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Not really a spoiler, but spacing anyway.

Apparently, tomorrow night's ep is titled "What Kate Does".  I suspect that we both know what that is and will be what the episode is about:

RUINING EVERYTHING

Any takers for a $5 bet that I'm wrong?  C'mon!

i was just coming to say i accidentally saw the title and it was discouraging.

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I like that some of the upcoming episode titles are twists on older episode titles. Goes nicely with the flash-sideways storytelling.

I hope the answer is FUCKING DIES.

More like:  gets someone else killed.  Again.

But then who will come along like a human wrecking ball and ruin the otherwise happy lives of all the other characters?

Desmond!

NOOOOOOOOOOOO  isn't "locke" doing a good enough job at that right now?

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I'm of two minds. You had to know there would be one Kate centric episode this season. So while it sucks that we get a Kate centered episode this early, this (please God make it true) will be the last Kate centric episode of Lost ever. Last Kate episode ever!!!

Andy

Now that is a man who knows how to look on the bright side.

I was just coming here to post the same thing.

The last ten minutes were pretty awesome, though.

Yeah, the last ten minutes kicked some serious butt.

SPOILERS FOR TONIGHT FROM THIS POINT ON, PEOPLE, IT'S WELL PAST THE END POINT ON THE EAST COAST.

I guess that also answers the question on if Claire died in Season 4 or not (which was a popular theory). Surviving three years on her own and becoming the new Rousseau. I love it! And just like Rousseau, looking for her missing child...

Spoilers

What Kate did was ruin the momentum.

(actually, the alternate Kate wasn't bad, and we got some Ethan (Goodspeed?)!

But even with Kate gone, Jack is in a Kate-centric episode and caught in the old feedback loop:

What is it? It's it. What is it? It's it. What is it? You want it all, but you can't have it.

The line from Temple Master to Jack was a winner.

And I think we can also assume Christian = Smokey. I've been thinking that much for awhile, but I think it's certain.

If Claire is the end result of what's going to happen to Sayid, then I guess Claire has to die, right? Or did die?

The Ethan reveal was cool. Especially the line about now wanting to use lots of drugs and needles.

And now that I think about it... how the f- is Ethan alive? He's Horace's kid, shouldn't he have died in the blast? I really, really want to see the parallel history of the Island now.

And crazy/evil/sick like the rest of the French team (or Rousseau herself)

Totally! I swear they must have held up stills of Mira Furlan and said, "Try and make this exact expression." Then brought her to hair and makeup and said, "Just like this, please."

Seeing good Ethan was actually surprisingly awesome.

I don't mind Kate, so that was okay. The Claire/Kate interaction was pretty much completely implausible unless they're leaking in from the original timeline, which they're definitely implying.

At this point (the final season, I mean) I am a bit tired of the answer baiting - "Well, I could explain but I won't because I'm mysterious" "Well okay then, I won't persist in asking anymore questions."

"And now that I think about it... how the f- is Ethan alive? He's Horace's kid, shouldn't he have died in the blast? I really, really want to see the parallel history of the Island now."

Didn't they succeed in convincing people to leave the Island before the blast?

It's worth noting that on its own (which is to say whatever boosting the energy pocket they were bombing) that the bomb they were using wouldn't have caused island wide devastation, although the radiation might have made it uninhabitable.

The Ethan reveal made perfect sense (assuming he got off the island in the three years before the incident), and I never saw it coming. Lost at its best.

The answer baiting — hey, I had a lot more tolerance for it than many people for the first few seasons, but it risked drifting into bad self-parody this time, like an SNL sketch hosted by Matthew Fox

The answer baiting is why the notion of Jack Bauer on The Island is so amusing.

The Losties - four years to find out something.

Jack Bauer - Throat punching Jacob in 47 minutes.

"Well, Mr Bauer I will give you the answers you seek as soon as OHGODMYEYE!"

"Tell m enow while you still have one good eye."

That's a good point! Sawyer convinced them to get everyone off the Island. Now we know how Ethan survived. I doubt Horace lived, but it'd be nice to see him in the alternate-815.

This was a weak episode, so I imagine we'll get more in the coming weeks. They usually have one meh-episode, followed by lots of awesome. And the previews for next week look good.

how the f- is Ethan alive? He's Horace's kid, shouldn't he have died in the blast?

Most of Dharma's women and children left the island on the sub before the Incident.  Which is why Miles and Charlotte were alive as adults.  In the original timeline, presumably baby Ethan was evacuated and then returned once the crisis had been averted.

--Alex

I kind of feel like Rob McElhenney's appearance was the Lost crew looking at Seth MacFarlane on Flash Forward and trying to one-up it.

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To be fair, he was in the episode he referenced as the character he mentioned, back in season two or three.

Wow, I don't remember that at all; I assumed the guard was just some faceless extra that Kate ruined.

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It was season three. I think he was guarding the Clockwork Orange room. People got excited.

It was  jarring for me then, too, being an Always Sunny fan. But yeah, long callback.

It would have been ludicrous, but I wish they would have had Charlie Day play the other guard. They were both gonna get killed and neither guy was especially competent so why not go for it?

I thought the episode was fine, but Claire & Kate were both just so stupid it was distracting. The only smart one was the cab driver who just took off.

Seriously, she's still driving the fucking cab around? The cab that was undoubted reported stolen a minute after the cab dude got out?

You just gotta roll with it, I guess.