Now that it is months later….
And no one will ever view this page again I feel comfortable in admitting that this show has grown on me. I think the acting has stepped up quite a few notches from the pilot, and if you enjoy monster-of-the-week fare this show has a pretty interesting take on the genre (the monsters are…

Wow, this is the worst thread on the AV club. Congrats!

On the scale of self-destructive behaviors, being addicted to WoW seems relatively benign. I would be more concerned about a friend that got drunk every night. I have no more issue with someone who comes home from work and plays video games for 4 hours than someone who comes home from work and watches TV for 4…

@AutomaticJack - the funny thing is that no one seems to be reading your second paragraph before jumping on you for being an apologist…

I have to say this episode was very good considering my disappointment with lasts weeks. I thought they did the necessary exposition very well without seeming ponderous. I am annoyed that they never dealt withthe "rules" issue involving Widmore and Ben. It seemed like a bit of a cop-out to just have Ben shoot him…

Mother: "Well dear it is a spaceship from the future that landed here millions of years ago…"

A friend just made a terrific comment to me that i think is apt: "It's like pulling back the curtain in the wizard of Oz, but instead of finding the pathetic old wizard there all you find is nothing at all."

I think the writers are using the "oh if we explain anything it will be like Midichlorians, remember how that ruined Star Wars?" as an excuse not to tie anything together and for lazy writing. I'm not asking for technical schematics here, I just want to know that there is some cause and effect consistency as to why…

Monkeylint; yes, but the force had rules and those rules were reasonably well defined and you understood its effect on the universe. We don't even know wht the "rules" are related to the island, and that's what I want to know. It's a mystical force: awesome. Explain to me how it operates and why the characters are…

Lone, I enjoy your responses but: bullshit.

My fundamental problem with what the show has become is that they seem incapable of answering a mystery without simultaneously introducing another mystery.

I suspect that the "time loop" idea they have been exploring explains smokey's actions. Perhaps Smocke has done this all before, in fact, perhaps multiple times, but each time it fails due to something Smocke did not forsee. So lets say he has been through this time loop before, that would explain how he knows how…

Wasn't his first chronological appearance to Locke some time in the distant past right before Locke turned the frozen donkey wheel?

Well the obvious answer is that the divergence occurred some point after she shot her son. She most likely tried to find out as much as she could to ensure that didn't happen in this timeline. Of any character I whink it makes the MOST sense that Eloise is aware of the divergence.

I'm sorry, but at its heart LOST is a mystery show and while the characterization is terrific most people watch because they are interested in how those mysteries are going to play out. The "its about the characters" defense is a lazy copout and the fact that I am seeing it pop up here concerns me. It was the same…

I think this was the episode that made me finally give up…
I've been looking over the schedule and I realized "Gee there are only a few episodes left" and I am becoming more and more convinced that the ending of Lost is going to be an enormous let down. While I think they have had some great individual episodes this…

Yeah i thought this was definitely the second weakest episode thus far, but my wife, who has been meh on the season so far loved this episode. Of course the fact that this episode was shirtless-Sawyer-fuckbot-centric probably raised it a few notches in her estimation.

I view this whole episode as fan service. How many times did we see Sawyer with his shirt off? Mile and Sawyer buddy cop routine? Hey its Charlotte, naked!

The cut and paste is spot on. Most gender wage differences (at least in the US) can be attributed to career delays due to childbirth/rearing. Now whether it is fair that women be given the primary responsibility for childcare is a separate issue, but for a variety of cultural and biological issues that isn't going…

In a show with a magical Island, a lighthouse mirror that reflects peoples lives and a giant smoke monster, folks are taking logical issue with the fact that a french woman may have at some point divorced her husband and moved to LA? Perspective people.