The world doesn't make sense anymore. I'm walking around this morning in a blind daze. My head is spinning. I'm trying to comprehend something, grasping to wrap my mind around this incredible concept:

I did not like an episode of LOST.

LOST is one of my favorite shows on television. Watching it is a holy experience where I shut off the phone and will snap if anyone so much as looks at me funny because that qualifies as an interruption and you'll be damned if you interrupt my LOST.

But last night's episode, other than the reveal of the guy that most fans had already deduced was Ben's inside man, was pure filler. And not even good filler. Filler that was a total cheat. Some fans may marvel at the use of a flash-forward AND a flash-back in the same episode, but that's an abuse of the technique that till now, has totally revitalized the show. It shouldn't be used to hoodwink us but to keep us wrapped up in a mystery. The most mystery this episode had was why Jin's tombstone marks his date of death as September 22, 2004--the day of the crash. So it was an episode meant to convince us that a dead character was alive even though the dead character may not be dead.

Rather than waste time with Jin's panda-hunting, that time could have been spent at Locke's camp, if only for a little character development, maybe some quality time with Miles.

When LOST ends, I'm sure I'll make a list of the best five and the worst five episodes in the series' run. Unless Lindelof and Cuse lose all their talent in a freak water-skiing accident (that's how people lose their talent), this episode will certainly be in that worst five.