Nothing super-major in this episode, but it was pretty entertaining in the usual shocking drama sort of way. Kate and Sayid and Locke and Rousseau make it to Suburbia, only to find it surrounded by a “shock fence weapon.” Locke shoves Guy With An Eyepatch into it and his brain melts or something. Good thing I never learned his name. So they fashion a ladder and climb over the brainmelting sonar part and make it in to Suburbia. It was kind of amusing, and a cool contrast, to see them hiking in the jungle, backpacks and guns in hand, and come up on Suburbia. The even more shocking part is they see Jack there—and he’s in the middle of having fun, playing football! Such a cool scene, it opened up so many questions. Does Jack like it there? Why wouldn’t he, why would he want to go back to struggling to survive? Will the other 4 stay too? He doesn’t appear to need rescuing anymore, so now what? Awesome. I’m really impressed with this turn.

The flashback was less fascinating. Usually most flashbacks revolve around a character in the main island story of the episode. Here, it was Claire, but her island story was her trying to catch a bird to put a note on, because she realized the birds had been tagged before migration and would fly back to people. Interesting and all, but hardly major. She does though learn about Desmond’s visions, and that he’s constantly trying to protect Charlie from his impending death. Also, in the flashback, Claire learns that Jack’s father is her father! I didn’t see that coming. I mean, she doesn’t know his name, so I don’t imagine they’ll ever learn the truth themselves. But that was a cool enough twist.

I feel like some answers about Suburbia are coming soon, and hope that to be true. This season seems far less mystical than before… except for the smoke monsters Eko saw before he died, there hasn’t been anything magical or paranormal going on. The Island itself feels less like a character now than it did the first few seasons. Hopefully that will return; I did like the creepiness factor that brought.

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