Don’t forget to sort through these plot “spoiler”.
There are a lot.
Here are a few good ones:
Episode 2.20: Two for the Road (Ana-Lucia-centric)
Airdate: May 3, 200604/09 - Jack and Kate bring an exhausted Michael back to the camp, and with him, news about “The Others.” Meanwhile, Ana Lucia attempts to get the prisoner to confess, and Hurley plans a surprise date for Libby. Source: ABC
Episode 2.21: ?
Airdate: May 10, 200604/01 - Turns out that supercool black-light reveal is a major plot point that carries on through the rest of the season. “Oh yeah, big time,” Damon said. “I mean, it plays huge in the finale, and even in episodes 21 through 24. Twenty-one is an episode that is very much on the sort of fundamental axis of that map, and it’s a Locke and Eko story, which is going to be awesome. [Executive Producer] Carlton [Cuse] and I wrote it. That episode is just called ‘?’ because that is the symbol Locke remembers from the map.” Source: Kristin on E!Online
Last night was back to the old ways of Lost where absolutely nothing (or very little) actually happens. Kind of a bummer. Michael comes back at the very last second of the show, but before that we hardly find out anything. Nothing about “Henry Gail” except for that creepy look he gave when Locke was asking him if he pushed the buttons or not, nothing about the black light door, or any of our big questions. We do find out that Rose thinks the Island has healing powers and that Ecko is building a church, but none of these are the huge questions. I just wish they would give us more. I am certainly hoping for the rest of the shows this season to be packed full of information…
I think it depends on what you see as the “huge questions”. Sure there are the ones like you mentioned, but there are others that I think are just as important.
For example, one huge question for me that they actually covered in this episode quite a bit (and seem to be emphasizing more and more) is why don’t these people ask more questions themselves? Hurley and now Bernard are pointing this out more frequently lately. And why don’t they talk to each other about stuff that seems like it would be pretty significant, like the medical hatch that Kate finally got around to telling Jack about or the map that Locke probably hasn’t mentioned to anyone else yet.
I think there’s probably something important about the answer(s) to these questions, beyond just “well, it’s a TV show, and we can’t have them asking all the questions that we think they should, because it would ruin the show.” Maybe I’m wrong, but I think those questions are just as important as the specific details that we don’t know about yet, about the “others” and such.
In fact, if they had gone right into explaining the details of that map (like within the last two episodes) I think that would be kind of cheap. I think part of the reason that they can’t do anything further with the map right now is the fact that Locke isn’t sharing it with anyone, and no one else knows about it, so there’s no context to talk about it in the show, unless they do a flashback (like the episode I’m hoping for with Desmond or “Henry”, showing them in the past). Until Locke discusses the map with someone else, I don’t think they’ll cover it again, but that in itself (the fact that he’s not sharing it) could be just as important a plot point as what it turns out the map describes.