Good points, but I still think that there's something powerful about Sun's inability to speak to Locke. The "don't talk to him" rule might be more of a statement about his persuasiveness, but I'm not so sure. Desmond doesn't count, because I'm talking about candidates here. I can't remember what exactly happened with…

Sun
People keep coming back to the idea about Smokey that "once you let him talk to you, you'll always be on his side." This worries me, because he's talked to almost everyone in our crew. The one candidate that he hasn't talked to? Sun. I think that it's very important that she couldn't speak English for a while,…

Radzinsky, a lot of people seem to be saying what you're saying, but I just don't buy it. Why would Juliet have said "It worked" while she was dying if the sideways world hadn't been created yet? She was talking about getting a cup of coffee with Sawyer, which could have been delusion, but sounded more like Charlotte…

Agreed. Christian is up to no good.

True, Jake. I wonder if, likewise, Claire is not actually infected.

If the Others are indigenous, then why are all of the Others that we know from somewhere else? Why have none of the leaders been "indigenous"? They seem to get a lot of their crew from the people that come to the island — from the Oceanic plane, from Dharmaville like Ethan and Ben… I don't know if we can assume that…

claire/rousseau?
So what's the deal with Claire going all Rousseau? We know that she's "infected" with some sort of "darkness," but she's looking and acting a lot like good old Rousseau to me — not at all the way she was acting the last time we saw her. Rousseau was crazy, sure, but was that from all the years in…

These are some really interesting ideas.

I really wish that Kate would just leave Sawyer alone. All she does is follow him around, and it's pissing me off just as much as it's pissing him off. Let the man have a little mourning-Juliet-alone-time, will you, Kate??

I think that age is really not a limitation — Clyde alluded to as much. "Clyde 2.0 is probably in a new body by now" or something to that effect. Doesn't matter how old Topher or Bennett were in 1993. They could have been imprinted later with the same personality, though that would bring back the problem of neither of…

correction
I meant Sierra of course.

careening towards epitaph one
I've got to say that these really-good-episodes-all-in-a-row are fantastic and a little bit like crack, but, as I think someone mentioned, it's like they're all finales. It seems like it won't be long before we get to the point of Epitaph One, and I feel like it's all falling into place…

Teen Pop Expert, and all other haters:

darth — i saw them on that tour too! definitely the most entertaining opening act i've ever seen.

squeeeeee
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holy shit
7 pages of comments???
that's got to be a record. i got through the first page, but i'm not sure how much farther i'll make it. i am really impressed that noel is still responding to comments on the 7th page.
go team!

I don't know, Old Doak, doesn't the island have healing powers for everyone? Rose's cancer also disappeared. I think Ben is the exception to that rule rather than proof that only those in communion with the island get healed.

poor michael emerson. it's totally true, and at least he's putting it to good use, but who wants to be that guy with the really creepy face.

yeah, can we talk about how strange and surreal Lost has been in some of their promo photos?

@nd: But, even if he knew where to go and that he had to be there again based on the island's wishes or whatever, he only made Richard say what he did because that was what Richard had already said to him. He did what he did off-island (trying to get the O6 to come back, ultimately trying to kill himself) because he…