I honestly didn’t think it was possible, but Lost managed to jump the shark again last night. No, it didn’t go back to being good. It just got more ridiculous.
While it was interesting to find out how Locke got into the wheelchair and that Ben was born on the island, the reveal at the end of the episode with Locke’s “father” being held captive was not necessary to the storyline.
Adding this only pushes me more into thinking that everything is in Jack’s mind (like Stephen King said, which would suck) or that the characters are in Purgatory, which would also suck.
I think we should be seeing something relating to any one of the following loose story threads: Where are Walt and Michael? Where is the team sent by Desmond’s fiancé? What happened to the dinosaur (or whatever it was) that yanked the pilot from the cockpit in Season 1?