Zoe wasn't pointless— she more or less existed to demonstrate that Widmore came to the Island with a team of people. I mean, he had a bunch, but she and Chip from Kate & Allie were the only ones who spoke. I didn't expect a deeper meaning from Zoe beyond being Widmore's lieutenant.

I saw it more as, "Sooner or later, he's going to remember me from Santa Rosa, and then it'll all fall apart."

Well, yes, but WHICH wizard?

It should be pointed out that Felicity didn't "figure out" who the Arrow is, so much as she found Ollie in the back of her car with a gunshot wound.

That would have worked pretty damn well.

And yet: how DID the Black Rock journal get back into the regular world?

Well, especially for a show like this, you've kind of got to be. I mean, 90% of the interview questions are essentially, "Hey, spoil the show for me so I don't have to watch it." I can easily see being in that position and going, "Yeah, sure. Here's a bunch of lies. Eat up."

I may have totally geeked out when the hologram of the suit showed up.

There was a minor GA/BC villain who was a musician that Canary accidentally deafened with her Canary Cry. So maybe that's the set-up?

Honestly, I’m still not clear at all where Arrow is going with Ray Palmer on really any level.

Here's my strange random pet theory with that: Jeff Kober plays a strangely prominent role in the FSW of "What Kate Does"— but unlike every other prominent FSW role, he's not someone from the Island or otherwise in people's past. Ergo: he's someone who is part of Kate's life in the future.

It really doesn't— we know Kelvin is in Iraq in the early 90s. The timing of the Purge is vague and contradictory, but most evidence places it at 1987— because Danielle was on the Island in 1988, and if nothing else, it's hard to believe that Ben could be raising Alex as her "father" while still living with his dad…

Where Ben becomes his life-partner.

Well, the timing is unclear for when Hurley is in Santa Rosa, and thus when Libby is. The scene with Desmond is in 2001 (presumably a few months before he crashes on the island), but we don't have any sense of where that fits in Hurley's timeline. So she could be someone on the verge of a breakdown, or someone in…

See, it didn't feel artificial to me, because the fact that there had always been 20-something other folks in the camp was always there. It's not like they showed up out of the ether. And while the rest of the camp had been pretty passive (with Rose and Bernard being the representatives of that aspect), I can…

Yeah, I can believe that when Desmond meets Libby, she's on the cusp of mental breakdown. I mean, she bumps into a guy in a coffee shop and is all, "You want a boat? I've got one, take it, random stranger!"

Possibly. The fact that the DI seems to cease to exist after the Purge is odd. But it is clear that the Others have a whole off-Island infrastructure that Ben is quickly and easily able to make use of, let alone the "Bioscience" company Juliet gets recruited by. And I'm pretty sure the Dharma Sub and the Others Sub…

Occam's Razor sat in the drawer, neglected.

Yeah, there's apparently some evidence out there that the Other Side of the Outrigger Chase was really some time-lost crew members of the Black Rock. To which I say: NO.

Travel time was always at the Speed of Drama, so first visits somewhere took a while (Sayid took three days to reach the cable that indicated Danielle's camp) and subsequent visits took significantly less time. (Hurley did the same trip in "Numbers" in a few hours.)