Resulting from its specific use in the book, the phrase “Catch-22″ is common idiomatic usage meaning “a no-win situation” or “a double bind” of any type.

1. Why does Desmond keep seeing visions of Charlie’s death? I mean, you could have visions of Locke catching boars, Sawyer reading, Jack making deals with the Others, but Desmond keeps seeing Charlie die. I would hate that. Visions of the future and all it is is the same person dying crazy deaths. And is Desmond somehow altering the future by saving Charlie? Or, could Desmond be having some crazy deja vu (they say that Catch *22* is like deja vu with the repeating number)? Maybe Desmond is seeing these visions because he is supposed to save Charlie. Maybe Charlie is going to save them all (probably through a series of misadventures with Hurley.

2. So far, the three psychics that we have seen have either been fakes or debunked. Claire’s psychic changed his mind about the baby (bought out by Dharma?). Hurley’s *seer* was bought off by his dad to make something up. Then Desmond’s psychic may have had some ability, but was using it to get Desmond to the island. So why would we believe that Desmond has any true ability given what we have seen the writers must think of psychics?

3. NOT that I want to discuss the love triangle, quadrangle, whatever… but I almost felt sorry for Sawyer. I think they’ve given this guy feelings for Kate! And truth be told I would rather see Kate be with Sawyer at this point. I think this guy knows his place on the island and is not afraid to stand up for it either. But when it comes down to it, he will leave the island in a second, would Kate?

4. Desmond believes that the only way the person who is coming can make it there is if the sequence of events as he sees them in flashes happens exactly. But… when we see the parachute being lifted to catch the person in the tree, Charlie is one of the people holding it. This is after the arrow *incident.* It doesn’t make sense because Charlie would have been dead by the time they found the parachute. Maybe Desmond doesn’t have as much control over these visions. Or, again, maybe he is supposed to save Charlie.
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5. Why did Jin have to come on the trip?

6. Did the others back on the beach hear the helicopter and see the beacon flashing, too?

7. Here’s a question. How could a helicopter make it to the island if it was very far away from land? Does anyone know how far a helicopter can go with a tank of gas? I wouldn’t think very far. I would guess that if the island was far, far away they would have had to have taken something bigger for the trip.

8. Here is another question, why did the helicopter crash? We are supposed to believe that the plane crashed because Desmond let the numbers go a wee bit too long, but there is no number pushing now. Maybe they have something in place in the sky much like the sonic fence around their village.

9. On a production note … Desmond is clean shaven with short hair in his flashbacks but is scraggly with a beard and long hair on the island. This means that either the writers knew way ahead of time his backstory and filmed all his scenes or this guy is wearing a wig.
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10. When did Charlie visit the Pearl to get a notebook? All the books that had been shot out I would have assumed were full. This one, if he was writing music in it, had to have been somewhat empty. A peace offering from Locke?
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11. By the way, I went back and watched “Dave” when Sayid reads the note on the $20 bill from the real Henry Gale. The note was written to “Jennifer” not Naomi (the new girl). I was suspicious at first that these two were related (him in a balloon) but it doesn’t appear to be so.

12. Moriah Vineyard 1995. From Wikipedia (regarding the name Moriah): …Classsical Rabbinical Literature theorized that the name was a …reference to the Temple, suggesting translations like the teaching-place…. the place of fear … Targum Pseudo-Jonathan interprets the name as land of worship, while the Samaritan Targum regards it as being land of vision.
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13. Desmond also says that Moriah was the mountain where Abraham was asked to kill Isaac. But God spared Isaac and this was Abraham’s test. Sound like anyone we know (Desmond saving Charlie?). Does he underestimate the value of sacrifice? He saves Charlie knowing it could alter the outcome of Penny’s arrival on the island? I knew that Desmond would not and will not let Charlie die if he can help it.

14. I still can’t make out what this is, but it is a very large tattoo or marking. Is there a Dharma symbol at the forearm area? Has Jack been branded as One of Them?
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15. Predictable. Kate will end up pregnant. Then she’ll need Juliet to help save her life. It happens at conception, remember?

16. The end of the show, as told by Desmond, “With enough money and determination you can find anyone.” Of course there will have to be twists. Maybe Locke’s obsessive button pushing will have something to do with it. “Push the button, don’t push the button. The button’s bad.” Maybe we haven’t seen the “bad” button yet.

17. I could be crazy here, but if you look at the top of the screen in this shot I swear it looks like a black cloud. I just noticed it when I was looking at screencaps. I don’t have the highest quality but there appears to be something there. It could explain why the helicopter crashes.
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18. Lots of religious symbolism in this one. Per Widipedia, the book of Ruth is about redemption. Fitting.
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19. OK, this line was just too good not to mention (though Sawyer had some good ones again. So did Hurley).
“So where’d you get the table?” “What, you don’t recognize it? It fell out of the purple haze when the hatch went blamo. If we don’t play every 108 minutes the island will explode.” I think Sawyer was just looking for someone he could beat. Jack beat him at cards and Hurley beat him at ping pong. The man’s got pride! Until he hears about Kate, of course.

20. Love the doll. Couldn’t be Danielle’s, as Charlie pointed out, or there would be a massive rock flying at his head right now. Oh, just wait Charlie! I think this solidifies that Penny was not the original pilot of the helicopter. Somehow I don’t think that kitschy is her style.
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21. Portuguese writing. The guys in the Antarctic hut working for Penny were Portuguese. I think this along with the picture pretty much solidify that Naomi was sent by Penny. Oh yeah, and she knows Desmond right off.
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22. Dude, give the phone to Sayid and quit messing around! Geesh, when will they get some sense!
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23. Just to back up for a minute. Can you imagine if you were really stranded here, the horrors you have been through and to hear that helicopter? The joy that would overtake you would be unreal.

24. I guess Bernard made an indirect appearance. The so-called mix tape apparently belongs to Bernard. Yeah, maybe they will finally be back!

25. Did you hear that the monastary only bottled 108 cases of wine this year? They haven’t been throwing the numbers in as much lately.

26. Oh boy. I didn’t want to believe it but I think that the monk fired Desmond because of Dharma or whoever also put the psychic lady up to talking him out of marrying Penny. Why else would her picture be on the monk’s desk? There is a pretty clear shot of this picture, too, so we were meant to see it. Ironically Penny is there the day that Desmond is fired, too.
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Let me digress for a moment.  Ken and Barbie.  They are dead.  Face it folks, no one is going to get dug out by some golden lab and if Vincent should happen to be that industrious, how would they live being under a mountain of sand?  They’re gone.  TTFE!

