I was done with “Lost”, I was tired of it and never wanted to watch it again, and then what did Carl­ton Cuse and Damon Lin­de­lof go and do?

Make me care again.

You bas­tards!

The peo­ple behind “Lost” must have noticed that our house­hold was get­ting tired of their lit­tle tele­vised social exper­i­ment, because out of the blue they’ve started putting on far bet­ter shows than we were used to see­ing on ABC on Wednes­day nights. Except for a few glitches this sea­son (like the horr-i-ble Jack-centric “Stranger in a Strange Land”) the sec­ond half of sea­son 3 hasn’t been too shabby, with episodes like the Desmond-centric episode “Flashes Before Your Eyes” being the stand out for me this sea­son, fol­lowed by “The Man from Tal­la­has­see” and last week’s fun (for me, at least) “Expose” where they killed off the lat­est clum­sily intro­duced mem­bers of the Losties.

The pro­duc­ers def­i­nitely were yank­ing our chains when the sea­son started, what with the down­beat episodes of Jack, Sawyer and Kate’s cap­tiv­ity and Jack’s grow­ing rela­tion­ships with Ben and Juliet. I love Ben now, he’s just so creepy/weird and you really (up until “Expose”) didn’t know where he was com­ing from, but he’s either manip­u­lat­ing peo­ple to do what they wouldn’t nor­mally do and he’s a mas­ter­mind of sorts, or he’s delu­sional and thinks he’s some amaz­ing pup­pet mas­ter. And Juliet has evil writ­ten all over her. Just a feel­ing I get.

John Locke has been infu­ri­at­ing this sea­son though. You can’t stop play­ing with com­put­ers, can you John? First Mikhail escapes because you want to play chess on the Fire Station’s com­puter, then you blow up the Fire Sta­tion out of stu­pid­ity, and then you kill Mikhail because he knows you were a para­plegic, and to top it all off you go and take that C4 that you found and blow up the one reli­able mode of trans­porta­tion off of the island? What’s your angle, John? You bet­ter pray that Penny Wid­more res­cues your ass, or at least your com­pa­tri­ots, since you’ll never want to leave the island now that you can walk.

Char­lie can die any­time he wants now. After the drug sto­ry­line was done with he started feel­ing extra­ne­ous, like Shan­non. Hey Desmond, don’t tell Char­lie when he’s going to die so he won’t know you didn’t save him, okay?

Where did Rose and Bern­hard go? I liked both of them and they’ve just dis­ap­peared, but of course, in “Lost” time, they’ve been gone for prob­a­bly 5 days.

I keep hop­ing we’ll see Michael and Walt again some­day. I like to think that the coor­di­nates that Ben gave Michael when he left at the end of last sea­son took him straight to the sec­ond island and that they’re both there. They’re prob­a­bly locked up some­where, but I wish they’d explained Walt’s weird gift with ani­mals and draw­ing them to him. Guess that’ll go straight into the toi­let, won’t it? Along with so many other mysteries.

And I don’t miss Eko. He had the abil­ity to become cool, like Locke, but he used all of his street cred up with me. RIP, Eko.