That's a lotta sperm!

I don't know if it was quite as great as the past two weeks, but I still don't think I can really find anything from last night's episode to complain about. (Except maybe Mikhail's patch still looking as brand new as the day he bought it from the costume shop.)

The very best thing about last night was Yunjin Kim. The show has finally managed to feature an actress who can hold her own in scenes with Elizabeth Mitchell. I loved every single scene of theirs together. What I learned from Sun and Juliet this week:
- I still trust Juliet
- I am glad that the baby is Jin's (Or I am glad that Sun thinks that the baby is Jin's...maybe I don't have complete trust in Juliet.)

And I thought that the flashbacks were one of the most compelling flashbacks the show has ever given us. Not because it was especially informative or revealing in term's of the Island story, but because helped to illustrate yet another level in Jin and Sun's already complex relationship. By trying to protect Jin's honor, she in effect caused the thing that would ultimately doom their relationship (pre-crash). She gave her father a reason to hire Jin, which changed him from the guy we saw in the flashbacks this week. And it also gave more emotional impact to the reveal that he is the baby's father. (I also think Korean is a very poetic language, so I love watching Jin and Sun's flashbacks for that reason alone.)

Speaking of Jin, I think Daniel Dae Kim's acting often gets lost in the language barrier, and it's too bad because he was really fantastic last night, both in the past and on the island.

For the past two weeks, Charlie has not been nearly as annoying as he was the past season and a half. Making him more sympathetic will give greater impact if/when they kill him. (He has a flashback the week before the finale, I believe.)

So Jack was really weird this week. I don't know if I really have anything to say about other than his conversation with Sun made me squirm a little.

And I am thrilled that Mikhail has been raised from the supposed dead. (In relation to his appearance, I am glad to see that all of the castaways are talking, maybe finally realizing that Jack was right when he speechified about "live together, die alone.")

I'm guessing that how a character "dies" is important. Almost similar to Claire/Peter on Heroes, in that if the cause of death is removed, perhaps you can be cured.

I still really want to like Heroes, but I still really don't. While Lost can be frustrating at times with its lack of answers, I'd rather have questions than pedestrian explanations for everything. And I'd also like the show to really, really shock me. Come out of left field with something instead of being excruciatingly telegraphed. I hope Mohinder is the exploding man. Actually, I just hope Mohinder explodes into a million boring, monotone pieces. And Jesus Christ, how did he transport a "dead" body across Manhattan?!? Come on!

Anyway, if you looked at Mikhail, he actually still had blood in his ears, so he was harmed in some way. We never saw them check him after he collapsed, right? They could have just assumed he was dead. (Which would have been stupid, especially for Sayid, but I'll overlook that because the show has been so fantastic recently.)

I haven't been able to find a definite translation of what paratrooper (according to ABC, her name is Naomi) said to Patchy that he translated as "Thank you," but I'm willing to bet it wasn't that. The closest translations I have found were that she was speaking Portuguese and said something like "I am not alone."

Of course, that WTF ending...My immediate theory (and the 'Occum's Razor' answer) is that the crash of 815 in the real world was a set-up and that the real 815 was brought to that island by Jacob or Ben or Hanso or whoever. I am sure with the great resources of Widmore/Hanso/Dharma/Paik a cover-up would not be that difficult at all. However if it is something to this effect, my first question is where exactly did Ben send Michael and Walt? I don't really need to know now, but that is something that definitely must be addressed at some point before the series ends.

If not that, I go back to my "there are other worlds than this" theory of Lost, which I actually like better. And that hearkens back to Desmond's flashback in February ('Flashes Before Your Eyes') which I originally saw not as an argument for time travel, but for time branching. And if that is the case, maybe the purple sky incident shifted their place in time and the people on flight 815 really are dead in this branch that they are in now. It's also a device used in many of Stephen King's books and the producers are admitted King fans and originally were said to be very influenced by The Stand, which actually takes place on Earth, but in a separate dimension/world from the "real" world.

And now that I'm thinking about this, I cannot help but think of King's opus, The Dark Tower series (which is tied closely to The Stand). I don't really want to get into that (because only Angela will understand and I could probably write for days), but in my head, it's REALLY interesting.