A set up show?

While LOST contained some interesting moments last night, it seemed to be a show setting up a revealing show next week, as the story revealed little.

Jack has a tattoo from an Asian visionary that apparently reads "He walks among us but he is not one of us." This innocuous slogan apparently pisses the hell out of Thai beach bums, because Jack got his butt soundly whupped just for walking on the beach with it. The mysitc, played by Superslut Bai Ling, also told Jack he was a leader who was reluctant and lonely. Nothing new there.

Cindy and the kids from the tailsection show up to watch an execution, they seem okay. Karl tells Sawyer the kids are better off with the "others". Karl also reveals that the "others " live a fairly normal suburban life, when they're not on the other island submitting each other to Clockwork Orange type torture, executing and hot branding each other on the back.

The "others" also have a servicable shuttle boat that traverses the narrow straight between the two islands. Sawyer and Kate had to paddle back, however, and continued their odd sexual tension, which basically consists of Sawyer telling "Freckles" what to do and Freckles responding by whining a lot.

Karl, the goofy other teen, reveals that he likes to watch the stars with his girlfriend Alex, whose Dad responded to Karl's love by subjecting him to watching werid sixties Psyedelic videos, complete with backward masking.

The "others' Have a Judge Dredd like purveyor of justice named "Isabel" which is an oddly feminine name for a man-like lady. She knows how to read and speak Chinese and taunts Jack with her ability to read his tattoo. She reminds me of my high school principal, Sister Margaret, who also could lay out the justice, even though none of us was ever branded that I know of.

FYI -- Cheech from Cheech and Chong stars in a Hurley flashback next week.