So, I Guess I'm Out of the Book Club?

Lost is finally back, and I've got so many things bouncing around my head about it that I doubt I'll be able to give this any structure. So, here you go, a bunch of random thoughts on Lost.

How cool was the beginning of that episode? The Others have a little Other civilization complete with little Other houses. They even have their very own book club, and just like many book clubs, people get upset when someone picks Stephen King. (Did anyone happen to notice which King book it was? I couldn't tell. Update: Thanks to Angel Cohn of tvguide.com for pointing out that it was Carrie.) FauxHenry has a real name (Ben) and appears to not like Stephen King and have some sort of history with Juliet the Other. Seeing their reaction to the crash of Oceanic 815 was great and finally gave us a complete picture of what happened on that day.

Jack's flashbacks gave us a whole new insight to his personality, and he's not always the nice guy we've seen so far. He's obsessive, maybe just flat out crazy. We even found that his father had actually stopped drinking before Jack attacked him and accused him of sleeping with Sara. Perhaps Jack had a little more responsibility than we thought for his father's death. I still think he did the right thing when he turned him in for conducting surgery drunk, but he certainly didn't help him get sober.

Jack, Sawyer and Kate are still prisoners. With a little help from another prisoner we've never seen before, Sawyer managed to escape, only to be tasered. Eventually, he earned a fish biscuit from the device in the cage he was held in, even though the bears (polar?) only took two hours. Kate was treated nicely because "the next two weeks are going to be very unpleasant." She even got to shower and clean up. (Was Tom/Mr. Friendly/Zeke/The Gortons Fisherman implying that he was gay or did he just mean Kate wasn't his type?) Jack took Juliet prisoner and found out that opening the door to the underwater hatch was a really bad idea. It even appears that the Others has dossiers on everyone on the island. They obviously have some contact with the outside world, but what and how remain to be seen.

It was a good episode, but I couldn't help wondering if we could at least get a glimpse of the rest of the Losties or Hurley's hike back across the island. What about Penny Widmore and her search for Desmond? What about the three stuck in the hatch when it blew up? Did Walt and Michael really escape? As always with Lost, there are so many questions yet to be answered, but there is nothing to do but hang on and enjoy the ride.