S6E7 RECAP

L: Lo- - - no real spectacular moment, but Jack lighting the fuse on Richard's farewell stick, then sitting down next to him to talk was good.

O: Obnoxious - - - the whole build up of Ben digging his own grave, and not having a funeral was a little shell game on the audience. Also, the idea of Widmore returning the island (when he claimed he could never find it) brings the show back to the appearance of the freighter crew story arc.

S: Story line - - - the increasing power of Flocke, now that he can snap metal with a Harry Potter flick of his finger adds evidence that the Island is supernatural place, either a purgatory, underworld or time-space prison.

T: Time line - - - the whole sideways alternative time line was messed up when Sayid, who had just found out that Nadia was alive when he was being deported from Australia in the original time line, returns from his Aussie trip to find Nadia happily married for a dozen years to his brother. Now, in the Ben alternative, his father and Ben leave the Island probably at a very early time (in the original, Roger was not a happy camper being a janitor). It means they jumped back even earlier than Sayid to erase their past history. That is why the sideways material makes no connective sense to the present Island events, and sideways world as "real" would negate 5 seasons of character stories as being the filler.