Reply #56: Some thoughts on this episode

[Ohio Joe]

OK, I'm up early this morning and I just re-watched this on on-demand and really... a disappointing episode. A few things:

1 - WTF was up with Allison Janney's character? I was thinking she might have been a smoke monster but then she was killed with that knife Sayid tried to kill NotLocke with (Sayid failed). Did Sayid fail because NotLocke spoke before he stabbed him? WTF would speaking have to do with the knife killing a smoke monster or not? Why not resolve these questions at this point? oh.. and I figure she almost had to be a smoke monster or how did she kill everyone and fill in all the wells while MIB was knocked out?

2 - MIB/Smokey/NotLocke - WTF? I can almost see saving the reveal of his name for the end of the episode but leaving that unanswered? or mumbled perhaps... Janney's character said something before she thanked MIB but after she was stabbed and even though I was really trying to catch what she said, I still could not make it out. Did anyone catch what she said there?

3 - The cave. Again, if they are going to bring up something big at this point in time, they really should have given out some more information about it.

I really felt that if they were going to do an "origin" episode at this point, they should have given all or at least most of the answers. I'm left feeling that this could have been a great way to reveal the secret of the island and used the last three and a half hours to reveal who would live, who would die and who would be left guarding the island.