kind of pointless, kind of significant. It was a balanced episode basically this week. And although some may be complaining about this episode, I for one think that the episode was good enough for giving us some good answers.

Next week, we get two steps closer to the mid-season hiatus. In the new episode, we get a flash-forward, a new member of the Oceanic Six revealed, and judging by the name of the episode, total obviousness that the last two members of the Six are probably Sun and Jin. Here's to next week! 4.07 "Ji-Yeon"!