Speculation:
The big metal thingy works with a theory of mine.
Yes, they live underground. There’s a big complex with air vents leading to the surface. If someone underground speaks near an air vent, people above ground will hear … wispering.
Banyan tree, I think.
My wife was like, “And here, the five fingered man fought him off.”
Me: “How many fingers?”
Good episode. I really wish Charlie had died. I don’t like him for one (oh, he’s such a wuss, people.) and my high esteem for the show just would have gone that much higher if they killed a non red-shirt.
That kid’s “luck” will definitely come back into play. There’s a lot of luck in backgammon, but a tournament player would absolutely OWN someone who had just learned the game. . .he’s not just lucky, but supernaturally lucky.
I didn’t know what to make of hurley’s “warrior” statement. Was he a wrestler, an SCA guy, a “warrior” backgammon player.
Great cliffhanger for whenever it starts up again. . .but I really wish Charlie had died.
Good back story on Jack. You had a feeling it was something like that from the old episode where he was talking to his mother.
Yes, I heard that, too. Makes his name Christian Shepard. Interesting.
I agree, although technically that should fall under “Information about future episodes taken from spoiler sites/inside sources will be boxed.”
Any outside information including interviews, IMDB or insider information should be boxed.
By design, Lost doesn’t even have credits to tell you “guest starring” Bobo the Brain-Eater. So let’s not say “Hey look! The Internet Movie Database says Bobo is only in 4 episodes, so he must get killed next week!” or, since we don’t even know if Alex is male, female, or even human, I’d kick in my TV set if someone wrote: “The producers have gone on record saying they’ve cast the late Marlon Brando in the role of Alex! I wonder if theyll do that digitally or if they’ll exhume him and animate his corpse to play the part?”
Unless “the producers have gone on record” means the lead story on CNN and all the major news networks so it’s unavoidable, then a lot of us don’t know about it. The producers may go officially “on the record” as saying such-and-such on a spoiler site or in Entertainment Weekly – but box that here on SDMB.
Well, it could also have been just “forest noise” from the storm. The rain was causing a lot of “roaring” sounds in the jungle.
OR, we could have been hearing Charlie scream.
OR, Jack was hearing stuff.
What I was wondering a bit about (given that Jack tends to see his dead father walking around) is if Ethan really beat him up. I’m 90% sure that really happened, but then Kate ran up and said “You okay? You fall down go boom.” and looked at Jack like he’d lost his mind when he said “Ethan was here.” She mumbled something to the effect of “you fell and hit your head, I didn’t see anyone else…” So darn it! I can’t be 100% sure.
There are a lot of hallucinations (or not) on this island.
And they never let the audience know for 100% sure either. Claire said she was attacked with a needle, Jack found no evidence of a puncture mark – but then she was kidnapped… was she really attacked then? We assume so, but we can’t really know 100%.
Sayid heard Whispering Voices – but was it just an effect of the wind through the trees? Early stages of the brain-eating virus?
Jack heard a scream, Kate didn’t. Jack said “Ethan beat me up!” Kate said, “I didn’t see anyone else!”
Argh! Mean producers toying iwth our minds!!!
Anyone else catch the bit about
Sawyer needing his meds? A preview for one of the upcoming episodes says one of the cast members is going to run out of meds very soon.
People with “daddy issues” :
Jack
Walt
Claire’s unborn baby
Does anyone else think that something is up with the knives? The only people who take knives are those who “go against” those who don’t take knives. Walt vs his dad, Sayid vs Sawyer; this time Kate took one and she’s seeing things different from Jack. Locke controls who gets a knife and is choosing people for his team.
And Christian Shepard? Jack is his son… Does anyone else have the 23rd Psalm running through their head? He leads me beside still waters, He restores my soul??
Or I may just need more caffeine…
Or Everquest or some other form of video game.
I’m hoping Locke found Amelia Earheart’s plane. 
