Movietheatersnack: "Don't Eat the Pictures" … Best. Movie. Evar.
(Seriously, I think that everything I know about Egyptian mythology, which is apparently not much, comes from that film.)

I think I make this comment in every episode's thread these days, but as a Rose&Bernard fan, I have to point out that in a podcast a few weeks back, Lindelof and Cuse specifically said that Rose and Bernard were not dead (this was after the flaming arrow attack). This leads me to believe that we will see them again,…

I think this episode made me realize that Sawyer may be one of my absolute favorite characters on this show. It was his smiles that did it! Did you guys notice all of those happy, contented smiles?? Aw, yay Sawyer for finally being happy… and sucks for him that it'll all go to shit in the next episode, probably.

tollway — I'm pretty sure she did not. I was listening pretty closely for a reveal, and she was careful to only say "the scientist."

"One major question for me: How are they going to handle the three-year difference between the o6 and the I6???? Guess I'm just gonna have to wait with baited breath…"

I would definitely draw significance from Ben's reading Ulysses as well. I don't know much about the Vico stuff, but I do know that the novel centers in some ways around the concept of "metempsychosis," or some form of reincarnation. Sounds applicable, no?

What I'm really glad about was that Jack finally opened the letter from Locke. That's another one of those "just do it, you doofus!" moments where I was prepared to be really frustrated by Jack's character, so I'm really glad he actually read it at last.

Faraday
So the whole time Miss Hawking was talking about "the scientist" who created the Lamppost and was able to figure out where the island would be, etc, I kept wanting someone to ask, "WHO? who is the damn scientist??" because I have a sneaking suspicion that it will turn out to be Daniel Faraday…

hulu!
something i just discovered that others might be interested to know:

i think i mentioned this last week, but in the lost podcast from (i think) a week ago, lindeloff and cuse said that we would see more of bernard and rose, and that they are not dead.

yeah, i think there must be something in that. locke is constantly finding himself without the use of his legs for one reason or another… definitely a motif in the show.

ditto to over_educated
seriously, guys? you don't think Robert got whatever it was that Rousseau called The Sickness? he was very clearly being possessed by something or had been brainwashed or something like that, with the whole "the smoke monster is our friend" creepiness. it's understandable that Danielle would've…

alexing: thanks for posting that mcsweeney's piece. i'm not sure how i missed it, but it's hilarious.

okay — thank you!
my roommate has an unfortunate tendency to TALK during lost!! so i missed some of what locke was saying there. it would definitely complicate things if he had met himself.

locke meets locke
so presumably locke met himself back in season one? i kind of missed what exactly he was talking about there. is that why locke has been so bizarre throughout the show?

johnnyruin, yes, e. e. cummings. it's a great poem.

cool theory! i like it. that would also explain why widmore has daniel's mother's contact info closely accessible.

in the lost podcast from last week, lindeloff and cuse confirm that rose and bernard are still alive.

i think that he hasn't started time traveling/not aging yet at the time that locke meets him in 1954?

well, either they've been there a long time, or they think they're awesome enough to use dead languages as secret codes.