Is this based on producer interviews, DVD extras, etc., or just highly detailed speculation? (Not that there's anything wrong with highly detailed speculation; I'm doing plenty of it.)

Was it that Emilie de Ravin asked for Season Five off? I had thought they had made the choice that Claire having just plain VANISHED was more interesting before bringing her back in New Rousseau mode in Season 6. I mean, I can believe that was the spin they sold when Emilie asked for time off, of course. But it…

There are definitely points where he says it like a mantra, a rote response that he doesn't even believe but says almost as a matter of reflex.

Well, part of what I'm saying is Charlie isn't getting a proper message that furthers the MIB's aims, since the Smoke Monster didn't "read" him. So he just gets, shall we say, "spillover vision static"— like he's half-tuned into something he can't hear properly— that gets put through his own filters: Catholic…

Yeah, the 23 was from Illuminatus, and the 42 from Douglas Adams.

Of course, in light of Season 5, one could argue that the BDM isn't any kind of objective truth, but Radzinsky & Inman's perception, and they didn't really know much more about the island than anyone else.

Which is, of course, why I always hated the "They're making it up as they go!" complaints, because… the writing/filming/editing/airing process HAS to be somewhat organic. You get stuff like "Not Penny's Boat" and "The Constant" because Desmond/Henry Ian Cusick clicked. Or Ben Linus because Michael Emerson made such…

There's the Lurker's Guide (http://www.midwinter.com/lu… ) which is some OLD SCHOOL internet. It's the sort of thing that now would just be a wiki, but it was the first of its kind. They collected stuff he was saying as-it-went. So comments that are episode specific are on that episode's page, etc.

Not to my knowledge. On a Warner Brothers website they had all of Season 1 and five episodes of Season 2 on rotation, but there's no official place to find the whole thing streaming.

Black Lightning would be an excellent addition. But is there some sort of rights problem? Or is a fakey-rights problem, i.e. we don't want to pay this guy the royalties he'd be due so no.

If he had thought about it, he'd realize how much his vision and the Theresa story were saying "BOONE IS GOING TO DIE IF YOU DO THIS, COOL?" and he just pressed on.

Something just occurred to me: three characters have "visions"— by which I mean dream-like states where real information is given, but it must be interpreted. Those three are Locke, Eko and Charlie. For Locke and Eko, these visions have a fair amount of veracity— enough accurate information is given that the source…

"____ is the Smoke Monster" is always too easy an answer. Like the idea it was the spider that bit Nikki.

See, I read it as seeing the horse triggered Kate into thinking about these things, rather than Kate thinking about it brought the horse.

We did see the smoke grabbing Locke's leg, though the sounds included were more mechanical. It made it seem like the smoke was hiding some sort of steampunk robot's chain arm.

Except Charlie doesn't relapse— he's not on the heroine. He's tempted, but he doesn't use it.

In my rewatch, it wasn't as bad as I remembered. Someone here pointed out that it was promo'd to hell at the time as being a "big answer episode", which it wasn't. Taken outside of that context, it's not as bad.

Bentham was Season Five (and launched at the end of Season 4).

For better or for worse, when JMS talked about his "five-year-plan" for Babylon 5, he included the idea that every character had a "trap door"— a way for the arc-plot to not be damaged if an actor left, died, etc. Which he had to use several times, actually.

When they set up the underlying rules for the Flash series (with the accident in Arrow's "Three Ghosts" and such), I started to ask myself, "Which DC heroes could they add in without creating new rules? (For example, Green Lantern or Martian Manhunter would create new rules, since they involve aliens.) And the first…