Yeah. I was looking forward to this episode greatly, but it didn’t deliver. What did you guys think? Ultimately, Ricardus is not nearly as old as I thought he’d be, especially with a nickname like Ricardus (I thought he might have been from Roman times). He was a poor Spanish dude whose wife was dying of something like pneumonia or tuberculosis. He travelled to a doctor whom he ended up killing accidentally while fighting over some medicine. By the time he reached home, his wife was dead and Richard ended up being sentenced to execution.

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In the reality in which Sawyer isn’t touched by Jacob and is never encouraged to write that letter of hate, he becomes a cop and with MIles as his partner, goes undercover to catch grifters, and it’s no suprise he’s good at it. Miles sets Sawyer, er, James, up with his friend Charlotte. They get along great until she goes into the wrong drawer for a t-shirt and ends up finding out the fate of James’ family. He catches her, she denies seeing anything, and he kicks her out.

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This week Lost showed us the parallel between Ben’s island life and his alternate reality life as a teacher.

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That was too much that happened. Sayid decided to be evil and killed Dogon and now the Smoke Monster is killing hand over fist! And then our local channel pre-empted something and we missed the end. What happened to Kate and Claire?

This week on LOST, Jack is a whiny smashy baby and Claire is crazy badass. Stay tuned for Maggie’s more insightful recap.

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Thanks to Freakgirl for filling in for me…Yes, it’s me! Hello! But whether I’ll be insightful remains to be seen.
Maggie

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Discuss last night’s LOST, The Substitute, in the comments. Professor Ben, WTF?

At the end of the last episode, a shot Sayid gets brought to the temple, drowned to death, and then wakes up alive again. This disturbs the Temple People and they demand to see Sayid alone. Jack tries to come along but is rebuked. Sawyer has a gun, says he’s out for himself and stomps off into the jungle.

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On the one hand we have our cast in the present day, realizing that blowing up the bomb didn’t work and Juliet was going to die and Sawyer was all “I WILL KILL YOU!” while Hurley was told by a recently murdered Jacob to get Sayid to the temple and that Jin would help him.

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