I'm Sorry, But Lost is Boring, Brother

Ultimate Lost Recap

Desmond can tell the future, but only because it's actually his past. He thinks Charlie will die soon.

Snore. Last night's episode was much ado about nothing. Can Desmond tell the future? No he can't, he's just reliving his own life a la Groundhog Day. But wait, he hasn't lived the part that he's seeing, so I guess he can sort of tell the future? But only in a seeing his own memory kind of way.

At any rate, he has fallen into the total confusion / obey everyone trap that so many other characters fall into. After he goes back in time or whatever, he is completely befuddled by every single thing that happens to him. Then some old white woman happens to know exactly what's happening to him and can apparently see into the future, and tells him he's supposed to do what he's already done again, or else everyone dies. WTF? So, unless he continues the horrible cycle of not marrying the girl he loves, getting stranded on a deserted island for several years, then killing himself by turning the key again, then the world will end? I say again, WTF?

He fails to do this, and then he wakes up again on the island, naked (so I guess Terminator time travel rules are in effect). But, he still accepts everything the old woman said to him as God's truth, even though he really has no reason to believe her (the whole universe correcting itself thing).

Are you bored yet? Because I am. End result: apparently Charlie is going to die, except that his character sucks and I don't care if he dies. At least Claire can raise her child in peace without the overprotective role-confused former junkie / world famous pop singer/writer.

Side note 1: Desmond says he was saving Charlie, but wouldn't Claire have drowned, too? I mean, if he hadn't taken off running, she probably would have just washed up on the shore days later, since nobody could even see her from the shore. And is she an idiot, too? She takes a swim in the ocean by herself every time she goes for a walk? Except apparently she doesn't know how to swim and ends up passing out a few hundred yards from shore! Man, that was dumb.

Side note 2: So was that bottle of whiskey worth $100K or something? Because most pubs don't carry whiskey where "each sip is worth more than you could possibly make in a month". I mean, even at minimum wage, that means each sip is still worth a couple of grand, and there have to be at least 50 sips per bottle. And they had a bottle at that pub on the corner. Weak.

Side note 3: Was anybody else annoyed that Hurley and Charlie didn't know that Eko was dead? That happened like a year ago, I would assume that everyone on the island already knows about it. And when Locke says crap like "the island killed him", well, that would really piss me off. "The island killed him" doesn't tell me anything, Locke- was he eaten by a polar bear (perhaps the same one that tried to kill him earlier), or was it the black smoke thing, or the Others, or some dynamite- because they are all "the island" to me.

Side note 4: The previews for this week had Kate and Sawyer coming back and getting everybody ready to go get Jack, right? So what happened? Did they only have enough material for 10 episodes this season, so they just started dumping these crap episodes in between? It's not "tricky" or "clever", it's just angering.