are you him? yes i'm not.

I just watched an entire episode of Lost that seemed to consist solely of things that technically happened last week.

First, we rewind to what happens after the pirates kidnap Walt. Jin is all kinds of missing, and Sawyer and Michael fight like an old married couple, a lot. We get to flashback to Michael’s past and seeing Walt taken away from him, but not before Michael gives him a stuffed polar bear. There goes that polar bear reference again. And how many different times can they show Walt being taken away from Michael? It's like the same flashback ten different ways.

Then, we rewind again to last week to watch Locke going down the hatch after Kate, and have a nice chat with Desmond, who I now realize is the guy that was running up and down the stadium steps with Jack in one of his flashbacks last week. Kate gets locked up in what turns out to be an oversized pantry and has a chocolate bar before climbing into the vents, and now we learn that she gets to watch the standoff that took place last week between Jack and Desmond. They basically took the last ten minutes of last week’s episode, and stretched it out into its own almost entire episode.

Meanwhile, back in the ocean, Michael and Sawyer get attacked by what appears to be a possessed shark bred by the “others” but somehow survive and find themselves drifted back towards the island come daylight. Here they find Jin, who has polished up on his English enough to sputter the word “others” and wouldn’t you know it, here they come. With big spiky sticks. I certainly wouldn’t want to end up on THEIR bad side.

Oh yeah and btw, The Martha Stewart Apprentice is getting some god awful ratings, but I am personally rather enjoying it.