1.  Cassidy.  This backstory ranks right up there with the dumbest, biggest waste of story time.  I kept waiting for betrayal.  Nothing.  Waited for the name Sawyer to come up.  Nothing.  Waited for Mom to do something cool and shocking (like show up in a magic box on the island).  Nothing.  Have I lost my imagination here?  I feel like I’ve eaten the forbidden apple and now my eyes are open to the reality of the nothingness that gets thrown into this show sometimes.  OK, a crossover, big time.  Big deal!  I’d rather have someone with a crossover actually realize it (remember when Saywer told Jack about meeting his dad?  Classic!). 

2.  Agreed to gnid gnid (see last post comments), Juliet has some skills!  But so does Kate so where in the world did Juliet train (anyone seeing Kill Bill images with me … more like Kill Ben!)?  Plus her shoulder has been dislocated four times before. 
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3.  Kate always has the same song playing in her flashbacks.  Is she going to finally go walking after midnight one of these episodes already?
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4.  So let me get this right.  There is a village, with houses and TOILETS and showers and they are just going to take a few things and LEAVE!!!??? Screw Jack as the leader.  Sawyer would be all over that village if he knew about it.  Plus there is a security system!  I love this show but come on!!!!  Leave a few people back at the beach in shifts to watch for rescue and live at the houses with beds!  And kitchens!  OK, you have a few hippies that probably like sleeping on the beach, but not people like me.  They have a rec hall and bikes.  Come on! 

5.  Here’s something to blog about… the gas is $1.32 and $1.81 for the *expensive* stuff!  Talk amongst yourselves…
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6.  I love it that Sawyer has it counted down to the minutes until he can use nicknames.  But check it out, he’s got a watch!!!  Again with the watches!
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7.  Where is Rosseau?  Simple.  She found her daughter and is not going to lose her again.  Which means she is following the Others.  Why haven’t we seen a backstory on her?  She is far and away more interesting than the You-Know-Whos (the one’s who won’t be named) and they got a whole episode.

8.  There is supposed to be a backstory coming up featuring (maybe) the Degroots.  The reason I mention this is because they were college hippies back in the 60’s and 70’s and there were a lot of riots going on back then and what did the cops wear?  Gas masks.  They threw the smoke bombs at the students to break up the riots.  I can’t say that I think that there were riots on the island but maybe they brought along gear from home just in case anyone tried to come to the island and disturb the compound.  I’m just trying to speculate why the would have this kind of gear on the island.
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9.  Lies, lies, lies.  Juliet asks Kate what happened and says she was making tea when they threw a canister through her window.  But then how did she voluntarily get handcuffed to Kate?  And not only does she know about Old Smokey, she looks at it like she knows far more than she is going to say.  Also, she knows the fence is off.  It doesn’t make sense.

10.  I think that The Others have another camp in the middle of the island. Remember when the Tailies were taking Sawyer & Co. back to the beach they avoided the middle of the island because that is where *They* came from.  I also think that there is still another group of Others that we haven’t seen yet.

11.  In this scene where Kate and Juliet are arguing and it starts raining, you can hear a loud squealing noise in the background three times.  I asked Scott if he heard it, which he did not (maybe because I was talking, lol) but I just watched the scene back now and there is definitely something there.  Then Smokey shows up for a little paparazzi action… so I wonder if there is some connection (remember the bird that said *Hurley* then swooped down on him?).
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12.  I wonder if a little picture popped out after this.  lol.  I guess this is another clue as to what the Smoke Monster is.  Security system that takes pictures.  Yeah, that’s it. 
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13.  The last time I remember Kate seeing the *monster* it had just pulled out the pilot and shredded him.  No wonder she’s so scared!  Juliet doesn’t seem nearly as frightened though, does she?  Smokey makes his loud *roar* and Kate tells her to run yet Juliet just sits there whining about her arm.  We know now that Juliet does know about Smokey yet she didn’t run.  Why?

14.  Well, he’s not as wrinkly as he was a couple of weeks ago.  Man, to be a fly on the wall in the writer’s room….
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15.  I think that it’s Hurley who is the real leader.  He can even get Sawyer to “join in” now that is a leader.  He is always trying to find a way to bring people together.  Golf, van and now working on Sawyer.  Who would seriously follow what Hurley said?  But then again, like Hurley said (ba dum pum) people need a leader and will follow Sawyer.  Hurley’s the Dick Cheney to Sawyer’s George Bush (only not as evil or dumb, and much more honest).

16.  Too funny to see Sawyer and the boar again.  Only disappointment is that I was expecting *something* to happen after all the hullabalo he had before with the boar.

17.  When Smokey is chasing Kate & Juliet the second time they come up on the fence.  Juliet yells to Kate twice that they are off, then grabs the key and unlocks the handcuffs.  Hello, McFly?  How does she know they are off?  How did she gets gassed but still had the key?  How did she get the choice to be with Kate anyway? 

18.  I don’t know if you can tell from this shot, but there are three distinct puffs of black smoke that come up and join into the one cloud that comes to the fence.  Plus other shots.
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19.  Why didn’t Smokey go *over* the fence?

20.  Then Kate comes up to Juliet all po’d and when Juliet admits they know about Smokey it turns out she was upset about the handcuffs! Wha…. let’s see, the importance of handcuffs vs the unexplained phenomena of a black cloud that floats around killing people.  Think, think, think.  What should Kate question first?

21.  Wow, Sawyer is sharing his beer.  The writers were right, we are seeing a side of him that I never thought we would see… a side that he had to eventually face.  Sharing his beer.
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22.  And the cheese stands alone, drinking water.
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23.  I saw at least two gas canisters on the floor in Jack’s house.  I guess that is why he was passed out for an entire day longer than Kate.

24.  OMG, when will they listen to Sayid?  Leave the woman behind Jack!

25.  One thought on Locke… remember folks, he runs his own agenda.

No, there are no reruns this season. But there are huge breaks in story lines. For instance, Locke sees his dad tied up on a mysterious island that he is trapped on but we won’t be seeing any more of what happens from there for five weeks! But, there aren’t any reruns!

1. Locke did not age well after he did/didn’t shoot the cop/kid on the commune. In these shots he looks as old as his dad!
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2. How many people go on disability for depression? Not to mention that Locke was some type of home appraiser/fix it man (remember he was at Nadia’s house?) so I would assume his benefits wouldn’t be that great. I think this is *another* indication that he was a former military man. VA benefits for depression make more sense that just a regular health insurance carrier. Later, Ben asks John how he is going to navigate the sub, it’s complicated machinery (Ben knows something) and Locke says, “For all you know, I was a commander in the Navy). It all goes along with Nate’s comment on the last blog.

