I’m “sort of” liveblogging because I’m typing as I watch the recording rather than as I watch the actual show. So tell me what YOU thought, will ya? One thing is for sure. I’m glad it’s back!

Blonde chick. Who is she? Is she Desmond’s g/f? Or is it Jack’s wife?

Who ARE these people???

Lost always starts the season in some totally bizarre way.

Earthquake? It almost seems like when the button wasn’t pushed. Hmmm…

Whooooaaaa….it’s an other.

HOLY FREAKIN’ CRAP. THE AIRPLANE????

Wow.

Commercial

Jack Flashback this week!

Spying on a blonde flirting with a guy.

Now the present and Jack is in a cell of some kind and had a bandage on his arm. And there’s some kind of glass blocking his way out.

Kate wakes up to running water and is told to take a “nice hot shower” also with a bandage on her arm.

Now to Sawyer who is in some kind of cage outside a building. He sees someone else in a cage - a young man who won’t talk to him. At first.

Back to Jack and the blonde walks in on the other side of the glass. Her name is Juliet.

Commercial

Jack flashback: he and his wife are getting a divorce.

Back to Juliet who thinks Jack is stubborn. Duh.

Kate gets out of the shower. Her clothes are gone and there’s a dress in their place. She is taken by four men to see…

None other than Henry Gale who has a pseudo-romantic meal set up for her. Whatever THAT is all about. He has her put on handcuffs.

Kate is full of questions. Why why why?

He threatens her with a promise that the next two weeks are going to be “very unpleasant”. Why two weeks? Why not two days? Or two months?

Commercial

Jack flashback: Trying to track down “the other man”.

Juliet brings him food and water. She tells him he can trust her. Famous last words.

Then Sawyer’s neighbor escapes, lets him out and tells him to run “that way”. He is confronted by the lovely Juliet who shoots him with something non-lethal.

Commercial

Back to Jack and Juliet is offering him more food because the drugs they gave them have the side effect of dehydration.

Jack finally does what she asks him to do in order to get food.

Jack flashback: he suspects his own father is the “other man” and attacks him at an AA meeting.

Instead of playing nicely, Jack attacks Juliet when she brings him food. And in walks Henry Gale himself. Jack threatens to kill her. Henry Gale runs out when Jack starts opening “the door”.

Tons of water rush in and she helps him get the door closed. Oh and then she punches him out. First she fells Sawyer. Then Jack. She’s making me a little angry now.

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Sawyer tries to get food and then Kate is brought to the other cage.

Jack finally comes to and deduces they are underwater.

Juliet says, “It doesn’t matter who we were. It only matters who we are.”

She has a copy of Jack’s father’s autopsy report. How did they get that? Hmmmm…. She also has a file with everything about his life in it. And how did they get THAT?

Jack flashback: He ends up in jail and wife posts bail. His father was not the other man. He was just trying to help Jack.

Juliet says she’ll tell him whatever he wants to know about his ex-wife. He asks if she is happy and she says yes she is. Very happy. She offers again to bring him food and water if he behaves.

Henry Gale shows up and tells her, “good work”.

She says, “Thank you Ben.”

Ben huh? He doesn’t look like a Ben.

end of episode

So, I think it was quite interesting to note that there are other Others. That they’re not as primitive as they made themselve out to be. And that they know everything about everyone. Interesting.

It was also interesting that the episode only focused on Sawyer, Jack and Kate.

So all in all, not a bad start to the new season. Are the Others really bad? Or are they maybe good? And how do they get all this information?

And what did YOU think?