[p] i'm kind of hoping that this show had a fleshed out beginning middle and end kind of like Babylon 5, before the show ever started filming..... maybe not quite as planned out as thoroughly as B5, but in that general direction....

Thoughts? Comments? Responses?

"To be clear, Desmond's past was different before ''The Constant.'' Before his time-travel adventure, Desmond never met Faraday at Oxford, never got Penelope's digits. As a consequence of changing the past, Desmond's personal history has been ''course corrected'' by The Powers That Be, beginning from the moment he walked away from Penny's apartment. Lindelof says this interpretation is also correct. But here's a Big Question: since scoring Penelope's phone number, has Course-Corrected Desmond lived his life knowing that on Christmas Eve 2004, he MUST be on a freighter in the South Pacific in order to make a call to Penelope if he wants any chance of having a future with her? Lindelof says this is indeed a matter we should be mulling. Perhaps in the future, Lost will give us an episode that replays Desmond's backstory (getting the boat from Libby; killing Kelvin; meeting the castaways) from the point of view of this knowingness. "

So if there are these time travel corrections after he goes back in time, does that mean Faradays notebook has changed to and didn't say that before? And Faraday is wrong when he says that he should remember him in the future. I'm more confused...

I think if she had come back to the others camp last season, and she actually WAS evil and undercover agent I might have dug it more. Or if Sayid had done his break dancing thing to her neck.

It ends with the guy seeing the plane crash on the island and starting all over again, but with a few differences (dead girlfriend is now on the plane a survivor of the crash with him.)

It better not be the real answer for the show. That would kind of suck.

You still have a problem that Desmond is living his life happily in 1996, and all of a sudden he thinks he is in the future, and then he goes back again to 1996, knowing that in 8 years he will call Penny on a boat.

Something has to change surely? Unless he has convient amnesia too, he would recognise Faraday, let alone Sayid on the island. The writers say things don't change - that is true - Charlie was always going to die. It's just how it happened that may have changed.

The moment that made Jack know he could trust her (her reaction to the exploding sub) revealed that while she has to know she can't trust Ben by now, she really and truly hoped and believed that she was getting off the island on that sub.

And yes, Pizza, we do know that Michael is coming back, and we even know when, but as that is based on a spoiler I don't want to reveal more to people who don't want to know. (Though I think the answer to when he is back is at least referenced in Herc's invisotext today.)

Fucking crazy.

;->

I'm willing to bet that Ben is in the coffin. Jack had already gone cuckoo for cocoa puffs, grown a beard and decided he needed to go back and Ben was one of the last connections or possible ways to get back. None of them would go to Ben's funeral because...well, because he's Ben. Jack may not think of himself as family or friend, but knowing that Ben was right and that they never should have left the island, his death affects Jack deeply. In fact, I'm going to go out on a limb and say that this season will end with us finding out that Ben is dead (or seeing him die) and that he is in the coffin in TTLG.

That's right, I predict this now and will gladly admit that I was wrong after the finale (or whenever I am proven wrong).

Is it because I'm that sure or because I know something you don't? (Actually, it's because I have no problem admitting to being wrong when it comes to guessing the future of this show, and I don't lose anything.)

If nothing else, it's great to see the choices...especially the last one.

it takes effort to be that boring.

Not the TV show, real survivor skills.

Oh, and last week's episode was absolutely one of my favorites of the series, right up there with "Walkabout" and anything that involves Sayid. Mmmmmm, Sayid.

I don't know how tonight's ep is going to compare to last week, but this season has NOT disappointed at all. Can't wait to see what happens next!

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It 's quick quotes of all of James' nicknames for everyone. Quite droll quips.

And why no Ana Lucia necrophilia scene. C'mon, 48 people stuck on an island, you think no one would hit that while it's still warm?

[vomiting sounds - I just sickened myself.]

Charlotte is so unsexy she could do full frontal nudity and no one would complain, or care, or notice.

Meanwhile...Juliet just walked out of the ocean 1/2 nude. Mnnnnn. THAT is a WOMAN.

poom

Yeah, Juliet blows..

perhaps turning on the manual override kicks on the countdown to release the gas, which doesn't make sense to me.

Door opens, Lock walks in, Mile in one piece, grenade on the floor. Miles' pants are wet.

Miles: "You sick bastard, I held that thing for 3 hours. I think I chipped a tooth. Where'd you find a fake grenade?"

Locke: "Huh, must have been a dud"

Or are Charlotte and Daniel playing everybody and set up the thing to be pretending the whole time and to end at 2 seconds on purpose.

I also hope that the only reason Michael may be the spy is that some serious shit happened to him after he got on the island and Ben was his only hope. A pre-concieved deal before hand makes the whole sail away scene and Michael's disbelief that he would be leaving really a plot hole.

Yeah, it's been a great week!

Harper was Old Smokey. that critter shows up just about every time there is a downpour.

While I am on the subject, Daniel and Charlotte may have pulled this stunt to gain the Losties' trust. I believe we have been hoodwinked the entire episode.