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Last night’s latest episode of LOST was absolutely without doubt the best episode of the show EVER to air.

It was Ben-centric, it was action-PACKED, introduced more sci-fi elements to the show and was filled with strong emotion and mystery…. as usual, every bit of new information given gave birth to another storyline with questions and mysteries for later. In one word, the show is BRILLIANT.

For those who did watch the episode, here’s the central questions:

• Is Ben some kind of secret-agent Time Cop that teleports around the globe protecting the island by killing potential invaders before they set out?
• Is the island IN the future, allowing Ben to “know” everything about everyone because he knows their eventual outcome in the past?
• Why can’t Locke die? What IS his fate? Will he become Ben’s agent-in-training, or is his destiny as a sacrifice later on? On that note- IS Ben a good guy? It appears that the more we learn about Ben, the more human he becomes- and the more “good” his character gets. All of his manipulating was at first malicious. but now seems like an uber-smart James Bond trying to talk the villains out of bad things. But is this misdirection. or will he turn out to be the hero of the show?
• The Monster unleashed! Electro-magnetic cloud with an intelligence system? What’s the connections to the hieroglyphs? How does Ben tell it to attack the soldiers?
• “He changed the rules”? What are the rules?
• Whitmore owns the island and Ben stole it? Whitmore is Dharma then? What game is he playing with Ben and who made the rules?

It was amazing. Ben is my favorite character on the show, and finally there was an episode devoted to him. Also, we got to see the Monster in action, and the core mysteries of the show deepened while being revealed. What an amazing show.