That would be incredible if it turned out Sawyer was conning Smokey. But he's so nihilistic now, I think he just might mean it when he says he wants to get off the island.

How is that obvious? He wants/needs Sawyer as some part of his getting "home". Why would he even want to kill him? I too that the kid was referring to Jacob, and that Smokey was having his wrist slapped for going through with his "loophole".

Yeah, I noticed the hair thing. Sloppy, but what are you gonna do?

Which one? The one where he was molested by the dogs, or the one where he was molested by Kelly?

Questions that hopefully will be answered:
- Widmore/Ben/Hawking - what's the nature of their struggle, how does it fit in with the Jacob/Esau business?
- Dharma - What's the deal with the numbers? Why were the food drops continued?
- Super powered people - What's the deal with Walt/Miles/Hurley?
- Aaron - Why's he so…

It would be cool to see Harper — they could at least explain how she can appear and disappear at will — and how she knew what Ben was thinking even while he was being held prisoner. But the Sheriff was supposedly one of the Others blown up in the Season 3 finale.

No, that was Tom and April.

Richard complained to Locke that Ben was wasting their time with the fertility experiments — implying that Ben had lost his way and that the Others needed a better leader.

In the alternate timeline, Hurley is the star of the Mr. Cluck commercials — that's why Arzt recognized him. And he made him recite from his commercial in his terrible Australian accent — which is part of the most recent Comic Con video. And that video establishes Hurley as a very lucky and happy lottery winner.

I don't know if we'll see ol' WAAAAALLLLLLLLT, but I do wonder if they're going to explain all the people with magic powers on this show. We've got mind-power Walt, dead-talking Miles, we found out that Hurley actually does talk to dead people rather than just being garden-variety crazy. Hopefully we get some…

We know that the barracks and swings existed before 1977 because we saw Ben and Annie celebrating Ben's birthday there.

The flow of events seemed to imply that Jacob himself had somehow prevented Smokey from getting at the Temple. Once it was made known that Jacob was dead, out came the ash.

Dharmaville existed in 1977 when the bomb went off, right? And Widmore was at the Others' camp when the bomb went off, right? I don't see how Widmore is still alive in the alternate timeline.

To expand on the above comments, it's also been shown that corpses don't make the leaps through time that living people do (or objects directly in contact with those people). So if Juliet did die at the bottome of the Swan shaft, she wouldn't have made the trip back to 2007 anyway.

I think the showrunners have said that they haven't filmed any finale-related stuff prior to this year. So I don't think you're going to see any new young-Walt stuff this year.

I've assumed Harper said that Juliet looked exactly like her because she WAS 'her'. That Ben remembers spending 3 years with Juliet in the DI, and that his adolescent romantic obsession is centered around her. I know Richard said 'he won't remember this', but there's plenty of evidence that Ben didn't forget his…

Why? The Belle Album was produced by Al Green, not Willie Mitchell. Just saying…

I've read that Lindleof and Cuse were so impressed with that Spanish promo that they've persuaded ABC to repurpose it for the US audience. As long as they get a similarly awesome narrator, it should be sweet.

As was pointed out by some commenter earlier in this season, Jason's dye job is a little distracting.

Goat's Head Soup has Jagger by himself on the cover. There's that, for one.