LOST 5x11 - closed loop, timey-wimey, Hurley-wurly

If you didn't already know, I'm a big fan of LOST (which you have to capitalise for EFFECT!).

Yep, I know it's bonkers. Yep, I know it's more baffling than the popularity of Russell Brand. Yep, I know it should be totally laughed off. But I defy you to find a more addictive show. Even 24 - with BAUER! - never gets as exciting as LOST at it's best.

Not that the latest episode - 'Whatever Happened, Happened Happened Happened Happened Happened' - was vintage, you understand? It was, however, a lot better than I expected. Because given the focus was on Kate - the biggest prick-tease this side of a German brothel owner - I expected so little I'm surprised I even watched.

No, the real fun here was the discussion of time between Hurley (always fun) and Miles (aka the New Sawyer).

If you've not been paying attention to LOST, recently this happened. That's the Island moving, by the way, through time. Or space. Or... well, maybe both. Anyway, since then we've had lots of flashy washy, timey wimey stuff - Others in the 50's! Nuclear warheads! French people! Statues that may or may not be Egyptian goddesses! Yes... nothing still makes sense. But finally, our bunch of HG Wells' finally landed with the hippy DHARMA folk to make peace, not war and are now busy listening to Geronimo Jackson and presumably braiding each other's long, 70's hair all day.

So it's nice when two 'comic-effect' characters like Miles and Hurley start talking about the 'rules' of how time-travel works. If it happened, IT HAPPENED. They were there before, but they're experiencing it now, after what came after... right, now I have a headache. In other words, they played a part in what HAPPENED but for them it's HAPPENING now, after what HAPPENED to them before, which hasn't technically HAPPENED yet. D'you see? No?

Oh, I give up. Watch it yourselves. Next week is all smokey-wokey, Benny-wenny, Locky-wocky by the sound of it so... get ready for some answers. Or not.

Whatever HAPPENS, HAPPENS.