What was up when they focused on Kate and Claire's embrace and then focused on Claire's hand on the barrel of the gun? Thoughts?

Miles not being totally oblivious to the fact that he lives in an alterna-verse makes sense to me. He's a guy who can experience things that aren't strictly "happening," such as the dead communicating. Remember in the season premier when we're re-introduced to Desmond, he also seems to know what's up. So maybe in…

All right, everyone knows that everything on the island is controlled by Midi-Chlorians.

I don't think Smokey is omniscient, or at least, not since taking Locke's form. I think maybe he's not totally ignorant of things outside their scope of observation like other humans would be, but I don't think he's omniscient.

But why even have Christian show up. Just have Locke be like "He is RISEN!" or something and everyone would follow him anyway. Clearly, there is an intended parallel being drawn between Fake Locke and the anti christ.

Yeah it appears that smokey is no big fan of Widmore, and we know Ben in his capacity as an other determined that Widmore was an enemy of the island and thus, Jacob, according to him. So, there must be another party as Widmore is acting independently of both Smokey and Jacob - and also isn't working with Christian.

So basically, the smoke monster is Marion Barry?

Okay, so
Is it confirmed now that the island is really just a prison for the smoke monster? What I'm confused by is that when Michael blows up the boat, Christian shows up, and Christian also shows up in LA and messes with Jack. So, if the smoke monster can't leave the island, or couldn't, then Christian isn't the…

Whatever about basketball today
Basketball back then was so much better. So what - there's more scoring today. I say that is superficial. But the drama between the teams was what was amazing. Watching basketball back then, it had all of the theater of pro wrestling, but it was REAL. Those guys hated each other,…

Yo, that blog is fucking whack - DHArk MAtter initiate? Get the fuck out of here.

I think this episode confirmed that at least Jin is definitely a candidate, because he survived the explosion of the Kahana without a scratch. As for Sun, I don't know

This season's Kate episode was pretty good though…

Imagine Jin and Sun wound up adversaries like Jacob and Smokey?

Yo, I never learned how to hit effectively in 09

Bobby Valentine coming back with an eye-black mustache after being ejected.

Where's Gary Sheffield?

Yeah that is a good point about how smokey actually delivers the final blow to Jacob - but I think the whole "you can't kill him" thing was a direct parallel to Locke's experiences off the island. It wasn't that he couldn't do things because he wasn't allowed, it was that he was physically incapable. After the boy…

I really don't think Dogen was trying to kill Sayid when he gave him his mission. I think he thought the knife would work. I'm sure he's never actually faced this situation before, so you know, what the fuck? When Sayid came back, Dogen was unsurprised.

Vishnu cannot kill Shiva because Vishnu is merely an aspect of Shiva. There's a lot of assumptions with the "deal" here. We are assuming everyone gets a bargain, or that the bargain was more than simply a metaphor. The thing that stirs my mind is that Dogen recalled that Smokey was once "trapped" when Jacob was…

sorry, I'm a bit drunk…