Juliet is a great character. I love to hate her. We still don’t know why she want all “Kill Bill” last week on Kate, but we know why she is so emotionally torn on this island. Love of sister versus love of her work. Oh yeah, then there’s the part where The Others won’t let you go home.

I thought I was going to hate the character, which don’t get me wrong, I do. But the flashbacks have been some of the best this season (except for Desmond, of course) and at least she’s not the soft spoken lesbian like she played on *how* many other shows?

1. Jack is SO not who we think. The season finale is going to prove me right. Check out this article about the season finale. Who do you think the *snake* in the mailbox is? Hm, the episode revolves around Jack… think, think, think. And, the title of this week’s episode also is a dead giveaway. Jack’s tattoo says that “He walks amongst us but is not ONE OF US.” I think that we were supposed to *think* that it meant Juliet but it was just a red herring to throw us off the scent of Jack. But GG knows!

2. I think that Jack could be Jacob. Didn’t he heal Sarah when it was impossible? Jacob has these supposed powers to heal (Rachel from cancer). But Ben has cancer now. Jack also didn’t save the foreign guy from his injury either. My thoughts are still forming but I’m leaning towards this theory. Man of Science, Man of Faith. Jack is first and foremost a man of science. He is top in his field. There is something to this. Maybe Jack’s dad is Jacob. When he died the Others knew that Jack was as close to him as they could come. They could have known that Jacob/Christian was on that plane and so was Jack. Maybe Ben is the only one who really knows who Jacob physically is… the others only know *of* him. Maybe Ben has shared that information with Jack and that is why Jack is acting so strange now with Juliet. Have to keep thinking on this one.

3. Here is something that is not adding up. The Others go through the trouble to make a list of survivors. Then there is the list of the *good* people. Then there is the list of the people they want and they end up taking Kate, Sawyer and Jack … only to let them all just go when the Others decide to take off. They send Danny and co. after Kate and Sawyer when they escaped and were going to kill them rather than let them leave and now all of a sudden they just walk away? No my friends of course not.

4. Goodwin and Ethan are sent to infiltrate the survivors and can’t do it. So Ben thinks he can but it turns out that he can’t do it. Now we have Juliet here. But again, like with Ben, Sayid knows. Hopefully, although these survivors can be pretty dumb, they will listen to him this time.

5. On a side note, how did Danielle get out of the compound?

6. Red flowers again.
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7. I originally thought that Juliet told Sayid if she told him everything that she knew that *they* would kill her but I just watched it back and she said *YOU* would kill me. There must be more going on here (DUH) that we are yet to see because fertility experiments alone isn’t a reason to kill her.

8. What happened to the case of injections that Charlie had? Why didn’t he think to get them when Claire got so sick? Why, when Juliet brought her injections back, didn’t that spark Charlie to think, Oh yeah, I have some of that? Another unanswered mystery. I like the bigger mysteries in this show, but why do we have to have so many of these small unanswered questions? Why would they even show us that Charlie has these if they weren’t going to come back into play? And wasn’t Desmond taking injections in the hatch? Placebo? If so, does he know now that it was? If so, why did he take a case of the medicine with him when he left the hatch? It’s like the whispers in the woods. Who were they? Why? Where was it coming from? Why did it stop? What was the purpose?

9. Why did Juliet need tranqulizer for the trip to the island? I don’t think it had anything to do with the trip being *intense* as much as I think that the island is much closer than they want anyone to know. If the island was too far away wouldn’t she have woken up thirsty (ever slept too long and you know that feeling) or had to go pee if the trip was that long? The sub was already at the island when she woke up. I don’t think she was out that long and I think that the trip was relatively short. If the plane ride was long wouldn’t they have had to have been on a bigger plane (check out the puddle jumpers in the background)? I’m not an aviation expert so I could be wrong, but it seems that they would have needed a bigger plane to take a long trip to wherever the sub was hidden. Then, the landing strip for the plane would have to be somewhere small and inconspicuous. It just doesn’t add up that this was such a long trip.
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10. Herarat Aviation? Her A Rat Aviation? Earhart (as in Amelia)?

11. Richard tells Juliet that “time just flies” when you are on the island. I used to be a member of the *time loop theory* of the island but I don’t think that they are in a time rip. However, I do think that there is a possibility that because of magnetism on the island there could be some way that time moves slower/faster than other places.

