Good to know that doesn't seem to be true. I've been bracing myself for it. He's a terrific actor and his character is too damn intriguing to not return.

Noel's never even seen Lost. He just uses a very convoluted metaphor to express his racist opinions on the AVClub.

I might be wrong, and this might be a SPOILERERERERER!

He said he didn't want to die because he didn't want to go to hell. Seemed kind of impulsive, and maybe he was just saying it casually not realizing that Jabob would actually make that happen.

As for the animals on the island, I think Smokey might be responsible for some of them, not sure about Jacob. Aside from that, I think the island itself has a kind of consciousness that can manifest in different way—I think it either takes the form of ghosts or possibly actually summons them. It might also have some…

Eh, Hurley seemed pretty sure the hatch was bad news, but changed his tune pretty quickly when he got a load of the stored food down there.

Yeah, I agree with The Jongo. Sometimes, the information that we get about the island is shaded by the character focus of an episode. Old timey Richard, a superstitious Catholic, interprets the island as being hell. Smokey tries to exploit this belief, saying that Jacob is the devil, but neither of them are. I'm not…

Hm, I'm going to start claiming that, as well. Also, I'm part Richard.

Tenerife
Along with being the largest of the Canary Islands, Tenerife is also home to one of the world's largest volcanoes.

Mother-father, Chinese dentist!

-Kevin! Kevin, honey!

That's who I am!

David: They think I have fucking cancer!

There was once was an isle South Pacific
With bears whose purpose's quite scientific
They'd eat all day long
Fish biscuits with calm
Til the day lil' Ben grew prolific

You gotta Locke that down!

Jacob touched Sayid after he married Nadia, yet his alternate self never married her.

"Alexing, Smokey is a shape-shifting, mind (or soul)-reading, seemingly conditionally omniscient monster person who coexists with a similar entity. It appears they can both switch bodies, and they've both been alive for a very long time. They're pretty clearly gods, demigods, Platonic forms, or something similar."

The Smoke-Person.

Yeah, I always insist that along with Smokey's mind games, there are other apparitions on and off the island and are either autonomous entities or agents of some higher island force.

The funny thing is, Die Hard was based on Perfect Strangers.