A pregnant question on 'Lost'

Question for you, Lost fans: How much does a holy-crap final scene like the one we had Wednesday night make up for an otherwise fairly uninspired episode, like the one we had Wednesday night? I'm half-inclined to go along with Hurley and be shocked at the final utterance of the Woman Who Fell to Earth (and... More »

Everyone who had "Someone we've never seen before on Lost" in the who's-that-tangled-up-in-a-parachute pool, you're this week's big winners. Lost being the show that it is, it would have been far too easy for the end product of Desmond's latest vision to be his long-lost love, Penny. This despite Desmond's fervent belief that the someone who'd... More »

And this, folks, is why we don't trust the Others. To misappropriate Shakespeare on that other famous Juliet, "Alack, there lies more peril in thine eye than twenty of their swords." I'm not really at all surprised that Juliet's presence in the crash survivors' camp on tonight's Lost is yet another scheme orchestrated by Ben, even... More »

You can't go home again. Everyone get that? To me, that was the big takeaway from this week's Lost, which is to say it wasn't a very big takeaway. It's a point that's been driven home repeatedly on the show, and in particular in recent episodes, so seeing it again in Kate's flashback and the parallel... More »