My wife and I burst out laughing when we saw Mac from It's Always Sunny...
Awful episode. I am glad my child will grow up in a world without this wretched show.
(Samurai playing with baseball)
Jack: "What's that?"
Samurai: "It's a baseball."
So Samurai figures out that Sayid is "infected", and must be dealt with accordingly. He tells Jack to give Sayid the pill, without explaining to him what it is. If Samurai knows that Jack knows that he's put Sayid through the wringer, how can he expect him to just give him the pill without explanation? And of course, he doesn't, and they have to go through the whole rigamorale of Jack talking to Sayid, Jack trying to take it himself, Samurai finally explaining that he's infected (which isn't that hard to explain, really), and then dropping the Claire bomb on him. Why didn't Samurai just explain all of this up front? You kind of have to, no?Ridiculous.
ETA: Why doesn't anyone explain why they're being kept in the Temple, and what (Norwood, presumably) is being kept out? Wouldn't that take like 5 seconds? "Yeah, there's this crazy ####### black smoke thing that tries to wreck our ####. Maybe you've seen it before. We use this black powder to keep him at bay. It's probably best that you stay in here." One of the fatal flaws of this show, IMO, is that people don't communicate with each other in a realistic manner. Shoddy writing, IMO.
And don't get me started on the
Claire ex machina ending at the end. C'mon.