There's No Place Like Home

So yo. Yo, dawg check it. That was, for me, you know, maybe not the best choice, but dawg, aside from some pitch problems, and bein' all a little over the place, that was totally hot, and you ROCKED THE HOUSE, yo! Welcome to the finals, baby! 

Oops, my bad. Wrong show.

But the sentiment is still the same, nonetheless. 

Now, let me preface this next statement by saying that I am truly humbled to have such a devoted readership as you who honestly look forward to reading what I have to say each week, but before y'all crucify me for not being as timely as you would like me to be in my posting and updating of this blog, please check your bank statements to make sure your support checks have been processed. Oh wait, that's right.... 

Thursday's nobody-in-particular-centric part 1 of season 4's finale, entitled "There's No Place Like Home," gave us a preliminary glimpse into the post-island lives of the Oceanic Six, a name that's "not the best branding as far as [Oceanic] is concerned, but it's catchy." And our fearless band of miscreants seem to have been through some major debrief wherein It (i.e. THE Story) was pounded into their heads in a Karl-esque rave-brainwashing fashion. (As Sun notes, "[They] ARE in shock." And all of them seem to have some sort of issue with it. That is, save for Jack, until he finds out that Whatever He Did involved his sister, Claire, aka Baby Mama to Baby Aaron, currently under the care of his booty call, Kate. His "Ohh em gee. What the eff?" face of utter guilt in the lobby of the church seems to foreshadow beardy Jack on the edge of reason, er, well at least the edge of something. The other survivors have some anger issues going on as well: Sun, with her  (and possibly Jin's?) settlement from Oceanic, buys a controlling interest in her father's company, all in an effort, I would assume, to see the company buckle under. As she notes, her father always hated her husband, and it's because of him that they were even on the plane in the first place. The begs the question of who does Sun consider to be the second party responsible for Jin's death? Ben? Keamy? Widmore? Hurley, in efforts to return to normalcy finds that those gosh-darn numbers just won't leave him the hell alone. Though, in my humble opinion, Hurley's been bound for lunacy ever since his mother told him she "has needs" and welcomed his long-absent father back into her bed. And Kate seems to be helplessly floundering in her efforts to play the role of Mother of the Year. It would seem, then, that Sayid is the only one who is enjoying his post-island sojourn, at least for the time being. His reunion with long-lost love Nadia begs the question of "Shannon who?"

Then there's the whole freighter thing goin' down. I think we're all pretty much in agreement that That Thing we saw being strapped to Keamy's arm last week has something to do with all those explosives rigged up in the radio room. It's been said, and I agree, that the monitoring device on his arm will detonate the explosives on the boat in the event that Keamy's pulse stops. The only question that raises, then, is ... "Whaaaaaaaa?!" I imagine that those instructions were handed down from the "Secondary Protocol" that everyone except for those who need to know about it know about. Since really, how does Daniel, by his own admissio aboard the freighter solely for the purpose of scientific experimentation, have classified knowledge of the Secondary Protocol when the Captain (R.I.P.) didn't even know what it was? Does Daniel play a bigger part in this whole thing than we're giving him credit for? And finally, wouldn't a little dinghy like the one they're ferrying back and forth through specific bearings need a gas up before heading back to the island?

Now, next week LOST isn't showing due, I assume, to the season finales of Grey's Anatomy and Ugly Betty. BUT when LOST returns in two weeks for the two hour finale (ugh, I think I may have to call in to work in order to stay up that late!) expect to have some major questions be answered. Like this one: how do the Oceanic 6, scattered in four different locations at the conclusion of Part One come together to make their exodus from the island? How will John Locke and Co. fare in their Jacob-mandated efforts to move the island? If, as it has been said, Keamy plans to "torch the Island," isn't this whole thing all for not, since if he torches the Island, he'll most likely do so while he's on it, too, thereby killing himself in the process and as a result of that, detonate the explosives on the boat? (Ahh, too many conditionals in that last sentence...) Much in which to look forward, kids! :)

Finally, an OT notation. I would like to welcome my dearest husband back home after a 7 month tour of duty in Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. There's No Place Like Home, indeed.