Lost - Season 5: 316

How ridiculously awesome was that episode?

1) Loved the fact they recreated as much of the first flight as they could, with the end result they are back on the island. Hurley with the guitar case to represent Charlie, Locke taking the place of Jack's dead dad, Sayid was with a US Marshall like Kate was, etc. And even Lapidus was there, to take the place of Greg Gunberg's pilot from the season premiere (Lapidus and Gunberg's character knew each other)!

2) So they are back on the island - but when? They are in the past it looks like, based on Jin's clothes and the state of the VW van. So when Locke left the island and stopped the time flashes, the rest of the gang were left in whatever time period they were in at that point in time?

3) Locke becomes the new Jacob when they get back to the island, like Christian did the first time?

4) I hope Ben did not kill Penny. But he probably did - that's what gets Desmond back to the island.

5) Some questions:

- What made Hurley want to go to Guam? And nice touch by the way - him reading Y! The Last Man (Producer Brian K. Vaughan's amazing comic book series from Vertigo/DC).

- Where's Aaron?

- What did Sayid do to get arrested?

6) Loved the Series Premiere homage at the start and at the end - with the extreme closeup of Jack's eye opening and finding himself in the middle of the jungle.

Here's Sean.