4x12, "There's No Place Like Home, Part 1"

*Honestly: not much to talk about. We're introduced to The Orchid, though if you haven't watched the orientation video you have no idea why it's important. Everyone seems to be moved into place. And we see some of the supporting beats of the flashforwards (the Nadia/Sayid reunion, the Camaro getting fixed, Jack learning Claire's his half-sister). You get the sense the trap is being set again and starting with the first scene in Part 2, it'll be sprung, the show going non-stop action till The O6 get off the Island.

*So the Commander of the Battlestar Pegasus is now repping Oceanic Airlines? WHAT.

*Hmm... so Sun has now taken control of Paik Industries. In the LOST universe Paik and Widmore supposedly know each other (this is from one of the LOST novels) so does this put Sun now in direct contact with Widmore? And does she use her father's company to find the Island next season?

*Is Jin really dead? Sun seems to think so, saying "two men" were responsible for it, one being her father. I'm beginning to think more and more that he's actually not because...

*Locke's going to move the Island with the Orchid. (Check out Faraday's notebook: "TimeLike"?) And I think what ends up happening is he moves the Island while the O6 are just not on it.

*The timing of how it all happens though is going to have to come together quickly. The O6 are all over the place, with Sun and Aaron on the Freighter, Kate with The Others and Hurley at the Orchid. I can't even remember where Sayid and Jack are at other than trying to find each other. I wonder if the 06 aren't actually together, they're just left behind all over the place and end up getting picked up randomly by Penny or something.

*With Michael reappearing it feels as if he's still being considered an after thought despite returning supposedly a full-tome cast members. What exactly is he supposed to be doing for Ben now? Will he actually make it till next season or die in the Finale to redeem himself? That'd be a cop-out but I see it happening.

IN TWO WEEKS: THE GRAND FINALE! The Island Moves! Or... not. It's Part 2 of "There's No Place Like Home"