This evening, I watched the latest Lost episode, titled “The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham.”  Another fantastic episode this season.  Below are some questions and observations I had about the episode.  If you haven’t seen the episode, STOP READING!

***SPOILERS BELOW***

I was pleased to see that Locke asked questions like any realistic person not in a mysterious TV show would ask, like why should he trust Widmore and what Abaddon really did for Widmore.  None of the Oceanic Six bothered to ask Eloise Hawking who she was or why she knew about the Lantern Dharma station; they just let her do her thing.  Why not ask some questions, Jack?!

Who was the specialist Widmore flew in to “properly” set Locke’s leg?

Ben talked Locke down from killing himself because Locke had so much work to do, but when Locke mentioned Eloise, Ben kills Locke.  Why?  Was Locke not supposed to know about her?  Were they never to meet in person?  Or was this Ben’s plan the whole time, and Ben killing Locke was another instance of Ben doing something Locke was supposed to do himself?

When will we see Walt again? His story that he was “special” still hasn’t been resolved.

Ben said Widmore wanted to get back to the island. But if his crew (Daniel, Miles, Charlotte, Frank, Naomi, and the Kahana crew) made it to the island, why doesn’t he already know how to get back to the island?

And as always, we had a few references to “the numbers”:

Helen died on April 8th; aka 4-8.

Widmore told Locke to dial 23 on the phone to reach him.

This season has been terrific so far, and I can’t wait for the next episode!

My apologies to my readers.  I needed a break from politics and blogging.  Trying to meet a deadline before I headed off to vacation, I became extremely busy with work, and I lost contact with the outside world and didn’t keep up with news and my blog.  Now my project is launched and my vacation is over, and I’m back to “normal” life.

My hiatus gave me time to think what I want to do with this site.  Sometimes the daily political grind is just too much to deal with since I have, and would like to have, other things going on in my life.  So instead of the constant barrage of political stories, I want to focus more on day-to-day stories and allow my blog to develop beyond politics.

But of course I can’t stray too far from politics, so expect political stories still.  Just not as many.

We’ll see how this goes. :-)