@Markus -

I'm sure this gets mentioned later in the threads, but since it's so relevant here, y'all should check this out:
http://www.harpers.org/arch…

Cecil B. DeMented
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I find it kind of ironic that the "Studying these strange creatures in their natural habitat" approach is called "anthropological." Speaking as an anthropologist, the whole point of the ethnographic method is to be able to produce an account of "strange creatures" from a perspective that no longer sees them as…

Right, the virus, I forgot…so, yeah, that idea's dead in the water. That non-line reading just struck me as indicating some extra line of meaning, but maybe she was just doing an excellent job selling her guilt on making Victor her perfect man.

So, Adele is a doll?
Others proposed this in previous weeks' comments, although there wasn't a lot to go on except for her smokin' hotness, so I'm not claiming to have figured this out. But I got the impression that they not only hinted that Adele is a doll, but hinted that she just figured out that she is a doll: In…

Oh, hell's yeah! I forgot about the Anubis Gates, which is even closer to what's going on in Lost in all kinds of ways. Good call!

I think it's kind of unfair to call coming out on the side of determinism instead of free will to be a "let-down". Personally, I think that would be kind of brave, as it goes against our expectations of rugged individuals freely choosing their own destinies. Most of the time-travel stuff we see in TV and movies is all…

Hurley never actually saw Libby in the hospital, apparently, but she saw him when they were both in there before coming to the island. The impression I got was that part of her attraction to him was having gone through the same kind of thing, even though he was unaware of it.

Because Locke is the smoke monster, and it only reconstituted itself as Locke after judging Ben and turning into Alex…

@Bourne
"In other words, if it's all predestined and all of this that they've done and are already doing is what was always going to happen anyway, why should there be any drama at all?"

FWIW - I kind of got the feeling that the mid-east analogy there is that the Gilboans in the northern strip are like the Israeli settlers - they've moved into territory that was conquered in their own (or their parents', at least) lifetimes, and are not willing to give it up, even if doing so would secure peace for…

I think that was the key point of the whole exchange, PCI. We are seeing this story play out through the "present" experiences of the losties, and their "present" is now 1977. For them, the stakes are still high. While young Ben couldn't have died, because whatever happened, happened, the losties still can, even if…

@Beautiful: nailed it.

"Enter 77" was on Sci-Fi today - I'm pretty sure they just check to see who's the -centric character each week, and show those at lunchtime specifically to make my eating a sandwich into a serendipitous decision.

Yeah, withholding judgment as to whether this is all a macguffin or not, I think that the show was trying to establish within the context of this episode that Sayid has created a "separate reality", where Ben gets killed "early", and things work out differently, so when Sun et al return to the island in the future,…

"Hi, I'm Oldham, this is my psychopath Ben, and my other psychopath Ben"

Didn't see this thread when I mentioned it above, but it really seems to me that they are telegraphing the idea that Topher's assistant is the insider, so it's probably not. She's the one being set up to be our first guess in terms of means (she knows how to program them), opportunity (she's always around just before…

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