LOMGST! (OMG They Killed Kenny! Edition)

And by Kenny, I mean…

(Spoilers!)

(Seriously!)

(If you haven’t watched it yet – and if you haven’t, what is wrong with you? – really, take it from me, YOU DO NOT WANT TO SEE THE END OF THAT SENTENCE.)

(You really, really don’t.)

(I’m not joking.)

(For really reals I’m not.)

(Don’t slam the door behind you on your way out.)

(I didn’t mean that passive-aggressively. Just, you know.)

(Are we alone now, everyone-else-who-was-sensible-enough-to-watch-Lost-last-night?)

(*DEEP BREATH*)

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… and by Kenny, I mean… oh god…  (*gulp*)… Lapidus and Sayid and – oh, dear lord – Sun and Jin. Okay, so maybe Lapidus didn’t die – we didn’t actually see it, although him getting knocked out by a huge metal door in a sinking submarine with no of rescue pretty much says it all – but still. One almost doesn’t care one or another because Sayid! Sun! And Jin!

Sayid’s death, of course, was in some ways a good death, given that he’d been a sort of evil zombie-henchman to Fake Locke and his death turned that around. (And? Can I say? The Muslim character martyring himself by blowing himself up? BOLD MOVE, Lost. BOLD MOVE.) Still, he was awesome, and it was kind of gut-punchy to see him go.

Sun and Jin? UGH. Just, ugh. That was heart-wrenching. Like, Leo and Kate on the Titanic while Celine Dion warbles in the background gut-wrenching. “I will never leave you, Sun!” AAAGH. That said, was I the only one wondering why neither of them mentioned their daughter (I’m not the only one, I know, but let’s just ask it) – why Sun didn’t say, when she was imploring him to go, “FOR OUR BABY, JIN!” I suppose that that meaning was implied by her obvious agony – maybe – but it seems to me that if she was thinking that, that if she really wanted Jin to leave and go to their child, that she would have pulled that out as an argument to get him to go. Having said that… I suppose that it’s reasonable to expect that she wouldn’t have really wanted him to go – who really wants to die alone? – and that her ambivalence might have been enough to keep her from playing the kid card. That, and it wouldn’t have been nearly such a poetic ending for them.

For what it’s worth, I’m not saying that abandoning one’s spouse to a solitary death is what a good parent would have done (me being no authority on good parents), I’m just saying that if it were me, I’d have been losing my mind about WHAT ABOUT MY BABIES?!?!? – not to mention, I’d have probably not wanted my husband to die – and I’m pretty sure I’d have kicked him in the groin to get him moving. If, of course, my legs weren’t pinned under submarine detritus. There’s that.

Other items of note:

1) I guess I was wrong about that whole Flocke-isn’t-really-totally-bad thing, among other things. He seems pretty bad from the vantage point of oh hey he murdered half the cast.

2) I don’t blame Sawyer for one minute for pulling those wires. The last time he listened to Jack, Juliet got blowed up. That said, I think that we can now expect Sawyer to be all the more tortured and to probably die self-sacrificially in atonement for his doubt. At which point he better get his own cop show.

3) Do we really think that it was Widmore who left the explosives in the plane (which, as we saw, really was wired to explode)? In which case, did he really want everyone killed? Why? I suppose that it could have been Richard and Ben and Miles (who were last seen heading off to blow up the plane), but they had that old-timey Black Rock dynamite, not fancy wired Al Qaeda bombs with timers.

4) Why were Widmore’s cronies not guarding the sub?

5) Only three episodes to go. Hold me.