Tonight’s episode on the hit ABC series LOST was called Meet Kevin Johnson and is a Michael centric episode.

This is a continuation of our series on the hit ABC series LOST. If you missed the previous installments, check here. If the whole LOST thing isn’t making much sense to you, you can get caught up on previous seasons of LOST here.

AS the ep opens, we get a review of who Michael is, what he did and how he got off the island…reminding us of all the reasons those left on the island have to dislike him. And if there were any question about whether they like him or not, we’re reminded by Sawyer (Josh Holloway) during a lostie meeting held in one of the barrack houses. During the meeting Ben reveals Michael is “his man” on the freighter and Locke tells the group they now have to protect Ben because the freighters will kill our losties after they retrieve Ben.

Back on the freighter Sayid (Naveen Andrews) and Desmond witness the Captain of the freighter beating the snot out of some guy on the deck. He claims he’s doing so to remind everyone what happened the last time someone tried to leave without his permission (uh, hello… bring us up to speed will ya!)

Sayid then finds a quick and quiet moment to question Michael about how he came to be on the island…again, and prompting our first flash of the evening. During the flash Michael appears to be driving around New York in a crappy green car in an attempt to kill himself? He only managed to land in the hospital. Then we see him trying to get past his mom to see Walt, clearly after the plane crash based on the dialog. They made it back but can’t tell anyone…hhhmmm.

Things don’t seem to be all that great with Michaeld and Walt as him mom wouldn’t let him pass. Michael catches a glimpse of Walt in the window and Walt hides. Next he goes to a pawn shop, gets a gun, and goes to an alley to kill himself…only to be interrupted by Tom (or Mr. Friendly, which ever you prefer). So it looks like this is between Michael and Walt leaving the island and before Tom gets killed on the beach. It also means Tom could come and go from the island as well. Was he keeping an eye on Michael?

In a strange conversation between Michael and Tom, Tom tells him that that the Island won’t let him kill himself. Michael goes to Tom’s hotel suite (where we find our that Tom is GAY (remember he said Kate wasn’t his type!)) where Tom reveals to him Widmore did in fact stage the wreckage of Flight 815. Widmore did so to keep the island to himself! Because the “Others” don’t want that, Tom was sent to push Michael into an undercover job on the freighter with the ultimate objective of killing everyone on the freighter!

(BTW, we’ve just been through what I think is the longest flash of the series)

When Michael arrives at the freighter in Fiji he finds a care package from Tom, presumably with guns to kill the crew…but he won’t open it now that he’s met some of them. When he finally does open it, inside is a black case that he opens to find a big ole booming bomb! Just as he’s about to start the detonation sequence we get a creepy visit from Libby warning him off…but he does it anyway and after the countdown… a note saying “NOT YET”… what the crap?

Still in the flash, Michael get a “phone call” via the radio room from Ben where Ben tells Michael he is to compile a list of people on the freighter, then disable the radio room, then the engines.

Michael agrees and we’re suddenly beck to present on the freighter and Sayid promptly snatches Michael up and rats him out to the ship’s captain.

Back on the island, Karl, Alex and Russo have been slipped secret directions to the Temple by Ben where he believes they will be safe. On the way, Karl and Russo are shot dead…so much for being safe, huh! To this Alex jumps up, throws up her hands and proclaims she is Ben’s daughter…and the episode ends there!

We get a little bit of a mid-season break here. The next new episode won’t be on till April 24th at a new time 10e/9c. Hope I can wait that long…

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Tonight’s episode on the hit ABC series LOST was called Ji Yeon and is a Sun & Jin centric episode.

This is a continuation of our series on the hit ABC series LOST. If you missed the previous installments, check here. If the whole LOST thing isn’t making much sense to you, you can get caught up on previous seasons of LOST here.

We open this episode by rejoining our losties on the freighter. Desmond awakes locked in the sickbay of the Kahana with Sayid (Naveen Andrews). Sayid is already working on his breakfast from a can as they see a note being tossed into the room (Ben’s man on the boat?). The note reads, “Don’t trust the Captain”.

When Desmond and Sayid (Naveen Andrews) do meet Captain Gault, they start to get a pretty good idea of the freighter’s mission. The Captain shows them the flight data recorder (the black box) from flight 815 (obviously fake because the real one is on the island with the actual wreckage) and tells them it was “obtained” by charles Widmore (Penny’s dad). He goes on to repeat the story told to the rest of the world about the wreckage being found in the Sunda Trench with 324 dead bodies aboard. Even the captain seems a bit awestruck by someone who would have the power to fake such a thing.

Remember, we learned last week in The Other Woman that the freighter controlled by Mr. Widmore who also bought the First Mate’s diary from the Black Rock and who, according to Ben, has been looking for the island for years. Apparently he knows a lot more about this island that we think. He also sponsored the boat race that got Desmond lost…was he doing so hoping one of the entries would find the island?

We see Sun and Jin sitting by the fire where Jin wants to talk about names for the baby. If it’s a girl he wants to name her “Ji Yeon”. Sun doesn’t want to think about (perhaps because she has been told by Juliet (Elizabeth Mitchell) that she will not carry the baby to term and will die). Sun says it’s a beautiful name and doesn’t want to jinx the baby. They make a deal to get of the Island first, before discussing it further.

Kate (Evangeline Lilly) tells Sun and Jin about Charlotte hitting her on the head. She explains that Charlotte and Daniel have turned of the poison gas factory and deactivated the gas, gaining some brownie points. She also says that Juliet lied about the Tempest being a power station, “probably out of habit”. Finally she reveals that the freighter-people have talked about a lot of things, but that none involved rescuing them.

