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Episode 50 of 82 is Locke centric and a return to more of a Season 2 style with nice writing that wraps the present on-island happenings with the off-island flashbacks. Plus we get zero coverage of the weirdness that is occurring on the ?Other? side of the island with Jack, Kate and Sawyer.

When Locke wakes up in the jungle after the hatch implosion he now doesn’t know what to do, when he found the hatch initially he felt it was his destiny to save the world by pushing the button every 108 minutes. Then anther hatch was uncovered and it seemed to reveal that pushing the button was all a psychological experiment and really meant nothing. But when he devised a way to prevent the button from being pushed, something very powerful event did occur and the hatch was destroyed. For guidance he builds a sweat lodge where he is visited by the dead Boone and is pushed around the Sindey, Australia airport in his old wheelchair until he figures out he has to clean up his mess, i.e. rescue Mr. Eko who was also inside the hatch and consequently tossed about the island somewhere and has been captured by another of the island’s polar bears.

The Season 3 opener is show number 48 of 82 and opens with a seeming normal book club meeting in a suburban home with absolutely no one we know. Yet. There is what seems like an earthquake and when it is over thy run outside, we see a familiar face and when they look up there is a jetliner in the sky breaking into pieces. This is the Others watching the arrival of Oceanic Flight 815 a couple months ago. From here we jump to the present where we see Kate getting put in a dress to dine with Ben, Sawyer in an animal cage and jack in a room with a giant Plexiglas wall. This episode is well structured and we get some fun interaction between our love triangle survivors and their captors, but a lot of time is spent with Jack and this new woman from the Others, Juliet. The flashback concerns Jack and his divorce from Sarah and his mistrust of his father. Somehow Jack has been thrust into the hero leader role on the island, but the more we learn of his past the less sympathetic he becomes.

Episode 47 of 82 was the 2 hour Season 2 finale. It was jam packed with the return of Desmond, dynamite explosions, a giant 4-toed foot, even more betrayal from Michael, gun fire, tranquilizer darts, hieroglyphics, extreme magnetism, load annoying sounds, bright spectral skies and a kiss.

It was pretty much Desmond-centric where see how he got to to the island in the first place, his being suckered into pushing the button, how it might actually be his fault Flight 815 crashed there and in the present how he, along with Locke, let the countdown go past zero without pushing the button and then blows up the hatch.

Most of the other on island antics concerned the Fab Four (Jack, Kate, Sawyer & Hurley) & Michael trekking across the island so he can “get his boy back.” He finally does and sails off towards freedom in the Other’s boat given to him for delivering our main characters into imprisonment. Except for Hurley who gets sent back to the survivor’s beach to tell them to stay away. Because it was a two hour show you get 2 pictures.

Episode 46 of 82 is the story of how Michael goes out after the “Others” to get his son Walt back. There is no traditional off island flashback, just a jump between present time and flashbacks running backwards from 13 days prior when Michael left the survivor’s camp to meet up with the present. Michael has always been my least favorite character, I can understand his motivation, every time he gets close to the son he barely knows some one or something gets in the way, but he has always seemed so whiny about it.

This episode returned to the good writing that entangled both the off island flashback of Mr. Eko and his on island story. Through his dreams (or religious visions) he insists that he and Locke search the jungle for the ? which leads them back to the wreckage of the small plane in which Mr. Eko found the remains of his priest brother. Locke has a dream which shows Mr. Eko where to go, enabling him to see the ?, which turns out to be another hatch. Inside the hatch they watch another orientation film which cause Locke to lose his faith in the button pushing, but surprisingly has the exact opposite effect on Eko.

Number 44 of 83 with just 3 remaining in Season 2. This is Anna Lucia centric and here the show takes a darker turn. After Sun & Jin settled in all happy once they find out she is pregnant, last episode’s love story show with with Rose & Bernard, a budding romance between Hurley & Libby and a steamy jungle quickie between Anna Lucia and Sawyer this show ends with a major betrayal and two murders by gunshot. It seems as if Michael will stop at nothing to get his son back.