3. What is on Jack’s arm? It looks like a new tattoo but when would he have gotten this? Oh yeah, Claire is a tattoo artist (just kidding).
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4. I can’t make out what these metals are, but here is a screenshot of them (they are said to be Navy metals-see the comments after my last post).
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5. When Kate comes upon Jack playing the piano, it sounds like the same song he was playing in the lobby before his wedding (remember that Sara finds him there?).

6. Ben asks “Richard” to bring him the man from Tallahassee. He HAS to know that this is Locke’s dad. Why else would Ben ask for him but more importantly, WHERE did he come from, WHERE have they been keeping him, WHY is he bound and gagged and HOW does he know that he is Locke’s dad. My sister thinks his dad is a hallucination. This makes sense considering they drugged Kate when they captured her, maybe Locke has been given some of his own wacky paste. He could see anything in that *magic box!*

7. Do you remember Richard — he tricked Juliet into going to the island. Richard was in Florida and “The Man From Tallahassee” was Locke’s dad. Is there a connection? Did Richard also get Locke’s dad to come to the island for some reason (redemption) or maybe he really was some type of computer entrepreneur and they wanted him for his *skills.*
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8. Ben and Locke both had some really good lines this time. Ben: No, unfortunately we don’t have a code for “There’s a man in my closet with a gun to my daughter’s head. Later, Ben: … it was immediate… and you were just walking…. right away… the same day of the crash? Locke: That’s what immediate means Ben. More, Locke: Where do you get electricity? Ben: We have two giant hamsters running in a massive wheel in a our secret underground hatch.

9. More of those red flowers.
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10. I’m not so convinced that this is the *real* Sawyer. It’s hard to tell with Lost because sometimes the most obvious answer *is* the answer! Locke’s dad scams single women. The real Sawyer seemed to scam couples (sure, he probably woo’ed the wives first) for their money. Plus Anthony is a killer. Sawyer’s dad killed himself. Maybe it is, maybe not.

11. Locke needs to stop pressing the damn proverbial *button.* He really seems to have a big heart and means to do well (except for blowing up the sub which was purely selfish) but it keeps ending up really badly (things blowing up, people dying, etc…).

12. Mr. Friendly and Jack have made friends somehow. When he brings Jack to see Kate he tells him to “Be careful in here” and points to his ear (obviously the Others are listening to him). Cool, maybe he’ll head back to the camp and we’ll get that backstory on him now.
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13. Jack asks Kate again if they hurt her. It’s the same question he asked her when Juliet brought her down to ask him to do the surgery. I like the chemistry between Kate and Jack better, but Lord help us please don’t make this show a soap opera.

14. I loved that when Ben is questioning Locke intently about walking again Locke stops and asks “You got anything to eat?'’ just like when Ben stopped and asked (in the hatch) if they had any milk. Excellent dialog.

15. Finally! Someone tells Alex about her mother (well, sort-of). I think she’s eventually going to find out the Ben is not her father at all. At some point I could see Danielle emerging from the shadows. That was her goal from Season One, right? Remember when she had Sayid tied up and kept asking where Alex was?

16. Sayid has a watch on. Again, I ask, why is everyone wearing watches? They take a licking and keep on ticking but can they never said anything about a magnetic, mysterious island. Oh, and a clock in Ben’s house.
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17. What is the magic box? Is it like Locke’s “Sweat Lodge” only on a much larger scale? Damon Lindelof states in the last podcast that there isn’t really a physical box, it’s just a metaphor that Ben uses to put it into perspective for Locke what is on the island.

18. I know this is just a tv show, but the scene where Danielle sees Alex just broke my heart. Maybe it’s because I’m a mom and I can’t imagine wondering for 16 years the fate of your daughter on a island with sicknesses and violent strangers then suddenly knowing she was OK but not being able to run out and hug her. *Ugh!*
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19. Most excellent shot of the show.
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20. (See comments on last post). I wondered the same thing but didn’t draw the same conclusions. Why was Locke soaking wet? How did he know how to just flip on the light switch without a thought?

21. This makes Locke looks so evil! But at least he said he was sorry! And all who noticed the explosion is in the middle of the pier and not off to the side where the sub was, I would say you are all right. That sub is not gone at all.
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22. I guess we know now where Locke found his determination (don’t tell me what you can’t do)! I like this guy. He’s like the angel that comes to Locke after being attacked by the devil.
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23. Posting a spoiler for tomorrow. Whether it’s real or not I do not know but I sure HOPE it’s for real!

I had to watch the episode twice but I actually found some charm in this one. It was *not* my favorite episode nor do I think we are back to previous quality, but there were some moments that had the feel of the *old* lost (Kate on her mission and finding Danielle, the boys in the van).

1. Let’s discuss one important flaw with this week’s episode right now. Someone finds a CAR in the jungle (on a semi-deserted island) and NO ONE except the *joke* of the beach is curious about it? Sure, if your 10 year old ran into the house and told you they found an old beat up car you’d probably have very little interest outside your child’s safety. But these people are on an island, sleeping on the ground, hoping to be saved and they have no interest? My questions would be what you could scavenge from the car (cushions to sleep on , gas, radio, shelter inside the body even if it didn’t run). I would wonder where the gas in the car came from. I would wonder if there were roads to drive on. I would wonder where the driver was. I would wonder what in the heck the car was doing there in the first place. So many questions. But no, the survivors are apparently too busy on the beach to be bothered with such things.

2. A lot of red in the opening scene with young *Hugo.* Probably signifying the death of his hope (when his dad leaves him). Red car, toolbox, cloth, handles on the tools and his shirt.
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3. Hurley puts one of the scary red flowers on Libby’s grave.
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4. I kind of missed the dog.
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5. Ironically, the key ring is a lucky rabbit’s foot.
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6. It was interesting that Charlie is wearing a Bob Dylan “Highway 61″ t-shirt. Accoring to Wikipedia, the road was a symbol to Dylan of freedom, independence and a chance to get away from his life. Highway 61 is known as the “Blues Highway” because it’s regularly mentioned in blues songs. There is also an interesting myth that one singer sold his soul at the cross of Highway 61 and Highway 49.
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7. Well, at least they have a couple of boxes of chicken left…
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8. Now we know that Hurley is from Diamond Bar, California. I found it interesting that in *real life* this city was founded on a Ranch but was purchased by a major corporation in the 1950s for the purpose of developing one of the nation’s first master-planned communities. Sound familiar?

