With the alternate timeline, we're seeing who these people would be without the influence of Jacob or the island.

Is it significant that Jacob didn't cross out Locke's name even though Locke had died quite a while ago. According to Jacob, Locke was still a candidate. It was Smokey that crossed him out.

I should say that I got all my information above from Lostpedia. I don't keep that much Lost info in my head.

In the classroom Jack was cleaning in the episode 'Some Like it Hoth' they were teaching Hieroglyphs to the students. On the chalkboard behind him was written "Writing of the words of God" in hieroglyphs, and some archaic ones that have no translation. So the Dharma Initiative had adopted some of the historical…

"Since we're friends now, Mr. Mechanic, do you mind helping me with changing this license plate, and getting rid of the GPS on this cab?" -Kate from the Alternate Universe version of this episode where the writers care just a little bit more about verisimilitude.

I forgot I posted this thread. I just came back, and read the disproportionately angry and mean spirited responses. I was responding to this:

Good times tonight.
I think my favorite line of the night was:

The 3rd mini season has one of my favorite cliff-hangers, Jack yelling "Kate, Damn it, run!" into the radio while Ben bleeds out behind him. I thought it was fun and creepy overall. The beach stuff had played out by that point, but the captured by The Others stuff was great TV.

Maybe Desmond was there to see if Jack could remember him, or to jog his memory. 'They're coming' after all might refer to alternate timeline people.

The compass from last season was prep for this situation. The losties and the 2007 above water island are cut loose in time. The compass went from Locke to Richard to Locke to Richard ad infinitim. It was cut off from it's own manufacture by it's journey through time.

I commented about this before I read this thread. I really hope Locke gets a chance to fuck up the smoke monster. It would be the most cathartic moment on television for the character who's faith and good nature have been taken advantage of at every point in his life to acheive some kind of dignity. Maybe Locke…

In the open, I found myself thinking 'Lost is a cartoon now.' But it was a great and mind blowing surprise to see the island under water. Does that mean that we'll sink the island by the end of the show?

Part of the reason why I love the numbers is that their power is almost unexplainable. They are a completely irrational presence. There is no possible reason why a sequence of numbers could possibly keep showing up in that order, and do what they do. Numbers are arbitrary values we place on objects to create models…

If it feels like it's made up on the fly to you, then you should at least admit that you have something to do with that feeling. Lost has done a really good job of setting up and solving mysteries sometimes years apart. If it feels like that's not the case to you, then maybe it has more to do with you than it does…

Sorry. I meant that she was married, and her husband was in the tail section going to the bathroom, and not the cancer thing. I read that she was a mother on vacation from her husband in the first drafts of the script, and that she was seperated from her family in LA, and her husband in the tail section. Sorry for…

Sluchus I've read Dune three times, and the rest of the series once, and I don't know what magic dragon you're talking about. Or are you talking about the movie which I havn't seen in a decade.

Also, at the point that Jack dies in the pilot, Kate had a completely different back story that was similar to Rose's. After Jack lived, then Kate was turned into fugitive cold blooded killer Kate, which never really worked for me.

I see where you're coming from Lone, but I think it's still up for debate whether Locke had a choice. Is fate just another more powerful interested party that has to adjust to the choices we make in the context of the show? According to Jacob, we have a choice. It could have been in the power of the Losties to…

God, in the Torah, by modern moral standards, is evil. He was pro-genocide of Egyptians, went around asking people to kill their children, and he spent his time burning down cities.

Locke has made some pretty dick moves over the years. I'm still rooting for the guy, but he chose how to express his faith in the island. And he chose how to react to what he believed the island wanted. The island may have told him to go to where the drug plane crashed in season 1, but it wanted him to go to the…