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LOST fans treated to a night of answers.

Episode 316 came full circle for fans that have stuck with the show. Now we are getting somewhere. We know something about the Island: why a plane from Africa and a plane from Australia can both somehow crash though on completely separate trajectories. The island moves.

We also know that the Dharma Initiative looked for a unique pocket of electromagnetic energy to find the Island, one related to but more powerful than several other areas of electromagnetism all over the earth. This relates to the back-story of Rose, how she went to Australia to consult the healer. The healer told her that he discovered the area in Australia healed broken bones, but not cancer. Rose was cured of cancer on the island and John Locke was cured of crippled bones. There are still many unanswered questions but we have enough hunks of junk to start assembling our own Dharma van.

So in this episode we have an impossibility running amuck. KUDOS to the writers who wrote so many characters onto that plane in a plausable scenario that did not involve trusting Ben. And KUDOS to the writers and actors for the humor that rocked through an episode that could have been melodramatic enough to make me gag.  I did not!  Jeff Fahey especially cracked me up when he said, “We’re not going to Guam, are we?” I laughed and “oooh” like a maniac, despite the fact that I am terrified bloody Ben kept his promise to kill Widmore’s daughter.

By the crash, I was on the edge of my seat, chills circulating my spine like polar bears charging through a tropical jungle. I totally love Hurley!  78 tickets!  Those details keep me coming back for more. And this detail:  Ben read Ulysses while on the plane. James Joyce wrote this parallel to Homer’s Odyssey about one day in 1904. There was also a space mission named Ulysses. This particular mission reported back that global solar wind plasma output is at a fifty year low. Do these details have anything to do with the show? Probably not, but the producers (and readers of this blog) know I like to mull.

When the credits rolled, I screamed, “I wish I was watching this on DVD! I would stay up all night!” You know what I want to know: who else was on that plane that didn’t ride first class?  The riveting draw of this show is that it makes you want to know what has happened as much as what will happen. By the way, this episode’s title 316 referenced John 3:16. Hmmm. Why? Did John give his life for Jack? Did Kate give up her only son to keep him off the Island? Will someone put an end to Ben’s everlasting life? I’ll definitely be watching next week when we here Jin say, “Sun is here?”

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