"Lost" Scorecard: The Six Get Home

First halves of two parters are always a little tricky. A lot of the action is tied up in setting up stuff that won't pay off for another week, and that's doubly true for a show like "Lost." Actually, with a show like "Lost" there's a lot of stuff that won't pay off until next season, if then. Still, the lack of consistency in "Lost" is one of the single most frustrating things about watching it. Sometimes it's really, really on, but other times it gets mired down in its large cast, the multi-layered timelines and the never-ending tease.

Not only is this week's episode tied up in moving people and plots into place for the big conclusion, but it also reminds me a little bit of "Noises Off" in the scene where everyone is running in and out of various doors, just missing each other over and over again. With people running from the boat to the beach to the helicopter to the jungle, it's a tangle of missed connections that's frustrating to watch.

Of course, frustrating as it was, it still had some interesting bits. Let's see how we did on points.

• Comical Sawyer Nicknames: 1 (Genghis, I like it.)
• Great Ben Lines: 1 ("How many times to I have to tell you, John? I always have a plan.")
• Details to Obsess Over: 50 gajillion (Okay, yeah, but let's focus on the note that it's 108 days in the real world from crash to rescue.)
• Things Likely To Blow Up: 2 (I'm saying the orchid station, and the boat.)
• Times I Yelled "WHAT'S UP WITH CLAIRE?": 3 (I scared my cat.)
• Times I Received A Satisfactory Answer: 0 (Bogus, man, bogus.)

We got a little bit more about the experience of the Oceanic 6 when they returned, and got to see more of the official story. There's not much to it that hadn't been hinted at already, though it was a little heartbreaking to see Sayid with his doomed sweetie. Heck, it was even a little sad to see Jack learning that poor little Claire was his half-sister (time number 2 that I yelled about Claire).

I'm so glad that someone asked the very question I was wondering about with this whole island-moving deal. If the guys who are going to blow the place up are still on the island, just exactly what is gained by moving? As Ben says, he's always got a plan, but it's a mystery to us mere mortals. Next week, we'll see what that plan is, and we'll all be amazed at what a super genius Ben is.