It took Lost all of 2 minutes to remind me why it's my favorite show on TV. The whole introduction, up to & including them seeing the plane crash? Just awesome. Not at all what I expected.
I am so sick of Jack ... I just don't like him at all as a character? I don't care for his flashbacks and I feel no sympathy for his wife leaving him. His "alpha male" shtick is just not something that I can get into.
But the Sawyer scenes were, as always, awesome. (His line of "I had asked for that cage" was the line of the night, and the fact that he gave Kate the fish biscuit that he'd worked so hard for was a good nod to him having a soft-spot for her). The Kate scenes were stellar, too ... and not just her in a shower and a spanktacular dress. Her scene with Ben on the beach was wicked chilling, and set the tone for what's going to happen until the long hiatus in a month.
And to expect anything but new questions in a season premier is confusing ... it's the 1st show of the new season, of course they're not going to explain much. They explained the big thing that happened in last season's finale: where the others were taking Jack, Kate & Sawyer ... there was no reason to 'explain' anything else this episode.