I’m stuck on the possible significance of the fact that Walt was playing the white pieces and Hurley was black. Remember what Locke told Walt about a battle between light and dark. This would fit into Hurley hiding something about the manifest…
I just took that as intentional to show that he’d been wearing the blindfold for a while.
How long was Jack out? Why did it take Kate so long to find him?
Jack imagined it. When Kate helps him back to his feet there is not a huge muddy bootprint in the middle of his chest.
Ooooooh. I totally missed that. Nice.
Amelia Earheart and her navigator are my bet for the identities of Adam and Eve. 
Bah, I tossed the idea of Earheart and Noonan way back whent hey found them. Of course my ‘Jack is gay’ bit seems to have fizzled mightly…
Was the wound on Charlie’s neck, after resurrection, suspicious looking to anyone else? When Jack prodded at it, it appeared unnaturally circular and symmetrical…
That couldn’t have been a continuity mistake?
I caught that, too. Do islands even have tides?
A goof by the writers, or a tip that they are on a very large island or continent?
I took it as a kind of peace offering.
Maybe the heavy rain washed it mostly away. He was on his back.
Yes. The entirity of the world’s oceans have tides. It’s a function of the water moving (being drawn towards the Sun and Moon) in relation to the stationary land. Geography sometimes plays an important role in how extreme the tides are (Bay of Fundy).
Still, Sawyer’s comments weren’t very logocal. The tides are a daily event. Perhaps he meant some sort of erosion?
Relates to Ethan’s footprint on Jack (who still might be gay! 
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Okay, nothing really shouting (or hinting) that out anymore. Still, no clear evidence otherwise either… 
Islands have tides. Even lakes have tides (small ones). A tide is essentially a bulge in the earth caused by the gravitational pull of the moon. As the earth turns through the bulge we see it as a tide. Therefore we have two high tides and two low tides a day.
I think Sawyer was referring to the monthly progression from neap tide to spring tide and back. Spring tide brings the highest tide of the month.
I think Sawyer said something like “the tide’s almost up to the fuselage today.” While I’ll concede that tides are daily, other factors like wind and relative positions of the sun and moon can affect the severity of the tide. Realize they’ve been on the island for maybe two weeks and it’s conceivable that today’s tide is just unusually high.
Sawyer (“It’s stupid to lie about your name”) was telling Sayid that he had been maintaining the signal fire in Sayid’s absence, which from Sawyer is a big deal precisely because he’s so resource-conscious. He had been using his time and energy to maintain a project that was Sayid’s (didn’t he call it “your signal fire”?) and which will ultimately benefit the group if it benefits anyone. It’s a high-cost, low-profit enterprise, but Sawyer kept at it. One more thing: if the signal fire was downhill from the fuselage, then this means that he moved it or built a new one, but is still calling it Sayid’s fire[sup]1[/sup].
Speaking of resources, I was a little surprised at the fact that Ethan left Claire’s bag behind, and very surprised that we didn’t see Locke or Jack pick it up. To the castaways, it’s a significant portion of their irreplaceable (mainland-manufactured) supply inventory. To Ethan, it would represent an infusion of possibly never-before-seen technology or material!
Anyone concerned about Boone, out there alone with Locke? Is Locke in cahoots with Ethan? Sure seems strange that uber-tracker Locke was urging them to go down the wrong trail before the split up.
One thing is for certain: Locke is “different” from the rest, and has been so ever since he saw “whatever-it-was-that-he-saw” in the jungle. And now, perhaps, Charile is “different”, too. Could this be what Danielle was talking about when she told Sayid that his crewmates would be taken over, one by one, by something on the island?
Hey, does anyone know a site where you can see scripts of the various episodes? I noticed on the ABC/Lost message board that some folks were quoting exact passages including set directions, as if they had cut and pasted from somwhere. I sure would like to see the script of the episode with Danielle and go over her dialogue very carefully.
Not incredibly inciteful at this point, but when Hurley said he was a warrior, my instant question was “What level?”
Definitely an RPG reference in my mind.
It’s one of those giant earwig things from Star Trek. It nests in your throat, then pops out of your chest.
There are some here.
Some thoughts on the backgammon game:
Was Hurley’s pieces black or brown. Normally the pieces are white and brown, but some sets have them black. Also, they’re often referred to as stones. Black and white stones…
Notice that not only did Walt get good luck, Hurley got bad luck. Twice his rolls couldn’t get him off the bar so he lost his turn. Could Walt’s “bad luck projection” have something to do with his monther’s death?
Have we heard about Walt’s other dad? (step-father I’m assuming)
This is the first we’ve heard of him.
According to Tv Tome:
(Not spoilers for actual events, just whose backstories we’ll see in upcoming episodes.)
The next new episode will be Kate-centered (dare we hope to find out what the hell she did?), then Boone gets his turn, and finally Michael and Walt.
Mr. Jim, you ROCK! Thanks.
I noticed in this episode that finally, our castaways are starting to really look scruffy. I particularly noticed Boone, with his shaggy hair and ripped up shirt.
Hope somebody packed some scissors, or all the boys will be looking like Sawyer soon!