Lost 2x13 - "The Long Con"

Well, it's nice to see that the last episode wasn't the beginning of some kind of downward spiral.

Sure, it's nice that they flesh out all of the characters, but all of that business with Charlie was just painfully stupid.

Anywho, on to this week:

• Charlie is a schmuck, but at least he didn’t take the heroin.
• His logic is pretty fucking bad, though. Hurt Sun to get to Locke? At least if he was still doped up he’d have an excuse for being such an idiot.
• Bernard’s a dentist, huh? That might come in handy down the line.
• The Glenn Miller Orchestra thing was a little weird. The announcer had a perfect American accent. I somehow seriously doubt that an American oldies station playing Glenn Miller would have the proper signal strength to make it all the way to the other side of the world. Radio signals bounce and all, but I just don’t buy that.
• Nice to see the writers having a little fun with their audience. Hurley’s line about the radio signal traveling through time was a hoot.
• Oh, by the way, Glenn Miller died in a plane crash. Ok, well, the plane vanished in some fog never to be seen again. So it might not have actually “crashed.” Wikipedia Reference.
  
• I understand that it might be hard for non-criminal television writers to come up with ways for Sawyer to con people, but the gold necklace thing was just stupid. Pretty amazing coincidence that those two morons had all that cash on them, huh? Cause, you know, I can’t imagine that anyone stupid enough to buy a gold chain from some seedy-looking guy out in front of a gas station would even have that kind of cash on them in the first place.
• In the restaurant, Kate’s mother was waiting on Sawyer and his partner.
• I don’t think Locke was really alphabetizing those books. He seemed to be flipping through all of them looking for more pieces of the film.
• The book he was holding when Sawyer interrupted him was “The Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge.” It’s a short story about a condemned man about to be hanged. It’s a good read. Check it out to see why it’s worth mentioning.

Ok, that’s all I got for right now. I’m anxious for next week, though. Looks like the Losties get to play with an Other. We apparently also get to see what happens when the timer hits zero, but since it was in the preview, I’m guessing that it doesn’t actually happen at all.

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