What an episode as the islanders discover that Michael is Ben's spy. And what a treat for the audience as we find out what Michael's been up to while he has been off the island.
I enjoy the reasoning of why Walt won't see him; because he found out that he killed Ana Lucia so he decides to work for Ben to save the crash-crew to regain Walt's respect. This is entirely believable as the reason why M killed A-L in the first place was to get "MY BOY" (W) off the island. I like the idea of having to use false names. And M not being able to kill himself...
But Mr. Friendly as a gay? I did not see that one coming; ABC must be one of the most LGBT-friendly networks on American television if you judge by the number of characters it portrays;
- BS: Kevin
- BS: Saul
- DH: Andrew van de Kamp
- DH: Lee & Bob
- GA: Joe the Bartender
- LO: Boone
- LO: Tom (aka Mr Friendly)
- UB: Alexis
- UB: Marc St James
And those are only the LGBT characters on the shows that I watch which I can remember offhand.
The whole episode ends up feeling like one of two halves as it jumps off the boat to the island to set up the next episode. It ends on a harrowing scene where Karl and Danielle Rousseau is dead. When Karl was killed, it came as a shock but I was like - finally - where is his character going to go? But when Rousseau was murdered I was shocked and upset; one of the possibilities I had been looking forward to from day one was the idea of a Rousseau flashback which now seemingly won't happen. She is an integral part of the island and deserved her moment to shine. I didn't see it coming though. Oh well, now Alex is captured that is going to raise the stakes so high for the next episode...
10/10
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