Hey, and everyone take a moment to turn to someone and scream at them "YOU'RE MINE!" How good does that feel? Maybe we should all take a note from Ben's book and become seriously lovesick/deranged.
Before we begin, let us take a moment to think back on our lives to that moment of unrequited love that still pains you. Now imagine you're on an island with that person, doing everything in your considerable power to make them yours... and instead they hook up with the town playa. How do you feel? Maniacal, I'm sure. Wait, that's just Ben and I? Hmmmm.
Good thing we Ninjas don't love, innit?!
Enough mucking about - Secret Clue time!
Now, this episode held some truly special stuff, but I'm going to share the personal reason first; The Tempest station? Yeah, I've been there. When I was on location last year, the awesome guys from Ed Kos' Kos Tours took me out to a bunch of different locations, including an abandoned WWII bunker - the very same one used as the external location for the new station! I can't tell you how cool it was to have scene a location before it appeared on screen.
Ed was kind enough to shoot me over a few photos taken very recently so that you can compare the pre- and post-shots - pretty cool, hey? If you're ever in Hawaii and you want to scope out more Lost locations than you can imagine, hit up the Kos Hummer Tour guys and let them know The Ninja sent you ;)Alright, down to the nitty gritty:
Widmore - The Big Bad! C'mon, we've suspected this for a long time, but it was damn nice to finally get confirmation on a theory that has held strong for two whole seasons. The question remains though, who is really the bad guy? We know Ben can be, and we've seen Widmore do some pretty despicable things... power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. Who was he putting a beatdown on?
Juliet - Poor Picking Power. If I were Juliet, after seeing Goodwin's lifeless corpse, I'd probably jump into the arms of the closest spinal surgeon I could find. Makes total sense honey, and doens't make you look flippant at all. I thought I was coming around to Juliet, but now I'm not so sure... after everything Ben has done to her, couldn't Juliet simply be using Jack to get back at him and off the island? It would certainly explain why she's not with Jack off-island... unless she's in the coffin? Haha, I kid, I kid! Ben - Runs Like A Girl. No offense ladies, but he does. You'll never win a hot blonde that looks like Mummy unless you toughen up a little. Or as Sawyer would say, "Cowboy up."
The Man On The Boat - Better Be Good. If Locke was impressed enough to set Ben free, I want to be impressed enough that my neighbours bang on my door and tell me to stop yelling "OMG" already.Old School Computing - Mario Teaches Math. Seriously, is there any science Daniel doesn't know? The man is quickly becoming the scientific version of Sayid. Don't doubt him, or he'll furrow his brow and straighten his tie at you. Also, he rules, and so does his tie. The question remains though, how does he seem to know so much of what is happening on The Island? Flashes? Concious jumps? A mole in Ben's camp?
Hurley - One Lucky SOB. The man with the curse is now with the golden touch. I've been saying it for four seasons now - he's going to play a MAJOR role in the end-game, you wait and see. Not only does his luck never fail, but he's always grounded in reality enough to know the best course of action. If Sayid's out of sight, Hurley's your best chance at staying safe... which is just weird, when you think about it.
Speaking of thinking about it, I need to go and stew over the new powerplay revealed tonight; Widmore, Linus - Linus, Widmore. Who is good? Surely having Awesome Tom on his side means you'll pick The Others as the goodies, right? What do you think? Hit me up in the comments and let me know...Namaste
The Heroic Lost Ninja
P.S. I made it a whole post without a single mention of Ben's shockingly bad gas build-up!