9. I can tell you how the dart got in the middle of the jungle (that Sawyer stepped on). Hint: It had something to do with a huge implosion of a certain hatch.
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10. I agree with Sawyer. Maybe the survivors on the beach should explain why they didn’t go looking for them. *That* is a good question!

11. I also agree with Sawyer that he has nothing to be sorry to Kate for. Jack said leave him behind and that is what Sawyer did. Should he be concerned with Jack …. maybe. But wouldn’t it make more sense to get back to camp and get help then for the two of them, after living in cages for weeks, to go back for Jack? They have guns at the camp! They have trackers and more importantly, Sayid!

12. Here is my next HUGE bone of contention in this episode. Kate and Sawyer were KIDNAPPED by the Others and after returning to camp everyone is so happy and so not curious what happened to them. It’s like they have been on a little vacation and they are back. Yeah! No questions as to what happened, if they are being chased, where is Jack, what the Others are up to, on and on. Nothing. Just one little happy reunion on the beach. The end.

13. The lines they gave Ken and Barbie were enough to make me want to change the channel. Any more from them and I would have had to flip and see what was happening over on NBC.

14. Roger “Work Man.” Seems primitive. Could be that the Others assigned roles to everyone originally and so that everyone knew their place they had name tags of sorts. Could be some type of prison or rehabilitation again where roles are set up and so that others know your role you have to wear it (Scarlet A).
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15. The only person who I think was believable in the episode was Sayid. He was asking questions about the Others! Imagine! He wanted to know about the boat. He wanted to know about where they live. Questions that might be helpful not just to Jack, but to them all. Well, and Sawyer when he saw the beer. lol

16. You can see either a dharma station or the logo on the map. I think it’s as simple as they were making roads between the stations. This could be very useful and I have a feeling that Sawyer will be the keeper of the map and we will see it resurface again in the future.
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17. Another psychic we can’t believe. I think the writers are skeptics, what do you think? You make your OWN luck.
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18. “Let’s look death in the face and say, Whatever Man.” Hurley and Sawyer had some great lines this episode, I will give them that.

19. I could imagine that the van ride was probably the most normal the four of them (Hurley, Charlie, Jin and Sawyer) had felt in a long time. But did it restore their hope? Did it break the *curse* over Hurley and Charlie or is it as Hurley’s dad said and you make your own luck? Mind over matter. I almost felt sorrow for Sawyer at the end of this scene because Jin had Sun, Charlie was with Claire, Hurley was in the van and all he had was the beer.

20. FINALLY! Someone tells Danielle about Alex! Of course she’ll help, but isn’t there a lot of information that Danielle can give to them? She’s been on the island 16 years and has mapped it. Certainly even without the compass she knows where she is going.

21. This was not my find, but it *is* very interesting: Click here to link. Maybe all of the “recycling” that Sawyer referred to in the van was research on people and/or projects back on the mainland.
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Forget Sawyer, Lost needs some serious redemption or they are going to *lose* viewers over the next 12 weeks. I will come back, but I’m obsessed so I don’t count. I have talked to more people who have *lost* their faith in the writers of this show. Did old Smokey eat Damon, Carlton and JJ and now we have ABC execs *insert shiver* writing and producing? Who said we need to sex up and dumb down the show? Not just with Kate and Sawyer but also bringing in Ken and Barbie, too. I just hope that you, my fellow Lost fans, can have faith that they will somehow revive this show. It has happened to other shows, I hope it can happen here, too. First, they must kill Ken and Barbie. Sorry, it needed to be said.

1. How perfectly fitting to have Kate marry a cop. How very sad how it ended for her. She wanted the “taco night” life but knew that wasn’t her. Edward (the cop formerly known as “The Marshall”) knew she couldn’t sit still. You could see the little girl in Kate living her *fantasy* when her mother-in-law gave her the necklace. As soon as she came around the corner with iced tea I knew that it was over. She could never get a passport to fly to Costa Rica (notice it was Oceanic Airline tickets?). On an aside, did she have to wear the silly 1950’s hairstyle? Or was that just so that for the first 1/2 of the show we would be questioning the timeline?
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2. It appears that this Kate backstory served to show us that Kate can never be with Jack. Jack is like Kevin, he is the *good* guy. Kate obviously loved Kevin very much, but in the end, as The Marshall told her, she had to run. As Sawyer said so long ago, a tiger doesn’t change it’s stripes. Kate *chose* Sawyer but her heart is not there. We could see it on her face when she first sees Jack. I LOVED that scene, btw. She never tells Sawyer she loves him, and when Jack tells her to leave him and run Kate is devastated. This was not the end of the love triangle. *If* Kate does get to safety she will do everything she can to get back to Jack and save him, too. Kate thinks that the criminal, Sawyer (I know that *we* love him, don’t get mad at me), is all she deserves.
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3. How did Ben know he had a tumor if the XRays were only a week old? Ben told Jack last week that he found out that he had a tumor and two days later a spinal surgeon fell from the sky. But the crash was about 70 days ago. Was it from the blood work? The timeline isn’t making sense of when he found out he has the tumor.

4. Points to the writers for getting *someone* on this island to wake up besides Desmond. When Jack threw the file at Juliet then told Ben he just wanted him to know how he would die, I was cheering! They lost me when Jack saw Kate and Sawyer together but I came back around knowing that Jack was conning Ben. Who is conning who here?
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5. I’m thinking that once Kate radio’s back to Jack that they are safe he is going to let Ben die anyway. Then, he is going to turn to Juliet and say, “I kept my end of the bargain.” Then she’ll have to leave the *Others* knowing that the game will be up for her since they will know she made this deal with Jack. She told him she would keep him safe in exchange for letting Ben die. Maybe Juliet will be their ticket off this rock. She is set for the first backstory when we get back from the break so it seems she must be going to join as a regular cast member and they can’t keep Jack there forever.
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6. Thankfully, we only had to hear a line or two from Barbie this week and Ken just stood there. Ugh. That was *still* too much. Where is a big smoke monster when you need one, huh?

