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"[\n\n](http://blog.gq.com/blogs/the-q/Pile%20o%27%20Bodies.jpg)\n\n Each week, Dan Fierman, Alex Pappademas and Kevin \"The Monger\" Sintumaung gather to email about their favorite show. Make fun of them, and they'll detonate an a-bomb on your ass\n\nDan Fierman: \"We ain't takin' the plane, freckles. We takin' the sub.\"\n\nC'mon. TELL ME YOU DIDN'T LOVE THAT. I DARE YOU.\n\nAlex Pappademas: \"So\u2014archaeology, huh?\"\n\nSawyer has GAME.\n\nKevin Sintumuang: How did he know the librarian-looking chick on Submarine Island was lying when she said she was on her way to Guam to visit her boyfriend? Because he's mother-fuckin' Sawyer, that's why.\n\nThis might have been my favorite episode of the season so far. I love the Miles + Sawyer buddy cop/CSI: Lost flash-sideways. Love that Locke bitch slapped Claire and later revealed he has crazy-mommy issues. Love when Sayid just smirked when Claire tried to stab Freckles IN THE NECK. And yes, love the idea of the impending battle between Whitmore and Smokey-Locke and that there's a SECRET WEAPON behind a locked door in the submarine. My guess is that's it's going to be an Industrial Sized Dyson Vacuum Robot.\n\n[\n\n](http://blog.gq.com/blogs/the-q/Sooo%20close.jpg)\n\nDan: The Crazy Mommy Issues = to me, the biggest reveal we got last night. My bible knowledge is about as feeble as you'd expect from a secular Jew who grew up in Boston, but I do know enough scraps for that to have lit up Jacob/Esau bells in my brain. (Their mother Rebecca helped her Jacob cheat Esau out of his birthright and hid him afterwards, which not only has obvious Jacob/MiB echoes, but also Widmore and Ben echoes too.) I don't know what to make of that, except to say that parent issues and sibling issues are ALL OVER this show, and will clearly play a major role in the ending.\n\nThe one thing I disagree with Monger about is the flash-sideways. Not only did I feel like the chemistry between two of my favorite characters was totally forced, but they're all a little too didactic to me. Sawyer is either a cop or a criminal. Jack is either a terrible son and father or a good one. Etc. etc. WE GET IT: Good versus Evil. Free Will versus Destiny. The \"genre surfing\" just isn't enough to sustain what I feel like is a pretty damned obvious theme now. It's time for them to explain the relationships between the two storylines, because there's just not enough in there narratively or thematically to keep my interest right now.\n\nBut that's nitpicking. A very strong throwback episode. And we saw my new favorite character: Claire's jackalope baby! So adorable, am I right?\n\nAlex: And let's not forget my favorite crazy Lost mom, Danielle Rousseau.\n\nSo those dead bodies Sawyer found on the Hydra Island\u2014those were the coach passengers from Ajira 316, right? Last seen in the infirmary where Ben saw SmokeyLocke for the first time? And are we assuming that Widmore's crew of crack casual-plaid-shirt-wearing mercenaries ecuted them? And that their last thoughts were something like, \"Man, I knew I should have flown JetBlue\"?\n\nDan: Ajira Airways: When You Absolutely, Positively Have to Engineer a Crash on a Mystical Island Only to Be Gunned Down By Mercenaries Upon Arrival.\n\nYeah. I think that had to be who that was, and they had to be victims of Widmore. Though what's weird is that at the end of last week, he was looking at Team Jacob on the beach and for some reason clearly decided to take a detour to Sex Cage Island. (That's what I call the Hydra Station. It's the only way I can remember it's there.) Speaking of sex and handcuffs: How come Sideways Sawyer gets to bone a suspect before arresting her? That changed my entire view of policework! I picked the wrong career!\n\nWhat I'm way too stupid to figure out\u2014and would love your opinions on\u2014is the relationship between Ben and Widmore. Before I would have sworn that they were on opposite sides, but with Ben's recent change of heart, does that mean that they're both on Team Jacob? Or, at the very least, Team Anti-Smocke? And won't that be a little awkward when they figure that out? (Dude, sorry I had Keamy kill your daughter./It's OK, I tried to kill yours too.)\n\n[\n\n](http://blog.gq.com/blogs/the-q/Slaparoo.jpg)\n\nAlex: Or to put it another way\u2014which is how I'm starting this sentence in order to disguise the fact that all I can do w/r/t this episode is answer questions with questions\u2014was Ben just protecting the island from Widmore on orders from Jacob (or what he thought was Jacob, anyway)? Or did he have some other, larger motive? Last week it seemed like Ben's accepted that Alex Rousseau's death was ultimately his fault rather than Widmore's\u2014but somehow I still can't see these two putting their history aside and cracking open a couple Dharma Beers anytime soon.\n\nI don't have that much more in my notebook on this one; it was transitional, but that's a different, better form of low-incident than the wheel-spinning Temple/Sex Cage mini-arcs. Oh, wait, one more note, since this is a fashion-magazine Web site: Kate and Sawyer are still rocking wide-legged flares. In the jungle. That just seems super-impractical to me.\n\nI saw Sex Cage open for DriveShaft once. You guys got anything else?\n\nKevin: Here are my thoughts on how Lost will end. MEXICAN STANDOFF.\n\nDan: Having reached the point where everything we write can be turned into a \"...opened for Driveshaft\" joke, I'm calling this one. Here's to next week being less set-up-ey and more shit-happening-ey.\n\nWe Are Everybody. 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