Lost
1. "I watched them all die." So, Eloise, not content with just sending your own son to his doom, you decided to send everyone else to doom as well? You're in grave danger of making Ben seem like a kindly individual.
2. And just when I was under the impression that we had already seen the absolute limits of Kate's selfishness, I am again proven wrong when OH. MY. GOD, Kate. You are seriously telling me that you would be willing to have everyone else on Oceanic Flight 815 die, just so you can get laid and live with a child you kidnapped? Including the child's mother? (I'm going with the assumption that Claire's dead, and while, yes, I'm aware that Claire planned to give the child up for adoption, for all we know, the kid would have wanted to get in touch with his biological mother eventually and it would have been nice for him to have a biological mother to get in touch with.)
3. The Dharma Initiative isn't really going to risk damaging and scarring the perfect scruffiness of Sawyer's face, are they? Are they????
4. And yet another demonstration of why it's so critical to pay attention during U.S. history classes: "So you fought in the Korean War?" "Dude, there's no such thing!" "SUCKERS! Also, seriously? Grab a history book sometime."
5. Dr. Chang, some, "Well, it's good to see that you mastered time travelling, son," comments would be appropriate just now. I mean, I realized everyone's in a bit of a hurry, but geesh.
6. You'd think that the island would have clued Island Eternal Advisor Richard more into things. Do you think that Richard will at least get an iPhone or a really awesome netbook out of this eternal life in airconditioned tents deal, if he's not at least getting to know that his leader is off on little time travelling jaunts and hanging himself in filthy hotel rooms in Los Angeles?
7. Awwwwwwwww, does the island not talk directly to little Ben? I think someone's jealous :).
8. You know, I never do know what to say to the most recent version of the time travelling dude that I just dug a bullet out of (and I also have no idea how to construct that sentence so it's grammatically and time travelly correct) but "Want the bullet?" seems to work. Followed by "…that you were going to die. Certainly glad that didn't have to happen." "Actually, Richard, it did." I can see with all of this time travel wonkiness we're all going to need to work on figuring out appropriate verb tenses.
9. You know, I can tolerate Radinsky in this episode only because I know he's going to die. Time travelling bonus! Incidentally, people trying to change the course of events so that they won't happen/didn't happen/haven't happened/verb tenses scare me, can you please ensure that no matter what happens in what time line, Radinsky ends up getting very painfully dead?
10. THANK YOU, OTHERS! It's about time SOMEBODY threatened Kate for this ongoing "It's ALL about ME" crap.
11. THANK YOU, OTHERS, PART TWO! See, Kate? When you think just about yourself, and not OTHER 323 passengers on Oceanic Flight 815, you GET SHOT. Although I'm guessing you will be learning nothing from this experience.
12. Yay Sayid!
(And it's kinda touching that he's still cradling the little Ben-shooting gun.)
13. "Hi, I'm Kate. Yes, yes, Sayid, I did save Benjamin Linus even after you tried to save all of us and a lot of other people by killing little Ben because I'm stupid that way. Don't believe me? Note that I'm actually telling you this, which just proves the point."
14. Kate: "Since when did shooting kids and blowing up hydrogen bombs become ok?" I dunno, Kate. Maybe right after you started kidnapping children and saying that letting 324 people crash on a seriously screwed up island and not surprisingly generally dying became ok. (Although I agree with her point here, I'm just saying that coming from Kate, it loses most of its moral thump.)
15. Jack: "I'm not wrong, Kate." Jack. Jack. You're always wrong. Especially when you've turned to hydrogen bombs as the answer. Especially whenever you say you're not wrong, because whenever you say that, you turn out to be incredibly wrong.
16. This is just a random thought, but, wouldn't it be a good idea for the Others to have some oxygen tanks and underwater cave diving training in the event of potential needs to explode hydrogen bombs?
17. Oh, and how large is that sub? That's a lot of evacuees.
18. Yay Sayid! "If this works, it might just save us all. And if it doesn't, at least you'll put us out of our misery." Plus, let's all give him kudos for continuing his top notch hair regime even in jungle and underwater cave diving conditions!
19. Great dialogue in this episode: "I'm beginning to think John Locke may be trouble." "Why do you think I tried to kill him?"
20. You know what I love about all of these ancient, underground temples? All of the conveniently placed - and still working - torches. I envision little gnomes scurrying around ancient passageways with nicely sized wooden sticks and old cloths and plenty of oil and cigarette lighters.
21. Can you kill an evil ghost thing like Jacob? I'm hands down willing to bet not by the end of this season.
22. General note: Is anyone else bothered by Richard's clear "I haven't got a clue what's going on here?" attitude? I mean, if the eternal guy doesn't know what's going on, who does?
(Not me, for certain.)