NEVER FEAR, I WILL MAKE A NEW POT OF COFFEE: If there is one constant throughout the years of Lost, it is that a Lockecentric episode is always better than a Jack- or Katecentric episode. And after years of watching horrid, gut-wrenching things happen to Locke, it was a relief to see a universe -- whatever the heck universe alt.lax might be -- in which his life is a smidgeon less miserable. (Best moment in that regard: the rueful chuckle when the sprinklers went off.)
Plenty to talk about, but despite all the mythology plotline advancement,* it's a relatively little thing that struck me the most: if the change in the Locke family dynamic is as it was reported, then how exactly does the chair figure into things?
*I agree with Our Friend Alan that the end-of-series clarity we've started to get on the mythology has demythologized the mythology. (When Dorothy finds out that the Wizard is just a guy behind a curtain -- well, that kind of takes some of the wind out of the Wizard's sails, no?) Nothing to be done about it, and I'm not complaining, but it does make the cave drawings somewhat less of an OMG reveal than an oh, this is how they're finessing this issue.
All hail Terry O'Quinn, man of faith, in the comments.
