LOST - John Locke Episode

So, it looks like they are really ramping up the action as they head toward the series finale. We still have no idea what the point of wasting half of their final season on an alternate reality was, but at least some exciting stuff is going on at the Island. Locke finally made his move, and the team members for both squadrons were hit last night with a bunch of casualties. Let’s take a look at my usual bunch of observations:

• Locke’s planning is pretty subpar – If he had just let Jack die when Widmore was lobbing missiles at them last episode, and let the rest of the gang get on that airplane where Chuck Widmore’s bomb was, bang all the candidates would be dead and he’d be off the island and causing some trouble in the real world already…

• And that leads us to another point, if Chuck Widmore wants to keep the candidates alive why is he shooting missiles at them, setting C-4 booby traps everywhere, and constantly shooting at them; makes me think he’s up to his usual Chuck Widmore tricks, I wouldn’t go trusting him just yet… he’s probably working with Locke

• In the alternate reality why does everyone seem to know the flight number, I get that if a plane crashes the number is constantly referenced, like they made a movie about that 9/11 Flight 93 that was taken over by terrorists and shot down. But who remembers the number of a random flight they took, Jack and Desmond are going around asking everyone, “Hey were you on Oceanic Flight 815?” If I was talking about flying back to New York last year, and some weirdo asked me, “Hey were you on Flight 74 from Vegas to JFK?” I’d have no idea what they were talking about and probably think they were a psycho or a stalker.

• So, what we learned last night is that Locke wants to kill the Candidates, Jack seems to be inheriting Jacob’s powers, Chuck Widmore is still dick, and last but not least… Desmondo is alive!!!!!! (omigod, omigod, omigod I hope they show him next week!!!)

• No random alternate reality sightings this week, (unless you count Jack visiting Bernard, which I don’t… not quite random enough), c’mon they couldn’t have had Shannon be the nurse that wheeled over Anthony Cooper? Disappointing.

• Well that was a short reunion between Jin and Sun, I feel bad for their kid, now she’s going to end up with Sun’s pop Mr. Paik, and that guy is a dick of Widmorian proportions.

• I guess it’s 1 candidate down,3 to go, at least that Sun/Jin death was confirmed by Locke himself so we don’t have to worry about the standard retarded Lost rising from the dead, probably safe to assume also that even the Lost writers aren’t stupid enough to try to sell someone surviving a C-4 blast at close range, so we can write off Sayid.

• I wonder if Alpert and Linus are going to get involved in this showdown, those guys have got to have a trick up their sleeve right? On the other hand, let’s all keep hoping that Rose and Bernard don’t somehow get involved, that Bernie sighting last night was forced and painful enough..