the brig

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Lisa usually turns in before Lost starts at 10 p.m., meaning that I watch it and then we see it together the following afternoon from the DVR. But tonight she got drawn in by the first few minutes of “The Brig” and couldn’t let go. So we got to see it first-run together. It just finished a short while ago…

John Locke may be the greatest tragic figure to come out of television of the past twenty years. You know what I keep thinking about, after watching this episode? It’s that as much as Locke has wanted to be unlike his father, he has now become too much like his father.

Sawyer has lately been turning into one of my favorite characters, because of how he has been changing and growing. We’ve been seeing a real seeking of redemption and want of a new life out of Sawyer. He’s had ...

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A few weeks ago in the episode “The Man from Tallahassee”, Ben told Locke (Terry O’Quinn) that on the island there was “a box” that would produce anything you wanted. Locke laughed at the idea. And then at the end of the episode Ben told Locke that “I’m going to show you what came out of it.”

What Locke saw when he opened the door and looked inside the room was probably the biggest shocker of the show’s entire run.

We’ve only seen Locke very briefly after that, when he told Kate that he was leaving with the Others for… wherever it was that they were headed for. On tonight’s Lost – titled “The Brig” – Locke returns and based on what little I’m hearing, this is going to be an episode as fine as any that we’ve seen lately… and those have been some of the best television ever ...

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