return of the smoke monster

TV has started picking up with the return from rerun land and new episodes of Desperate Housewives, Scrubs, The Office and some others. It's been a challenge catching up on shows this week, but it's Saturday night and what else is there but to do but stay home and sit on my lazy ass to watch some quality television?

One item of note this week is the return of Lost. There haven't been new episodes on in so long I've sorta forgotten the plot and have to stretch to remember what is going on. Oh yeah, they are trapped on an island. Except, instead of flashbacks to tidbits of people's lives from before they are on the island, there are flash forwards of people's lives from after they get off the island - except I don't think we really quite know just how it is that people get off the island.

In any case, Ben's daughter Alex totally gets killed because he tries to psyche out the bad guys by saying she's not actually his daughter, and they totally call him on his bluff. And this pisses him off greatly so he disappears into some secret tunnel and releases the smoke monster! I can't believe Ben controls the smoke monster! Actually... yes I can.

In the flash forward, Ben and Sayid meet up in Iraq and decide to start killing lots of people in revenge of Sayid's wife (apparently he marries Nadia after he gets off the island) being killed. And apparently she gets killed by Penny's dad. And the hunt is on. I wonder if Ben brings the smoke monster off the island with him?