Lost: LA X Parts 1 and 2

Favorite Moments
Ben comes out from Jacob's lair and immediately starts lying.
R: "What happened in there?"
B: "Everything's fine."

Richard actually showing some emotion for a change.

Sayid on the airplane says "Can I be of assistance?" and then kicks in the bathroom door.

Hurley creeping around the Dharma van pretending to know how to use a gun.

Hurley showing a little badass side taking the lead in bringing Sayid to the Temple and calling out Mr. Miyagi on understanding English.

WTF Moments
Juliet dying AGAIN! It just took away from the heart wrenching scene of her falling down the shaft in The Incident.

More Others?! No, No, No! No more new characters! Did you learn nothing from Paulo and Nikki? Especially the one who doesn't like to speak English. Now we have to hear everything he says twice! Once in Japanese and then translated into English. There better be a very good reason for this and we better find it out soon.

Darlton are up to their old tricks again with the gross lack of communication among characters. No one asks any questions, no one shares information, and people 'cleverly' avoid answering any questions. "There are risks involved" ('saving' Sayid in the Temple). The normal response to that is: "What kind of risks?" In Jacob's lair Ben posits, "You're the monster?" Instead of an answer or explanation, we get the adorable little quip "Let's not resort to name-calling." This tactic is what almost drove me to stop watching the show. Well, actually it was all that in the cage crap of early Season 3, but it has caused much unwarranted frustration for many of us viewers.

In my feeble opinion...
Juliet was seeing a glimpse of the alternate reality as she was dying when she talked about going out for a coffee sometime.

The things that happened on the island now happened on the plane, or will still happen in the alternate reality.
Jin telling Sun to button her top button.
Rose and Bernard missing each other and reuniting (after his bumpy trip to the bathroom)
Boone being impressed by Locke and telling him "If this thing goes down, I'm sticking with you" which is what he did on the island
Jack saving Charlie's life (in the process asking for a pen, this time really needing one)
Charlie thinking he was supposed to die
Jack recognizing Desmond
Arzt being annoying
Etc.

The ash is not that great of a protection if smokey can pretty easily knock you out of it.

I think the line that Smokey-Locke delivers towards the end when he is talking about Locke, "He's the only one who realized how pitiful the life he left behind actually was," is going to play a part of the whole thing. Whatever the 'whole thing' is.

Yeah right moments
Sawyer has to dig through piles of metal objects to get to Juliet, but then is just standing outside the hole with her in his arms. Did he just drag her through the rubble?

A fugitive running from the law would not wait in a taxi line.

Random Thoughts
Did anyone else wonder, for just a second, if something was wrong with the TV when Kate was stuck in the tree?

Don't know why but I liked seeing Lock without his under eye scar and a part of me wished he would have stood up and walked off the plane.

I was unexpectedly excited to hear the whispers again. They are really creepy cool.

How would you like to be the airline rep who has to tell someone they lost his father's body?

In our alternate reality...
Hurley would come out of his meeting with the Japanese guy and say, "Hey, guess what. That guy understands English perfectly."

Someone, anyone, would totally be grilling Cindy about where they are and what the heck is going on.