Live blogging about tonight's LOST

10:17 PM EST: In this first act we have learned two things. One is that some people die on this island. The other is that some people don't stay dead on this island.

10:26 PM EST: Jin knows kung-fu. So far, good episode.

10:40 PM EST: Well, now we know where all that stuff went to when the ladies visited The Staff, right?

10:51 PM EST: This last act epitomizes everything that makes Lost the best show on television right now, and perhaps one of the best ever. So much mixture of joy and grief in just the last two minutes of it... wow.

It was enough to make me momentarily forget about the "five times" thing: holy crap!!

11:01 PM EST: The whole episode, especially the last five minutes, is best summed up by the very last thing said in the episode, by Hurley:

"What?"

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I haven't seen tonight's LOST yet

Through a series of circumstances that were completely unforseen and totally unexpected to happen at all, for the first time ever my lovely wife Lisa has seen a new episode of Lost... and I haven't!

I'm about to go watch it from the DVR. She said it was really good.

EDIT 12:50 AM 4-5-2007: Just wrapped up watching it. Another great ep. Maybe it didn't have all the "wham!" of the past several episodes but this was a fun one that brought closure to some things while opening up a whole bunch of others.

Personally, the most enjoyable part of this episode was what Hurley did with Sawyer. And I've realized something tonight: for all the talk of leadership that Hurley spoke about, it's Hurley who is the real leader of the castaways. From the very beginning, Hurley has gone out of his way to be a servant to his fellow survivors, whether it be making the golf course or creating the diversion of getting the minibus to work again. And tonight we saw Hurley's real wisdom shine: instead of taking the obvious leadership role for himself, he helped Sawyer become that leader instead, in a way that Sawyer probably would never do on his own.

So... what the heck is up with Locke now?

Very good show, this one was.

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