After watching pretty much every rerun of Lost on DVD through September to catch up my friends and roommates, it's been a bit of an adjustment to go back to the 40-minutes-a-week, lots-of-commercials schedule. You know, normal TV.

Still, I'm happy to say that the show hasn't "lost" its touch at all (sweet pun), but rather has proven to be an excellent season so far. (True, we're only two episodes in.) I liked the season premiere but have to say this episode was a bit better, if only because we got to see more of the characters: Sayid! Sun! Jin!

And while normally I find the charming Korean couple's flashbacks a bit pointless, we did get a rousing good story out of it: turns out Sun did sleep with the dashing young man who taught her English. While she was married. And that means it's possible that her baby is his.

Sun has gotten more and more unlikable, which I think has been successfully controlled by the writers, and this was the last straw for me (I believe I may have shouted "SLUT!" at the screen.) Remember the touching scene late last season in which Sun promised Jin to his face that she's never been with another man?

Dead to me.

In other news, Sawyer and Kate are given a whole lot of busy work to do, shoveling rocks or something. Luckily for us, Sawyer (and, therefore, the camera) can't help but stare at the lovely-looking Kate('s butt), still wearing the sundress from last episode. Sawyer gets so hot and bothered, in fact, that he kisses her, knowing full well his taskmasters in charge will literally shock the crap out of him.

And finally, there's Jack, his spirit temporarily broken (courtesy of Juliet), sitting in the corner of his cell, refusing to speak. The image brought back very clear memories of the Henry Gale days, and I guess old Ben/Henry thought so too, as he came in to chat about the role-reversal. (Can you believe in Lost-time he was only a prisoner a week ago?) We also got a handful of good tidbits about the Others in general from Ben, including (a) his last name, which I've promptly forgotten, (b) he's lived on the island his whole life, and (c) they have contact with the outside world! It was kind of a throwback, really, learning that in Lost we're actually still back in late November of 2004, right after George W. Bush was re-elected and Christopher Reeve died. And, of course, the Red Sox bit, which was priceless. The just-plain-coolness of that whole scene brought a smile to my face.

So what do you guys think? Why was with Alex Rousseau wondering where Karl went? Why do people who leave the island only "go in circles", as Juliet mentioned, and how was Michael able to surpass that (if he did)? And what the heck happened to Desmond, Eko, and Locke? Feel free to post comments. Until next week...