This is what happens when the writers have no idea what they’re doing. The first half hour of tonight’s episode has to have been the most revealing portion of the series thus far. If that holds true, however, then the second half hour was the least revealing of the season. Here are the facts: Claire’s baby Aaron is sick, and Rousseau thinks he’s infected. Claire is also having flashbacks of her time spent with the Others, so she runs to Lizzie the psychiatrist for help, but the only thing she can seem to remember via hypnosis is being in a faux hospital room with Ethan giving her a mysterious vaccine shot into her tummy.
With everyone else too busy to help her (where do these people go for days at a time?), Claire enlists Kate’s help to go searching for the place where she was taken, but when they finally find it, the hidden bunker is completely vacant. What I found more interesting than any of this is what Kate discovered while exploring the bunker: a beard? Does that help explain why Zeke had a beard during their first encounter with him, and why he didn’t have one in Claire’s flashback. Or were they just planning ahead for the upcoming stage production of “Annie Get Your Gun”?
I’m really starting to grow tired of this routine that “Lost” writers Damon Lindelof and JJ Abrams have seemed to fallen into. You know, the one where they answer a single insignificant question in trade for a slew of much larger ones? We need answers, and now. If they keep this up any longer, I don’t know if people will still be around to tune in.
