To be fair, Season Five was the only other season I watched as it aired, but I really don’t feel like Six has been any slower with the revelations and plot-points than previous seasons. And if you’re complaint is that The Package pretty much just confirmed what you already suspected, then what about Ab Aeterno? We didn’t know about Richard’s life pre-Island, but pretty much everything else we suspected already: he came to the Island on the Black Rock, granted immortality when he joined Jacob. We got some more information on the MiB, but most of that was more characterization than straight-up answers.

I expect there’ll probably be a couple more info-dump episodes like Ab Aeterno, where we just get some uninterrupted backstory that really helps fill in the blanks. I wouldn’t be surprised to see Widmore get an episode, and I suspect one of the last episodes will probably directly deal with the MiB’s backstory.

Re: Room 23, I suppose it was never really made clear how much Jin got off the island proper in the 1970s, and how much he knew about the specifics at each station. Last season’s characterization of Radzinsky and Chang made it seem like Lafleur and his boys were kept away from the most sensitive sites. Additionally, we don’t know that Jacob was mentioned by Dharma in Room 23 — the only time we saw Jacob’s name used in that room was in season 3’s depiction of Karl being subjected to whatever it was they were doing there (so, could have been something inserted by Ben). That said, if Jacob was mentioned by Dharma in Room 23, this would jibe with my theory that Widmore was really behind Dharma all along and Widmore’s actually been a heroic (or, well, Jacob-teamed) character all along, perhaps one that was exiled when he discovered Ben was being manipulated by Smokey.

By the way, who else is following the #lostcomics hashtag on Twitter? We’ve found the fan comics to be hilarious so far.