The Shadow of the Statue
A secret society? Hmmmm, interesting. I like. Honestly my first reaction was that Ilana and the guy with her had gone sickness crazy ala Rousseau's team, but I like your hunch a lot better. It would give a more satisfying explanation for Ilana's somewhat weak "I'm taking Sayid to Guam"…

Cesar Orders the Red Herring
One of the things that I love about this show is that it has me constantly running in circles trying to imagine the secret importance any of its characters might hold. How much time have we spent over the past few weeks positing what Cesar might/might not know about the Island? All to…

The problem with the end of the 7 book one was that there was no way it conclude satisfactorily. When your entire story is about a journey, reaching the destination is always going to be unsatisfying.

Not ALWAYS. Sometimes I'm pretty sure he's thinking "Oh shit!"

Hmmm interesting theory. Although didn't they say that the incident is what caused the DI to develop the button pushing protocol for the Swan station? They could still be related, but I'm having a hard time picturing how one would lead to the other.

Wow, rapport even. I think I've been watching too much Colbert.

I agree that what worries me more than anything is that they seem to be filling in a lot of Ben story gaps. I've always associated a revealed backstory to be a kiss of death or impending death on Lost. Although after last week we really don't have anything else to learn about Sayyid, and he hasn't died yet. I'm…

I felt their lack of chemistry was especially evident in the second meeting. We're lead to believe that they had developed some kind of report over the past three years, but I just wasn't seeing it.

I'm not necessarily talking about the best of the best. They just don't seem to have any doctors to speak of at all. I mean, someone gets shot and the person they have working on him is a person they pulled in from the motor pool?

Don't forget Roger Linus! I think we've got us some kind of love pentagon.

Hmmmm, you probably shouldn't look at the title for next week's episode then.

According to Darlton in the podcast Ben definitely has a specific reasoning for doing what he did to Locke. I'm guessing we'll hear all about it next week.

The old "Jump out of a helicopter in order to appear selfless but really you're just trying to dodge your personal obligations" con.

The lack of doctors in the DI really burns me. It's one of those little suspensions of disbelief that I can't let go. I'm totally ok with smoke monsters and resurrections, but the idea that a large scientific group that inhabits an Island where it is involved in an extremely shaky truce with a band of people known…

I took his surprise more to the fact that he wasn't planning on being incapacitated. Remember, Ben was going to hightail it back to the big Island with Sun. I don't think he planned to be anywhere near John when he reawakened. I'm sure he figured he'd see him again, but probably in a situation that would favor him…

Seriously. Apparently all the way down Sawyer was thinking, "Heh heh, suckers!"

You have to admit, it would be a pretty embarrassing conversation.

Yeah, I found the "You can't kill a kid" point to be pretty weak. It makes sense from a mom perspective though, I suppose. I wonder what Kate's thoughts about killing Lil Hitler would be.

It would seem to put Ben in a very special "Other" category, at that. This could be wrong, but I got the feeling by the way that Richard reacted that this isn't something that The Others do all the time.

Time and windmills, right Morbo?