I am fairly certain that Sawyer was referring to the antibiotics Jack had been giving him to fight off infection in his cuts from Sayid.
That’s what I thought too. Also from the surgery Jack had to perform to fix his severed artery. It seems like a long time to be taking antibiotics for that, though. Over a week, I think. Was Sawyer still wearing a bandage on his injured arm?
Wow. Creepiest episode yet. My wife, not normally a SciFi geek like the rest us, said she had chills from the first moment. My MOM even watches the show.
That is the cool thing about Lost. It hits for all audiences. That is why I am worried about the resolution to certain subplots. If it is TOO weird, we geeks may buy into it, but what about the other 10 million viewers?
A few random thoughts:
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I thought the same thing as Rich Mann. Maybe Hurley isn’t god. Maybe he is Michael!
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Did the Lost writers steal the box company idea from that episode of the Simpsons? The most mundane job possible? I’ll bet they are boxes to ship other boxes. I’ll bet they aren’t even assembled there!
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I loved the discussion of the red shirts. Especially with a redshirt sitting on Boone’s shoulder. He and I were both thinking that he isn’t member of the leadership! I really thought he was going to die. And I really thought Locke was going to do it. You guys are right. They are playing with our heads with Locke. Two things really brought home the notion that Locke is “one with the island.” The rain and sensing the metal box. I think that is the possession. I think the island tkaes you over. I think there is a possibility that part of the island takes you for good and part for evil. I think there is some form of good versus evil balance going on here. I still want to believe Locke is good. But he was giving me the creeps last night. I didn’t think he’d let Boone go home.
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Wish Fullfillment is looking more likely. The dice and the resurrection…
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I find myself agreeing with Trunk. I was disappointed when Charlie returned. I was blown away when Jack stopped temporarily. I thought this show meant business. But then he comes back. I like Charlie, but it would have been a big step to kill a Hobbit.
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I think Jack was affected in his dad’s hearing by the realization that though his dad promised no more deaths, there was another death that he finds out about.
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Question: the people we the viewers see as leaders, are they the acknowledged leaders of all the castaways?
Gaaah! I could have used a Jack thump-in-the-chest when they found Charlie hanging, especially after reading an interview with the producers that warned not to get too attached to ANY of the characters.
Is production of the show permanently based on Oahu, or are they recreating the island on a Hollywood soundstage?
Will Dominic Monaghan spend his whole career working on Pacific islands? What’s next for him, a film shot in New Guinea?
I’ve read the cast lives in Hawaii. What a life!
I thought it would have been brave to have killed Charlie off, but I was still hoping he would come back, even in cliché fashion. Indeed, I went through all the stages of grief in about 90 seconds during that scene. Followed by enormous relief. He just looked so sad lying there on the ground.
I would have been really sorry to see anything happen to Hurley, though. I’m expecting more interesting, or at least amusing moments from him.
I was little disapointed. It was a good show, but I was after the last two episodes, I’m used to signficant advances in the storyline each time. This episode did very little to add new information, except at the end when Locke and Boone found the metal object. But even that was just a mystery.
Has anyone read the DIARY on the ABC Lost web site? There’s a lot of info in this week’s entry that might reveal who is writing it. Got any ideas yet?
Looks like Sawyer and Sayid become friends…!
I guess I’m one of the 10 million, because I’ve been watching the show and enjoying it “straight”. I think the other 9,999,999 in my viewer group would probably be surprised that so much can be read into it.
Speaking of Sawyer and Sayid, what was that about the tides? Sawyer mentioned, almost casually, that the tide was now coming up to the wreck of the plane. He also said that he was keeping an eye on the signal fire. Since it probably wasn’t just small talk, what was he trying to tell Sayid? Was it a kind of truce offer? Are the people at the beach becoming less comfortable with their situation?
I took it to mean “I’m not a complete slouch and we’re all in this together, so let’s stop fighting”. Of course, if he wasn’t such a resource hog, he’d be more believable…