12. NOT that I want to discuss the horriffic love triangle, or whatever, that is being honed here, but I was glad that Sawyer gave Kate a hug and genuinely looked relieved to see Kate. I also loved the look on his face when he saw Juliet. I will be curious in weeks to come how Sawyer, who gives the people he *likes* a hard time, will handle someone he doesn’t like. He is also the con man and I’ll be interested to see how that plays out too.
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13. It really must tick off Juliet when Hurley is talking to her and tells her that Charlie got upset over Ethan and then tells her where they buried him. You can see the look on her face. Here is a theory that Scott brought up, it was JULIET not Ben that wanted Ana Lucia killed. Goodwin was Juliet’s partner and AL killed him in cold blood. Juliet would have had to have been furious! Then Ethan who seemed to also be kind to her. I would bet that when Michael comes back we’ll see a flashback that has her arranging for Michael to kill Ana Lucia.

14. First people wearing watches and now with the clocks. Remember in season one when Jin was all bent out of shape about his watch and we were told that watches didn’t work there anyway. So what is up with these?
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15. Juliet tells Ben that the problem with the pregnant women is that it happens at conception. That would explain how Claire and Danielle could have children on the island. What it doesn’t explain is how Ben and Karl are both children of the island. Ben says he has lived there his whole life. How if no one can stay pregnant? And where did Karl come from? He is around the same age as Alex but we don’t know anything about his parents… which means that they both must have been conceived off of the island but where did they come from?

16. Here is another mystery for you folks. If Ben gives Juliet her *sisters* chart to show her the cancer is back, then why does it say its for a *male* and *187* pounds? Is this what Richard really meant when he told Juliet that she “made life happen where it shouldn’t be?” Was Rachel previously a man? Is that what she really wanted her whole life – to be a woman and have a baby? Was this also what happened when Juliet referred to (in her first flashback) when she was talking about the male rats? Or, there has been a very serious prop error.
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17. Ben tells Juliet that Jacob will save her sister if she stays on the island. It makes me wonder if the sister has an implant like Claire that they can activate. Is this sounding like the X-Files with the implants? And remember that Sawyer was told they implanted a device in him (which they later said was a lie, but could it be true?). Crazy Nazi scientists that they are.

18. Juliet the hero saves the day and makes Claire all better. If these people trust her after this they will have proven themselves officially as the dumbest people ever. Have they not heard the stories from Sayid, Kate and Sawyer? So she conveniently knows how to make her better. That would make me even more suspicious of her. And WTF with Sawyer and Sayid being the only ones asking real questions about Juliet to Jack. Sawyer asks why Jack he is fighting every one of *us* to defend one of *them.* Good question! These people tried to kill Charlie. Is he going to trust her now because of Claire? Also, Juliet says that they were giving Claire a serum to *stop her symptoms* in late pregnancy. What symptoms? Claire was just fine and wasn’t having major problems with her pregnancy. HELLO, wake up people! And Jack just lets her run off to do God only knows what? Kate HAS to know that something is going on between those two.

19. Juliet has been on the island for three years. Desmond has been on the island 3 years. Coincidence?

20. Juliet says that Karl developed the X-Rays. Where did Karl go so wrong after the plane crash to end up a lab rat to the Others?

21. Jack sends Juliet to get the serum and it’s nightime. The next we see Juliet she’s out getting the goods and it’s daytime. The caves (where the serum is hidden) were only a short walk away from the beach. What is up with that? Lazy editing or shooting schedule? They know those of us obsessed fans screencap these.

22. Here is a link to information about the symbol on the tree. Interesting.
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23. I’m interested to know what Sayid did in Basra (a city in Iraq). Why is it ethical ammunition for Juliet? But I don’t care enough to think he should have backed off of Juliet. Whatever he did then doesn’t justify what the Others are doing to them now.
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24. I think that the song “Downtown” calms Juliet because it was the song playing in the car when she left her sister and went into Mittlewerks. It is probably a link to her sister.

25. I find it hard to believe that Mikael had such good reception from that small satellite on top of his farm house. I think that the Others wanted the survivors to believe that their main mode of communication was blown up to take away their hope. But as clear as this is and then getting the *live feed* from Richard, there has to be more to this. Plus, I found it interesting that the flight disappearing was apparently big news. You kind of forget about the world back home when you get so engrossed in the lives on the island. Or maybe that’s just me.
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26. I have some problems with Richard’s live feed back to the island. First, Richard is just standing there at the park video taping Rachel and no one notices? Have you ever seen a tv news crew filming a live shot? There is a truck nearby with a tower sending the signal back to the station. Wouldn’t it seem odd that some guy is standing there with a camera and a truck with a tower? Next, who is to say that that is Rachel’s child that she is playing with? Couldn’t she be a nanny?

27. I can’t get a clear shot of it, but Jack has this new tattoo on his arm. This was not there in the beginning of the show. Only after going to the Others. Juliet got a brand when she betrayed them, why did Jack get artwork?
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28. Some shots from next week. Some things to think about.
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Whose feet?

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