That’s funny! Now get over here and help me clean the iced tea off my monitor.
Want it to be? I guess the answer I would like the best is that it’s in another dimension and that they were brought there on purpose by some alien, godlike intelligence that wants to study humans. It chose them because each of them had a reason not to want to take that flight.
Think it will be? They’re all dead and working out some unresolved issues in their life before they can travel on to the Afterlife.
What if “they” even caused the weather problem which forced the plane off course in the first place because they wanted someone or something on that plane?
As long as were talking wags, still.
Picture: Mr Rourk, driven slowly mad by the inane fantasies of the 1970s era dimwits, and jaded by the lack of success of the Ludwig Van loving alter ego of his which failed a few years ago, finally decides that instead of granting the fantasies of others, he would now grant his own fantasies…
Or something like that. Throw in a couple of hot chicks and we’ve got a winner!
I’m not picking on you, masonite, it’s just an explanation. That’s my pet peeve with TWoP. I hate when they talk about characters on one show, but call them by the name of the character they were on other shows or in other movies. It’s too confusing to constantly figure out “Mercutio” = “Michael,” especially if you haven’t seen the movie or show they decide to refer to a character as. Why not refer to him or her as this character’s name?
I also saw the angle of most of them not wanting to be on the flight. Interesting bit there.
I missed the scene with Sun and the woman helping her - what exactly was said between them? I got the gist of what was going on, but what did they say to each other?
(The nerve of my husband, calling to let me know he was on his way home, and asking if I needed anything! 
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I’ve read more Lost commentary on TWOP than over here, and “Mercutio” stuck in my mind more easily than “Michael” – especially since he’s never called Michael over there. But I totally agree with your beef and will try never to let it happen again. Michael. Michael. Michael.
You have to admit, “Boone, God’s Friggin’ Gift to Humanity” is a vast improvement on just plain “Boone,” though.
Correct, “rocher” is a big rocky outcropping – the closest English word I can think of is “crag.”
So definitely not a stone or boulder, we’re talking something more cliff-like. Perhaps it was referring to the shallow caves at the waterfall.
Also, quick reminder that the woman kept saying “Il les a tué.” That can mean “He killed them all” OR “It killed them all.”
However, if it was a “it” rather than “he”, I personally would tend to say “Ça les a tué.” But as it stands, technically it could be either, since “il” is commonly used for “it”.
OK, what the hell is TWoP? This coming from the guy who had to Google rocher noir earlier today.
On general principle(s), I’d like to see Boone and Shannon bitch-slapped by the rest of the survivors, and then forced to clean the latrines for the rest of the series.
There are many, many things I don’t like about TWoP, but Dan Kwa has been doing a pretty good job with the recaps so far. We seem to see eye to eye on a lot of character issues, particularly Shannon and Sawyer. But if he doesn’t stop the Hawaiian vocabulary lessons and the bitching about how cold it is wherever he’s writing the recap vs. how cold it’s not in Hawaii, I’m going to snap my tether.
In the United Kingdom physicians aren’t addressed as “Doctor,” and I’m betting it’s the same way in Australia.
Also, a bellman wouldn’t necessarily know Jack was a doctor.
May I take a moment to imagine you in a tether?
It’s because at the start, before we got to know the characters’ names, people had to resort to assigning archteypes/actor names/previous character names.
E.g./ Redneck, KoreanGuy, MatthewFox, Mercutio
Like in the Alias threads when no one could remember Vaugn’s wife’s name, so she went from VaughnsWife, to VW, to Bug (like the VW car).
Perrineau was outstanding in the role of Mercutio, and is one of his most memorable roles (even in discussions about his role on Oz I’ve seen him referred to as Mercutio). It would be like if Sarah Michelle Gellar was onLost everyone would probably still call her “Buffy.”
I can appreciate that it would be annoying if you haven’t seen the Baz Luhrman film in question, but Michael is such a generic name that if I don’t see “and son” then I have to figure out if we’re talking about Redneck, Jack, or Mercutio.
First, NoClueBoy, sorry about repeating your thoughts back there - wasn’t trying to steal your thunder or anything!
And now:
I seem to remember her asking her husband “Can’t I just go explain it to them”, or something like that, at the beginning of the episode right after they cuffed him. Because she couldn’t realistically do that without English, I propose my theory that the husband knows she speaks English and they’re keeping it a secret for now. Maybe someone who taped it can check the captions and tell me if I’m way off?
Who do you think will find out about her secret? Do you think Michael will be able to keep his mouth shut?
And a big thanks to the makers of the show for giving me so much male flesh to enjoy on this week’s episode. 
Amen to that. I love the flashbacks, but we need to make some progress on the events of the island!!!
I was in the same boat. I would have bet on there being some misdirection afoot with them.
Also, this is a little thing, but why when Jack and Kate came back from the caves did they just not gather everyone together and discuss what would be the best course of action for the group? The only time we have seen most of the survivors together was the memorial service. It seems a meeting would be logical, its not like they are doing anything.
The writers need to not let too many of these little “inconsistencies” stack up or it will begin to bug a lot of people.
–rainy
Really, would anything I said stop you? 
“You are Number Six.”
I happened to like Locke’s speech to Charlie, where he said, “the Island can give you something, but first you have to give to the Island.”
So, what could the Island want with a dime-bag of heroin? More importantly, what did Locke give to the Island?
No, the woman who was helping her leave her husband asked her “You’ve been taking your lessons?” while she was handing her what appeared to be a Canadian passport (could’ve been a U.S. passport, I just saw the navy blue flash across the screen quickly, but it looked more like the dull, gold Canadian passport crest, than the shiner American one).
I understood this to mean that she had secretly been taking English lessons as part of her escape-from-hubby plans. I’m pretty sure he doesn’t know and his “how do you plan on talking to them?” was a snarky way of reminding her that she has no choice but to rely on him. He doesn’t know she’s been working towards independence.
I’ve deleted it off my DVR already so I can’t confirm this, but I think the camera angles used meant that you couldn’t ever see Jack in front of Jin this episode. I have a feeling there may have been a couple of extras in line between them anyway.
Saying that, you could hear Jack start yelling at the girl on the desk just before it cut over to Sun looking out the doors.
I think Jin and Sun were maybe two places in line behind Jack at the ticket counter during “White Rabbit.”
I didn’t see Jack’s face in this episode, but I heard his commotion and saw his profile enough to be reminded that I saw Jin last week.