Hydra Island and Polar Bear Turds

I knew this was an ep that was going to be Miles and Hurley centric, so my expectations were not as high as say, last week, when I knew we were all about Ben. However, where my expectations were met last week, this week they were exceeded by quite a healthy margin. Answers, intrigue, crazy hair/piercings for Miles, and Pierre Chang; something for everybody.

So the DI was building Swan on Hostile territory – why? They were doing it seemingly on purpose, but how did they get away with it? It’s not like it was a one day job. I assume it was chosen because of the electromagnet and the dead dude was just an unfortunate casualty. I mean we later see the gate covered in foliage to hide the work, but the Hostiles are smarter than that, right? Oh and those black jumpsuits with the Sawn logo make everyone look much more sinister.

The flashback with Miles talking to his dying Mom and asking about his father, cuts to scene with Horace on phone with Dr. Chang – subtle, Lost, real subtle.

Are we to assume that perhaps Dr. Chang did something to Miles as a child that caused him to be able to speak to the dead and also caused his mother to take him and leave? Something like Room 23? Could it have been THE Incident that caused it? Could this have also caused her cancer?

Hurley has had a good few weeks. Tonight’s highlights included:
- His suggestion that he and Miles carpool to prevent global warming.
- His insistence that he makes a good garlic mayo.
- “Sometimes we even play chess.”
- “You’re just jealous because my powers are better than yours.”
- His reaction to discovering who Miles’ dad is – I didn’t write down the quote exactly, but the gist of it being that Miles’ dad is the star of all those movies and that his real name isn’t Marvin Candle. I think I gotta rewatch that scene tonight.
- His reaction to Chang’s threats.
- His reaction to the hatch being built.
- His “rewriting” of Empire and his assertation that Ewoks suck. I’m glad we’re on the same page, Lost.

Favorite quote of the night: Juliet: “Well, here we go.”

I wish I could accept Kate’s stupidity as calmly as Juliet. For all my praise of her two weeks ago, Kate is back to being a moron. It takes a whole ep for me to like her for once and then she goes and ruins it with one scene. It was hard to stop from smacking my forehead repeatedly during her scene with Roger.

I thought that the body that Miles picked up was somebody who mouthed off and was shot by Radzinsky. However, a filling shot through his head because of electromagnet is WAY cooler.

Hey, it’s Hank from ‘Breaking Bad’! He was the guy that Miles duped.

Naomi’s not really my type, but much prettier off-Island. (Hair was a bit crazy though, no?) It was nice that we got answers with really no other questions (in her scene at least), i.e. the staging of the crash (I assume that this was confirmation of Widmore’s staging of the crash), Miles was part of the 4 because they wanted to use him to use Island to find Ben, Miles’ $1.6 and then $3.2 million. All pretty logical and satisfying as well.

“That dude is a douche.”
“That douche is my dad.” (That may not be the exact exchange – I can’t read my handwriting – but it’s close enough...)

I love how Chang says Hurley’s name. I also loved Miles’ reaction to Chang saying that he liked country music. In fact, I loved that whole conversation with Hurley trying to help Miles get to know his dad better.

Other things I love about Dr. Chang: “What body?” In other words, “You’re in the trust circle now, so shut the hell up.”

Seeing the Swan being built and especially the numbers being etched into the top of the hatch was very surreal.

The scene with Jack, Sawyer and Juliet was nice. No name calling, no lovey-dovey meaningful glances, very - dare I say it - adult. I completely disagree with everything Jack said, but good on him and Sawyer for behaving like grown men.

So onto the van that kidnapped Miles: Dude (Bram? Brom? Bam?) riding shotgun and doing all the talking was on Flight 316 and was with Ilana when she knocked out Lapidus. So are they part of some kind of cult that has ties to the Hostiles? If he seemingly knows what lies in the shadow of the statue, and he doesn’t work for Widmore, does guy work for Ben or Hawking? Could there be three teams?

Didn’t really need the extra flashback to Hank from ‘Breaking Bad’ with Miles returning the money; it wasn’t bad, I just didn’t really need it, since I had already grasped that Miles has Daddy issues. He wouldn’t be on the show if he had a good relationship with his father.

And then the ending: Scientists from Ann Arbor! I was all excited to finally get to meet Gerald and Karen DeGroot and then who should pop out of the sub, but Faraday?!?!?!? What the what?

So he’s been off Island this whole time doing research, working with the DI to do what exactly? I am so happy to see him and can’t wait to find out what he was doing but, I never really thought that he would actually be off Island and an important member of the DeGroot’s team. And he arrives wearing the black jumpsuit of a Swan constructor! Wha-huh?