Before I get to your comments, I’d like to ask if you’ve seen or heard about this new show Manifest on NBC. The reason I’m asking is because even though it’s only two episodes in, I feel like it’s missing something and it hit me today what that something is. The characters are not “popping” like they do on Lost.

I like your thought on Eko, and your alternate theory could work too.

I had another thought hit me for a new post after watching last night...it’s a little bit random but also ties in to these early events of Season 3.

It felt fitting to do a post today, for obvious reasons, and 0ur recent discussion about Evangeline Lilly’s discomfort with shooting nude scenes has still been on my mind, even more so as it came time to watch I Do again.

After watching the first couple hours of Season 3, I started thinking about something I read and then wrote about on here for one of the old Classic posts.

“The beachies have been living on-Island for two and a half months, and other than Ethan, the Others have never bothered them. It’s not clear that Ben even intended to get caught in Rousseau’s trap, and thus locked up in the Swan Hatch.

I’m going to address your Hurley points, as those stood out to me:

“I don’t believe so, personally. I don’t think that sub had moved in years. Ben was using it as a carrot to keep Juliet hopeful re: leaving, and he was no more going to let Jack leave than fly to the moon. That said, there definitely was a way to get to and from the Island that’s never clearly shown.” 

The more I see of Live Together, Die Alone, the more I love this finale, and it really should be up there on the list of great Lost episodes. I could also say about Season 2 overall, that despite a few bumps in the middle, it really compares well with the best the show has to offer.

Did you ever watch the “What’s your story?” deleted scene from the DVD? Libby is featured probably more than anyone in all of the deleted scenes, and we learn she was married two other times besides David, among other things.

Wow, we’ve really dug deep into this, haven’t we? ;-)

Several things to address here, and I’ll try to get to all of them...

Several things to address here, and I’ll try to get to all of them...

Several things to address here, and I’ll try to get to all of them...

“When Kate’s feelings and thoughts about the triangle aren’t clearly and cleanly shown, her character became a lightning rod for projection, for people reading into the situation whatever they wanted.” 

A brief note to add to what you said about Michael’s guilt: I don’t remember where I saw something about Edgar Allan Poe as it relates to the show, but that final shot in ? was pretty telling.

“I’ve got to give Locke credit here; he doesn’t buy it that Michael just appeared in the jungle out of nowhere. It always seemed odd to me that Jack and Kate didn’t draw a cause-and-effect relationship between their trip to go shout at the Others, and the Others responding by sending Michael to do their dirty work.”

This is going to be a combo of S.O.S. and Two for the Road, mostly because I have more to say about the latter.

First of two posts tonight...in this one, I’d like to talk a bit about Lockdown, which I think has become an underrated episode not just for Season 2, but overall.

This is why Locke is so desperate to become the Others’ leader, because he needs that ratification more than anything.