We find Jin making breakfast and Jack (Matthew Fox)compliments him on how his English has improved. Jin tells Jack that Sun and Sawyer (Josh Holloway) have been teaching him…but Sun is the better teacher. Sun comes running up and pauses at the sight of Jack. Jack asks her about how she is doing and Sun says that the morning sickness has stopped. When Jack leaves them, Sun tells Jin to pack food for two days…they are moving to Locke’s group.

Kate (Evangeline Lilly) draws a map for Jin and Sun to Locke’s barracks and tells them that after giving them a good head start, she will have to tell Jack (Matthew Fox) that they have left. Sun and Kate agree that Jack wouldn’t understand why they are leaving. As they are saying goodbye, they are interrupted by Juliet who tries to stop Sun from leaving. She tells Jin that Sun is very sick and will die within three weeks if she doesn’t leave the island. Sun has made up her mind though and Jin says: “Where Sun go, I go”. In a last ditch effort to stop her, Juliet (Elizabeth Mitchell) tells Jin that Sun had an affair…well, that tactic worked, but Sun did get a good slap in on Juliet.

After a little calming time Jin comes back around settles down…and makes dinner for Sun. He forgives her and they make up. During Jin’s absence Juliet successfully convinces Sun to stay and protect the baby.

We also see a new “flash” device this week…not flash backs…not flash forward…but BOTH! Ultimately we find out that Sun is flashing forward and Jin is flashing back. In one of Sun’s flashes forward we find out that she is one of the Oceanic 6 (joining Jack, Kate, Hurley, and Sayid). We also see in one of her flashes that she has a little girl.

Back on the freighter after Sayid and Desmond talk with the Captain, they are taken to new digs…digs that are still soiled by the apparent suicide shot to the head of its previous occupant. The doc who showed them the way calls over Kevin Johnson to clean it up and as he emerges out of the shadows we see that Kevin Johnson is none other than Michael!

And the at the very end Another Shoe Drops! Hurley visits Sun after the baby is born in Korea and they go to visit Jin…in the cemetery! JIN IS DEAD! It seems Jin’s flashbacks predate their flight on Oceanic 815. What we don’t know is how or when he died! CRAP!

And according to the trailer for next week…someone else is going to die!

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Back in December I was inspired by Daniel’s 2008 Goals blog writing project over at Daily Blog Tips, and I published my blogging goals for 2008. Well, I’ve made at least one of them already!

Admittedly, back in December I was a bit unsure what my goals should be, after all I had only gotten serious about this blogging thing a couple of weeks earlier. But that didn’t stop me from laying them out there for the world to see.

I has planned an update on the goals for the end of this month to mark the end of the first quarter but I got such a great surprise yesterday that I decided I couldn’t put it off any longer!

Goal Number 7: Break into the top 5,000,000 on Alexa (currently 8,167,786). I blew past the 5,000,000 mark weeks ago but seemed to be stuck just over 1,000,000 for forever…till yesterday. When I opened my browser and looked at the Alexa Rank I was rewarded with 958,194.

Now it doesn’t take much surfing (um, or mathematical acumen) to know that there are still almost 1,000,000 sites ranking higher than mine…but hey I thought it was worth celebrating!

Ok, so here’s the update on all the rest!

Write at least one post every day. I’ve definitely not been making this goal on this blog alone, then again I have about a million times more blogs than when I wrote this goal too. Realistically, I’d like to post 2-3 times a week here so….there’s my UPDATED goal for 2008.

Network with (not just link to) other bloggers. I’ve done ok with this one I guess. I’ve been working diligently in the local niche arena lately and I’ve been in touch with lots of folks there. I also had the pleasure of making a guest post at The Writers Manifesto entitled 3 Tips To Make Working At Home Easier. Thanks Monika for the opportunity!

Average at least 100 daily unique visitors. Wow, just went to calculate this and I’m embarrassed to post it… maybe next time! (As kind of a consolation I will say that my local niche site East of Huntsville is averaging 44.4 per day!) (Another side note, my series on LOST on ABC has helped a lot)

Average at least 300 daily page views. Again, too embarrassing to print. (East of Huntsville, 82/day)

Have at least 100 RSS subscribers. Today the number is 13. I don’t watch this one every day because it is the least dependable and often most depressing number. I am satisfied with the progress overall in this category though because the trend is up! (BTW, if you’d like to subscribe to my feed…)

Average at least 3 comments per post. Well, this number isn’t very good yet either but here tis: .38 per post, yes, you read that correctly. The average is less than one…but it’s not zero!

Break into the top 5,000,000 on Alexa (currently 8,167,786). Already addressed this one (yeah!) but since I’ve hit on East of Huntsville, I thought I’d mention that EOH’s Alexa page rank is 986,715 today! Not bad for a site I hadn’t even created when I wrote my goals!

Generate at least $500 monthly. Well, progress here is slow but it is still progress! January and February were still less than $10 each and the trend is increasing. I’ve added two new revenue generators this month, ProjectWonderful ads and Yahoo! Publisher Network ads. We’ll see how they go.

Ok, there’s my update. As always comments with praise, ideas, or just to say hi are always welcomed and encouraged. And remember, you can be sure to get future updates by subscribing to the feed.

If you follow BloggerUnleashed.com then you should already know about the Mission Possible contest that Vic is putting on. If you haven’t, stay tuned here at jtrigsby.com and you can follow my progress at jtrigsby.bloggerunleashed.com, that will be my blog for the contest. thanks for your support and see you soon.