I agree. It's not just this one thing that Snow did by telling a secret, we know that there are whole series of conflicts about to unfold in which Regina feels that what she is owed is inadvertently taken from her by Snow. Both in Fairyback and Storybrooke Snow/MM is fated to wittingly/unwittingly thwart Regina's…

Nothing about it was fun?? Did you SEE Jai's moves? And what's more fun than champagne?

The scene between Faye and Peggy
Did anyone else think that Faye's reaction to Peggy was a little too cold? I've been trying to figure out why she wasn't flattered or at least receptive to what seemed to be a request for mentoring. Does she think Peggy slept with Don to get the job, so she's jealous? Has she heard…

I'm getting some plot lines mixed up, but it was Pete and Trudy who had to see a doctor because they were having trouble getting pregnant, right? And we knew it wasn't Pete's problem because he already made a baby with Peggy. (And then somehow Trudy got pregnant…??) But weren't Joan and Greg having trouble, too? Maybe…

Yes, but what kind of asshat? Based on this ep, I completely agree with LAotA's paternalistic, interventionist assessment of Jacob. From not-Locke's pov, Jacob is the worst kind of meddling do-gooder, and from the pov of the X timeline, Jacob is not only a meddler, he is a malignant one, since all of our protagonists…

Wow, Dino. Interesting theory. It would be just like Darlton to let us think that Jughead is what reset the timeline when really it was Jacob's death. And if it were Jacob's death, that would presumably mean that a lot about the other timeline was different, such as the Black Rock never coming to the island and so on.

I'm not sure about this dead bodies theory. Didn't Richard and Ben et al. leave the bodies of the Dharma initiative people in an open grave, which Ben then tried to put Locke in? Did Locke actually die in there when "Walt" got him out?

"Dark" and "light" are in the eye of the beholder. If some whacko religious cult guru told me my sister was consumed by the darkness, I might well assume that "darkness" was free will, self-determination, sexual liberation, self-esteem, etc.

This whole discussion seems to indicate you all believe in destiny, like Locke does. What if he was not fated to be special but became special because of a particular course of action that he took? It's funny how so many people don't like Locke and yet share his fundamental error. ;)

I don't buy it. I think your retrospective fitting together of the pieces is a Lockean symptom: you are falling into the trap of the fatalist. I think the key is to understand that all these actions not as leading to a destined outcome but as actions the characters took with the mistaken idea that free will means…

Yeah. Jacob's a devil. A deceiver. MIB is probably just a different kind of devil, though.

Jack is the main character? Huh?? I think it's pretty clear that Jack and Locke are yin and yang. Still, I kind of see Locke as the more central character because he changes and grows and screws up and changes again, while Jack just keeps making the same mistake over and over. That is, by exercising his free will, he…

Actually, I think there's one actor left who doesn't make me want to turn off the TV and sanitize the remote: Zach Quinto. Whatever ridiculous dreck they've got him saying, whatever crazy-boring-ass plot they've got him enacting, he still brings it. I haven't watched the latest episode yet but I'm just going to FF to…

That was the most romantic job offer I ever heard! It's funny how Don's romantic life is falling to pieces, but he has all these romantic moments with other people: proposing to Peggy, getting back together with Roger, admitting he has a crush on Pete…

This post almost makes it worth my time to have just spent 30 minutes thinking about this episode.

It's like sci fi TV shows exist in opposite land. The worse the show is, the longer its run. Real talents like Joss Whedon have to plot and scheme and suffer and scream while Tim Kring sits on his meditation cushion counting how much money he makes with every breath in, with every breath out…

Word.

The season 1 finale.

The thing that's making me yell at the TV is too-frequent inconsistency in whether or not a particular character actually believes that these flashforwards come true (and when someone acts like they probably come true, except for their own, that is even worse!)

Two words for you, Kurt: Craig Murray.