SPOILER ALERT

SPOILER ALERT

SPOILER ALERT

* How did Kate find Claire after ditching her? Why the hell would a woman 36 weeks pregnant decide to be besties with the woman who terrorized her with a gun to her head and stole all her shit? Why would two of Lost‘s most experienced writers throw a credibility-destroying development like that into one of the show’s final episodes?

* I’m pretty impressed that even after all these years, they’re still finding ways to have the Others do heinous shit but still leave open the possibility that it might almost kinda sorta be justified. I just wish people would remember that the fact that Destro fought Cobra Commander once doesn’t make him a good guy.

* So…the Others really are nominally servants of Jacob, but occasionally their Lazarus Pit turns people evil? Which most of them act like anyway? I guess we’ll get this ironed out eventually.

* Sawyer just saying “fuck it all” at this point makes a lot of sense. Josh Holloway’s handling it well. It’s funny, though: The Missus asked me toward the end of the episode “So why is Kate chasing after Sawyer now?” and I had no idea.

* Always fun to see Ethan. What great casting William Mapother was! The first of many, many compelling villains on this show. (Or the second, considering how Locke was initially handled.) It took me a minute to accept that hey, he’s not evil here, things worked out pretty good for ol’ Ethan Goodspeed in a world without the Island.

* And see, before anyone starts, I can accept synchronicity, as in Ethan being the doctor who delivers Claire’s baby. That’s how the world of the show works. I can accept smoke monsters and an immortal guy in eyeliner (I think that’s a Grant Morrison character, actually)–that’s how science fiction and fantasy work. If they’d worked a little harder to show that Kate finding Claire was a function of one of those things, fine. But they didn’t. Neither character seemed the least bit fazed by Kate pulling up to that bus stop, beyond a “Oh great, this lady again” look from Claire. It sure wasn’t a “What the fuck, how did this person find me again?” look. I’m pretty much stunned it got on the air. Oh well, maybe this means they got the rotten episode out of their system early on and it’s smooth sailing from here on out.

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