“Namaste” quickly…

Because I really have no time this week, just a few quick thoughts on “Namaste,” last night’s episode of Lost:

- Didn’t love it as much as “LaFleur,” but still found it engaging and certainly interesting. It’s like they are slowly fitting the puzzle pieces together. My assumption now is that this how it always happened (i.e. destiny), so nothing that the 815ers, etc. do will change their “future” on the Island. But I’ve been wrong many times before.
- Thought the ep’s title could easily have been “Really, Jack?!?”
- Jack annoyed me so much last night, and I forgot whatever sympathy I had for him off-Island. He annoyed me so much, I was actually hoping for more scenes with Kate.
- When the Ajira 316 hit the turbulence, Ilana looked very calm. Also, it sounded like she said “Sarah” when Cesar woke her up. What does that mean?
- The sequence with Frank landing the plane was very well done.
- Loved that the numbers were broadcast over the radio when the plane was going down.
- Reunion between Sawyer and Hurley = Awesome.
- The brusque handshake between Sawyer and Jack…Really Jack?!?
- Hurley’s “Uh…what?” was great and should be Lost’s tagline for season 6. Season 5 = Lost: Destiny Calls; Season 6 = Lost: Uh….what?!?
- Hurley’s “Dude, your English is awesome.” was equally awesome.
- “Faraday’s not here anymore?” Say what? Did he take the sub off Island? Is he on Hydra Island?
- Radzinsky!
- The Muppet Show was playing on one of Radzinsky’s monitors.
- Ethan! (And Juliet’s fantastic reaction to hearing his name. Looked like she wanted to just drop him right there.)
- The baby being Ethan means that not everyone in the DI was killed in the Purge.
- Radzinsky’s building the Swan! (I guess that explains his crazy Blast Door Map)
- I gotta say, I laughed out loud to Jack’s reaction to being assigned as a janitor, so kudos to Matthew Fox for that.
- Jin’s reaction to Sayid and Sayid’s reaction to seeing Sawyer. Some very effective non-verbal work done this week.
- Sawyer verbal takedown of Jack was brilliant and made me love Jim LaFleur even more. Just fantastic and cathartic.
- I love bad-ass Sun and Yunjin Kim’s line reading of “I lied” was perfect.
- That scene with Frank and Sun at the Dharma barracks was awesomely creepy and really well done. Favorite scene in the whole episode.
- Holy Hell Christian!
- And are we supposed to think that there is a connection between Smokey and Christian because Smokey was there when Sun and Frank arrived. Could Christian be a manifestation of Smokey? If so is he working with or against Jacob? If it’s basically Widmore v. Ben for control of the Island, could it ultimately be Smokey v. Jacob?
- “You have a bit of a journey ahead of you” If I wasn’t dying to see Jin and Sun reunite before, they had to throw this line in and make me even more curious as to what Christian meant by that and what that means for Jin and Sun.
- Young Ben! (And Sayid’s brilliant reaction to him.)