7. When Locke says that a bear killed Eko you can see by the look on Sayid’s face that he knows he is lying (a trained interrogator, remember?). He also knows that Locke is not heading back to camp to get shovels. But, Sayid is not unfamiliar with the *monster* as it appeared. Sayid has been around the monster before, albiet only in sound, when Danielle was holding him captive. He heard it and asked her if it was a monster and at that time she told him that there were “no such thing as monsters.” (Later on she told several Losties that it was a security system). Maybe they should go and talk to her, but that would make too much sense *groan*.
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8. Does Locke really believe that the smoke monster is what brought them there? That is what he tells Sayid in this scene.

9. Is it just me or does Kevin look remarkably like Tom? When he first opened the door I said, “It’s Tom!”
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10. So the alarms go off when the compound has been breached. Is smokey the security system here? Are the two even related? When the alarms first go off, Pickett gets on the radio and before he even knows that it’s Alex he asks, “Where is she?” Who? Juliet? Then he goes on, after he asks if the doctor got out again, “Well does he know?” Does the doctor know or does HE know? Maybe the illusive HIM is getting upset with the Others and the trouble that they have been getting from the Losties. Maybe Pickett is hoping that HE doesn’t know there is a compound breach.

11. Even though I don’t like Pickett hurting Sawyer, I think it would be cool if he becomes some sort of *stalker* trying to regain his pride after Sawyer escapes. This could provide some very interesting scenes back on the beach! This guy is a great actor and this is a great role for him. Kill Ken and Barbie and write this guy in!
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12. During the “breach” Pickett asks “how the hell did she get *OVER* here?” Does this mean that there are indeed two islands and if so, how DID she get there? Alex may be Kate and Sawyer’s ticket to safety.

13. Is Ben Alex’s daughter? Is she not the Alex that we assumed was Danielle’s daughter? Why does she ask to talk to Ben and later, why does Ben ask if Alex asked about him?
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14. Speaking of kids, in one of Pickett’s tirades he says, “Shepard wasn’t even on Jacob’s list.” In the Christian Bible (maybe others too, I don’t know) Ben is Jacob’s son. Connection or red herring? I’m guessing that Jacob is *Him* not Ben. Anyhow, why does Jacob have a list? I thought that Ethan and Goodwin were making the lists based on Ben’s orders? Maybe Jacob got the lists, did some research and then directed who they wanted. Did Ben modify the list because he knew that he had this tumor and wanted Jack to fix him?

15. What are they building here? Kate’s only says that it’s big. I’m thinking another hatch perhaps? But they are digging rocks, too, so they are also clearing the area. Do we even know enough about these Others to predict what is being built or are we just grasping at straws? They could just be using this as a distraction and a way to beat down Kate and Sawyer’s spirits.
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16. Speaking of the clearing site, those red flowers (remember, the poppies?) are all around this area. I doubt it’s a coincidence that the flowers keep popping (no pun intended) up around the islands.
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17. I was going to talk about the Kate-Sawyer and where Jack fits in love triangle thingy but it’s just too daytime soap opera-y for me. Talk amongst yourselves.

18. Was there supposed to be some weird imagery connection between Kate putting on the hood and Monica taking up her veil? They showed the one scene right before the other.
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19. Why does Kate continue to call and taunt the Marshall? She knows that he will never leave her alone. Why does she call around the holidays? Maybe he’s her reality check and she knows that she can’t stay with Kevin so she uses the Marshall as that reminder. Like a big sister that has to remind you sometimes when you are out of your element.
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20. OK, so Jack gets a call over the intercom (sounded like Alex) right at the moment that Kate and Sawyer are on camera snuggling (we’ll call it that). Then he wanders through the hall and *bingo!* the one door open is the room with the cameras. How convenient. More importantly, though, Jack gets the handgun and has access to enough guns for Kate and Sawyer yet chooses to *save* Kate the other way. This doesn’t make sense. Jealous or not, he wants out of there and considers at least Kate his friend, why wouldn’t he take advantage of this?

21. We saw Jack able to run, Kate can get out of her cage and Sawyers lock is off of his cage yet they all stay. I’m not buying this. Either poor writing here or everyone had their own agenda but it’s not very obvious what it was. Even if Sawyer thinks they are trapped on *this* island, with his free spirit I could still see him trying to escape captivity. I don’t understand this.

22. Speaking of Sawyer, he KNOWS that there are cameras around yet he still gets down and dirty with Kate right there? Then, they spend the night nude together knowing that the Others could walk up any minute. I guess he must be thinking he doesn’t have anything to lose at this point. Ick!

23. We know that when Michael went looking for Walt he went North. Then, Locke looks at the stick and it tells him to go North. I guess we will find out what it up there because Locke is on a mission. Good thing he has Sayid along, but wouldn’t it have been better to have a whole army of people to help? Locke keeps going out on these missions like some lone militia but last time it got Boone killed!
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24. Speaking of this scene, this is a good example of how this show has been dumbed down. Did they really need to highlight what they wanted us to read? In the past, we would have been given a screen shot and the producers trusted that we, the viewers, were astute enough to figure out what we were supposed to see. I mean, we screen shot and analyze *everything!* Come on ABC, give us back *your* faith that we can figure it out!

25. The *only* reason I am posting a screenshot of this scene is because Scott pointed out how clean Kate’s feet are here. Little distractions are easy to find when you are having trouble staying *in* the show.
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26. Did Kate *accidentally* kill Kevin when she drugged him? I hope that she didn’t but remember that the Marshall made a snide remark about her getting more juice to drink and how *they might believe her story* when they were on the plane? Is Kevin the man that she loved but killed (not Tom)? Or is this just her *MO* before she runs (drugs them and then leaves them)? She does drug Jack to get him to sleep, drugs Jin, well technically Michael drank the water (for Sun) and helps Sawyer drink the water to take his medicine.
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27. With all the weird fertility stuff going on here I would bet money that Kate ends up pregnant by Sawyer. Ew, again with the stupid soap opera story lines! If this does happen, I hope the story line is twisted enough to fit the Lost ideology. For instance, we don’t know what the Others *did* to Kate before they brought her to the cage. They are fertility doctors…

28. Jack gives Kate an hour head start. Isn’t that what Kate asked her *dad* for when she went and saw him last season?

29. In the upcoming episodes it looks like we are going to find out what did happen to Desmond after the hatch blew. Should be interesting!

For the record, Deel Twee is “Part Two” in Dutch. It just sounds cool… I think.

Also, my Scott gave me a program to capture screen shots so now I can use my own!

1. I think that the Others (from Claire’s new memory) are coming on and off of the island by an underground rail system. Listen carefully when Claire & Co. approach where the new hatch is. You hear what sounds like thunder. But, when has there been thunder before when it rained? Also, the *thunder* rolls on and on. I think that “if” there is thunder, there is also the sound of the rail system. This would also explain why Danielle says that when the Others are coming she sees black smoke. When the train is approaching the island it’s probably above ground and she sees the smoke from it.

