Juliet: Inconspicuous Hussy

I didn't necessarily care for this episode. I didn't find it boring, as I have some, but it did make me sort of suspicious of just what the point of Ben is, as a character. I'm starting to feel like he's just around to be both the catalyst for forward momentum plot action, and the main source of exposition. And, to me, that reads crutch. It's like Ben just sits around "withholding information" until the writers can figure out what the relevant information should be. And I guess that's fine. I understand that storytelling involves certain pieces of information being revealed at certain times and there have to be means of doing that, but I don't think that process should be so obvious. Anyway, enough about that.

So, the person on the boat has got to be Michael. But it's a little weird because there's the whole big build up with the referencing, and the commercials all implying that we're just NOT. GOING. TO BELIEVE. who's on the boat. But every time it's alluded to, I'm positive that the entire audience is thinking "Michael." I feel like when we get the big reveal, if it is Michael, it's going to be pretty disappointing since we've all been expecting it since the season started. Now it would be really unbelievable if it turned out to be someone like...Boone, Libby, Paolo...basically anyone other than Michael. What they should have done is have Ben vaguely allude to his spy on the boat, but not make a big deal about it in any way, so that we don't spend all our time thinking about Michael before he shows up as the big non-surprise. As it's been set up I just expect it to be unsatisfying.

Oh, right, and with all the men she's involved with are we supposed to be thinking that Juliet may not actually be as innocent as she seems? Or am I reading too much into it?