Razzle dazzle!

The March 28 ep barely moved the plot forward, and addressed none of the island's mysteries. Yet it was a knee-slapping hoot. Personally, I loved it. Pure entertainment, which is exactly what I want from a television show. Let's examine things, shall we?
- Billy Dee Williams is the Cobra?! I never saw that coming.
- Great flashback appearances by Boone, Shannon, Ethan and that school teacher who blew up. Was Boone bisexual? We know he was doin' his sister (momentary shudder, for while Shannon is a cutie pie, she's still a relative. Ick), but that comment Shannon made in the airport seemed to indicate he swung from both sides of the plate. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
- Was great to see life on the island through the eyes of secondary characters, such as Jack's live together or die alone speech. I wonder how much of the crash sequence was recut footage and how much was filmed new. I'd forgotten how absolutely great that very first ep of Lost was, with the chaos and fire and screams.
- And it was fascinating to see how long-ago events were tied into last night's ep. When Paulo came out of the TV hatch bathroom, suddenly there was meaning behind it instead of a random event. And the mystery of the recently smoked cigarette butts in that hatch? Solved.
- So Vincent apparently could tell Paulo and Nikki were not dead, pulling the blanket off them. I hope to see a Vincent flashback episode at some point. You know that dog has seen and sniffed every mystery on this island and probably knows more than anyone else. Though he's a dog.
- Speaking of island secrets, I giggled insanely at how at moment after moment, these two asshats found so many island secrets well before everyone else - the plane in the tree, the TV monitoring hatch, the Others are not really rags-wearing primitives.
- Two word: "forensics hatch." Bwah!
- Are Nikki and Paulo dead? I'm going to presume so. They'd have to dig themselves out - or be rescued by Vincent - pretty quickly to avoid suffocation. And I assume we'd see that. But there seemed to be some finality to that episode. Then again, as Locke said, things on the island don't stay buried, so who knows. Their deaths would make sense in a sort of cosmic justice kind of way - the murderers get killed in a very Alfred Hitchcock Presents kind of way.
- Meanwhile, so Sun knows it was Charlie and Sawyer, not the Others, who kidnapped and clocked her. Will be curious to see how this evolves, what happens if she lets it slip to Jin.
- This ep was light on the content we usually analyze to death. But I still rank it as a very satisfying hour of TV watching. And next week, Kate and Juliet cat fight. In the rain. Thank you, God.
Your thoughts?