Lost Episode 6: House of the Rising Sun

- That one of the two Korean people on the island would speak English was an inevitability, though it wouldn't have surprised me if the show's writers had made us wait for one of them to learn it. On any other show, I would have guessed that one would be a secret speaker of the language, but Lost has proved to be so utterly unpredictable that I've given up trying to forecast what happens next. It's a good feeling, just being along for the ride.

- Scott pointed out last night that the caves introduced in this episode are probably on a soundstage somewhere, which means that in the future the show may not be shot entirely on location in Hawaii. I did kind of wonder who would hang around the gutted carcass of the airplane for days on end, but the show is slowly dealing with that in its own fashion. Will the show's action eventually move off the beach, and will the cast migrate to Los Angeles as a result?

- Previews for the next episode feature a faceoff between Locke and Charlie as Charlie's DTs start to set in. Locke can be seen dangling Charlie's dope bag in front of him as Charlie demands its return. Just one question: after convincing Charlie to give up the drugs of his own volition, why would Locke keep the stuff around?

- Unanswered questions (and Lost is full of them) aside, it is becoming more and more obvious that this is simply the best show on network television, and quite possibly the best show on TV period, at least for the moment. Who would have thought ABC could pull one out of the hat like this?