All the Best Cowboys Have Mommy Issues

Elisabeth Sarnoff and Jim Galasso know their pop culture.
Nice to see how cop Jim gets from Indy to Bullit to Little House…
I would have expected to find some Deadwood DVD boxes in his condo somewhere, next to Watership Down. I will not repeat myself about LOST B, but with only 8 weeks to go I am still convinced that what we see is the happy ending and the result of the actions happening in LOST PRIME right now. And I hope I'm wrong. (The only question I have about LOST B this week is… why did we have to see Charlies brother?) And very Sawyer, to smash the Mirror of the Week™

So after 5 seasons of heros with daddy issues, here comes the kicker: Smokeys mother was crazy! Now all we have to do is look up the list of greek deitys with mother issues, and we know the name of our favorite ManInBlack. And maybe we throw in a couple of Pharaohs, for good measure. So maybe Jacob was Imhotep, and Smokey was Djoser. But that is just a wild guess. But it was touching to see Locke opening up to Kate, and how honest he was about Sawyers mission to Hydra, and manipulating Claire. Of course he is the main suspect for killing all these Ajira 316 passengers. Which leads us to sweet innocent Zoe. Widmore never stops to amaze me with his hand for henchgirls in sexy eyeware. Must be a british thing. Her guys with guns strangely reminded me of Bram and his folks. Good to see that they thought of bringing a sonic fence with them, maybe that works better than rings of ash. And the secret weapon, stashed away in that U-Boot locker. Maybe some cases of McCutcheon, or our laddy Desmond Hume. I still wonder who will get shot by Juliet from that outrigger race… right now my guess is poor Zoe.

Wanna try another stick?

Taking a history lesson from Napoleon, Dr. Linus settled for getting rid of detention, having the history club back for the 5 kids who care, and making Alex happy. Roger Linus decided to leave all that Dharma beer behind, getting off the island before the Incident could drown it for good. LOST B, the sideverse, shows us a reality in which the Swan outburst was unchecked by Jughead's core. If this timeline, that shows the best outcome for all our protagonists, should converge with LOST PRIME in the next couple of weeks, pigs are flying. It is the happy ending. The Kitsis/Horowitz outing from last night proved that again.

Jacob is a good guy, and he has a plan. Poor Richard was just not able to wrap his mind around it, because like us, he had not enough intel. The question is, what was Jacob's job anyway, and was he the first the to keep watch over evil incarnate over the ages, or was he a replacement already? After the kickass performance with Richard, who lost his faith, in the belly of the Black Rock it would really surprise me if Jack would not end up as Jacobs replacement in the finale. His life saved in the last moment by Ben Linus, maybe. All that manipulating of Ben will fly straight back into Locke's face in the end, now that Ilana saved Linus soul. And then Shepard will accept his duty and keep us all safe from Evil Incarnate™, for the next couple of centuries.

Kitsis/Horowitz episodes are usually my favorites, and they did not disappoint last night, with Miles ignoring Bens offer and going after Nikkis and Paolos diamonds. Which are, as we know, forever. Very sweet writing to pin LOST B Arzt against dynamite in the Black Rock again.

And when I thought the 42 minutes of Dr. Linus were over… cut to water and a sub. For seconds I thought Locke found another Dharma U-Boot. But no, it's Chuck from London.

But if Locke and his arrmy travel by outrigger to the Hydra, maybe we finally see who got shot by Juliet in 'The Little Prince'…

Have Knife, Will Travel

In Sunddown we learned that Locke 2.0 has no problem being stabbed with knifes in the chest, which makes sense because even old John Locke was pretty good handling them. And all the ash circles couldn't stop him from entering the temple in his smoke form, after Sayid got rid of Dogen. I wonder if we will see Ilana using Jacobs ash later in the season with more success. I wonder if Smokey and Jacob were influenced by the TV show Have Gun - Will Travel, which had it's own six season run on CBS from 1957 through 1963. Paladin, the otherwise nameless protagonist, lived as a smart man for hire in San Francisco. The gentleman gunfighter for hire was dressed in black and sported a thorough knowledge of ancient history and classical literature. Directors as Andrew McLaglen and Sam Peckinpah worked on the show, which featured Star Treks Gene Roddenberry as a writer.

The first episode of season 6 revealed Paladins backstory, not typical for 60s TV shows. In it Paladin was forced to hunt down and kill a mysterious gunman named Smoke, played by Boone himself without his trademark mustache and with grey-white hair. Smoke gave the Paladin character his nickname, facetiously calling him "a noble paladin." The question turned out to be doubly ironic, as Smoke revealed in his death scene that he was not evil incarnate, but the protector of a nearby town (from the man who had sent Paladin in the first place. Classical con) Paladin adopted Smoke's black costume and killed the real bad guy.

Now I don't say that Smokey and Jacob are beased on this in any way, but Have Gun - Will Travel was part of the american pop culture for six seasons, like Lost is today.