idle hands
I didn't interpret that as a masturbation joke. I just thought it was self-referential: he's saying "idle hands [are the devil's playthings]" when she walks in on them planning something illegal. Calling their distraction technique the Phoebe Cates was hilarious, though.

I thought that all of the characters developed, a few of them changing quite dramatically over the course of the novel, so maybe you should keep going.

I liked Keamy and Mikhail in this episode— even Keamy seemed a little more endearing to me and less sociopathic. I did think it was weird, though, that Keamy said that the 25K was his payment for offing Jin, yet Mr. Paik kept Sun from getting the money out of the bank (and in effect paying for her own baby daddy's…

Not-Locke said that he didn't know whether "Kwon" meant Jin or Sun, but I wonder if it's Jin and that's why Sun didn't time travel / "disappear" off the Ajira flight and instead crashed with Ben and the rest.

Just to repeat / expand, Widmore is on the island when Eloise takes Jake and Kate to the bomb (in "Follow the Leader," according to Lostpedia). So if Jughead blowing up in 1977 is what causes the island to sink (which Lindelof and Cuse hedged on answering in their interview) then Eloise and Widmore (and Ben) would…

I assumed that Locke was lying to Boone, too, especially because when Locke describes the intensity of a walkabout and Boone asks him if he's pulling his leg, Locke says something like "now what reason would I have to do that?" and lines like that on Lost almost always end up being ironic.

Limmic, I agree— I was much more incredulous that she survived that long fall with a bunch of chains pulling her down than I was to see that she survived an event that everyone else survived, too. I also thought that she had to be alive so that Sawyer et al had a compelling reason to dig her out of the rubble in the…

Your points are interesting, but your argument is based on the assumption that they're actually time-traveling, when it might just be that their consciousness was able to move into the future. I understood it as them being able to see a glimpse of what would happen but not actually being transported into that moment…

justified
All you need to do is read a couple of posts from his horrible "I Can't Believe I'm Still Single"* blog to know that every thing that Rabin has said is justified. Hate that this guy keeps popping back up.

echo echo echo
I just wanted to chime in with how much I like this book club series— the awesome interview with Dunn herself is icing on the cake.

No, I'd go with just plain ridiculous. That she survived the fall and then didn't get crushed or impaled by the entire tower that shot down the hole at high speeds after her, only to pound away at the bomb while saying the show's favorite line of annoyance, "son of a bitch"?? Utterly ridiculous. I mean, that's…

Kjohnson, the main reason why I disagree with your argument is that it's based on the premise that everything everyone does is for selfish reasons (or that bad actions are unequivocally bad) so they should be judged for that, but one reason I really like this show is that a lot of the characters' choices have gray…

Oh, I understand what you mean now that you clarified. Sorry if my first reply sounded condescending.

I just thought Ben meant that he tried to kill Locke when he strangled him in the hotel room, but it didn't "take" since Locke is alive (or at least alive-ish) now.

I think that which dead people we see physically alive relies at least to some extent on whose narrative perspective the scene is shot from. For example, the audience sees Charlie because that scene is from Hurley's point of view, but we don't see Eko playing chess with Hurley because that scene isn't from Hurley's…

Yes, I was guessing that the sub might be docking first in L.A. so that Miles and his mom could end up in Encino.

I'm pretty sure that Darlton said that they wouldn't just kill off Rose and Bernard off-screen. I would number them among the living for now.

Andy K, that's what I understood Faraday's theory to mean, too: that blowing up the bomb would offset the massive amount of electromagnetic energy (not that I have any idea how or why that would work). I just think that whatever the plan is will fail and the Incident will occur as it always did.

Yep, I started watching it just because it led into Lost, too, but then I started to look forward to it on its own. The little girl who played Rose, Ted's daughter, was particularly awesome.

@Oh the Possibilities, Not to put words in Dr. Venkman's mouth, but I think that the part you cited is incomplete without the parenthetical that follows it. That's where she mentions "the film INTENDS to appeal to folks who like boob and guns without any irony whatsoever," which makes it a comment about the target…