Need. Sleep.

My sleep schedule is all weird thanks to afternoon naps and late nights. After this post, I'm heading off to bed. But first... Oh and spoilers for tonights episode of Lost below.

Lost 4.09
Wow. Oh Lost, I have soooooo missed you. I'm glad we had a Ben episode. I didn't know whose episode this was or what kind of flash it was, and I liked it. I like guessing. When Ben woke up in the desert, my mind kept jumping, like it could have been a flash back, but alas, October 2005. It's been so long since the last episode, I didn't react to 2005. It didn't even register as a flashforward until Sayid showed up.

Speaking of Sayid, poor him. He gets off the island, marries Nadia (which means he found her!), only to have her murdered. You know, the Widmore folks had no reason to kill her. But Ben did, or Ben's people did. Sayid did exactly what Ben wanted him to do, and Ben's mind tricks worked. Interesting, I never thought in a million years Sayid would willingly sign up to be Ben's assassin. I mean...Dude.

Just to say, this post is moving very fluidly. Speaking of Ben's mind fucks, it totally backfired this week. I must give the writers immense amounts of credit, because as Ben watched his daughter, gun to her head on the ground, my mind was racing, because what would you have done? I totally believe that the Widmore crew will kill everyone, so Ben couldn't give himself up. And then I didn't think that Alex would die, and then, boom. Or rather, a quiet shot and she's dead. I wasn't the biggest fan of Alex, well I didn't really have much of an opinion either way, but this was a way to go! And BEN! Just standing there, in shock. Imagine his guilt, his last words to his daughter were how much she DIDN'T mean to her. I mean... OUCH. Then things got interesting.

Ben's the monster whisper. DUDE YOU CAN CALL SMOKEY? Actually, I call it Cerberus, that Hatch map name was awesome. So there's this secret cave or cavern under the Barracks... is that where it lives? Or is it not alive, just some hyper advanced technology that Ben set to Revenge and let it loose on the Widmore peeps. Interesting...

Locke and Ben are getting creepy, with their synced pointed guns and shared looks. Poor Hurley, I wonder why he saw Jacob's cabin, maybe Jacob isn't approving of what Ben and Locke are up to, so turned to sweet Hurley as his messenger. Maybe.

One downside of the whole future thing is we know who's going to survive. Not that I was thinking Jack would die on the island, but this whole appendix thing is just random, unnecessary drama. I guess the writers are looking to put someone else in the spotlight for a while. I don't blame them, Jack as the leader can get boring.

I'm beginning to think that Widmore and Ben are like a warped version of frenemies. Kind of like the Doctor and the Master. One should totally vanquish the other, but it never really seems to do much. I was very interested in these rules, are the special island conquest rules of engagement? And whose island was it first? Widmore seems to be connected to the Hanso foundation somehow, and they seemed intent on exploiting the bizarre features. Or maybe there are like three fighting factions, maybe Widmore and Hanso aren't as connected. I'm not sure if I could handle so much fighting though.

Oh and Ben's going to kill Penny. Did you get it? Ben and Widmore are... like parallels! They love the Island! They have daughters! They kill people! GASP! But seriously, killing Penny is so uncool. But why is she in hiding and where? Maybe she dropped off the map and is living with Desmond. If she is with Des, maybe they've gone into hiding to get away from Papa Widmore. So this was a check in the Ben is evil, box, as opposed to in the Ben is sneaky box. While obvs, killing Penny == bad, I'm kind of glad we have these two enemies who are both evil, but in the case of the survivors, it's choosing the lesser of two evils.