Lost 4x12: "There's No Place Like Home: Part 1"

1. If that boat with Michael, Desmond, Jin, and a million explosives on it blows up, I don't even know what I'm going to do.

2. I am realizing that I love Sawyer pretty equally to how much I love Desmond. Mainly because he gets the greatest lines. "Cut yourself shaving?"

3. I am also realizing that I kind of love Ben a little bit. He's grown on me. "You know those are fifteen years old." I'm starting to lean towards agreeing that maybe he's the good guy after all.

All right, I have no idea how any of this is going to be pulled together. That is probably the point. At the end of this episode they showed where all the Oceanic Six people were, and they were all over the place. Somehow a magical force will bring them together, they will fly away from the island with Admiral Cain, and make up a story about how they were the only ones who lived. I'm not totally sure why they would be inclined to make up such a story, but I have a feeling it's to protect the people left on the island. From what, I don't have any idea.

So the story the Oceanic Six are telling is that there were eight survivors of the plane crash. Presumably, Aaron isn't being included in this number, because he wasn't born yet when the plane crashed. (Well, that's how I would count it, anyway - it's probably not the way they're doing it.) This means there are three people they're acknowledging died on the island. All we know about that is that Jin isn't one of them, because he "never made it off the plane." Also, regarding Jin: I used to be on the "he's not dead" boat, but now Jin is on an actual boat which happens to be carrying a bunch of bombs. So now I'm not sure if he's actually dead or not. I want him to be alive and well on the island still, but maybe the nature of his death was such that they couldn't tell anybody about it. Such as a boat that wasn't supposed to be there blowing up. Who knows.

I'm looking forward to the two hour finale but I am not looking forward to waiting two weeks for it.