I’ve got one thing to say about that ending:

Well, Sayid’s done and gone scrooooooowed things up now, hasn’t he?

“A twelve-year old Ben Linus brought me a chicken salad sandwich. How do you think I am?”

After half a season of reconfiguring its style every which-away, Lost returned to familiar roots tonight with a Sayid-centric “flashback” episode. Didn’t make it any less of the thrill that we’ve come to expect lately. “He’s Our You” was the payoff for last week’s show, which a lot thought was a step-down from the recent intensity.

Leave it to Lost to crank it up again and break the needle right at the end of an episode.

It’s always good to see William Sanderson in anything. But his role as the torturer might have been the creepiest character that I’ve ever seen him as. I thought it was one of the more ...

After an absence of half a month (to accommodate basketball tourneys in some markets last week) Lost roared into high gear again this evening. Tonight’s episode, “Namaste”, came from the pen of scribe Brian K. Vaughn, who has previously written many of the finest episodes of the series. Tonight it was as solid as ever.

I have officially run out of exclamations and phony expletives that I could possibly used to describe how walloped I am by this show. During the course of sixty minutes, “Namaste” crossed space and time and gave us possibly the biggest breadth of the Island’s mythology and geography of any episode to date. Where to begin? Baby Ethan! Radzinsky! Jack meeting Pierre Chang! The Flame! YOUNG BEN! Christian Shepherd! A smidgeon of the Monster! Frank Lapidus (one of my favorite new characters from last season)! Sun kicking older Ben’s ass! Hydra Island and the runway! ...

So with four full seasons of dangling threads from mythology still left unaddressed, tonight’s new episode of Lost introduces entirely new mythology… and along with the previous two episodes completely reinvents the series. With a season and a half still left.

Now that takes brass ones.

Of all the episodes this season thus far, “LaFleur” was the one that I thought has come the most wild out of left field. Maybe even ranking up there with “Flashes Before Your Eyes” and “The Constant” as among the most unorthodox of Lost episodes. But oh so spot-on for this most exceptional of television series.

This was one of the best Sawyer-centric episodes yet. Seeing him in tonight’s show, and then looking back on what kind of man Sawyer was in Season 1, there’s a great sense of appreciation of how much he has grown and matured: from the vindictive con man, to ...

Quite. Possibly. Best. Lost. Episode. Ever.

“The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham” is how brilliant television rewards the loyalty of its viewers. Future showrunners, take note!

That one hour of television, by direct implication or indirect inference, touched on nearly every bit of mythology of the past four-some seasons. And then it kept pouring on more.

WHY DID BEN DO IT?!? Everything was hunky-dory, until the moment that Locke mentioned Jin being still alive. That was… DANG!

Did anyone else catch that the Ajira plane landed on what looked like a prepared runway… perhaps the “quarry” that Kate and Sawyer were made to work on in Season 3? I caught that immediately.

“There’s a war coming, John.” At this late in the game, it’s still not clear who are the good guys and who are the bad. Or is this just some private tiff between Benjamin ...

“‘We have to go back’? ‘We have to go back’?! Who do you think you are?! You call me over and over again for two days straight, stoned on your pills! And then you show up here with an obituary for Jeremy Bentham?! Well he came to me, and I heard what he had to say. I knew he was crazy. But you… you believed him. Him! Of all people!”

“You know, when you came back, I was waiting for one of you to come see me, but nobody did. Do you know who did come see me? Jeremy Bentham. I don’t understand why you’re all lying.”

“Bentham’s dead.”

“Why do you call him Bentham? His name…” “Don’t say it!”

“About a month ago. Yeah, yeah he came to see her too. He told me, that after I left the Island, some very bad things happened. And he told me