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I don’t really have a lot to say, except for the fact that I love the “new” Lost. Last week was the “old” Lost. Last week was all about confusing, whats-the-point, circular storylines where you’re dropped off a few steps behind the point where you started. This week was good, and almost exclusively due to the sheer number of times in the episode some one was brutally punched in the face. I like Lost when its less about these huge unanswerable questions, and more about punching someone in the face. You can tell a lot about a character by how they try to punch someone in the face, or how they handle having someone else punch them in the face, and frankly, when you’re fifty-one episodes into a series sometimes you just need the show to punch you in the face a couple times and wake you the hell up. Or maybe I’m just regressing back to my savage state.

Elsewhere in the episode, Jack seems to be making friends, and not getting punched in the face. The biggest problem (and a problem that seems to be showing itself at shorter and shorter intervals) is the backstories really haven’t had much of a sting lately. When you see a Sawyer flashback, you expect to be wowed by the tripple-double-double-crosses. This week, eh, not so much. The Lost writing machine where all of the good story ideas come out of, must have exploded last February for the episode when Sawyer took the guns. Since then things haven’t been all that — with the exception of last season’s finale. That was all that.

And while I can’t write a post without comparing the two, I should state for the record that I mostly enjoyed this past week’s episode of Heroes and only found myself fast-forwarding through a couple scenes of the show. It definitely isn’t the soul-crushing experience it was three weeks ago, and dare I say I look forward to this coming Monday.

Oh, and was anyone else disappointed that Sawyer didn’t have the pacemaker after all. The “your heart/brain is going to explode if you go below 50 miles an hour” seems to be the J.J. Abrams equivalent of showing a car trunk open from the inside, but damn if it doesn’t create some tension.

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