We Now Return to Regularly Scheduled Programming...

...obsessing about Lost.

Wow! Last night's episode ROCKED. I know I've said it before, but I love Ben. He is so complex. I thought he was complete and utter evil (and I was fine with that and loved him anyway), but he is capable of grief (BTW: Poor Alex....I just didn't see that coming...honestly). He does, however, use his grief to help get Sayid do start killing people for him, but it is a real emotion...however he chooses to use it to his advantage.

I am beyond excited that we are going to make another visit to Jacob. He and his cabin give me the creeps. The kind of creeps I like to have. And I am also interested to see how the threesome of Locke, Ben and Hurley is going to work out. It seems like an odd group. Ben and Locke give Hurley the creeps, but I don't think it's the kind of creeps Hurley likes to have.

Some other Suzy observations:

• I wish they had killed Claire then and there. She is annoying and some time last season she decided to act very badly. And not only did they not kill her, she was barely hurt...after her house EXPLODED! As Laura would say, WTF?

• Sawyer has definitely made the biggest changes as a character on that show. He wants to rescue people. He appears to care about people. (Although if I was Hurley I'd be all like, "I'm a man Sawyer, I can take care of myself, you don't need to defend my honor."). It's not that I don't like this new Sawyer, it makes me feel uneasy about his future.

• How did Ben conjure the smoke monster? Again, what is the smoke monster?

• How did Ben get to the Sahara? It appears as though he fell out of the sky...this seems to support this idea of time travel.

• Who in the hell is Charles Widmore? Is he a descendant of Jacob? Has he been on the island before and is like Jack and needs to get back? And who will win the ultimate daughter-death showdown? Evil (Ben) or Love (Penny and Desmond)?

• Best line of the night: When Ben says, "Excuse me James." So nonchalant and polite, as though people weren't storming the house, as if Ben hadn't just summoned the smoke monster to woop some ass.

I LOVE Ben!