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I haven’t done a Lost recap in a couple of weeks. Sorry ’bout that but let’s move forward and pretend that I did.

The only word I can describe this week’s episode is that everyone is in a state of urgency.

I always have a lot of questions about Lost, as does any fan of the show. My big one this week is why was Richard Albert off the island recruiting Juliet and can seamlessly move back and forth with no issues it seems while now all of our beloved Losties who are going back and forth in time getting brain goo from the time travel?

I know what you are saying. Albert wasn’t even on last night, ‘Coma. Still, it’s what ran back and forth in my cranium.

More after the jump.

We finally got a look into Danielle Rosseau’s past and that the man she loved did try to kill her. And that Jin warned them of “Monster” when Smokey showed up. I have found that I tend to look ahead during these flashbacks. She was still waaay knocked up when she shot at her lover, so I’m eager to know when Ben came into the picture. And then we get to see the arm ripping out of Montand’s socket that, after a flashback, is mummified. WOOT. But I guess the pregnancy is secondary because we know Alex and Danielle’s fate, and we got to see the Sawyer and Jin reunion rather quickly. Danielle was right about one thing though, although we didn’t see Charlotte go utterly insane during the last 15 minutes of the show, we did see her revert to childhood memories (in my opinion) and we learned that she grew up on the island, deceived by (once again a parent) that the island was a figment of her imagination.

And now everyone is getting the dark red faucet noses.

This is where we sense the urgency of the situation of those still stranded on the island as well as Mrs. Hawkings and Ben. Not only do we have time travel as the equation, but time limitations. I can’t help but wonder that is the Oceanic 6 go back, are they going to be susceptible to the brain goo disease as well.

Now, on to Jack. I’ve been hard on Jack in the beginning of this series. The writers tended to beat us in the head with a gourd about the Kate/Sawyer/Jack love triangle to the point I wanted to scream. Yes, they are all pretty. Yes, they look good together. Yes, it got annoying.

The Jack we see off the island is broken and impotent.  No longer the self-professed leader on the island, he follows Ben around like a puppy. It seems that he has been destroyed on the inside, no longer the one that makes decisions. And Ben chewing Jack’s butt out in the car as the doctor set like a five-year-old in the back seat just solidified that Jack is no longer, and probably never was, in control. Kate tolerates Jack at this point (their libidos no longer spewing longing at each other)  and even though he saved Sayid’s butt a couple of weeks ago, his former ally is not happy with him due to his association with Benry.

And Hurley is living the good life in lock-up.

On to Locke, we learn from Ghost Dad Christian that Locke was supposed to turn the frozen donkey wheel, not that scoundrel Ben. Some doctor GDC is, making Locke turn the wheel with a frakking compound fracture. Whoa. That’s hardcore.

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