I hope that Mike’s opposing lawyer makes another appearance on the show, as bait for the shark.
I thought I saw a black guy sitting next to Walt’s mom at the hearing. I assume he’s the guy who wants to adopt the boy but wasn’t it a white man in that position last season? Maybe I saw wrong . . .
Another interesting thing about the “DHARMA” logo:
It is surrounded by an octagon of solid and broken lines called a Bagua (alternative spelling: PaKua ), which is used in Feng Shui.
What significance this has is anybody’s guess.
Whatever company summarizes stuff for Tivo specifically says something to the effect of…
… The raft survivors wonder if they’ve come across survivors from the tail section or the dreaded others.
It was definitely “snowman”.
Well, in the real world there’s no reason to believe that stuff (although my ex-wife does). I’ll be disappointed if they pull out some quack medicine pseudoscientific bullshit like that instead of something imaginative.
If the people who seemed to be about to attack the three raft survivors are in fact former fellow passengers from the tail section, what the Hell’s wrong with them? Maybe they’re infected with the illness that Rousseau talked about.
In the preview for next week, the woman in the pit was the same woman Jack had a conversation with at the airport bar in Sydney.
Well here’s my WAG:
Michael, Sawyer and Jin have come accross the people from the rear of the plane. While the original group of survivors have been living in a Utopia, the people in the rear of the plane have been attacked repeatidly by the “Others” on this side of the island.
So they have taken to building home-made weapons and not trusting anyone. This was kind of shown on the Canadian preview.
Also the “108” timer, do we assume those are hours or minutes? And I guess this also answers my earlier question about what Desmund was typing.
Oh yeah, I saw the logo on the shark, and my wife didn’t belive me, so I had to rewind it and show her in slow-mo. When I saw that, all I could think of was Austin Powers!
Man I love this show!
MtM
IIRC, there were 3 big squares/tiles on the clock, and 2 smaller ones. When we saw it, the smaller ones were ticking seconds, suggesting that the bigger ones were minutes.
Not only that, but 108 hours is roughly for days, and since we saw him reset it at the start of his routine, and he was still in the middle of his routine when the explosion at the hatch occured, it’s clear that 4 days didn’t pass, but perhaps ~2 hours did.
Seems like a pretty short time, though. He couldn’t even sleep for two hours at a time.
I’ll second that. I don’t know why Michael didn’t just shout at her that he doesn’t know stuff about his son because Walt’s mom doesn’t let him see him.
I for one didn’t like this episode as much. It went completely sideways, without advancing any plot in any significant direction except that now we know the raft people make it back to the island.
I think Desmond is insane-not-insane like the Frenchwoman and will not be of much usage to us except to inform us about the sickness.
I still have a theory, a theory which is mine. The sickness will drive a portion of people insane which will lead them to kill each other. The survivors will be affected in different ways and become transhuman. We already see parts of this happening – voices in the forest, Boone’s visions, Walt’s abilities to conjure animals, Locke’s ability to walk and forest skills and perhaps magical thinking. I think that the Lostzilla is just a transformed human.
I wasn’t expecting this episode to be funny, but I chuckled several times during this episode.
“What are you going to do? Splash me!?” 
Hey guys,
Is there are a running list of characters that have either **been hospitalized ** or who work in a hospital?
Yep, Desmond is a bit loco, witness the counting of the days on the wall. I still think there are various groups of people on this island (our guys, CFL, the Others, the Tail Section, Desmond) and NONE of them knows what the frack is going on. They’re all just trying to survive as best they know how.
Desmond ask frantically if any of them were sick, and how long they’d been out there. This is key. The island is infected.
BTW, and this is obviously key, too: Dharma
How about Dharma = fate?
Hmm. Good question.
Jack - of course.
Kate - visited her mother in the hospital.
Locke - with the kidney thing.
Charlie - not that I can remember
Claire - should have, but we haven’t seen here there either.
Hurley - mental hospital?
Sun and Jin - not that we’ve seen
Shannon - nope
Boone - nope
Sawyer - nope
Who am I forgetting?
Michael - leg injured or broken after being struck by a car.
I knew there was someone - of course I’d forget tonight’s main character. :smack:
They weren’t necessarily infected in the hospital. They could easily have been infected on the plane, perhaps by the ventilation system. And Desmond seemed interested when Locke said they’d been on the island for 44 days; perhaps the incubation period is less than or about that period.
Also, what was the deal with the gun early on? Michael freaking out about the gun being useless because it was submerged… it could simply be the character’s ignorance, I guess, but there’s no reason behind the concern at all, bullets are sealed.
I figured it was going to end up being a writing excuse to get rid of the gun, as he dropped the gun and rounds when the boat got hit, but it was eventually used anyway.
“I’m freezing my balls off. How about you?”
(Sorry. It’s late and I’m tired.)
It still cracks me up that Sawyer never calls anyone by their proper name, except at the end when he sees Jin. Before, he called him Sulu. He calls Michael Mike, Walt is called Short Round, and so forth.
Man, I would have been stuffing my face in that pantry.
At the end, I had a flashback to Sawyer’s “It’s Lord of the Flies time” line. Those aren’t very friendly Others.
And I’m still worried for Walt.
Can somebody tell me what happened before the first commercial break? Didn’t make it home in time to catch that first bit.
And another thing…
I was just looking through the latest issue of Rolling Stone and the Lost cast photo does not include Walt. Nor does another cast photo I just saw in a newspaper.
Hmmmm.
I figured the people we saw at the end with the clubs and such were the ‘others’, and they were holding passengers from the tail section captive.