Lost - "Happily Ever After"

Now, recently I've been vrey very frustrated wityhh this final season of Lost. Before the season started we were promsed answers to most of our questons about the show. And yes, while we've got a few, the first 10 episodes have been so slow and plodding, pace-wise that I'd almost started to lose interest. Well, all that changed affter tonights stellar episode. It was a Desmond centric one and was the best of the season so far, just as another Desmond centric epsiode was in season 4 - "The Constant." Oh, and there'll be spoilers from here on in, in case you haven't watched it already.

So, the majority of the episode was a flash sideways for Desmond. Most of the flash sideways before this ep have been kind of fun to watch but seemingly pointless with only flashes of characters feeling like Something's Not Quite Right (and quite similar to when other people showed up in someone elses flashBACK in thhe first few seasons of Lost). Desmond's was the first to actually address the not-quite-right feeling head on. And it was done so with the help of Charlie. Good old Charlie. One of my favourite characters rght from the start of the show, turning up again to get the show back on track. And yes, I did smile when You All Everybody came on the radio.

The way he made Desmond realise that the flash sideways universe/alternate universe was not right was genius and called back to one of Lost's greatest and most emotional lmoents: Charlie dying way back at the end of season three. It was a nce little shoutout to us long time viewers. And from there the whole episode seemed to, but didn't quite (it is Lost, after all) answer some questions. What we do know for sure (maybe) is that some characters in the alti-verse know that it's not right and are also aware of the bleeding effect, such as Charlie, Faraday, and now Desmond. You know, the bleeding effect? Like when Jack looked in the mirror and noticed a scar he didn't remember getting. And it looks like alti-verse Desmond is going to tie the two universes (that's the altiverse AND the on island universe. Keep up.) together by telling the passengers off the 815 manifest to pay attention to the bleeding effect.

I rambled on a bit there but the jist is, Lost is back on form with the best epsiode if this current season (for me anyway) and I am eagerly awaiting the final episodes.

I've also just realised that this will make no sense to non-Lost viewers.