There is a new message on the Mr. Cluck’s website
Using the letters and the spaces available I get
JACK WILL DIE THE ONCE IT PSI HANSO
but I am having a hard time re-arranging those words into a sentence. Maybe someone can come up with an alternate translation.
Oh and there is also a link to a coupon for a free Dharma Shark Burger!
I was thinking the exact same thing last night…
I still think it’s very significant that Hurley had so much trouble getting to the airport, and that the airline employee said something like “I don’t think you were meant to be on this flight”.
I googled PSHISEOTINEOHCTNEA and got only one guess (almost certainly right):
http://www.livejournal.com/community/lost_tv/1006661.html
Minor hint if you still want to do it yourself:
The third word is NOT die.
/S
PS: I make no gaurentee that no one will spoil it below, keep that in mind before you scroll down 
Some speculation about the next episode. For the record I don’t look at spoiler sites or anything else, this is just from looking at the preview at the end of the episode. In it we see the raft survivors hiding from what may be the Others. We see flashes of grubby people in tattered clothing. One quick shoot of someone holding a teddybear, maybe an adult. I think that whatever Desmond was talking about killed off the adults on the island. The children were left behind to fend for themselves and they became the feral “others”. In other words they are the lost boys. The pun works. Of course I am probably wrong, the previews are purposely misleading.
HA! I had to google it. Now that is funny, once I saw ‘Hanso’ in there I thought for sure I had it!
We’ve floated this idea a few times in these threads. It’s the storyline from Star Trek (TOS) in the episode “Miri”.
So… Maybe CFL was right all along. The black smoke meant that the Others were coming. But they didn’t come for our folks on the beach, they came for the Tail-vivors.
I wonder how long Ana Lucia and company had been gone from their bunker. They seemed to think that there were 23 survivors and came home to, what, eight or nine?
If they were gone for 3-4 days, that would match the timeline of last year’s finale when the Others were supposed to be on their way.
I also wonder how far (Charlie and Sayid? Were they the ones that went after Turniphead?) traveled to find the black smoke. Did they actually pass where the Tail-vivors are, or was the plume somewhere inbetween them?
To me seeing the teddybear dragged around by one of the others points to this. Of course it would have been better if it was a stuffed polar bear.
I think that 23 people survived the crash, and in the next episode, we’ll discover that 14 or 15 of them were killed afterwards by the Others, bad luck, etc.
Has anyone noticed which *I ching * trigrams are used on the Dharma Initiative logo? On the various logos we’ve seen so far, are the same trigrams used everytime? I failed to pay attention to this and now I’m curious.
But we know that some of The Others are adults (the boat people).
As for what happened to the 23 tail section folks:
Episode 7 this season is called “The Other 48 Days”
There are only eight trigrams in the I Ching – the 64 hexagrams are made by combining them.
All of the trigrams are represented in each version of the Dharma logo.
:smack: Doh!
This is why I need to keep the episodes I record.
According to the recap, twenty-three originally survived, but only five are left.
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[li]Ana Lucia[/li][li]BBD, aka Mysterious Island Man[/li][li]Libby[/li][li]Bernard[/li][li]??? (other chick in bunker?)[/li][/ul]
I thought I saw a youngish, dark-haired man in the bunker this week. I actually thought it was Boone for a moment.
Moderator comments: Way back many posts, I started trying to hide in spoiler tags references to the possibility of lying flashbacks, but there’s too many comments, quoting the comments, etc. I’d be at it for hours. So I’ve just put a warning in the thread title.
We don’t really know that the boat folk are Danielle’s capitalized Others – we’ve been frequently misled about who the Others are.
I still think they are entirely imaginary. The boat people will turn out to be earlier inhabitants, and might be equally obsessed with the “Others.”
They never expected to find 23 people when they came back. The answer of “23” was given in response to the question “How many of you survived the crash?” None of the tailies were surprised that they were gone – they knew already. It was just a tricky way of revealing that since the crash their number was being thinned.
My perception of the Others is still coloured by who introduced them – Danielle Rousseau, the namesake of a man who was driven to isolation by his paranoid belief that there was a vast conspiracy of shapeless “others” contending against him, and who alienated everyone who got close to him because he invariably decided that they were working with “them.”
I think Ana Lucia and the big guy are “protecting” the group from people they imagine to be working for the “Others” – because they’ve both contracted Rousseau’s sickness. Rousseau killed all of her companions because she “knew” that they were a threat. I think whatever drove her to do that is working its magic on Ana Lucia, too.
Admittedly, this theory doesn’t explain the boat folk, (or why the De Groots appear to be among them,) but it doesn’t have to, if we don’t assume them to be directly related.
My guesses:
There are no “Others,” and I’ve never believed there were. There’s merely competing groups of castaways. It is possible they’re being manipulated by an outside force, but there’s no group of evil, murderous “Others.”
There’s no “sickness,” in the sense that there is no disease, nothing with a pathology. The CFW was nuts because she was shipwrecked on a desert island. Desmond was going nuts for the same reason. The Tail Section group apparently didn’t deal real well with the crash, either. Some people go all squirrely faster than others.
The island is essentially a psychological laboratory. Possibly one left to go awry, or maybe an ongoing experiment.
Another thing…
The “Orientation Film” never says that the “world will end” if the numbers aren’t entered. In fact, the guy giving the instructions is so nonchalant about the whole thing it really SEEMS like an experiment. Does he say anything more than “there was an incident”?
I think we can safely say that some of the original experimenters are still there and that they are manipulating things. Bluebeard, for instance.
I’m begingin to question the authenticity of CFL’s story. Could she be a plant by the experimenters?