It was pretty exciting around the office yesterday as the gang discussed the upcoming return of
LOST to the airwaves. There was even a clip show prior to the first new episode in months...and of course there was something of a cliff-hanger when the show signed off last fall. Spinal surgeon Jack was holding Ben, The Others leader hostage, bleeding to death on the operating table, in exchange for the release of recently mated pair Sawyer and Kate. The return of the show brought with it very few answers, with Juliette, the nice (?) blond other lady being the subject of the series of flash backs. She was a fertility researcher in Miami, still working in her cheatin' ex-husband's lab in hopes of getting her sister, played by
Robin Weigert (Calamity Jane on Deadwood, the second star of the HBO western recruited for Lost), pregnant. It works, and then some weird dudes come and try and recruit her and it appears she wound up working on the Island, doing something fertility-related that might have something to do with the injections given to Claire's baby when she was kidnapped.
Of course, none of that is explained and Jack yells a lot and Sawyer made a kind of Star Wars reference ("The Wookie Prisoner trick"). Apparently next weeks show goes back to Locke, Desmond, Hurley and company, but if this thing doesn't shape up in the next couple of episodes, I am going back to watching old episodes of The Prisoner. What's the nerd word on Lost?