Nitpicking
I would call this a B- in my book — I am also not wild about the (predictable) pregnancy, but I still have some faith that the writers can get something other than cliche bullshit out of it. The thing that really, really bothered me was that they kept referring to the insects as beetles (even having the…

Lone, I think there's a couple more factors in play here. It's not just that people love weird stuff. I think that people who love weird stuff do so loudly and passionately. Maybe I don't get out much, but I can't think of the last time I met anyone who was a passionate NCIS fan. It's fine, it's tolerable, it's…

Will Walter hate every chimp he sees? From chimpan-a to chimpan-zee?

@haysoos — when Peter was trying to dupe Olivia into not reading the diary because of what it might say about him, he used the argument that he always thought the people he conned were dopes. So double sad, Peter thinks Olivia is a dope.

I (somewhat sheepishly) admit to being one of those folks who contributed to the spike in sales on Amazon. Point #3 here is what got me on board.

I am not a gleek, nor do I hate some episodes as much as others do, but for the first time in a long time I had to fast forward through that last mash-up number, because it sucked giant donkey balls.

@Agent Broyles — If you want to be awesome again, get back into that tight shirt you were wearing a few episodes back in E-2.

The kid in me likes to fun of the first people, but the evolutionary biologist in me is now wondering what to do with all the post-5-million-year-old hominid fossils that seemed to be ancestral to Homo sapiens.

That was very clever.

And this is why AV Club has the best discussions!

This show
gives me multiple nerdgasms.

You are both right. And Reddick in that shirt is the new Sawyer in no shirt.

@Steffs — agreed regarding the many more wonderful John Noble moments. (When nerd guy at the end suggested that Walternate isn't really a scientist anymore? Ooooh I thought Walternate was going to eat him for dinner!) Every time Walternate does some cold-as-ice shit, I flash back to that episode where our Walter…

Steve Holt!

Broyles should have had a goatee and a dagger on his belt, like evil alternate Spock. No wait, Bell should have had a goatee and a dagger…

*head explodes due to awesomeness of this thread*

Nice catch.

@Bonerland — Sawyer has been very useful in the shirt removal, bare-chested department.

@Artz to Artz: On the other hand, Hurley should be quite buoyant. Get him out of the sub, he should pop to the surface like a cork… A cork that contains evil!!!

Stop fucking manipulating me, Darlton
You know, I'm really willing to give LOST the benefit of the doubt, and I'm pretty on board with the alt-timeline these days. But it is REALLY FUCKING ANNOYING that Jin and Sun have spent the last 2 seasons doing jack shit, with no character development of any sort whatsoever,…