From reading that TV Guide article, I took it to mean:
…that they did that so that the show would not be too dated for re-runs and future DVD sales. I think the time travel/was it in the past thing was just the article’s writer getting into the story. The passengers all have modern clothing and hairstyles. The flashbacks also show modern conveniences. I think that is a whole lotta nothing.
I like Jin, and Sun is cuter than Kate sometimes!
korean guy korean guy
speaks korean but still gets by
hurley still is twice his size
catches fish just like flies
lookout! it’s fisher korean guy!
I agree.
The show might take place a few years ago, but what difference would that make? There’s no way this show took place even 15 years ago. Who was it that reacted kinda shocked that the whole world depended on an outdtated computer from the 70s?
A pretty slow thread this week for LOST.
Maybe because nothing much happened/was revealed?
I have a term paper to write! I’m sorry! 
According to the closed caption, it was “You will find Walt, Michael.”
I also enjoyed the teasing with the orange. And it was good to see Jin stop bowing and scraping when he handed in his gloves and top hat to his schmuck of a boss.
Well, there is some logic to it.
If you’re an evil shady car manufacturer and you need a no-questions-asked guy who will do ANYTHING for you, who better than a poor schlub whose entire life (wife, money, etc) flow from you?
Sun’s dad basically owned Jin once he let them marry.
-Joe
I know I’m a double-posting loser, but I just have to do a happy dance on this one. Thanks, Zuma for making my day!
If that’s true, of course…and with my luck it won’t be.
Maybe a silly question, but regarding the tragic incident next episode,
Is there anyone (besides Walt) who was in last year’s credits but not this year’s?
And I think it’ll be Bernard.
-Joe
Only Ian Somerhalder, as far as I have noticed–I believe his name stayed through the end of the first season, though. I happened to check this week only because I saw Walt listed as a guest star for the next episode.
Probably. There’s not a lot to speculate about.
Fine with me, actually; I think it’s good that the writers do this once in a while.
If every episode presented us with provocative new mysteries and/or big reveals, viewers would get pretty desensitized. Instead, they picked a nice universal theme and did a fine job of weaving a few pretty good little vignettes around it.
It was nice to see Jin before he began to lose himself. Fleshed out nicely: “Oh, that’s what she sees in him.”
I agree completely, Larry: I think it was a very good episode. I love this show. 
Once in awhile? Isn’t this episode five, with nothing in particular having happened so far in the season?
More evidence that Ethan isn’t an Other: When he took Claire and Charlie, Locke was able to track him. Going back to check that episode, Locke refers to “three distinct sets” of tracks. But the Others don’t leave tracks…
He’s just a rogue Canadian psycho. Deal with it.
Although, who says our Random Repeating Legs marching through the woods are even “the Others”. Maybe they are just some others. I certainly have a hard time equating them with the “others” that took Walt. Bluebeard and pals just didn’t seem like the “barefoot through the woods” types, to me.
It’s primarily Jin who keeps putting these identifications on new people. Everytime he sees somebody (or signs of somebody) he doesn’t know, he says, “Uddahs?”
This island has a crapload of people on it, that’s becoming evident… 
Someone described the woods walkers as “feral” and that seems an apt description, based on the brief glimpse we had of their legs. But the boat people were better dressed and were on a gasoline-powered boat. So I don’t think the two are the same group.
Yup, and those legs parading past Jin & Echo didn’t strike me as people who will only be found if they want to be found.
I agree. The moment where Sun hears from her presumed fiance of his American girlfriend was just a lovely little piece of writing and especially acting: a small heartbreak, insignificant in the world, but crushing to the individual, and so beautifully well done. I found it very moving; stuff like this is the heart of the show for me. The mystery is fascinating, don’t get me wrong, but it’s the detail in the characters that keeps me engaged. And on that level, this hour worked well for me.
Just my WAG, and I’m not sure if anyone has said this before…
*Not a spoiler, just my speculation.
I think Walt is dreaming the whole thing after reading the comic book, and the end of the story will be Walt waking up.
Oh, I really hope not! That would almost be too much.