2. I also maintain that they are doing some type of mining so they could also be using the rail system much in the way a coal mining company uses railways.

3. Vincent, get away from Hurley!

4. The baby’s rash, real or red herring? Remember this guy?

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From Solitary 1 x 09:

SULLIVAN: Doc, what do you think this is, this, this, this, uh, rash. It’s bad, right, like some kind of a tropical disease?

JACK: It’s hives.

SULLIVAN: What’s that? Is that like poison ivy?

JACK: It’s a common rash, Sullivan; it’s brought on by heat and stress.

SULLIVAN: Okay.

JACK: Just try to relax; it’ll clear up.

SULLIVAN: Right.

JACK: Try to keep your mind off it.

SULLIVAN: Okay, [to Sun who has a poultice] What is that? Is it like aloe? Isn’t that for sunburn, or something?

HURLEY: Try to keep your mind off it? What else has that guy got to do but stress?

JACK: I’ve got enough on my plate without having to treat hypochondriacs.

This conversation adds to the ambiguity of the cause of the rash. If this guy had it clear back in Season One and just now the baby is getting a rash, we could assume that it is nothing. However, there could be an incubation period, especially if Ethan was injecting the baby with the virus.

5. The bottles that Ethan took out of the fridge to inject into the baby had the label of RX-1. Check out this thread from Fuselage.com:

“Basically it means Rx1 is a form of pneumonia which is not dangerous. Vaccines are injections of the same stuff that makes you sick but they - the bacteria - are either dead or inactive (like Rx1) and they’re injected into your body so that your immune system recognizes it and creates anti-bodies that remain in your body so it can fight the disease when you’re actually infected.”

6. Also, in the refrigerator, we see all sorts of other bottles. There is the greenish liquid we see injected into Claire, but I also see a pink, blue and clear liquid. Then, in the second pix below, we can see all sorts of other bottles, too. So I assume that Claire and the baby are not the only experiment going on here on the island. For instance, there was something in the water Ethan gave to Claire to keep her docile.

7. So if this is indeed a vaccination, can The Others be helping baby Aaron? Remember that Goodwin told Ana that the Others weren’t bad and Zeke told Jack that Walt was “just fine.” Maybe The Others are releasing some type of virus onto the island and they are protecting the children.

8. Danielle. Remember that she told Sayid in Season One that around two months when they were coming back from the Black Rock they ran into “Them” and they were the carriers of the virus. Well, they have been on the island for about two months and now she tells Claire that if the baby is sick, she knows what needs to be done. Which it appears she is telling Claire she must kill the baby since she says she killed her team.

9. I got a kick out of the Stephen King reference. I think this was just the writer’s way of “shouting out,” if you will, to the viewers. There is much talk out there that the show is following some type of pattern from The Dark Tower Series.

10. Claire’s flashback. First, I thought it interesting that we did not see the usual flashback. However, I wonder if Claire is crossing memories much like Libby told her could happen. She went as far as to tell Danielle she wanted Ethan to have the baby so he would be safe. The psychic told Claire she had to send the baby to the couple in LA so he would be safe. We haven’t seen the conversation she had with the first adoptive family, but I would think that it was similar to some of the dialog she had with Ethan. Also, this screen shot has Claire now and Claire then in the same shot. I don’t remember seeing this type of shot before in this show, which makes me think that this is just a visualization of the concept of Claire mixing her memories.

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11. Con. Ethan conned Claire much in the way Sawyer described the way he cons women. Ethan put it into her mind that it was her idea that they should keep the baby. She trusted him enough to even let him feel the baby kick. It was almost as if he had feelings for her, also. Ethan told Claire that he was going to miss her when she was gone. Weird. Crossover memory, perhaps?

12. So we know the guy outside the door was Zeke. But who is the “him” he is referring to? Hanso? Candle? Is it the same “Him” that Desmond referred to (Are you Him?)?

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13. Smoke and mirrors. Much like the Wizard of Oz, we find out that things are not what they seem. We know that this set of Others are putting on disguises for our survivors. But why? I think that they are doing it to keep the survivors under their control, keep them afraid of the monster in the woods, if you will. If The Others have drawn a boundary or a line in the sand, it keeps the survivors in a certain territory on the island and probably in an area that is set up with listening devices as well as speakers (remember the whispers).

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14. The new hatch observations. My first reaction to this hatch is the obvious, the way it looks which is very different that the Swan. Primarily, what we see is a hall with a few doors but the edges of the hall are rounded, why? Could this be like what they did in the X-Files that they had a car where they were doing their medical experiments? This goes along with my rail theory.

15. So where did the hallway lead to that Ethan passes with Claire? Was it the way out (the hall that Kate & Co. entered the hatch through)?

16. What happened at the hatch? The main hallway looks like there was something earth moving that ransacked the place with the wires hanging down. I am thinking that maybe when Locke didn’t press the button at “0″ that some type of reaction did start to happen. Maybe it shook the ground hard enough to kick up dust (thus the outlines on the wall where the animals were in the nursery) and would also explain the refrigerator being knocked over and the wires hanging down from the ceiling. The other option is that the hatch has been there so long and that is why the outlines were on the wall and maybe a different set of Others (the children, perhaps) attacked them and when they found that they were gone, tore the place apart.

17. Lastly, what is the Escape Hatch? If the entrance Ethan leads Claire away from is the way out, why have an Escape Hatch? Could it just be that they are in an old rail car and this is left over? Could they even be in a completely different hatch that Claire was taken to? When they come back to the hatch, where is the Escape door? I couldn’t see it in the screen caps. This would explain why the place looks so torn apart because it is indeed NOT where Claire was taken.

18. I saw five people in the “surgery” room. There is talk on the internet that the man sitting who is looking at the camera is Henry. I have made the pix bigger but cannot tell if it is him. But I do still contend that Jack’s dad is alive and that he is part of this team. I don’t think that he died in Australia, but rather, it was an elaborate set up so that people back home would think that he was dead so he could go on to the Hanso project. What did Jack’s dad have left back home once his license was stripped from him? And why oh why if they are getting ready to perform a surgery and they are in surgery garb is the DOOR OPEN!!!??? Is this another con? Do they want her to see this? Is that why the man on the end looks out - to make sure she sees what is going on?

