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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.
can you give some examples of time travel being hinted at in season 3 and 4? dont worry if not, im just curious
I already gave you many examples. It's been leading up to time travel since the beginning. Season 1 served as an introduction to the characters and the Island, setting it somewhere outside of reality, outside of space. The end of season 1 set up most of the plot for season 2: the Others, Ben, the Hatch, the Numbers, etc. and so on. Season 2 served as an introduction to the stranger properties of the Island and a lot of 'supernatural' phenomena (though, a lot of the supernatural stuff in S2 was scientific physics-ey electro-magnetism crap that all had to do with the hatch). Anyway, S2 ended with Jack+Co. being kidnapped by the Others, so naturally S3 was all about the Others. S3 ends with Naomi reaching the Island (and I believe being killed by Locke?), which leads into S4 which is all about the Freighter people (and Widmore).

S3 had various hints at time travel and the nature of time in Lost - foremost, as I mentioned before, were Desmond's future-telling abilities. Actually, there was even an instance of actual time travel in S3 (Desmond going back in time, meeting Eloise, who in turn tells him about course correction).

As for S4, how could you miss the references to time travel? They were everywhere. Desmond time travels again, this time through multiple time periods (iirc), Faraday has his machine which he was using to send rats' minds back in time, when Faraday sends for his payload there is a half-hour (or some noticeable time difference) discrepancy between the freighter time and Island time, the doctor on the Freighter washes up dead on the Island but is still alive on the Freighter because of this discrepancy ...

then, Ben "moves" the Island through space-time at the end of S4, which brings us to S5 which is all about time and time travel on the Island.