Number 17: Meet Kevin Johnson

Oh hey, look at that. It's an episode review! Wow! Haven't gotten one of these in a while.

So, cut to the chase. Meet Kevin Johnson was last night's episode of LOST, and the final one before the month-long hiatus in which the crew plays catch up in order to finish up the episodes that were interrupted as a result of the writer's strike. It was a Michael-centric episode, which normally would've meant that it would automatically be horrible, but surprisingly enough... it was good. The episode last night was actually good.

So, the basic gist of the episode is that the majority of it is Michael's narration to Sayid about what he's been up to since he killed two people and slinked off the Island like the dirty snake he is. He got back to the mainland (how really wasn't explained), and it seems that he's pretty miserable. So miserable, in fact, that he tries to kill himself several times throughout. He told his son that he killed Ana Lucia and Libby in order to save him (the stupid git), so now his son hates him. As he should! But with all his "WAAAAAAAAALT!" and whatnot, he's so depressed that he doesn't find a reason to live. And then walks in Tom, out of the blue, like a magician or something. He says that the Island won't let him die because he still has work to do. He must be telling the truth, because he survived a car crash and the gun he tried to kill himself with jammed.

So anyway, he meets Tom at his apartment, along with Arturo, Tom's partner. Yes folks, Tom is gay. Although we all could have expected that after he told Kate she "wasn't his type" last season. He says that there's a boat heading for the Island owned by a man named Widmore. Widmore wants the place all to himself, the greedy bastard, and will do anything to keep it hidden. He will even go as far as to stage a plane wreckage on the bottom of the ocean! Gasp! So Tom tells Michael that it's his mission to get on that boat and kill everyone on it, or else everyone on the Island will die.

Of course, Michael goes through with it. He's determined to get the job done, even if it means dying. But he still won't die. Seriously. He even has a bomb given to him on the boat, and when it's about to go off, a paper saying "NOT YET" pops up. So finally, good ol' Ben gives him a call, tells him that there are some people on the boat that are innocent. He tells him to give him a list of who's on the boat so that he can decide who can live and who can die, and that's pretty much the flashback.

Meanwhile, on the actual Island, while Danielle, Karl, and Alex are heading for the Temple, yet another Dharma Hatch, uhh... they die. Danielle and Karl are both shot and left for dead. Wait... what?!?

Yeah. Overall, it was a great episode, my second favorite of the season behind The Constant. Karl and Danielle aren't "confirmed dead" yet, and in all honesty I'd be surprised if they actually did kill off Danielle. She's been an important character these past four seasons, and her backstory really needs some retelling. Karl, however, can just go right ahead and die. Sorry, Blake Bashoff!

Episode Score: B+