I voted bad. I thought it was pretty cheap to write up Michael suddenly going postal. As if the writers were suddenly thinking "how can we get rid of these two characters." These characters dying becomes even more lame when they have flashbacks for them still and it really doesn't seem to answer anything. Which makes me wonder if any flashbacks will answer anything or if certain characters are so important that they're guaranteed to not die because they're crucial to the story. Deaths like Arzt and Boone were good because they were either expected or amusing and shocking without affecting the threads of the story. But when a character dies, that thread is gone. I have nothing against characters dying, as long as they're not someone I like, I just think everyone getting shot is pretty lame.

And the whole episode revolved around a character who was going to die, so it makes everything that involved her pretty worthless and set up things that might end up making good episodes later on. I can think of a million betters ways to have done it, but instead they went for cheap shock with no substance and I just can't call that good. Oh well, while they're at it, I hope they get started on this war or with some deadly sickness and kill off a few more unimportant people.

Ironically, I've wanted the tailies to die for a while, except for Eko, because they just seemed to take time away from the original cast and I just didn't care about them. But it seems next season there will be even less episodes focused on the original cast and more focused on other survivors, according to the Lost podcast.