Blogging LOST: Non-Crash Gets Interesting, Brutha

I love Desmond. Seriously, I am in love with Desmond. I mean, not only is he a pretty good lookin' dude, but the way he talks - if Ian could master that accent, he would get unlimited... back rubs. What? What did you think I was gonna say?

Anyway, an episode featuring Desmond is always a win for me. And I did like this episode. It was a good episode, and interesting stuff happened (as opposed to last week, where the entire episode felt completely pointless). We are still kind of sick of the Non-Crash plot, though.

It is getting slightly more interesting. Farraday seems to somehow know that he set off a nuclear bomb in the Crash timeline, thus starting the Non-Crash timeline spiral (how he came up with the nuclear bomb theory, I'm unsure). His mom (Eloise) seems to know what's up as well. But Desmond's status as a "constant" seems to be putting him in prime position to get the Non-Crash timeline back to where it's supposed to be.

Decent episode. My only complaint is that there is too much going on. We have two major storylines and two major plots that need to be resolved: the whole Jacob vs. Esau thing (with the Candidates and the lighthouse and the temple), and the whole Non-Crash timeline (that Desmond is hopefully going to fix). Those are two really big stories that seem to be competing with each other. It might have been better to focus on one or the other, but then the writers would actually have to develop one of them in depth rather than kind of skimming the surface on both.

I did like it, though. And it looks like we'll be seeing more Desmond in the coming episodes. That's a good thing.