Wow… three thousand articles (and other stuff) for this blog to date! Thatsa lotta writing over the past five years 🙂

And “316”, tonight’s episode of Lost, had a lot of everything that makes this show, so unprecedented for the television medium.

That was probably more new mythology that got introduced – or revealed, however you wanna say it – in just the first few minutes of this week’s installment than there has been in many entire stretches of episodes. There’s a real sense of evolving story here. And “316” makes one appreciate that there is just more than a season and a half left of Lost: this is one show that knows where it’s going, and is giving us one heckuva thrill ride along the way.

(So does anyone wanna build a big Focault pendulum so that we can really find where the Island is? :-P)

Loved ...

If you have “This Place Is Death” recorded, or from iTunes or whatever, then do yourself a favor…

…and listen very, very carefully to the scene early in the episode where Jin, Danielle and the rest of her team are on the beach. In particular, listen to the voice that’s reading out “the numbers” on the radio.

It sounds like Hurley’s.

As if this story isn’t loopy enough already!...

Lost is better television than we darned well deserve.

And “This Place Is Death”, tonight’s episode, was one of the richest of the series to date.

I thought it was also one of the strongest of the Sun and Jin-centric episodes, and doesn’t it say something about Lost that Sun could be in 2008 and Jin could be back on the Island in 1988, and this show still make sense? After how powerful the reunion between Desmond and Penny was, I’m of the mind that the setup is happening before our eyes for something much, much more intense when Jin and Sun find their way back to each other. They’d better get back: I know hordes of people who will be honked-off enraged if that doesn’t happen.

The scenes in 1988 with Danielle and her team explored a lot of ground in a surprisingly short amount of time. I’ve wondered ...

That sound and probable accompanying seismic activity you might have sensed in the past ten minutes was millions of Lost fans bellowing out a collective “Whoa!!!”

Four episodes into Season 5, and if anything Lost is gaining momentum, not losing it. I thought “The Little Prince” was even better than last week’s “Jughead”. It seemed perfectly balanced with everything that makes this show, perhaps the best on television right now. It had action, it had humor, it had the depth of character (I especially liked Locke’s line about how he didn’t want to undo the pain in his life, that the pain is what made him who he was). And it had an abundance of new mystery.

And yeah: he’s back and he’s alive!

“The Little Prince” might be the best episode of the new season so far. Up next week: “This Place is Death”....