Second to last Lost of the season!

So not every episode has to be a homerun!

I haven't written any Lost blogs in a couple weeks for various reasons ... okay, just two reasons. 1: Two weeks ago the episode was just a recap clip show to get viewers ready for the final run of the season and 2: My internet connection at home was out last week for reasons that still frustrate me.

Consider that your "Previously on the Celeb 13 blog ..." now on with the show.

This week's episode didn't seem to focus on any one specific castaway. Instead the writers are just moving the pieces into place for next week's two part finale. Locke, in 2007, makes his way to Alpert and the Hostiles (a great name for a band, don't you think?) where he is finally stepping into his role as their Leader. Ben and Sun are along for the ride. Sun's non-stop insistence of 'must get back to Jin' is starting to wear a little thin, and Ben's lack of understanding and jealousy over Locke's connection to the island has left him with little to do, too. Although hearing Alpert say he witnessed the deaths of all the castaways 30 years ago was a great jawdropper before break 1.

We also get a little time-comes-full-circle fun as we learn that when Richard pulled the bullet out of Locke’s leg earlier in the season and told him he would have to die in order to bring everyone back to the island he was only following the orders of Locke himself.

Meanwhile in 1977 Jack and Kate are captured after Faraday is killed by his own mother, and Jack decides to complete the late doctor's quest to detonate the hydrogen bomb near the Swan station in order to prevent the original incident which lead to all the problems in the first place. Kate, Jack and a just-in-the-nick-of-time Sayid all seem convinced this will actually erase the past three years, and only Jack seems to be okay with it. As for Kate, she doesn't want to lose that time because, to paraphrase Garth Brooks, 'She could have missed the pain, but she would have had to miss the dance.' (Cue the tinkling piano.) The ageless Alpert guides Jack, Sayid and Faraday's mother (who is already pregnant with her canon fodder son) to the bomb which has been somehow stashed away inside an underground temple.

Hurley, Miles and Jin try to escape from the Dharma Initiative when they are stopped by Dr. Chang who ask if they, and Faraday, really are from the future. Their weak denials are blown apart when Hurley was unable to give a valid birth year, knew nothing about the Korean war and finally spilled the beans after being asked who was president. (Best moment of the night.) That's enough to convince Chang to follow Faraday's advice, and he begins evacuating the initiative.

Which leads us to Sawyer and Juliet who had the least amount to do this episode. They spent the whole time handcuffed to chairs being beaten and questioned about what happened to little Ben and the location of the Hostiles. Sawyer manages to talk his way onto the sub so he and Juliet can get off the island and invest in Microsoft.

So what did you think about the episode? There are still a lot of questions left unanswered and only one season left to go (after next week's season finale.) Do you think Jack will be able to stop the Incident? And if he does ... will it actually wipe out the past three years? Lemme know!