Michael is now in Australia to meet Walt and take him back. When he is given a box of things that Walts mom kept for him. Walt refuses to go anywhere with Michael. They havent ever met and Walt has a dad, Brad. Michael, rather than defend himself by calling those sad sacks out, actually protects Brad and says Brad wants him, but Michael is legal gaurdian bla bla bla, you can even take Brads dog.

Meanwhile, back on the island....

Sayid is still trying to decifer the maps he stole from the now even more lost French woman. Charlie has decided to go hunting for Claires diary. Why? Cause we haven't seen him in a while and for all the Hobbit cash they had to cough up to get him they will invent lame subplots to get him more screen time. So he hunts down the diary which is inevitably in winds up in Sawyers hands. after a brief, lame exchange between Sawyer and Charlie, our hobbit leaves with the diary. The precious diary which he inevitably reads the pages. Turns out Claire wrote down her dreams of her abduction and mentioned a black rock she was being detained at. Charlie tried to rally the troops to go look for a black rock in the middle of the night. Yeah, didn't work.

The main island story was the love triangle of Locke, Michael and Walt. Walt kept running off to be with Locke which worried Michael who threatened to kill Lock if he spent anymore time with his son. After refusing to have his son grow up on the island, Michael decides to built a raft. He finds Walt and asks him to help. Walt who is busy reading a The Flash comic book, disregaurds his father. When Mike notices hes reading a comic, he tries to relate to his son and tells him he used to be a tracer for comic books. When Walt clearly didnt give a shit about his dads attempt to relate to his son, Michael gave up and forced Walt to him him. After a bit of work, Walt see's Boone and Locke walk by and tells his dad he is going for water. Of course he goes and hangs out with the guys, until Michael breaks that up which leads to a blow out between father and son. Walt verbally stabs Michael when he says "youre not my dad" to which Michael throws The Flash comic in the campfire and forces Walt to sit down. A deserted island version of timeout I suppose. A short time later Mike notices his kid is gone and immediately heads to find Locke.

Walt has actually taken his dog for a walk but when the dog gets loose and Walt goes searching for him he finds somethig much bigger, the polar bear.

Meanwhile Michael learns Locke told Walt they couldnt hang out and that he should respect his fathers wishes. Michael too proud to ask for help doesn't need to, Locke volunteers to go help find Walt. The two find Walt huddled in a corner while the polar bear is trying to get to him. Long story short, they save him. When they return to camp Michael shows Walt what his mother had set aside for him, all the cards he drew for his son.

The huge random cliff hanger this week.....a now non pregnant Claire emerges from the brush battered and bruised.

So...Ummmm WTF is going on? Is the magic in the island? is the magic all in Walt? Walt gets agitated, bird flies into window. Walt gets angry, plane crashes. Walt gets scared, polar bears attack.

LOST is such an approriate title for the show cause it applies to both the characters and the audience. To top it all off, next weeks previews are reruns from Sayids encounter with the French woman so we don't even get anymore clues. Woah is me......

The one thing I am really enjoying is rift developing weekly between Locke and Boone and the rest of the players. Though Boone now reminds me of the goons from the original batman series in that hes very one dimensional, I still enjoy what will eventually be a fun splitting of the camp. And I'd also like to point out, has anyone seen any of the other 42 crash survivors on the show lately? Even as extras?

OK Gasm readers...what are your thoughts?

Posted by madeyoulaugh on January 20, 2005 10:15 AM