'Lost' recap: Mirror Image

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If Jacob is such a good guy, how come he never tells the truth?
The episode was filled with conversations about truth telling. It began with Jack and Dogen praising each other for their mutual honesty. Claire demanded total honesty from Justin the Other as well as Jin, who told the truth about Aaron, then lied about telling the truth to save his life. The episode ended with Hurley scolding Jacob for not playing straight with him. Interesting: the Lockeness Monster professes to be the straight-shooter of the two Island deities, and after this episode, we have no reason to doubt him; the revelation of the Lighthouse didn't contradict anything UnLocke told and showed Sawyer last week in the cave. Meanwhile, Jacob has resorted to lies, puzzles, and possibly supernatural coercion to get people to do what he wants them to do. And yet, I STILL find myself thinking that Jacob is the good guy and Lockeness is the bad guy in their feud. What do you think?

How come you haven't said anything about Claire?
What's there to say? I thought she was compelling and scary and well played by Emilie de Ravin even if the girl swings an axe like... well, like a girl. But she also left me with so many questions, I really don't know where to begin to summarize, except by rattling them off. I want to know of she's really ''infected.'' I want to know about her Rousseau makeover and if she's self-aware of her Rousseauness. I want to know all about the creepy faux baby with the skull head in the crib. (Genius.) I want to know the story behind her Temple torture. I want to know the story behind how she got shot in the leg and see how she stitched herself up. I want to know what happened between her and her father and why her father is no longer around. I want to know when she met Fake Locke, how they became friends, and how he convinced her he wasn't really John Locke without freaking her out. I want to know if she's just lost track of time or if Fake Locke worked some magic on her to keep her ignorant of three years missing time. But most urgently, I want to know if she and Lockeness are going to let Jin live — or if Sun is about to become a widow.

Don't you think there's so much more to say about the Lighthouse?
I do. We could spend much time analyzing all the names around the dial. We could wonder if the looking glasses really are remote viewing devices, or windows into parallel worlds, or (my theory) magic mirrors that conjure metaphorical representations of the heart state of the Numbered candidates who gaze into the glass. (Though part of me likes that parallel worlds idea and wants to theorize that Jacob is capable of synthesizing various parallel worlds to create one timeline that represents the Best of All Possible Worlds.) I could go on and on, but my time is up, and I've gone very long, and besides: There's always room for elaboration on Twitter @EWDocJensen and on next week's Doc Jensen column. Thanks for your patience with the late posting today, folks.

Until next week: Namaste!