"Lovely Rita" is one of my favorites; the outro is one of my favorite bits of music The Beatles ever did. I've also always enjoyed "Your Mother Should Know," cheese that it is.

Wow, "Another World," awesome call. I'd add "Chinatown" and "Cancer" to that. (Was "Cancer" a single?)

My theory on how sideways Kate fits that mold is that instead of being tortured on the run, she seems to somewhat enjoy it and get kicks out of it. Doesn't seem like she want to stop running, really. Seems like she likes it.

I agree, Dino. It seems in this timeline Jacob is negated completely. (Anyways, he didn't touch a few of the candidates until, what, 2007, right? Hurley, Sayid…) Maybe Jacob's subtle machinations led them to be more "unbalanced." In a way. Maybe Sawyer can choose the law side of the equation because he's a bit…

The comment from Ilana to Ben in last week's episode also tells us what we already know, that Locke/Smokie could change shape (and was now stuck as Locke, according to the producers because Jacob is dead). So perhaps he was Christian. Perhaps more than one entity used Christian's visage. Though that would just be…

Kate has stayed consistent.

I don't think Smokie/Locke is actually God. I don't buy it will be that. I think he is "godlike," which could really be a term thrown around for anything/anyone who has supernatural powers of some sort or some such.

I don't know. (It seems talking about any spoilers here is off-limits, which I am ALL FOR, but is talking about promos that have aired on ABC, or the "sneak peaks" released by ABC.com, off-limits? Spoiler alert below?) From the promo, it looks like Richard, sitting with the group there, was gearing up to tell them…

I agree, Damned. I figured Widmore wants the Island for his own purposes. I doubt they are monetary - he uses his money to find the Island - I've always assumed it is simply power and he is just obsessed with getting the Island back, or he wants some healing or perhaps eternal life or whatever.

My theory has become, especially after this episode, that the alternate timeline doesn't just split at 1977/Jughead, but has been negated somehow. Maybe DHARMA did some things uninhibited by the "hostiles" and either abandoned the Island because they, say, did some shit that they shouldn't have. Without…

I didn't realize it would be longer. Cool. From what I understand, the episode will be where the story really starts (being the first episode of the second half of the final season) and from the promo and teases, it looks like we'll get some HUGE answers. Seems like Richard was gearing up in the promo to explain…

I guess I assume Miles figured there was something much deeper to the whole thing than just Sawyer keeping a little secret. He also seems to take the whole "partner" thing very seriously. And he was right about Sawyer's secret; it definitely colors his whole existence as a detective. Out of the things in the…

Sawyer loved Kate. Juliet is more "fresh" in his emotional memory, but I think he could still have a moment of silence for his lost love. Also, maybe a moment of reflection on a time when things were different, and though bad, not nearly as messed up as it is now.

Well the outrigger is in play right now. And Widmore's folks are set up next to the Ajira plane. Slightly convoluted maybe (though not for this show, I guess) but perhaps at some point the Widmore people take off after whoever and one of them gets shot? I've always assumed we'll see the other end of that battle. I…

I came to this same conclusion. Seems like so much of the "infection" could be explained by heavy manipulation and some crazy-inducing shit (being in the woods for three years without your baybee, etc.). Also, these characters at times all seem to have past shit that could probably make them crazy; their past issues…

Hmmm. Hadn't thought of that line being a direct nod towards that theory. Though this season has seemed packed with that sort of thing. Hurley's rather in-your-face comments to Jack regarding the skeletons in the cave; his questions about "zombies" and "vampires" to Sayid and Richard respectively; etc. They seem…

Locke seemed surprised that Charles Widmore was the one there. Could be a fake/lie surprise, but though he seemed to know someone was there, he didn't seem to know exactly who it was.

I agree, I assumed Richard at that time was trying to look hillbilly. However, why would that be? It might make sense that they had some interest in perpetuating the idea that they were "hostiles" to the DHARMA folks, but didn't Richard stroll into the DHARMA barracks in the time not long after that meeting in the…

I'm with the chorus of people who felt "flat" with this one. It was good TV; it wasn't really good for what I feel about Lost. It was average. Again, I felt about what I felt for the Kate episode, with the difference being that I like the Sawyer character a lot.

If Jacob is ageless due to some time-manipulation (tenuous, I know), perhaps his death, even in 2007, reaches back well before the 70s when the bomb went off. Maybe his existence has been effectively erased, at least in that incarnation (assuming some people's theory that Jacob is not in his one and only incarnation,…