The “fall season” of Lost has come to an end. Sniff. While the six episodes we’ve seen so far have been a bit up and down, Lost at its worst is still better than anything else on the tube these days (Faith and Kanye aside). My thoughts/questions on this episode:

• It was great seeing Kate and Sawyer doing what could only be called in their current cleanliness states “the nasty.” That’s two women in two months for Sawyer. For being stranded on an island, he’s not doing too bad in that department. These people should consider themselves lucky that they have plenty of hotties to choose from. The last time I flew, I compared the people on my flight to the people on Flight 815 and all my options looked a lot more like Hurley, Ben and Bernard than Jack, Sawyer and Sayid.
• What was the deal with Alex using a slingshot against guys with guns? I guess she missed the news reports on how well that method worked for the Palestinians. And what’s her relationship with Ben? Adopted daughter? Teen bride?
• I think to be on Lost’s usual par, the last two episodes should have been combined. They should have done Eko’s backstory (Kate’s seemed pointless) and death, the discovery of Patch, Jack and the videotape, Sawyer and Kate getting it on, Jack watching their nookie action and then Jack operating on Ben. But if would have been a better cliffhanger if they’d closed the episode either with the observation of Patch or with the gun to Sawyer’s head: “This is for Colleen…see ya in three months.”
• Jack, gun, what happened?
• Some Lost fans are complaining that so many regular characters are MIA and that we never witnessed Sayid report back to the other Losties about what happened with the boat. This omitted scene could shed some light as to why some characters have been relegated to mere guest appearances:

Sayid: We have no idea what happened to Jack, Kate, Sawyer, Michael and Hurley.
Locke: Hurley’s back and already filled us in.
Sayid: Oh, well, you know more than we do I guess. One more thing, I had a really bad plan to trap the Others and they ended up stealing the boat.
Hurley: Bummer dude.
Paolo: Should we send out another search party?
Sayid: Who the hell are you?
Paolo: I’m the lame-but-hot new guy who will probably be killed off before the season’s over and go back to a soap opera where I belong.
Claire: Aaron’s crying. I better feed him.
Charlie: I better help Claire.
Jin: 나의 ë°”ì§€ì•ˆì—ê³ ë¬¼.
Sun: Yes, what my husband said.
Desmond: I see dead people.

[Cut to "poof" with Lost logo]

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