Lost: A Name is Manly if It's Creole

To: Carlton Cuse; Damon Lindelof
From: Heather Jensen
Subject: Please Have Mercy

Dear Mr. Cuse and Mr. Lindelof:

I am writing to ask that you have mercy on all the Rose and Bernard fans and finally tell us what has happened to them. I don't see how they could have survived alone on the island for three years and it seems unlikely they are with Richard Alpert and the others. Please end the agony and just be up front about whether they are dead. I promise, I can take it - at this point, I've lost hope anyway.

Sincerely,
Heather Jensen

Oh wait, there's no send button so I must be in blogger rather than in gmail. Apologies - I'll send that e-mail later.

Let's turn to blogging about last night's episode instead. So I have to admit I was pretty upset that Jin, Sawyer, Juliet, Miles and Daniel (and R&B?) have had to endure three years trapped in the seventies with the Dharma initiative waiting for the Oceanic escapees to return. I originally thought Locke would have stopped the time shifts when he turned the wheel but when the survivors got sucked in to what looked like a time jump I thought otherwise. My brain wouldn't allow me to think that those left behind would have to pass the same three years stuck on the island - I preferred to hope they would just jump a few more days and magically coincide with the returning buddies. Of course I see now that they would have had to pass the same time and I know that I shouldn't feel too bad for Juliet and Sawyer who seem to be having a grand old time but a part of me wept for Jin searching every day for three years with no hope of seeing Sun and Daniel mourning Charlotte (who Jeff Jensen no relation rightly points out would have been born after the three year period we saw last night - oh well). At least they're all keeping themselves nice and employed - Sawyer as head of security with Jin and Miles as his minions. Who knew Juliet knew how to fix a bus? And I assume that Daniel is working in the orchid station where we saw him in the first episode of the season although was not clear last night.

I have to say that Juliet and Sawyer make a very cute, domestic couple in their little house with their Dharma wine (and Sawyer's clean shave and glasses). Even though Sawyer got a misty look when he saw Kate return, surely after three years he is more involved with Juliet and she with Jack - I guess we'll see but I hope they don't go monkeying around with those couples too much. I can't imagine how Jin, Miles and Daniel are keeping themselves busy outside of their Dharma duties but maybe we will learn some stuff about their Dharma lives soon.

I also have to say that I don't really care too much about the Dharma people themselves. We know that they are all doomed to die but I just didn't find them all that interesting. I am intrigued about this whole pregnancy on the island phenomenon and why it may affect the Others but not Dharma or whether the purge laid a curse which then caused the deaths, etc. I am also wondering when we will see teenage/young boy (how old would he be?) Ben - he is certainly lingering somewhere and surely in three years, Sawyer et. al. have encountered him. It is also a mystery whether Goodspeed's new baby boy will grow up to be someone we know - I'm not quite sure who it could be but that's too big a plot point to lead nowhere. I am also confused as to whether Miles is a baby at that time as well (given the hints in the first episode) and what the consequences might be for co-existing in the same time as yourself.

All in all, last night did not bring a lot of revelations other than to tell us that those left behind had to kill three years with Dharma - not as exciting as I would have hoped, more depressing than I would have thought although I am glad to see Sawyer acting so responsible and happy. Let's hope the return of his old friends doesn't change his ways.