Rose and Bernard are a kick ass sandwich slathers in awesome sauce. They are hands down my favorite characters after Hurley. Part of me really, really wants to see an episode where Rose goes all "secret agent Ben/Sayid" and starts kicking other, I6 and O6 ass.

er "great force of will"

One thing about "the future" and the episode from Season 1 involving the numbers. Didn't the airport seem to imply that fate was trying to keep Hurley OFF of that plane? Perhaps Hurley is another wildcard? Note that the others let him go at the end of Season 2, implying that Ben didn't consider him an important…

I found it pretty interesting that Robert was all "Oh the smoke monster? That old thing? That's just a defense mechanism for the Temple. Duh." He was pretty non-chalant about the fact that:

Yeah, the whole reason behind the lie (beyond "people will think we are farking nuts") seems weak. Also, did anyone notice that they started adding little narratives describing when the time jumps occurred? I guess they need to do it becasue if they didn't it would be confusing as hell, but still it seems kind of…