I don't think that anything we've seen happen on the island thus far is "new". Going by the rules Faraday laid out (which we pretty much have to believe, at this point), none of them can change what has already happened. The implication is that things always happened the way they did. Locke always gave Richard the…

I don't think being slapped is the same thing as being lifted up from a position you can't get out of yourself. Hurley could imagine a slap as if it were real (and someone's obviously moving Eko's chess pieces). For Christian to offer Locke a non-corporeal hand would be a different story.

I cannot eat a whole box of Pop Tarts without thinking of Paula Poundstone.

I'm so confused. Where does "Big Bang Theory" Sara Rue fall in this continuum? Is that why they had Leonard forget they were dating, because she suddenly lost 50 pounds and it would have been confusing?

So, did HIMYM and House not air last night? I was utterly confused by television. I could have sworn there was supposed to be a House about Foreman and 13 (yay! no, not yay!), but then…nothing. Did Obama kill 13?

"The writing is tack-sharp, but still, I feel like I need to turn in my hipster-douchebag card every time I bust up laughing."

You've Got Mail is a remake of The Shop Around the Corner, not When Harry Met Sally.

magnus - does Hulu work where you are? They are up there.

I don't remember any of this "Obey Giant" stuff (I was a kiddy in the late 80s), but did this guy do the "Batboy Has a Posse" stickers that were all over Boston when I was in college (late 90s)? Those always made me smile.

I hear there's this guy in Miami who could help you. He would probably get Cinemax to put a bullet in Starz head.

This was the first BSG since "Sometimes a Great Notion" that has really grabbed me. I thought it was great, and told a full story, which made it feel more focused. A- from me. My only complaints:

I checked, and i think that woman is too short and too…well-endowed to be Charlotte.

Sea urchin reanimated Claire's baby. Perhaps he is actually Namor, the Sub-Mariner.

I've been watching old episodes of Lost on Hulu, and they play in the awful ABC viewer. Not cool. The volume doesn't work, and half the time it stalls out Windows Explorer so I can't adjust the computer volume or mute the screaming ads for Castle.

That scene really made me want a Pop-Tart.

I don't even remember most of the lines you are quoting. Which, clearly, means I need to watch it again, possibly 2 or 3 times in a row.

Oddly, Alan Sepinwall really didn't care for this episode. I'm usually pretty on track with his reviews - but I have to agree with everyone here, this was a classic, possibly the best of the season so far (definitely in the top 3).

I just wanted to say that I did not actually move east for Lost. I mean, not totally. I enrolled in grad school as a cover.

See Thomas Howl - see last week's thread for many, many discussions of the likelihood of Mrs. Hawking and Ellie are one and the same. Pretty cool, i think.

Locke actually mentioned Shannon last night. She was one of the names he mentioned as possible people Sawyer might have seen.