Cite?
I just started this thread, which contains all of the Season 1 thread links, as well as links to the “Questions” thread and the “Jargon” thread.
Hopefully everybody will feel free to continue general discussion on post-season-1 over there, and all the links are at the top for easy reference. Enjoy. 
A 90% decline in ratings would have meant that “Twin Peaks” would have been off the air after three or four weeks.
I rewatched parts of Friday’s rebroadcast. The bugs I saw flying around the main Boat Guy were probably just attracted to the spotlight.
I am beginning to think that these guys are not the “Others.” I think they are agents of the others who hope to gain something by bringing Walt to them. I just get the feeling that the Others are more metaphysical than weird guys in a boat. Maybe the boat people are the ones corrupted by the disease than CFL talked about…
Also, has anyone else posted that when Hurley’s rental car crapped out, the readings on the dashboard were 42 Km and 4 Km?
There was the ongoing Scott/Steve thing and one of them was killed by “the Others”. And when Hurley was checking the passenger manifest and approached Ethan he guessed his name wrong.
watsonwil. Hmmmm. I like your theory. It’s a cool name, too. “Agents of The Others.” If that’s true, I’ll nominate that be abbreviated AOTO.
Re-watching Walt’s kidnapping, it’s interesting to note that the two men who board the boat, beat up Michael and kidnap Walt have their faces obscured the entire time by the blocking or insufficient lighting. We see the bearded guy who talks and the woman who throws the bomb, but not the other two. I wonder if that’s significant.
Something occurred to me about how the Black Rock got so far inland (although I loved Danielle’s line “Are you on the same island as me?”) perhaps the boat being so far inland might lend credence to an old theory that the island is a ship of some sort? If it rose up out of the water right under the Black Rock or even Danielle’s ship that might explain how they got grounded.
On Twin Peaks: I’ll admit the 90% figure was a rhetorical one (ie - I made it up). But I think it’s probably accurate. Twin Peaks’ premiere episode was the #1 rated show for the week it was broadcast. Its final episode on the week its cancellation was announced was #85 out of the 89 shows rated that week. The show’s peak audience was 30,000,000 viewers. So assuming that number dropped to 3,000,000 by cancellation, which the above ratings would support, and there’s your 90%.
Not to mention the oddly out of the way heroin smuggling light aircraft.
I’ve kind of been lurking the Lost threads, but here goes…
I think that the island is transformative, and is bringing out latent abilities of certain select individuals. The rest are going to slowly go nuts, to the level of Danielle, or die. How many were in her party? How many did she say she had killed or had died?
I think the Others have been transformed successfully and are not insane or dead. They seems faster and stronger than anyone else, although we haven’t even seen the tip of the iceberg as to what they are capable of. We have so far seen Ethan’s strongness (didn’t someone remark when he killed Scott or Steve or whoever, that he broke “every bone in his body”?), the guy who shot Sawyer also seemed sensitive or quick to respond to Sawyer’s attempt to draw and shoot. I won’t dismiss the possibility that the TCM is in fact an Other who has been transmogrified in a particularly bizarre way. Perhaps other Others have been transformed into smoke-like creatures and birds and polar bears and boars and such. I think that there are several generations of Others, from the several different wrecks. Perhaps the ones who have been there the longest have transformed the most (maybe TCM is an Other from the Black Rock, for instance).
The candidates for becoming Others in our party are Walt (obviously, his latent power seems to be conjuring animals or luck), Locke and perhaps Sayid (they seem to be becoming like Ethan in their jungle sense and strength), Hurley (bad luck/power of numbers). My candidates for insanity are Shannon and Jack, and perhaps Claire and Charlie as well.
Anyway, that is my theory, the theory that is mine. The TCM is thin at one end, much thicker in the middle, and thin again at the far end. That is my theory, the theory which belongs to me.
What if the Others are the spirits of the dead Slaves of the Black Rock? Creepy.
And since we have nothing to do for about 4 months, what is the mystery of the island that has you the most intrigued?
I’d go with the cable Sayid found coming in from the Ocean. There hasn’t been any mention of it since that episode.
edwino, I like your theory. I might not totally agree with it, but I like it! 
I think the island is trans-dimensional, a sort-of Bermuda Triangle place, capable of manifesting itself wherever it wishes. That would explain the Nigerian Beechcraft and the Mozambique mining expedition. It would also explain why nobody has found the island yet. Given that KH1 satellites can read your license plate for LEO, and island that size couldn’t go undetected. So, it isn’t seen because it isn’t there.
I, too, think the cable needs some explaining.
This isn’t about the episode, but it’s about Lost in general.
SPOILER FOR UPCOMING SEASON
Look who’s joining the cast next season (scroll down to the bottom)here. His name is credited as being Bernard. Is that Rose’s husband?
Small problem : he wasn’t in Exodus Part 3, even if credited. So this is a joke, or he was edited out and will show up next season.
The Scott/Steve thing is, when Ethan’s victim was found, Sawyer said “looks like ol’ Steve’s number came up.”
Hurley told him in annoyance, “Dude. That was Scott.” Hurley corrected someone else who was confused about names. You’re not paying attention.
The black cloud seen in the finale that cast a shadow - nanites. The are the security system or part of it for the island. They can form into whatever they’ve been programmed to be or do. Enough of them together would have enough mass(?) to create a shadow. They were the unseen monster moving through the trees, remember (I think) there were no footprints of the creature found.
The idea of nanites has been around forever, okay the last 20 or 30 years anyway. CFL, being a scientist, should have figured this out and told them.
Thanks whoever for the link to the scene in the first episode of when the engine exploded. Confirmed what I had already figured out.
Folks on raft that took Walt - The others.
The island isn’t natural, not completely at least.
It was an ongoing thing involving several characters. Michael was the first person to confuse Scott and Steve in episode 7. Then Hurley said he didn’t know Scott and Steve in episode 10. Then Sawyer has the conversation you described in episode 14.
Then it makes no sense to say “confusion with names” is one of Hurley’s defining traits, wouldn’t you agree?
If you want to keep something a secret, don’t tell the fat guy.
Sure I’d agree. And I’m glad I never said it. What I wrote was: Anyone notice that the three people whose name Hurley couldn’t get straight are all dead? - Nothing there about it being a defining trait.
As somebody in this thread said earlier: “You’re not paying attention.”