Travel last week prevented me from watching "Catch-22" until yesterday, so we might as well just combine them.
Desmond gets all future-y again, as the writers tease every viewer by pretending Charlie dies (although you're a total sucker if you fell for that one). (Incidentally, was this first scene directed by Quentin Tarantino? Gory violence and a totally random argument about a foot race between Superman and the Flash? What the fuck?) Desmond somehow convinces Hurley, Charlie and Jin to go tramping into the jungle after something he won't tell them about, narrowly saves Charlie, and in the flashback, we see that he's used to totally copping out of his problems. The parachutist Desmond thought was Penny (as though a rich girl like that is going to be doing her own parachuting) turns out to be someone completely unknown to us, but she does know who Desmond is and has his picture, so it seems pretty clear she was sent by Penny, as we finally start to follow up on the last scene of the Season 2 finale. In the B plot, the writers continue to pretend that Kate is carrying a torch for Jack. I'm starting to care even less about this than about the Charlie/Claire relationship.
In this week's episode, Sun finds out that pregnant women are pretty much hosed if they got pregnant on the island. Thanks to Jin's miracle island sperm, she did. Uh oh. Juliet ultrasounds her, then sneaks back in to leave a tape-recorded message for Ben, though she accidentally hits stop before telling him of her hate for him. Glad we cleared that one up. Presumably this is supposed to set up the resolution to a future conflict wherein Juliet picks the side of right despite the Others' coercion, but we'll see how that goes.
In the flashback, Sun's mother-in-law is even bitchier than the average mother-in-law, demanding 100 grand to spare Jin the shame of discovering that she was a prostitute. This inspires Sun to research Jin's family history, meeting his father, who is totally cool with being considered dead. Those Koreans are really concerned with appearances, man. We also see that Sun was basically responsible for Jin having to become the bad-type he was in the first season flashbacks (although it was really his mom's fault, so whatever), but if you think about it, it's not really all that important now. The only thing that we really get out of the flashbacks is seeing that Sun is willing to go through a fair amount for Jin, though some consolation that is now.
In the B plot, we go back to Desmond and crew. Lady Parachutist is dying of a punctured lung, but then Mikhail shows up (WTF?) and saves the day. Or at least her. He tries to steal the satellite phone that doesn't work anyway and gets caught by Jin, but Desmond still lets him go per their agreement that if he saved the parachutist Desmond would let him walk. So dead people just get up and walk around now? I know the island has healing powers, but that seems sort of extreme.
Parachute girl wakes up and talks to Hurley. He anxiously asks if she's there to rescue them and reveals that he was on Flight 815, to which she replies that that's impossible, because the plane was found and there were no survivors. Uh..... huh?
Next week: Locke recruits Sawyer to kill "Ben" - do you really want to give me odds it's not actually his dad?
I have to say, over the past month or so I've probably enjoyed Lost as much as at any point since I gorged on the first season nearly two years ago. Let's see three more episodes of this, guys. You can handle that, right?
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