This was a very good episode, but now I’m not sure what they’re doing. Last episode, and into most of this one, I was stoked–finally, a story! Crazy evil Ethan is terrorizing the group of stranded people on the island. That’s a story I thought could carry the season out, the dealing with the consequences and drama from that. But, alas, after the group used Claire as bait and trapped Ethan, Charlie comes up and shoots Ethan. So now he’s dead, there are no answers, and the future terrorizing that I was looking forward to–gone. Argh. Now what? Crazy French lady is gone, Ethan is gone, there’s no antagonist here at the moment. Maybe that’s what I need to accept and embrace, a non-antagonist storyline.

The mysterious thing is, how did Charlie get a gun? They made a big deal about there being 4 guns, and Jack and Locke and Sayid got 3. They made a point not to give one to Charlie, and gave the fourth to Sawyer. Sawyer had his own, so a fifth was given to Kate. Then Charlie came running up and shot Ethan. How? Will they answer that question? My guess is no, they won’t.

Also, this episode had a cool reference to the best show ever, The Office (the first, way-better, original one). In the Charlie flashback, he goes home with a woman from a pub in England. He asks her where her old man is, and she says “he’s buying a paper company in Slough.” The Office takes place in a paper company in Slough. That was awesome. Also, I do not think it was a mere reference. The Office was about an office manager who thinks he is a chilled-out entertainer. Charlie’s flashback was the opposite, showing him, a rock-star entertainer, trying to be an office guy (copier salesman).

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