Where’s the magic turtle when we need him?

This episode demonstrated pretty starkly that the flashbacks are meaningless and only get in the way of the main story. Yeah, we all know this is the Hobbit’s farewell episode. But they spent so much time on his “Top Five Moments of My Sodding Pathetic Life” that all of the other scenes were awkwardly rushed through. They were speaking so fast, I’m not even clear what the plan was exactly. Something about three shooters on a grassy knoll? Are they planning to reenact the Kennedy assassination? And everyone else retreats to the radio signal or whatever.

I haven’t known that many English people — but none of them use the word “sodding” as much as the Hobbit. Do Englanders really say it that often? I hope not.

And yeah, it was funny that the Hobbit’s threesome didn’t make his all time list. They should have waited to air that part of the flashback until the scene at the end when he was confronted by the two babes in the underwater station. Now that would have been clever foreshadowing.

The high point of the show was the reappearance of Bernard and Rose. It was nice to see them for their approximately 90 seconds of screen time. And yeah, I guess Mr. Bug Eyes is not Alex’s dad (or is he?). At least they threw out the question for us to ponder for another 9 months. I can hardly wait for next week when “EVERYTHING WILL CHANGE”.

Tyler, I think this wasn’t a great episode, but they of course covered their asses with the “setup” spoiler. I agree with Mrs. Meister that the list was for Claire, so her parting thoughts of him would be good, not of envisioning him having a 3-some. Also, while shooting new dynamite might not work, shooting unstable, 100+ year old dynamite will definitely work. Don’t you remember the physics teacher blowing himself up after commenting that it’s very unstable and not to jar it around? I think a shot from a gun will definitely be enough to set it off. In Sayid’s defense, he thought the radio signal was jamming the cell phone, and I agree that anyone with communications background should know that can’t happen, but since he couldn’t get a signal out, he probably assumed that was the problem. Until Dr. Botox told them about the the looking glass and the jamming device.

I would also like to point out the spoiler site was pretty dead on about this episode, and very few details were left out. It didn’t ruin it for me though, because I really thought Desmond was going down until Charlie paddled him. But if you look in the previews for next week, Charlie is being beat up by the Looking Glass women, and Desmond comes to save him, I imagine Desmond knew this was going to happen, which is why he offered to take his place, ie he knew the station wasn’t flooded. Plus, we see Patchy in the preview apparently down there also, so obviously there’s another way in/out, I’m assuming Desmond will utilize this in his escape once he helps Charlie.

I hate to admit it, but this sappy episode was good at making me feel sorry for the Hobbit, and Claire leaving his ring in the crib (I guess she didn’t know he put it there) was kind of sad since I’m guessing he (Hobbit) saw Aaron as his “son”. I also agree the tree blowing up was a bit overkill, but let’s not forget the Ben/Dr. Botox discussion of “ok, let’s go over it again…” and then the replay of Karl paddling out. At least in this episode there wasn’t much staring.

The tree explosion had to be for some other reason than to demonstrate how dynamite works. lol To walk everyone out there, make poor Rousseau bring that extremely dangerous dynamite to the middle of the jungle, and to use precious wire to “show” how he was going to blow up the tents doesn’t make sense.

My guess is that he did it to warn Ben. I think he is obviously working with Ben now, maybe to keep everyone on the island. Jack didn’t want Sayid to get the phone working before the attack. I think this is another clue.

Ben rushes to Other’s camp and tells them to attack now. He must have heard Jack’s explosion.

Jack then tells Kate, “here we go again”. I think this is a clue that either he has seen what happens in a vision or he and Kate have returned to the island somehow to stop the rescue.

Now on to Desmond. Next week’s promo shows Desmond and Mikhail in the Looking Glass. Desmond probably knew Charlie was going to hit him with the oar. He also knew of his involvement to the mission, but why not tell Charlie the whole thing. Maybe they both die.

