Lost 2x06 "Abandoned"

Another great episode of Lost last night. This one picked up a little, but even the slower ones make some great TV.

Here are some thoughts and questions in no particular order:

• Jack was responsible for Shannon's father's death. He's seen passing Shannon and the step-mother in the hospital right before the doctors gives them the bad news.
• The doctor lied to Shannon and the step-mother about how Mr. Rutherford died. Claimed he stopped breathing at he scene and couldn't be resuscitated when, in fact, he was quite alive all the way into the ER when Jack made the decision to abandon him in favor of his future wife.
• Jack and Kate were almost completely absent from this episode (only bit of Jack was in the flashback). Were they manning the dead-man's switch?
• Speaking of Jack - and this has nothing to do with last night's ep - I don't think he got divorced. For some reason, I think she died. Maybe from a late blooming side effect of the surgery.
• Creepy Walt seems to be a product of the remote viewing stuff. Same deal with the voices. The seem to be the projected thoughts of the people behind all this stuff. Question is, are the visions of Jack's dad from season 1 the same thing?
• Anna Lucia is still Ms. Nasty McBitch and I don't much care for her at all.
• Michael, Jin, and Sawyer are starting to bond more, even if Sawyer is still an ass, Michael is still whines too much, and Jin still doesn't speak English.
• Speaking of them, Michael sure did seem to know exactly how to make a stretcher. Granted, it's not that hard, really, but they managed to make a rather sturdy carrier rather quickly. I think Michael is a lot more than just an artist and a construction worker.
• Cindy, the Ozzy brunette, sure did disappear without a trace. I thought I saw some sort of cave or hole in the ridge face that she might have walked past, but I'll have to watch the ep again. Doesn't seem to unlikely that the others could have snatched her up without the rest of the group noticing, though. They seem to be good at that type of thing.
• Kinda funny that the psychologist was carrying Cindy's blue bag at the top of the ridge, though...
• And another thing about the psychologist; I think she's got some connection to Hurley.
• Anna said she liked Eko better when he didn't talk. Could he not speak? Was he just the quiet type? Did he have to learn English?
• So, Shannon's dead. That sucks. I liked her, even though she was a spoiled little brat. And Anna shot her, too. I really don't like Anna. I'd like to see Sayid break her neck. And I'd like to see him do it without flinching at all. Almost as if he was just brushing away a bug.
• Sadly, I think Shannon really is gone. She'll probably be in some more flashbacks and maybe in the opening scenes of the episode that continues this one, but she ain't coming back as she was.
• Extended episode next week! Yay!
• From the previews, though, it looks like Bernard may have still been in the bathroom when the plane went down. And that, my friends, is why I put a cork in it whenever I fly. I can think of few worse ways to die than in a cartwheeling ball of flame with my pants at my ankles, all the while getting splashed in the face with blue chemical water.
  

Anyway, until next week. Peace, yo!

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