Quote Originally Posted by Del Murder View Post
Pretty decent for a Kate episode. I like the irony of how Jack refused to operate because of who Ben becomes, but he becomes that way because Jack refused to operate.

The next one looks good too. Perhaps an epic battle between Ben and Smokey is in order. I don't like where (when?) they took this show but at least it's still entertaining.
I was kind of confused with the direction they took the narrative when they added in time travel, too, but when you think about it they've been building up to that for the entire series. Adam and Eve are a subtle first indication, other random mentions of experiments with space-time and other physics crap in the Dharma orientation videos, Desmond's future telling abilities (+ Eloise Hawking in season 3 (?) talking to Desmond about course correction, etc.). Not to mention flashbacks / flash forwards, which are signaled in the show very similar to time travel (flash backs / forwards are signaled with that wooshing noise, zoom in on the eye, etc. etc., time travel has the epic screeching + purple noise). Anyway - time travel was very heavily hinted at throughout most of the third and fourth seasons, so by the time it happened, I was sort of assuming it would.