Namaste

I have no idea why we were made to wait an extra week for tonight's episode of Lost, but it did a fairly good job of being worth the wait.

There were several good character moments scattered throughout the hour, beginning with the reunion of Sawyer with Jack, Hurley, and Kate, and ending with Sawyer putting Jack in his place and showing who's in charge now. In between were other interesting scenes. We got to see a taste of Sun's dark side again, when she blindsided Ben with an oar to the head. We got to see Juliet's uneasiness over the return of Kate. (Was she deliberately screwing with Kate just to watch her squirm for a minute? After all, Juliet apparently had no trouble getting Jack on "the list." It seems like she just wanted Kate to twist in the wind for a minute or two.)

There were also a few interesting character mysteries exposed along the way. Why was Sayid in handcuffs? (It certainly goes a long way toward the theory that he was in the custody of a marshal.)

Where has Farraday gone? Did he leave the Island? Die? Join the Others?

What about Sun made her exempt from the same time travel flash that claimed the other Oceanic Six-ers on the plane?

And then there was the final moment where Sayid met a young Ben. Just how much does older Ben remember of that in the present? Has he known something about Sayid all along?

In all, a good installment that fit into place a few more tiles of the strange mosaic that is season five.