SPOILER WARNING!

Ah, Lost, how I missed you. I still have some quibbles with the show here and there – like how convenient is it that every time the guys on the Island are in mortal danger, there’s a flash? And how convenient is it that all of the members of the Oceanis Six are in LA just as Ben needs to get them all back to the Island? And how was Jin able to be in the “sphere” of time travel around the Island, when the helicopter was not? Wasn’t the copter flying back to the Island after the freighter went boom? I would think the chopper would move faster than a drifting Jin. And if the Island “needs” everyone from 815 on the Island, why has it killed so many of them? And my BIG question remains – if the Island needed Jack and company so badly,why did Jacob have Ben move the Island when he did?? I still say this predicament of time-hopping is way more of Ben/Locke/Jacob’s fault than Jack’s.

But quibbles and questions aside, the show is still amazing. Seeing Jin alive, though not particularly surprising, was still a great moment. And he meets the young Rousseau? Whoa. I have long wondered about her backstory – what really happened to her crew? How did she live on the Island for 16 years and never see an Other? But did she interact with Jin in the earlier seasons? Did she recognize him? She may have given him an odd look and we would have regarded it as pure craziness. I may have to rewatch some old episodes for research.

And along those same lines, when Claire gave birth to Aaron, were there whispers that could have been Sawyer/Faraday? Could Sawyer have popped out and said hello to Kate? Would that have disrupted the space-time continuum? Could he have talked to himself? Back to the Future rules say no. Timecop rules say he could talk to himself, but the two Sawyers couldn’t touch. Lost rules on this matter have not yet been made clear.

In other TV matters, 24 is officially awesome again! The new characters haven’t bothered me as much as I thought they would, though I would like more Chloe and Bill action. But the tag-team of Jack and Tony is just fantastic. The drama is kept high, the action is fun to watch, and I find myself looking forward to each new episode, which I sorta wasn’t in the middle of last season. Part of me worries if they’ll be able to keep up this momentum, especially with another huge government conspiracy reaching into the White House, but hey, I’m an optimistic fella.

And Scrubs, 30 Rock, and The Office have been amazing this year. The episode of The Office post-Superbowl was unbelievably amazingly hysterical, and yes, I did whine about hour-log episodes of The Office before, but none was so brilliantly executed as this one. The opening sequence was so damn funny, it’s worth watching again. So here it is, my gift to you all. (OK fine, Hulu’s gift to us all.)