LOST - What Happened, Happened

What I liked

--Miles and Hurley time travel debate. I've always enjoyed how Hurley is sort of the spokesperson for the audience, how he asks the questions everyone is asking. At these times, he's used as an exposition device, but Jorge Garcia is good at making it not seem that way. The time travel debate isn't as complicated as Miles and Hurley, or many different bloggers/commentators, make it out to be, but there are obviously a lot of questions and when anyone tries to explain it, it sounds ridiculous, so this was a funny way to tackle them.

FYI, The way I would explain it is to think of the time travel guys is to think about veryone lives life in one straight line, even if they travel through time. If Jack died in 1977, his tombstone would read 196X to 2007 to 1977.

They can't go back in time and change things, because it's all the same reality. Even they know what they're doing already happened, they haven't experienced it yet. Everything that's supposed to happen already happened. If Old Ben Linus is alive in 2004, then Young Ben Linus can't die in 1977, he has to survive. The real mystery is how he survives.

Even though I wrote it, the last paragraph just confused me. Maybe it's best not to think about these things.

--Kate coming back to the island to find Claire. I like how Sawyer and her quietly buried their relationship, because they've both grown up over the past three years. Sawyer being in a stable environment with a stable woman, and Kate learning about becoming a mother and the value of family. The love triangle is slowly dissolving.

--Saving Ben Linus. Kate, Sawyer, and Juliette obviously know who Ben Linus is, knowing all of their actions is turn him into the man he eventually becomes, and not caring because they see a dying child who needs help. It's an interesting plot development, but the more subtle and fascinating story and character progression was Jack refusing to get involved. For a man of action and leadership, Jack took his hands off the wheel and let fate take over. The man of science is becoming a man of faith.

What I don't like

--Jack is still a douchebag. Man of science or man of faith, he's still a man you want to punch in the face repeatedly.

--Where are Rose and Bernard?!