Steffs, I second all of your questions. Nice post.

group therapy - Does that make Jacob rotten to by association?

Like a re-imagining of "My Mother, the Car"?

You're right - although the only one we saw together were the Miles's.

The Others have been referred to as indigenous by Dharma. I was saying that Dogen insinuated they're not.

We don't know the water was clear, do we? I assume the water's been murky before, which would explain how they knew of the risks.

I'm fairly certain that Christian Shephard is a completely different entitiy, one with great importance. In the cabin, he said he spoke on Jacob's behalf, and I tend to believe that. The show has set up Jack as the main character since the beginning, and I think that before the season is over he's going to come face…

Yeah, he did. Both uttered "What happened?" as their first words after the ritual.

I still don't think we're at the point where we know who's who. In Season 2/3 if you asked us who was evil, we'd say The Others. Now they're saving people, so their opinion on who's dark and who isn't is only relative to them for the time being.

I can't get on board with their being two sets occupying the same universe. I think if they avoided it with the time travel last season, they won't go to it this season either.

Yeah, native is too vague - Indigenous is a better word, and I think they've even referred to the Others as such on the show.

Given Jack's past history
Did the Asian guy really think he could give Jack and pill he wouldn't take?

Cryptic
On Jensen's Totally LOST today Michael Emerson offered quite the cryptic tease to end the episode

I agree - we can't get ten kinds of awesome every week. Sometimes we need these piece moving episodes, even in the final season.

I don't see how it erased anything. We're still seeing our old characters on the Island. And I would be willing to be quite a bit of something valuable that the flash sideways has a lot more going than we think - you know Damon and Carlton are just selling it that way so ABC can get more viewers.

I was half expecting Kate to have to deliver the baby right there in the front lawn.

A Kate episode
I have to agree Noel, Kate episodes tend to have the same mold - average Kate happenings intersparsed with great reveals and moving character moments. Tonight wasn't much different. A couple things:

Remember the Chris Gaines hit, "Fred's Slacks"?

What the fuck?
"…I don't read. or watch TV. Or movies. Or go out very much."

With Amanda Seyfried as Mrs. Philburt