Things get personal with episode 10, entitled "Something Nice Back Home", a Jack-centric episode.

After a highly eventful and action-centric episode last time, this one concentrates more on the characters and how events affect them more than the actual events themselves. It wasn't quite the information-heavy episode that we got last week either. However we did find out a few things: that people on the Island aren't immune to getting sick, that Jack gets together with Kate after they leave the Island, taking care of Aaron as well. We found out that Sawyer decided to stay on the Island, Jack is still having hallucinations of his father, and that Jin is willing to harm others to save Sun. This episode things certainly got personal.

What I Liked

The biggest positive aspect about this episode for me was the fact that we have gotten another personal, more character-centric story as opposed to the eventful ones we have seen predominantly in season four so far. The writers seem to yo-yo between two kinds of episodes all throughout Lost, since the beginning come to think of it, and I personally love it when this type decides to rear its head.

The episode opens with the Lost trademark of the opening eye, this time around Jack's eye and we soon find out, as seen briefly in episode 9, that something's wrong with him. This leads me to something else I really loved about this episode. Since episode 1 of the show Jack has been the one who has helped everyone, comforted them mentally and emotionally and physically, and helped them when they were sick. Now it was the other survivors' turn as Jack, we find out before long, needs his appendix removed. And rightly so, the rest of the group he's with is there to help; this time everyone is pulling their weight to save the man who has so many times looked after them and saved their lives. There was a general sense of everyone pulling together to save the one man - let's face it - they absolutely need.

In his flashforwards, Jack is revealed to be with Kate, living with her and helping her take care of Aaron. I thought the woman he was with in the bathroom was going to end up being Juliette, both because of how things are going on, as we see it, on the Island, and when the woman spoke it kind of sounded like Juliette, too. But of course it wasn't Juliette; Kate steps out of the shower and she and Jack kiss. Cut to Lost. This was the first sign that this week was going to be much more personal than a lot of the other episodes we have had in the last few weeks as we usually see something event-centric that's shocking right before we cut to the Lost intro. Just by seeing this little encounter between arguably the show's two most important characters it opens up a whole can of worms. Where's Juliette? How long after the court case where Kate got set free is this taking place? Why is Jack fine with seeing Aaron when last time we heard he didn't want to be with Kate because of him? It's the amazing talent of the writers of the show that can get so many thoughts and questions raised by a few seconds of footage.