S6E4 RECAP

L: Lo --- there was no really outstanding moment/reveal in this weak Locke-centric episode. The idea of another "new" location, dubbed Jacob's Cave, where the Numbers are carved in the ceiling representing the names of "candidates" to replace Jacob as Island protector, really did not solve anything, since there was apparently more than 313 names scratched in the stone, with most of those X'd off like Flocke did to Locke's name (signifying a person's death/demise on the island).

O: Obnoxious --- well, it could not be Kate this week because she was no where to be seen. The LA X Alternative scenes really make no headway to the original island story. The "new" lives of the old characters has become tedious and contrived; winning the lottery would not change Hurley into an uber-Silicon Valley investment banker or cancer ridden Rose from New York being Hurley's head headhunter in LA.

S: Story line - - - nothing has changed the overall theory-premise of the Island as the junction of the axis point between heaven-hell, good-evil, life-death. The Island story that continues to bark out unstated rules, like little ghost Jacob(?) telling Flocke he could not kill Sawyer. There are so many inconsistent rules that there may be no rules at all. The story line continues to evoke the characters assuming other people's roles, like musical chairs, which is more filler than answers to the big questions.

T: Time line - - - the debate rages on the LA X time line being a month off the 2004 Island time line that no one knows for certain whether there is actually now a Real Time Line. If 815 never crashed, an easter egg production prop error shows the month of October instead of September. The idea of two separate time lines re-converging at the end of the show is too far fetched to comprehend.