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Well doesn't that just piss all over all kinds of things we thought we understood. Hot damn.
I didn't even know what to say when this one ended. I started off REALLY disliking how Locke seemed to think he was all that after he basically had to trick Sawyer into doing his dirty work. The man who couldn't off the one man he hated more than anything suddenly turned around and became a badass at the beginning of this episode. I happen to really like Ben, so seeing Ben's authority undermined by Locke was not so much fun.
From there on out.....man, who even knows what happened. Spoiler: Jacob is almost too strange to really have much of a conversation on, which says nothing for why Richard has looked the same for 30 (give or take) years, what the course of the original Dharma v. Hostiles conflict was (and how uncannily similar it is to the Losties v. Others conflict), what a truly vindictive bastard Ben is and whether or not Locke will make it out alive.
My guess is that the island will revive Locke, simply because 1) it's already cured him once and 2) he seems like too pivotal a character to get rid of so quickly and easily. That would bode VERY poorly for Ben (I'm surprised Ben isn't more thorough about making sure he's dead, given what he knows about the island), and as each week passes I find myself liking Ben more and more, so I probably won't like it. Like him or no, I'm having a tough time seeing Ben make it out of this season in a position of authority and, frankly, I'm kind of wondering if he's going to make it out alive. The house of cards he's built seems to be on dangerous ground.
Phew, lots to digest tonight.
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