I've said this before, but I don't like to consider the Comic-Con videos or the between season games as canon. I like to assume that any of the elements from these extra-curricular's that Darlton consider important will make their way into the show eventually.

Blaffair, I that was the most interesting part of the episode for me; that the show is widening the view of Jacob & His Nemesis to where you can see the possibility that , as Noel put it, MIB may not be Eeeeevilllll. I think it is pretty clear that he has been manipulating characters to achieve his own goals…

@Pops, I had the same idea as you with the shoes, and wrote it last week in regards to what to make of Christian Shepard. I think that the white shoes could be a big indication to whether he is acting as an agent of Jacob or MIB (or something else for that matter)

Nicely done. My wife commented "Do we know her?" when she appeared on screen, I think because of how the camera lingered and really focused on her. Her hippy-dippy approach to job placement seems to indicate that it is the same character from before. Pretty impressive of the creative team to not totally throw away…

Time to talk Richard
But not for me! I'm on the west coast and I'm 15 minutes in!

I've posted things about this around here too, and I agree with you that Ethan's appearance points to bigger changes for the Island in the Alterna-timeline.

"Clousseau" is clutch.

Onward and upward, my good man.

Christian Shephard
I can't decide what I think about where Christian's motives/alliances lay.

I think that the implications of Claire being overcome by darkness in regards to CHRISTIAN has been an overlooked item here, Lone.

Wow, Djionase. That's wild. Congrats on the positive outlook!

I think Faraday has changed things; timeline X seems to be a result of his theory that people acting as Variables could change things with a big enough gesture. Daniel had been groomed/manipulated by Eloise and Charles into playing the role that he did and I've wondered the same as you, Tron: where do Eloise and…

I care about the Alterna-815ers as well.

I also liked Sawyer to Jack:

Cool theory, wallflower; To play devils advocate, I will say that in the pilot Jack is given two bottles by Cindy. Then he puts one in his pocket and pours the other bottle into his drink. I think even original Jack would only have one bottle on the island.

True that.

Ah, who am I kidding…I'm still gonna post stuff.

Damn…
When you live on the West Coast, stay up watching the premiere Tuesday night, fight the urge to post at work, re-watch the premiere on Hulu with yr wife Wednesday night, and then fight the urge to post at work again, there just isn't much left to post here is there? Nice work everybody!

"they have to answer the questions that got them to tune in"

I did the same as you and watched both last night. Let's beat this into the ground!