I haven’t talked much about Lost this season – like so many returning shows, I’ve had a tough time getting back into it. I know, I know – there are those of you out there who think it’s the BEST SEASON EVER! and all that, or, you think the show keeps jumping the same shark and are sort of hoping The O.C. will start slapping it around a bit on Wednesday nights.

Nevertheless, as last night’s ep was the last new one until…gulp…February, I figured it was time to chime in with my thoughts:

1. I don’t get the Juliet/Benry dynamic – who’s really in charge around there? She orchestrated and staged this elaborate Of Mice And Men/cue-card directorial debut last week telling Jack not to believe anything Benry said, but this week I guess Julie has decided Jack should start believing Ben. Pick a direction and go with it. I happen to know that a lack of structure will eventually always lead to a civilization’s downfall – even if you’re a fertility doctor. The sheer fact that Juliet declared she was really good at following directions just confirms my suspicions that just because you’re cute and blonde and seem sincere, that does not make you trustworthy.
2. The one chick – can’t remember her name – the one who confronted Kate and said she was wearing her dress while Kate was turning big rocks into little rocks, and then carted kicking and screaming through the middle of camp…what’s her relationship to Benry? Wife? Disgruntled administrative assistant? Spurned one-night stand?
3. Awww…Kate was married…and in love…then drugged her husband and ran away because taco night wasn’t her bag. I did notice the two tickets to Costa Rica were on Oceanic, so I’m guessing she cashed both of those in for a one-way ticket to Sydney.
4. Awww…Kate and Sawyer had sex! The one thing I did find odd about this was that Sawyer would do it in front of the prying eyes of six different cameras and subject Kate to possible humiliation, but I also guess this is why I am considered to be more “realistic” and less “romantic.” I always find a way to kill a mood. It was refreshing though, to see Sawyer being so vulnerable…and I guess this pretty much seals the deal on who Kate wants to be with.
5. But, poor Jack. He was so genuinely concerned when Kate came to see him – until he realized she was willing to sell them all upstream to save Sawyer. I’d probably try to get off the island ASAP too, because pickings is mighty slim back over on the other side of the island, what with all the hot chicks dying one-by-one…or at least, the ones who don’t have kids or aren’t pregnant.
6. These folks have buried so many people in the last couple of months, you’d think they’d come up with better eulogies. “Mr. Eko was a nice man, and we went all the way back to camp to get his prayer stick so he could be buried with it. Vaya con dios, buddy…and hopefully we’ll live to see tomorrow.”
7. What did you all think of the “cliffhanger”? I couldn’t figure out if it was a genuine cliffhanger (Does Kate run? Does she take Sawyer? Does she really remember the story Jack told her?) or if the loud, heart-pounding music just made me feel like it was a cliffhanger.

February seems so far away…