Lost - S05E03

Another episode of time skipping wonder. Lots of cool stuff. More or less every scene ended with a great WTF?! moment. Although some things are becoming clearer.

For a start we find out that the people in the military uniforms are Others and they've killed a load of US soldiers. Who have left their atomic bomb behind, naturally. This seems to imply that the Others have always been on The Island, or at least for a very long time, and they are constantly fighting off intruders be they US Army or the Dharma Initiative. Amusingly Daniel then promises to diffuse the atomic bomb, but takes the "I've seen the future therefore I can do anything" approach and suggests they bury it, good thinking that man. I like Daniel, particularily good this episode was his confession of love to convince Richard and I felt very sorry for Daniel at the end when Charlotte collapses.

Meanwhile, as Daniel becomes more assured, Sawyer is getting more irritated not knowing what's going on, and Locke is looking increasingly insecure. At least Sawyer is funny, Locke's insecure arrogant self importance seems to be setting him up for a fall. But now we know why Richard turned up at Locke's house when he was young. I can't help thinking that Locke is Jacob or something crazy. And I couldn't figure out who the young Other girl was that Daniel recognised, but thought that it could be his mother.

I love the time skipping, because when it happens there's a long moment of "where are they now?" which slowly resolves itself.

Meanwhile Desmond travels to the land of fake Oxford and bad accents to find Daniels mother. One outside scene looked like England, the Oxford university scenes didn't so much, the accents were from Mars. The only thing that we seemed to learn from Desmond's trip is that Daniel was at Oxford and he did something to a woman, presumably sent her brain back in time. I think. Will Daniel's mother be the mysterious time woman? Don't know.

The biggest WOAH moment of the episode was the fact that a young Charles Whidmore was on the island. Which raises the questions: why did he leave? How did he leave? What does he want? How did he get there?

Not many then.