It's not really disappointing, cuz I didn't expect that much

Which of the following was the most distracting in last night's Lost?
a. Bai Ling's hair
b. Bai Ling's boobs
c. Bai Ling's acting

(It's a rhetorical question)

Now that it what we call a filler episode. Stupid ABC promos promising BIG answers.

Let me tell you how shocked I am behind the meaning(s) of Jack's tattoos. Wow, that was deep!

I really don't have a problem with the show doing filler episodes, but if they are going to do it, use it as character development for a character we don't know everything about already. And do it with good actors. Matthew Fox is fine enough as an actor, but Bai Ling – yikes!

I was pleased with Sawyer attitude toward Kate, I actually wish he would have gone a bit further, maybe smack her around for being such a pain in the ass. This is why romance and triangles could doom the show: too much focus on that can really become a dead weight (if it isn't already). But as to Jess' contention that she really loves Jack: maybe she does, maybe she doesn't, but if I were her, regardless of my romantic feelings for the person, I would want to go back and save them because they are my friend. She would be the same way if Sawyer was still on the island. She really would.

The scene with the stewardess and the children would have been so much better if it wasn't ruined in the promos. (And what do they watch? Jack? The video in room 23?) And the sheriff lady (an actress who I have seen in a couple of other things and usually like) played it too creepy, I think, like she knew she was a weirdo. Too deadpan and sardonic for my tastes.

My favorite part of the episode was the scene between Benry and Jack. Interesting that Ethan was a surgeon (I had assumed he was some kind of doctor, but because of Claire, I thought he was a gynecologist), but if that's true, why would they have sent someone so valuable to the Losties camp? That seems a little silly to me. The reason I liked the Benry scene so much was because he didn't come across as creepy, but weak, yet still in control. Michael Emerson is fantastic at exuding power, regardless of the other emotions he is trying to convey. Even without the ability to walk on his own and the possibility of his death/paralysis he still conveys such power and strength that they burliest dude on the beach holds an umbrella over his body. A character who by all means should be weaker than before comes off as 10 times stronger.

It wasn't a bad episode, but after two weeks of thought provoking, intense Lost, it was very dull and obvious.