Lost: Through the Looking Glass: Review

Seeing how the last post was kind of a restless rambling, I'm going to give this episode a more thorough blow by blow type of review.

There was three major storylines and one MAJOR twist. I wish i could write major in even bigger letters, and even then it wouldn't really do it justice.

First, The Looking Glass.

Freakin' amazing to see Penny show up like that, and Des was so close, yet so far, once again. Charlie died, semi-needlessly, although he did shut the door to stop the flooding. If that equipment is waterproof, They could theoretically repair the window, open the door, let the water out and use it, but, that's besides the point of everything I mentioned in the previous post. Who even knows who will be there next year. And what was that, like 3 deaths for Mikhail now? And don't really know if he is dead again anyways. Looks like it, but the guy took a spear to the chest and kept rollin, so who knows. Thought one of the women in the Looking Glass might have been Annie, but seems like they were just dispensable Others.

The Beach

We had to know that plan wasn't going to go down well. I was surprised that it was Jin that missed the shot, as he's supposed to be ex-military, and as Rose said, all Bernard did was go hunting. I was also surprised that they did put three shots into the sand, but like Tom said, they're starting to think Ben is out of his mind. Hurley coming out of nowhere to redeem himself was pretty cool, and the Dharma van, which he just had to get running, played the pivotal role, nice. Juliet seems to actually be with the Losties, and although you can never be sure, everything seems to point to Juliet actually turning on the Others.

The Tower

I haven't liked the Jack character in a long time, but tonight I really did. Although as we found out in a jaw dropping, stunning last few minutes, he really did make the wrong decision, and Ben was right. Rousseau and Alex seemed to bond pretty quickly, having their first 'awww' mother-daughter moment when Danielle asks her if she'll help tie Ben up. Awww. I disliked the lack of Locke, which I will get back to in a full posting later on, but he proved yet again that he wasn't a killer, even though I was yelling at the TV for him to pull the trigger.

The Twist

My god, did this change everything. Obviously we were meant to believe this was sometime after Jack's divorce, when he was teetering on alcohol and pain pill addiction, but wow, it sure wasn't. This was an absolutely fantastic idea, and I applaud Lindelof and Cuse for taking such a step. Matthew Fox played this brilliantly, and it was by far the best Jack flashback (or I guess it would be forward) there has been to date. When Kate stepped out of that car, my jaw dropped further than I think it ever has with this show. Too bad they didn't get into who Kate had to get back to or exactly who was in the coffin, but it could easily be Sawyer on both accounts.

Amazing episode, mostly amazing season, can't wait for February.