Cheers. I haven't been posting here very long, but I've been reading for quite a spell. Here's to an enjoyable Sunday evening.

@Chico:

Oh, that shoe. I've long been hoping that it comes back into play somehow—it's the earliest clear placement of the show's mythology, and I'd love to see it and Christian come to a satisfying end.

Part of what probably helped Hugo along was having someone else (Libby) to talk it out with. He had some independent confirmation that he hadn't gone bat-shit.

Right. The concert is Daniel+Driveshaft. Although it's possible that Jack's kid is going to be playing backup piano or something…

Indeed—a nicely-bloodied Ben made me feel right at home.

Have you seen the (supposedly canon) mobisodes? The last one (http://www.youtube.com/watc… has been driving me crazy, because in no way does Christian appear to be the MIB. As stated in an earlier thread, an absence of on-island Christian will bother me a lot.

Yeah, Hugo was totally down with everything in the ALT. Interesting indeed.

Wait. Isn't the wheel metal? I mean, back when Ben was chipping ice off it, it looked awfully metal. But I didn't look too closely at it in this ep.

I may have misunderstood something, but: during their chat at the bottom of the well, didn't MiB say nearly exactly that "he woke up one day with 'the knowing'"? Off the top of my head:

Yes. I found that ridiculous—like the show was taunting us for wondering what his name was.

Well, there shouldn't be any problems with candidates killing each other—just one killing him/herself. But the distinction between the explosion itself and a sinking sub doing the killing is an interesting one.

The former.

I was probably unclear, but: that means it couldn't have killed Sawyer, right? The can't-kill-yourself rule? It could have killed all the rest of them, but Sawyer, as the one who caused it, should have been immune. Does that make sense?

Salt water makes his skin uncomfortably dry.

Rules, rules, rules
So, to get nitpicky about the mechanics of the bomb sequence:

I may have been looking too far into it, but when he was climbing out of the water he looked rather… weakened, somehow. He seemed to be struggling more than he ought to for a few seconds. And since when does he need to use a gun to fuck some bitches up?

Hitting Locke with the car: it seemed to be an attempt to replicate Locke Classic's window-fall. Look at the way they filmed Locke's face as he was laying on the pavement—it's almost a precise recreation of the shot of Locke Classic laying outside the building way back in whatever episode that was. That, I guess,…

It sounds like "what's about to happen to ya and I can't…" to me. Just in Keamy's funky cadence. But it does sound similar to "island," i suppose.

Hmmm. What if "combination of the two" involves some sort of reveal about the inter-relatedness of the two timelines? Desmond seems like a good bet for that type of story development, since "the rules don't apply" to him. It'd be nice if we began to get a real sense of why we're supposed to be caring about these ALT…