Lost, Season 4, Episode 9

The Shape Of Things To Come is the title of the episode. If it is, then I'm happy, because I reckon this is the start of a huge timeline unravelling saga. Surely it has to be? When Ben teleports (cool!) to the desert and then asks what the date is, the actions of a time traveller, surely?

The confrontation with Jim From Neighbours is another clue. It was not honour that stopped Ben killing Widmore, it was something more, time paradoxes maybe? And the certainty that his daughter would not be killed, a man who has seen it all before?

Meanwhile our faithful castways are caught in the middle and apparently clueless, trying to survive the ensuing violence: crash survivors shot before we knew who they were, Claire almost blown up, Alex shockingly executed, the ships Doctor washed up on the beach with a slit throat and the smoke monster running rampant through the mercs. Nice.

Definitely not hiding it's SF heart anymore. Continually exciting, intriguing, bonkers and fun. It's still my favourite TV programme.