19. The song that the airplane mobile was playing was the same song that Claire asked the adoptive family in season one to sing to the baby. She said that her dad used to sing it to her when she was young. “Catch A Falling Star.” Another crossover memory? How else would this happen?

20. Did you notice the picture in the nursery on the wall of the steamboat? Look familiar?

21. What about this. The reason that “HE” is so set on having a list is because this experiment has gone wrong and the plane was supposed to somehow land, not crash. Now the Others don’t know exactly who has survived and so that have to send in a mole to make this list. Everyone that is there is not necessarily supposed to be there and that is why some of them have died. That is why the “good ones” were taken as they are the ones that the Others want. Maybe those who have died where not wanted by the Others. If memory serves, Boone and Shannon were moved on the plane. I remember that Joanna (the girl who drown) was bumped onto this flight because of illness. Maybe the Others don’t want them there because they don’t need them.

22. I think that Eko is building a structure that we will not see until the end of the season. He (OBVIOUSLY) knows way more about the island that we think (Hello, his conversation with Henry?). He must know what they might need, OR he is just smart enough to know that they are not going to be rescued and that eventually they will need “real” shelter outside of their tents. I sure hope that he’s not building a church. That for one is too obvious and two, I believe in the separation of Church and Lost….

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23. There is a distinct alarm going off in the background when Claire has escaped Ethan and the gang and we can see them coming for her. Would they have an alarm on the door?

24. I’m still on the fence over Henry and his Otherness. It seems even more obvious from Eko’s confession and Henry’s manipulation of Locke that he is truly an Other, but I take issue with the fact that the writers are spoon-feeding us this info. I’m just suspicious.

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25. Is this Alex? I can tell you that it is supposed to be Sawyer who finds her in the jungle (visions of the girl coming back to the hatch and Sawyer being there to scavenge) and he convinces her to join them. Again, could be a red herring or she could be a mole. Planted to make Claire think that she saved her.

26. Why was the bootie left behind?

27. I like this visual. It reminded me of when Locke and Jack were first looking down the hatch with Desmond.

This job-hunting stuff is really getting in the way of my blogging. Geesh! Here it is over a week since this epi and I am just now collecting my thoughts.

1. Seems like the writers are leading the characters back to their personalities prior to the crash. Sayid is the torturer. Sawyer is the con man. Charlie, well, I think that he is going to come back around to the nice, family man that he was (albeit heroin addict, but hey, who doesn’t have problems!?) but I think we are going to see more of his dark side first. Locke was passive. However, I think Locke is sneaky, sneaky and is up to something. Jack is the hero. Kate is the runner. She is in a really bad situation, as far as she sees it, so will she run away from the camp? Eko was the drug smuggler, murderer but now he is a priest again? I don’t think we know enough yet about his back-story to predict where his character will go. Vincent, well, he’s just the damn trouble sniffing dog. I do hear, however, at some point that Vincent will have a back-story epi. Interesting! But, check out the last paragraph of the epi recap from abc.com:

“But, you see…that’s the thing about human nature. We all have a dark side. And if we need something badly enough, there is almost no limit to what we will do, or who we will become in order to get it.”

2. Symbols on the counter. I was wondering “why” would they use these? I have done some research and found some theories and then coupled them with my thoughts. There are five symbols, or numbers normally, on the counter. There are six hatches. What if each symbol represented one of the hatches and they would not need one for the Swan because that is where they are. Maybe it was a status symbol - whether the station was occupied and/or active at the time. The fifth symbol never did appear and that could be why Locke could still punch in the numbers because the final hatch had not responded yet.

3. The power up. When the symbols are flipping you can hear a “power up” noise in the background. What is this? Why did the doors that Michael found not come down if there was impending doom?

4. Black and white. Numbers are normally black and white. Suddenly we see them turn black and red. B&W is a running theme in show.

5. Could Locke have possibly been imagining these symbols? Another possibility is that Locke has been in the hatch when the counter ran out and nothing did happen. Maybe he is in a panic to type in the right numbers because he doesn’t want anyone to know that Jack is right and nothing happens. If the survivors know that they are safe, Locke would lose a large amount of control that he has over everyone. He does keep mistyping the numbers so maybe he found out the truth by accident but wants to maintain his control and keep it his secret.

6. Ranch dressing. What is up with this? First they shoot it now Hurley is confiscating it. And what is up with the seven-year shelf life? Is this the term for the “tour of duty” so to speak?

7. Sawyer and Hurley. I don’t think that Sawyer was going to kill the frog. He is petting it and seems to change his expression when he sees that Hurley is watching him. Sawyer has an image to uphold and if he let the frog go that would completely go against the image that he is working to create and maintain. Sawyer is comfortable in the bad guy role.

8. I don’t believe that Sawyer is the bad guy he wants us to think that he is. I think that he is planning a rescue for Walt and again I have to put out there that he may even attempt to join the “Others” in order to find him. It has been shown again and again that he feels remorse and guilt over Walt’s kidnapping and he is the ultimate con man so I could see him duping the survivors because if they don’t believe that he is bad, why would the Others believe that he wanted to join them? Plus, Sawyer tells “Zeke” that “This aint over,” so this could be another way to get at him. Join them and then destroy them.

9. Henry Gale. Hello? Name sound familiar? Like Dorothy’s uncle? Also, Zeke is also the “real” name of the tin man when she gets back to Kansas. But Henry in a balloon? Next Auntie Em will come to the island. How ironic. Smoke and mirrors. Hm, already have put my reflection theory out there and this would go along with it.

10. The army man “is” Kate’s dad. Scott, you were right. He caught this right away, especially once he looks at the picture of Kate.

11. Check out the numbers 23-108-42 on the video of Sayid’s hometown and the “Property Of DIA.” Dharma Initiative?

12. Sayid is the son of a great hero. Was he educated, therefore, in good schools maybe in America and that explains why his English is so good? This presents the possibility of more crossovers. Who was the hero and what did he do?

13. Numbers. Henry crashed 4 months ago. Sayid was 23 when America came to his country. It took Sayid 6 years to erase it from his memory. Hurley was 6 when he got is turtle Stewart. Henry’s balloon was 140 x 60 wide. It is a 2-day walk to the site when Henry crashed. Counter was on 27 when Jack let Locke go.

14. Info about Henry. Wife was Jennifer and her maiden name was Murphy. They met at the University of Minnesota. Balloon has a big smiley face on top of it if you were to look down on it. He “was” rich from mining non-metallic minerals. Henry’s company was named Widmore Mining.

