LOST namaste!

We have gotten past the hump! I can't believe we're already in the second half of the season...no!!

Tonight: Namaste!

What I liked best about Namaste was that is was the organic extension of LaFleur. Sawyer has become a full man, he's self-assured in a way we haven't seen. Not the CONfidence man, but a man with confidence in who and what he is. He's a thinking man and he's in control, in charge. Even Chang likes his "tight ship." The interaction between Sawyer and Jack was totally a pissing contest...and Sawyer wins this round, with authority. Jack is a snivilling whiny boy who's just a "workman". At least he didn't throw the Roger fit about "saving the world."

Kate is going to throw a wrench in everything. When he greeted the 03, he used Kong, Doc and they both called one another by their first names, maybe the first time every. He needed to separate her from the others. Everytime Sawyer looked at her, thought about her, you could nearly see the fear on his face. When he tells Juliet in their bedroom, as they sit on the bed, you can almost feel the gravity of the situation, the fact that both of them are thinking the same thing, now that (s)he's back, what does that do to us? They appear to be the first healthy couple or relationship we've seen on the show. I know the writers will do what they do, but it felt good to see them together. Not totally surprising, but good. I don't want them to take that away from Sawyer. He says, "before they screw up everything we got here." more importantly to the character, he doesn't want them to take it away.

They nearly had us thinking that Juliet pulled a quick one on Kate when her name isn't on the manifest...then she pulls through at the last minute. Every bit of Sawyer's woman. She can pull a con just as good as he can, like getting the sub manifest in the first place.

And don't think for one minute he forgets. He just doesn't have to do it everyday anymore. I think Sawyer once said "a tiger don't change his stripes." I like to say leopard and spots, but tomato, tomatoe. Sometime, the tiger just looks different in the mirror, ya know?

Interesting role reversal - Sawyer pushing Sayid around. Sayid is called a spy.

Ethan. I'm not sure exactly what Juliet's reaction was, it was so weird. She's so excited to be holding a baby, the first time in what, six, seven years? Then that is torn away when she realizes this will be Ethan, the Ethan...was her answer for when she and Jim will have a baby meant as a double entendre? "The timing's got to be right." Is she referring to the baby incident that we don't know what it is or when it happens? The fact that Kate has terrible timing? That she's like to get preggers now that she knows a live baby can be born on the island?

Frank - Sun - Ben. How many times can you go back and forth between two pairs of big eyes? The stares/glares were enough. We got the point. Ben sells the little one liners, "Ya wanna come?". I've said that vengeance doesn't suit Sun. She seemed to be a little less guarded once in the Lamp Post and getting on the flight, but the one two of the paddle to the back of the head coupled with the simple, "I lied," sealed the deal. She still has it in for Ben, regardless of whether or not she's able to meet back up with Jin.

Once they got to the island, it's was so Scooby Doo. The dock is all beat up, the barracks look run down, like the haunted theme park...then the light turns on, just like Jacob's Cabin! Whoa, the door is opening and its...Christian. But is it KA Christian? Then it gets all Twilight Zone-esque. Finding the photos, the misty room...the fact that it appears that smokey is sneaking in the door, possibly as a personal guide. "I'm sorry, but you have a bit of a journey ahead of you." (as smokey pulls out the stainless steel drink cart and starts down the aisle.) Christian can't always be or represent Jacob. We know that Jacob doesn't like technology and Christian wasn't shying away from that flashlight.

Ben & Sayid. Ben goes to see Sayid, not knowing anything other than the fact that he's a Hostile. I think it might be the first time that Ben has had contact with a Hostile since he met Richard in the woods, looking for his mother. Little Ben brought a sandwich to make nice and see what he could find out. Little does he know Sayid is most likely going to try and kill him (at least from what the teaser looks like.)

Random
#1 Ilana and Caesar don't know one another, or aren't letting on that they know who the other is.
#2 There are two distinct leaders on the beach again (even though Lapidus might be going on a Magical Mystery Tour.)
#3 Love that we did see Hurley pull down his sleep mask when he knew they were going to flash. Its so cute and tiny, but I called that as a "lalalalalala" you're not here Charlie.
#4 Randisky looks alot like Lenny. And we know the Swan is his pet project.
#5 Jin can still be pretty damn scary.
#6 Hurley acting again as the moral compass, when asking about the purge and stopping it.
#7 Even though it's Sayid, they're calling him a "14J." I want to know who's seat that was.
#8 Sayid tripped Grid 325. Wasn't that the original bearing?
#9 Jack caught his breath and got misty eyed when he hugged Juliet. What was that all about? Then he was totally caught off guard when he realized she was with Sawyer.
#10 Phil thinks something is fishy.

#8 WHERE THE FUCK IS DANIEL FARADAY?