The smoke monster is bored

Ok, since last night's LOST was so epic, I decided I would add my two cents about what I felt was a hilarious turn of events for our good friend Ben. If I have ever talked to you about LOST, you know I am a huge fan of Ben. The guy is a man with a plan and he always executes it regardless of consequences to other. He is a freaking ice man.

Last time Ben was in his house he was still "the man" of the island. His daughter had just been killed and he displayed to us his ability to summon the smoke monster and kill the mercenaries responsible. He did this (at the time we really didn't know how) by apparently going into his already secret room which itself also had a secret room. In last night's episode, we learned that he drained some sort of muddy water at the end of a hallway which enabled him to "communicate" with the monster.

Within seconds of doing this after his daughter was killed, the monster appeared and thrashed the mercenaries senseless. Last night, after Ben uttered "I'll be outside", he assumed it would be the same sort of instant reaction to his command. He even warned Sun that whatever was about to come out of the jungle was something he could not control and that she might want to go inside for protection. The monster never appeared. It was as if when the monster heard Ben say he would be outside, he simply continued to watch Gilligan's Island reruns on Nick at Night while giving Ben the finger.

The monster had had it with Ben. Just like a teenager refusing to clean their room on their parent's instruction. The monster was saying "you wanna talk to me, come down to my super secret lair. I don't feel like tromping through the jungle. You guys have been gone for three years leaving me with no one to shake trees at. Plus this is the one where Gilligan and company might finally get off the island, no way I'm missing that. Oh, that Gilligan."

Even when Ben finally made it to the temple, he had to wait a bit for the monster to appear, probably having to wait for a commercial break no doubt. It then appears, surrounds ben and flashes images of his past to him, mostly about Alex, mostly. The monster than manifests itself as alex and violently tells Ben that should he so much as touch John Locke again, that it will destroy him. Than, as quickly as it appeared, it was gone. Keyser Soze ain't got nothin on the monster.

This was easily the best episode this season. Locke and Ben centric episodes never fail to live up to the hype. I seriously cannot wait to see how the rest of this season will play out. Damn you ABC for your upcoming clip show in 2 weeks. The smoke monster frowns upon your shenanigans.