LOST---The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, Part II

All right, all right so maybe I was a little bit harsh on the LOST team last review, but frankly speaking they deserved it for that D+ flop of a season premiere. Though it can't be said that they made up for it in the second episode, it can at least be said that the second episode was pretty damn good. However, that praise might a little false-positive, mainly because the things that were good were the things that the writers left out of this episode.

The good:

1. Not once was the Dharma Seagull Poop Recovery Service mentioned.

2. The episode stayed on the island for the most part, only leaving it to follow Desmond's story. In other words, they stayed away from the Oceanic Six and Ben this time; a.k.a. the people who are all going to end up on the island anyway.

3. The writers finally answered more questions than they asked this time. For starters, the audience finally found out how Charles Whit??? is involved with the island in the first place, and also why Richard went to visit Locke when he was little. (Okay, I know his name is Widmore, people, relax)

4. Sawyer finally kept his shirt on.

The bad:

1. Daniel experimenting with sending rat brains through time? Really? Rat brains? Through time?

2. Desmond's hippie outfit when he went to visit Oxford. The viewers of LOST already have enough on their plate without having to figure out why the characters dress a certain way.

The ugly:

1. "I was wondering when somebody was going to find out that we weren't really fumigating in here." Fail; you fail as writers!

2. Okay LOST team, make up your minds: is the island really moving like you showed the audience in season 4, or are just the Losties on it? You've shown both happening and can't seem to swallow your pride, put the blindfold on, and pick one.

3. The hydrogen bomb: Not sure if this really deserves to be in the ugly category. While it does heighten the stakes a little bit, as well as harass this poor little island with yet another menacing device, the H-bomb seems a bit too...important. I don't know about the rest of the audience, but if I knew there was an H-bomb buried somewhere on the island, I'd be much more concerned about that than anything else.

All in all, good episode, and definitely a big improvement from last week, albeit for inverted reasons. Pete is letting me borrow season 3 of LOST on DVD, so in the meantime I'll do my best to catch up and see if the reason I didn't like this season to begin with is because I missed season 3. Early answer to that question is:

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooo

ooooooooooooooooooooo.

Ciao.