Lisa and I woke up and the first words out of her mouth were that “it’s hard to sleep with something like THAT on your mind.”

For the first time in a long time, it could honestly be said that television history was made last night.

I am not that much of a television person. Never have been. The number of shows that I’ve actively kept up with during my life could be numbered with my hands. And it took me awhile to “get into” Lost. I’m sorta like the Amish when it comes to TV: I have to fully trust it before I invest my time in it. But Lisa’s mom kept saying how this was a really good show, so I gave it a shot.

And I’ve never been so glad that I did than I am after last night.

“Through the Looking Glass”, the Lost Season ...

Stunned.

I need to say, so that everyone will know, that Lisa was the first here to figure out what was really happening in that last scene. When… that person… got out of the car, that completely threw me for a loop, ‘cuz that made NO sense at all. It wasn’t until the very final seconds that Lisa told me what was going on and everything just “clicked” into place.

It’s been a long day and I need to hit the sack. I’m going to post more about this tomorrow. But I couldn’t end tonight without giving Lisa credit for being the first here to understand what we were actually seeing.

That might have been the finest two hours of televised fiction that I’ve ever seen. And most of this past season of Lost was already, in my opinion, some of the finest storytelling I’d seen in this medium.

Just… ...

The story thus far…

-Naomi, the woman who parachuted onto the Island, works for a company that Penny hired to look for Desmond. She’s told the Flight 815 survivors that the ship her helicopter launched from is about 80 kilometers away.

– Ben and the Others are planning an attack on the 815ers’ camp in an attempt to kidnap Sun… along with any other women who could possibly become pregnant.

– Cooper is dead.

– Ben took Locke to see Jacob, and Jacob spoke two words to Locke.

– Juliet has turned traitor against Ben and told Jack about the pending attack.

– Jack has enlisted Danielle’s help in order to, as Jack puts it, “blow ’em (the Others) all to Hell.”

– Alex sent Karl rushing to the camp to warn them that the Others are coming right now!

– Sayid is working on contacting Naomi’s ship via radio…

This ain’t television. This is high art.

“Greatest Hits” didn’t have the shock value that “The Man from Tallahassee” or some of the other more recent episodes did, but it was definitely one of the saddest episodes of Lost ever. I will admit to feeling more than a little choked-up at how Charlie was preparing for the inevitable…

…and then the last few seconds happen, and not for the first time this season an ep leaves us thinking “Okay NOW what?!? We didn’t see THIS coming!”

Good to see Bernard and Rose again. And lo and behold, the dentist is pretty handy with a rifle! ‘Bout time he saw some real action.

How many DHARMA hatches are there? I’d thought that the “underwater” one would have been the Hydra. This raises the count of known DHARMA stations to 7 (when the orientation film said there were 6). And didja notice ...

Last week’s episode of Lost is still freaking me out. The part where Ben takes Locke to Jacob’s cabin might be the hands-down creepiest scene from a television show I’ve ever watched. No kidding: when Locke heard that voice I jumped from the shock. Then the whole cabin went nuts. And then there was that final scene where Ben showed Locke what happened to the DHARMA Initiative… again, creepy.

There are two episodes left for Lost this season, and of all the episodes so far these are the two that I know the least about. Tonight’s is titled “Greatest Hits” and all I know is that it’s centered on Charlie. And that for quite awhile now it’s been rumored that Charlie is going to die soon. Will it be tonight? I hope not: Charlie has been one of the most fun characters to watch. He deserves to get back home ...