More water:
-Charlie's frequent dreams about having to baptize Aaron
-Richard's "baptism" by Jacob

I wonder: Have we ever seen the smoke monster during any of the freak rainstorms?

I think he MAY have flashed to sideways world when he turns the failsafe key.

I feel like Richard is right in saying Dead Is Dead. We thought Locke was the first to resurrect, but soon found out that wasn't true. But then again, Sayid was out for a while before his zombification, so who knows?

Christian is not MIB
So we learned an important fact this episode: Smokey cannot use his smoke-form to travel between the Hydra and main islands (i.e. over water). So in Season 5, when Sun sees Christian in Dharmaville, it is before Smokey-Locke and Ben paddle to the main island. Unless Smokey is the world's fastest…

I think those fools were crazy.

Not necessarily the Black Rock, shiv.

Great Interview
Cool interview. Sleep Is Death sounds pretty interesting. I mean, my friend and I have enough fun as it is dicking around with Pictochat. I'm sure we could entertain ourselves with this (read: moar penises)

http://spyparty.com/

The prom queen analogy is spot on.

The Wire RPG? I'm in.

No Experimental Games?
Aw man, I was looking forward to that part. I loved the crazy ideas of 4-D games and time travel RTS games. Have you guys seen any off-the-wall ideas like that this year?

Perhaps Michael's "gift" from Jacob was a temporary invulnerability? So it's still a gift from Jacob (or who knows, maybe MIB can give "gifts" as well), but differs from Richard.

maybe Desmond is like Waldo and is hiding in each episode!

could this possibly apply to Mikail as well?

I thought the sideways stuff was supposed to end mid-season. Didn't Lindelof/Cuse say something like that? I'd like to think Richard's ep will come after the stop.

I read your comment as "the Richard/Jackface face off" and laughed because I love crazy Jack.

I just blissfully ignored these nagging thoughts in my head and told myself that Alterna-Ben was so worried about Alex he wouldn't do anything to even risk her future and was turned to putty in Reynold's hands by these threats.

nice catch. pretty cool, too.

I've heard that you can only download and play others' creations via local connection, not worldwide or anything. If true, this would seem to greatly limit the replay value for someone without any friends that would buy this game…