Ha, I would have loved that. Company Man was fantastic.

I only knew of it because I think I started reading Sepinwall around that time, and he hammered it into the ground.

I was bored as hell. But I was getting pretty sick of Jack by that point anyway.

Sawyer and Hurley's friendship is one of my favorites that tends to get overlooked. I seem to remember Sawyer being pretty protective of Hurley later on, but I might be remembering a fanfic I read.

You've met me?

I read that as great chest hair and wondered when that became a thing again.

Oh, I gotta watch this now.

Are you shitting me? That's tragic.

But it does end on a magnificent cliffhanger, so if you hate that sort of thing, beware.

This article made me feel very uncomfortable. Please continue.

That never actually went away.

His initials. It's his thing.

I got sick of the constant angst. "Sam doesn't appreciate Dean! Dean is too controlling of Sam! Sam hates Dean! Dean's pissed at Sam!" God, get over it already.

Also follows the British model more, too. It helps the actors in that they can commit to a finite time, then go on and do other projects, instead of getting locked into a multi-year contract. Or go ahead and agree to the contract, knowing they'll still have time to do other things.

Yeah, the ash and the sonic beams never really made sense as to why they disrupted the smoke monster. I suppose the vibrations from the sonic beams are what caused it to disperse, but the ash is just ash.

I agree that Mother, Jacob, and MIB were shit protectors. Yes, Jacob brings people, but others like Widmore are constantly trying to find it. Eventually technology could have been developed that would have pinpointed the Island, and they may not have even been looking for it. So if Jacob and MIB sailed off to…

And there are times too, when I'm writing and I'm just following the plot along without really trying to guide it, and all of a sudden something I've written long ago suddenly ties into what I'm writing now. It's a real "whoa" moment.

And everyone and their dog sure looked like candidates near the end. Hell, I expected Vincent to show up on that cave wall.

It's not the Island itself that needs protecting, it's the glowing light in the heart of the Island. Mankind will manipulate that the second they're given the chance. A protector is needed to ward off people who would try and exploit that resource.

If I remember, wasn't there something about the sekhet (?) game that MIB has, where he asks the Mother what the rules are, and she says "you create the rules"? And then Jacob and MIB are playing and MIB keeps making rules, Jacob complains, and MIB says when he gets a game, he can make the rules?