I knod of feel like nothing has been happening the past few episodes. The flash sideways are sometimes pretty cool, but they seem to be the only parts of the episodes that have plot.
I love that Jack is awesome again. And Ben's line about being so terrified about losing his power that he lost what really mattered was perfect. I also liked the "the island won't let us die" thing being used again and when Lapidus told Ben that he was supposed to be the pilot of Oceanic 815, imagine how different my life would be if i hadn't slept in that morning. Then Ben says, "Different? The island got you anyway!"
But besides those few moments I just felt like nothing happened. There was no driving plot, it was just a bunch of people having crises and Jack being awesome. The Flash sideways didn't even make sense. The daughter of a French explorer ends up living in LA and going to school at the same school Ben, Locke, and Arst teach at? And out of all the students at the school, Alex is the one that Ben has a really good student teacher relationship with? It just seems like that connection was a bit of a stretch.
But now that Widmore's coming and everyone seems to have landed on one side or the other, hopefully the story will pick up again.
And I totally called that Widmore was the person that Jacob told Hurley was coming.
By the way. Remember my friend that asked how Jack had a son all along that we didn't know about?
Today she told me that Jack and Hurley were going to get infected next because everyone who's name was a number was turning bad.
Then I sent her to lostpedia to look at their article about the candidates and she comes back and asks "wait! this website says Charles Widmore is Daniel Faraday's dad! Does that mean he and Penny are brother and sister?"
:lol:
EDIT: So I missed what I thought was the first 30 seconds of the episode yesterday and I went back to watch it. It turns out I missed over nine minutes of the episode. It was all pretty significant stuff.
I think with that set up it changes my feelings toward the episode. All the stuff about Napolean and Elba, being the emperor of the island without having any real power. Ben, Arst, and Locke talking about the principal loving his position but forgetting he was there to help the kids and then Locke saying that if the man in charge doesn't care about the students, maybe it's time for a change. All that juxtaposed with the fact that Ben killed Jacob and that he genuinely regrets that he let Alex dies so he could hold on to his power. And the fact that at the end of the episode he put Alex above his desire to be in power instead of using her as a pawn like he did in his struggle with Widmore (who is now coming to the island so that should be interesting).
Also, Roger Linus' line about "imagine how different our lives would have been if we had stayed, what you would have become!" was chilling and then compared to Lapidus' similar question about his life if he had been on flight 815 and Ben's answer....AMAZING!
I repent of my non-belief. This episode was spectacular.
