To further that, getting bit near one or more major arteries would kill you by blood loss, which, I figure, is what did Amy in.

My understanding of zombie mechanics, bolsterd by decades of Romero zombie movies, is that the bite isn't what turns you into a zombie; dying with an intact brain turns you into a zombie. Getting bit or scratched by a zombie just kills you faster.

Yeah, when I got to the end of the episode without paying off the "Jim is eyeballing the kids" thing, I figured I had just misread his "creepy, google-eyed, heat-exhausted, creepy guy who misses his kids (did i mention he's creepy?)" impression.

I saw Shane get bit on the shoulder too. Must have been an editing trick.

I actually got the impression that Jim was a pedophile, not Ed. The way he kept eying the two kids back and forth like he was starving and they were BLT sandwiches just made me uncomfortable.

pancreatic cancer?
quote of the episode: George Christopher taunting to no one in particular: "I don't have to go to rehab, because I have cancer!" The fact that the seriousness of the situation hits him slowly after just makes it even more clever.

That situation is a sexual harassment suit waiting to happen. He was about to fire her but after he made a pass at her that option was out of the question. But he was lucky she quit, right? Wrong. He's still on the hook if she decides to sue, and I see blackmail in their future. She's not going to be a romantic…

Sure I laughed, but if that video were about me, or about a character I was playing on TV, I'd bothered by the explicit references to getting whipped and sucking on Snoop's Tru Nutz. I wonder what Anna Paquin thought about the video?

@Noel

the whole time I'm watching this, I keep turning to my viewing companion and saying "Oh man, how did the briefcase from Pulp Fiction get all the way down there? Marcellus is gonna be pissed!"

Yeah, I asked my viewing companion how long he figured it took Jacob to go from Rainman to omniscient.

I was perfectly satisfied with the vague, sort-of-but-not-really answers we'd already gotten for all of the major mysteries of Lost, and I didn't need or want them to be further elaborated on, especially not in the overly didactic way they were spelled out in this episode. To add insult to injury, the exposition we…

You summed it up for me, Trig. The first half of this episode was painful to watch, and the second half was mediocre-to-decent. I graded it a D.

@Orlando the Mace: I don't buy it. You spend three years as an adult surrounded by foreign strangers speaking frantically a foreign language you have to piece together to learn, and the first time someone comes around who speaks your native tongue, I guarantee you're going to say "Oh thank Christ, an American!" and…

My thinking is that Locke turned him into a vegetable before he was able to con him out of a kidney.

No Frank, we aren't going to Guam. Rest in peace, little buddy.

I found the last two episodes of Jin and Sun speaking near-perfect English to each other to be unrealistic and jarring, particularly in their big finale. As a Korean couple who (up until maybe an hour prior to their deaths) had never spoken English to each other before; who had relatively little time immersed in an…

I too was expecting a little Korean BBQ. After it didn't happen, I recalled that I had heard the "pylon power down" sound effect.

But that's only because the kids might have seen the plans for The Swan station.