15. Was Henry an Other or not?

Why we could say yes: His name and story are suspicious. Sayid seems to think he is and we were shown that Sayid has a special way of extracting the truth. The look on Henry’s face when Jack pulls Sayid off of him seems like “Ha, ha couldn’t get me.” Henry’s answers all seem too staged and come to him too quickly. Danielle thinks he is, too.

Reasons why Henry might “not” be an Other: There could be lots of survivors of crashes on this island. Sayid was angry and may have misinterpreted Henry’s answers. The look on Henry’s face could just have been relief.

16. I’ve read that the actor that plays Henry is on for 6 more episodes so we should find out the truth! I can handle it!! lol

17. Far out theory. I have contended that there is some type of mining going on here at the island. There are lots of clues: blasts from underground, the dynamite found at the Black Rock, the security system. What if Henry’s mining company was hired to mine the island? Maybe he didn’t know who he was selling to, but the Dharma group bought him out (it’s top secret, after all). Remember the fresh concrete Jack found in the hatch? Maybe they mined into something that they don’t know how to fix (some type of geo thermal valve) and “they” had to get Henry to the island to fix it. Maybe his balloon accidentally on purpose crashed there. Every 108 minutes the makeshift release valve must be managed or there would be a pressure build up and explosion and that is why the button must be pressed to release this pressure. We don’t know how long ago Henry sold his company but maybe Dharma has been trying to get him to the island and he refused so they just brought him there themselves. I would think that whatever they are mining is important enough to have a security system in place that rips apart pilots.

18. Danielle. How long must she have had Henry in the net? She warned Sayid not to listen to him no matter how long he contends that he is innocent. Plus, she insists that he is an Other, how does she know? Why does she hand him over to Sayid? I think that she has caught other “Others” especially if she has been on the island for 16 years! This is probably how she knows that he will lie and lie.

19. I thought it was odd that Sayid marched right over and cut down Henry. Maybe he was using it as a test to Danielle to see if she really thought he was an Other. Once she shot him, Sayid was sure at that moment that Danielle was right.

20. Sayid and Charlie have a connection. Back in Season One when Charlie kills Ethan, Sayid comes to Charlie to console him. Charlie goes with Sayid to find Aaron when Danielle had taken him. They both now have losses (Shannon and Claire) and are outcasts on their own on the island. So I don’t think that Sayid only went to Charlie because he was taken by the Others, but also because Sayid feels a certain connection to Charlie.

21. The sickness. This is now being talked about more and if Henry starts telling the survivors about his wife, will they begin to “feel” the symptoms? Remember that there are immunizations in the hatch that could lead to some interesting debate about who should and shouldn’t receive them. Also, they find the medical hatch this week and there could be all sorts of goodies there!

First time blogger, long time lurker. You will find random thoughts here as well as Lost rantings – with lots of comments from you, I hope!

Feel free to say anything you want, as long as it’s complimentary to me of course!

As promised, here are my (continued, for my work friends) thoughts from last week’s Lost “Abandoned.”

1. Wondering what Walt was saying to Shannon? ‘’They’re coming and they’re close.'’ (backwards)

2. What if it was DANIELLE that killed Shannon? She had access to a gun. What if she shoots Shannon and runs. Ana Lucia could have been standing there ready to shoot Danielle but doesn’t take her shot. Everyone thinks it’s Ana Lucia, maybe they don’t see Danielle as she does know the forest. It’s an interesting set up because everyone will just know that they heard a shot and Ana Lucia has a gun. What will save her butt is when Sawyer wakes up and he tells everyone that there was only one bullet. Of course, then Ana Lucia will produce the gun and show them one bullet.

3. Danielle did warn Sayid to watch his group for anyone acting strange. Maybe she saw Shannon running around and was somehow “protecting” Sayid in her mind. We did see some odd POV shots last week and my sister made the comment that it was like someone was watching them. I kept thinking someone was going to jump from out of the trees the way they kept framing Sayid and Shannon in the shots. Danielle probably heard the whispers as did everyone out in the forest and thought Shannon was one of the others.

4. Maybe Sayid DID see Danielle shoot Shannon. That would explain the look on his face. Maybe the reaction we see in the previews from Ana Lucia is from her grief knowing she could have saved Shannon but didn’t take the shot. This could lead to her flashbacks as a cop. OR Danielle used something else to kill Shannon and Ana Lucia DID take the shot at Danielle. OR Danielle kills Shannon and almost simultaneously Ana Lucia shoots Danielle to stop her. Danielle is laying on the ground but Sayid looks up and only sees Ana Lucia. Lots of possibilities but I would guess that this somehow leads back to Ana Lucia’s days as a cop and how she thinks she should have saved someone. Maybe the cross over is that she arrests Kate!

5. Previews from this week’s show a clip on the beach after The Other’s had just taken some of the survivors (tail enders), and Ana Lucia finds a paper on the beach that The Others had left behind. What if it was a list with all their names on it. Maybe the tailenders weren’t supposed to survive and that is why they are killing them. OR maybe they are checking of the children or survivors that they need.

Here are synopsis of the next upcoming episodes:

The Other 48 Days
* Scheduled airdate: November 16, 2005
* Flashback: Tail-section survivors
The harrowing first 48 days in the lives of the tail section survivors are revealed. Source: ABC
Matthew Fox revealed that this episode will not feature any of the season 1 cast. Source: E!

Collision
* Scheduled air date: November 23, 2005
* Flashback: Ana-Lucia Cortez
Violence erupts when Ana-Lucia and her group stumble upon the other castaways. Includes a character called “Old Nick”, played by Garry Jackson.

What Kate Did
* Scheduled air date: November 30, 2005
* Flashback: Kate Austen
Kate’s original crime that started her life on the run is revealed. Meanwhile, the survivors lay one of their own to rest, Kate sleeplessly watches over a feverish Sawyer, and Mr. Eko has a surprise for Locke regarding the hatch. Locke and Eko make an interesting discovery about the film, and Michael has a mysterious encounter with the computer.

Merged
* Scheduled air date: December 14, 2005
This episode has some big questions answered. It shows flashbacks of the island. Yes, the island and tells you how the hatch came to be, what will happen if the ‘numbers’ aren’t typed into the computer, and how the ‘others’ came on the island.
Source: E!

The Hunting Party
* Scheduled air date: January 11, 2006

Vindication
* Scheduled air date: January 18, 2006

Here is a link to a strange Lost promo video that was shown in Europe: http://video.google.com/videoplay?do…q=title%3Alost