Well, I did it. I broke down and went to ABC’s LOST website and read their message board to see if anyone could explain how the hatch could’ve imploded without killing the men inside.

When Desmond awoke in the jungle, he was naked–-so the implosion blew his clothes off but it didn’t kill him. (WHY COULDN’T IT HAVE BEEN SAWYER?!) And the loud boom and earth shaking wasn’t something that would scare away a hungry polar bear? That’s a weird looking bear. Wonder what’s up with that? The one in the Coke commercials at Christmas are more realistic looking.

Anyway, that implosion bit was nagging at me so at lunch I hopped on the internet to visit the board. Here’s how it was explained:

“…imploded is correct, and it is well thought out. Have you ever heard of the sun imploding in the future? You know, where it expands to the point that it ‘implodes,’ or collapses on itself. An implosion means it would actually expand first, sending everything flying out, and then it would quickly collapse on itself. The hatch would do the same. Thus, an implosion sent the door marked ‘Quarantine,’ Eko, Locke, Desmond, and Eko’s ‘Jesus Stick’ flying into the sky. That’s how they all landed in the middle of the jungle.”

I guess it’s kind of weird for me to get hung up on the implosion rather than the polar bear’s cave with the old Tonka truck and skeletons or the whole Locke sequence, since it once again showed him in a wheelchair. There was also Boone’s reappearance during Locke’s vision. Thank goodness that in the Better Place where Boone has gone, someone took a weed whacker to his wooly worm eyebrows.

Oh well. A so-so episode. I’m not sure what I keep hoping will happen. I like having a mystery to try to solve and clues to look for, but I’m also ready for more of it to be resolved.

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