I thought it was interesting that Juliet knew about the Looking Glass but said it was abandoned. Was she lying? Or was Ben keep it a secret from the Others. Or is it manned by Penny’s Amazon Army? Interesting place, nonetheless.

I’ve always been a Charlie hater, but I got teary-eyed for the little guy a few times last night.

Much love for Rose & Bernard, wooohooo!!! Their “cameo” was the best part of this craptacular Hobbit-centric episode.

Charlie IS going to die in the next episode, so try not to be too disappointed all. In any case, the idea of a greatest hits was kind of clever given that Charlie is a musician & there was some pretty good acting all around. Even the scene with Hurley saying goodbye was kind of nice & understated for a change. My big problem with this episode is that after the story finally started moving forward at a clip; they kill the momentum with this liesurely paced, flashback heavy filler job. Should have been a smaller part of another episode or something…

I too wondered why Jack would put on that little demonstration with the dynamite. Doesn’t seem to make a whole lot of sense to telegraph your attack like that. I really doubt it proves Jack is working with the Others, but who knows. Quite frankly when he started talking about “blowing them to hell” or whatever I got a little excited *blush*.

As far as shooting dynamite & radio signals & the rest I have to side with JT on this one: Sounds a bit like nit picking to me. This stuff (while silly) is tried & true TV fodder, so what are ya’ gonna’ do?

On a personal note, my financee has a crush on Desmond. Every time he comes on screen she sighs that *he’s sooo dreamy* sigh. I guess now we’re even for the puddle of drool that accumulates on my chin everytime Alex appears on screen…

“You are everybody, you are everybody…”

Come on, let’s all sing it out loud

“You are everybody, you are everybody…”

And what exactly was the purpose of the camera close-up of the flat tire in the rain? And another redo of the “Wonderwall” guitar in the rain? He stops a mugging in progress. Ho hum… filler redux.

I am sure this will come as a shock to all here, but this was a disappointing episode to lead into a season finale. One word describes it; boring. I would be hard pressed to come up with a list of mediocrity, as the Meisters so eloquently put it. It is rather curious that a married couple has to share the same ID on this site mostly for the purpose of saying “who cares”, but I digress. The coming attraction of Charlie in the underwater torture chamber looks promising. Since we see Patchy in it, I guess we can assume it’s controlled by the Others as opposed to a Dharma stronghold. Also, anyone who was going “boo-hoo” over his impending death, as well as that tear-jerking scene with Hurley should have their man-card revoked.

A few weeks ago, I was going to make a case for why there shouldn’t be so much Jack-hate, but I am starting to rethink that all together. A lot of the spoilers I keep hearing are mentioning some sort of “game-changer” as far as his character is concerned. I guess that means he will hit a three-pointer from half-court with a second left. His lack of being forthcoming about what he already knows as well as his overprotection of Juliet are all starting to wear.

It has already been said on here, but I am in full agreement that Charlie’s list needed to be “edited” for one thing, regardless of the fact that the list was designed for Claire.

My title for this episode:

BORED OF THE RINGS

Wow, Charlie the Hobbit has a special ring….. Isn’t that cuuuutte? God, give me a friggin’ break, will you just DIE already? And take Claire with you. I can think of a lot of things that “DS” would better stand for, but won’t post them in mixed company.

The sappy comments that this episode was meaningful and reflective are nonsense. Totally starry-eyed, love-fest optimism. This episode SUCKED beyond almost all this season, a close third to Arachno-Death of Nikki and Paulo, and Fat boy drives the bus.

I am getting exhausted just trying to figure out new ways to say how much of a let-down this show has become. My favorite part this week was the recently invisible Jack suddenly growing a pair and becoming leader-boy again. Ridiculous. I have a new theory that Annie is Jack, since Jack acts more like a wussy school girl than a man. I am really hoping for his death next week.

The BEST part of the episode was when Fat-boy asked to ride and the boat and Charlie told him he was too huge! I laughed out loud on that one!