Manchurian Can-DEAN-date is a better name than Shadow Dean

This wouldn't have happened if he'd just gone to Freecreditreport.com
Now he's gonna end up serving iced tea in a pirate costume.

I was just thinking about that answer during trivia
coincidence? I think not

Night Moves
by Bob Seger should end right after "with autumn closin' in…"

Jesse St. James
really needed to be more over the top in his introductory scene. The whole scene felt to me like the actor wanted to make sure everyone knew he got the joke rather than selling the ridiculousness of the character.

My two free passes
Mike Judge- King of the Hill and Beavis and Butthead are two of my top 10 favorite TV shows, and I love Idiocracy. I still think he's the best satirist out there and I'll watch anything he puts out til the day I die.

This is not an F episode…
This is a solid D. That Heisler's had it in for Kring ever since he took his parking spot when Heisler went away to graduate school.

I like the sound of "a full-on smoke monster."

Hobos make their own gravy.

I think you're right on with him being sent to the past, since he has to sire Penny (assuming she really is his daughter) somewhere in the late 60s early 70s.

In celebration
of my mini-triumph of being correct last week*, I figured I'd throw out another larger theory.

Not that this has anything to do with this episode, but I also wonder if Jacob is from the future, and Ben's work on fertility issues is to ensure that he's born. With the runway building, we see that Ben's directives (whether from himself or through Jacob) have some foreknowledge of all these events.

Some theories.
I haven't really written posted much on theories I have, but for posterity's sake (i.e. potential I told you so's) I wanted to throw out a couple big ones here, since I've often found new ways of looking at the show's (and TV/media in general) from the site.

Maybe not the strongest, but I felt it was way stronger than last weeks (which I liked). A big part of Lost's appeal is it's non-linear storytelling, which has been mainly routed in examining characters thorough parallel stories. Last week's episode didn't go that route, and other than season finales I can't think…

I believe it was poking fun at "You're Beautiful" by James Blunt.

I'm with you- I think this might be the most inexplicable thing the writers have done. Half of Tracy's lines have been about how saavy her character is, and then she KILLS someone in front of a person she knows will approve the funding to keep her imprisoned and get her friends hunted down?

Rousseau's people and the "sickness"
I seem to remember back in season 1 Rousseau being crazy partially because all her people had succumbed to some "sickness." Could this sickness end up being related to interacting with the time jumping people (who have their own weird sickness)?

One reason I'm not so optimistic…
is that for the most part if you read a really short summary of any heroes episode you could get really geeked up, but when you watch them they almost always fall short.

I'd be inclined to agree if they didn't make a special scene out of it. It even seemed like they were going for a big "reveal" at the time. There was no immediate dramatic need to have someone looking after Locke's body except as created by the writers, so we have to assume she's someone important.

No mention of Jill
A new character off the island who not only knows Ben but knows about Locke's "corpse" and no mention in the review OR three pages of comments? I know we don't have a lot to go on, but she's gotta have _some_ importance, right?