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LOST packs more punch than Biden.

I missed the original airdate for this episode due to a week that included an outbreak of whooping cough in my son’s class at school and plans to rebuild a porch that is falling off our house. I caught the episode on the web this afternoon, fully expecting to have missed the real excitement. After all, watching online with an older computer sometimes means waiting for the picture to catch up to the sound.  Besides nothing could be more riveting that the Today Show this morning when the V.P announced he wouldn’t send his family on a plane or a subway bound for Mexico or anywhere else for that matter. Yes, he later retracted, but not before I saw the look on his face.

I was wrong about real life subduing LOST’s effect. The hour was still riveting. Maybe it was the fact that I already spent the day trying to calm my nerves, trying to tell myself not to pull the kids out of school and send a facemask and Germ Guardian to work with my husband. Whatever the case, LOST had me on the edge of my seat, gasping, muscles taut, ready to load all firearms, the whole way through this unbelievable episode full of revelations and tie-ins. It doesn’t get any tenser than this unless you are watching the news.

The story unfolds Daniel Faraday’s journey, his mother’s involvement with the Others, and the twists of fate that seem rather twisted. I’m spinning with theories again and spent the evening urging my husband to go download it so that we could discuss the possibilities. From this point forward, the main characters’ days could be numbered, or just backed up and rebooted. (You know, like the stock market.)  The sprint to the finish will be a long, arduous race with contestants shoving, tripping, and toppling. I can’t wait.

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