My first thought after this scene was that Jack’s wife did NOT die. I would expect a widower to continue to wear the ring, whereas a divorcé would likely not.
Hey, for once I can watch an episode the next day, come into the current thread, and not have it be on page 5! 
I agree, nothing happened this week, except for seeing some dirty legs.
Although, the exchange between Hurley and Sun is priceless. Watch the scene again, and just look at her expressions when he says the dog “crapped out a buck thirty-five in nickels”.
Maybe Big Black Dude/Shaft’s name isn’t Mr. Echo or Mystereko, but Misdirect-O! How about that? 
Did anyone else think they were really pounding home the Lost/Found dichotomy this week? Locke’s discussion of what it means to be “Lost” and Mister Echo talking about how “they don’t want to be Found” was pretty stark, especially if you consider Locke and Echo (“Locke” backwards would be pronounced “Eck-Ole”) to be Black/White opposites. Locke is “Found” but Echo is still “Lost”.
Well… I guess the episode titled “…and Found” is going to have that theme. Jin and Sun find each other, Sun loses and finds her ring, Jin loses and finds himself in flashback, and Michael’s character spirals further into madness.
“Where’s my boy? Every minute I talk about Walt is another minute The Others are eating Walt’s brains. He’s my boy. My boy, Walt. WAAAAAALT!”
Whatchoo talking about, Willis?
“Orientation” alone gave us more concrete knowledge about the Island and what’s going on on it than Season One in its entirety.
I really, really don’t understand this complaint. This season has been a textbook in its exposition compared to the first season.
Michael, for all his design skill in building a raft, designing aqueducts, etc… he’s really annoying me with his lack of ability to realize that he needs to (and CAN) formulate a better plan for getting his son back.
It’s been several days, so the “shock and awe” of when Walt was initially taken has had plenty of time to sink in. He should have reaches a more “rational thought” stage by now. But apparently not – his best plan still consists of wandering aimlessly and yelling “WAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLT!” at the top of his lungs. He still hasn’t fathomed the difference between kid-got-lost-in-the-forest and kid-got-grabbed-by-a-band-of-armed-and-dangerous-bad-guys.
If Michael had half a brain, he would realize that a better plan would be to go back to his original camp and round up a war party. You know, where there are comrades, guns, and equipment. So far, Michael’s actions this season loudly state, “I’m a dumbass, I’m a dumbass, I’m a big stupid dumbass!”
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLT!
Now this is a complaint I can get behind. Seriously, man. At best the madmen who have your son will just run away when they hear you. At worst, they come and finish you off.
WAAAAALLLLLT!
Nah. It’s been done. Remember
St. Elsewhere
Seriously. When Ana Lucia Rambina Maria told them that her plan was to head for our survivors’ camp, Michael should have jumped on that idea all gung ho. To his knowledge, there are only 4 or 5 guns, but he’ll be pleasantly surprised when he gets back to camp that our people are now very well stocked, with more arms from the hatch. And with 40 or so people still around, they can put together a strong little hunting party to try to find Walt and get him back.
You know that Jack would go. And Locke. And Echo. Jin would go. So would Kate. Evern Sawyer might help out, although it would just be to impress Kate (but only in a way that made it look like he was not trying to impress Kate).
But c’mon, Michael, think about it… What are your best odds against Bluebeard and the Firebombers? You alone, with nothing but your Orange-Please-Shoot-Me-Through-The-Trees-Shirt? Or you and a bunch of your fellow crash buddies, armed to the teeth, especially with trackers Locke and Kate along? Think, dumbass, think.
Not to mention Newhart.
and
The Wizard of Oz
and
Why am I using spoiler tags?
Let’s talk about going back to the original camp.
If the Others are in the forest, and the tail-section crowd all know it’s an island, and Jin is such a master fisherman, then why in the hell aren’t the tail-sectioners just going around the island on the beach? Sure, it’s probably double the distance, but distance only increases the time it takes, and if you’ve got food and everyone’s safe, then time is really just a number.
Whereas cutting through the woods, you risk
(1) getting Lost
(2) getting killed by your food before you can hit it with a hockey stick
(3) getting killed by The Others
(3.5) …or Polar Bears
(3.5B) …or Tree-Crushing Monsters
(3.5B’) …or Crazy French People
(3.5B’ii) …or Desmond
(3.5B’ii(a)) …or falling Nigerian Airplane Debris
(4) ankle injuries from uneven terrain
(5) having to climb a mountain
(5.5) …which might be a magnet that turns people insane
(5.5B) …or a volcano
and
(6) missing the other camp entirely (also: what makes them so sure Sawyer can tell them how to get there?)
Michael is also disregarding some pretty important facts:
- Walt was kidnapped by people with a small patrol boat
- The boat must be docked somewhere on the island
- Docks are routinely situated where land meets water
- Docks are rarely found deep in the jungle
Would it not make sense for him to be searching the coastline for docks, instead of yelling at the WAAAAAAAAAterfall to give him back his son?
WAAAAAAALT!
Mmmm … braaaaaaaains!
I love how this thread has a new mantra. It’s like the “D’oh!” of Lost: WAAAAAALT!
Point taken, Jurph, but that’s not quite so stupid as Mike’s atempts to find Walt via echolocation.
In fact, if they stayed to the beaches, they’d have no cover. Sticking to the woods allows them to hide from the others, and hopefully pass by them. Which happened twice this episode alone.
Plus, I’d like to add: WAAALLLT!
Pointed out on another message board:
$1.35 = 27 nickels.
135 - 27 = 108.
-Joe
Maybe Michael is starting to really lose it. Either that, or the writers have just decided that he’s completely retarded. When he and Jin ran into each other by the waterfall, Michael even ran up to the waterfall and shouted “WAAALLLLLLLLT!” up towards the top. What the hell was that? If my child was snatched by weird seabillies, I would definitely come up with a better course of action than aimless wandering and shouting. Geez man, you look like a tool.
WAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLT!!!
Color me cynical, but I can’t help but think that Michael’s plan is actually going to work. In another episode or to, we’re going to start hearing “DAAAAAAAAD!” from off in the distance.
And, yes, in spite of that, he’s being a freaking moron.
WAAAALLLLLLT!
If I were going to look up a book in the library about my favorite American business visionary, it would be filed under “DISNEY, WAAALLLLLLLLT!”
I think this is one of those things that will never stop being funny to me.
I think we saw some cliffs from the raft at one point. It may not be possible to travel all the way around the coast of the island.
Yes and no. The Boat Others were pretty damn scruffy. Maybe not as scruff as the Feral Others, but we didn’t see a whole lot of the latter group. I agree that there seems to be a difference, but I’m not ready to rule out that the two groups aren’t working together.
I sure hope we get to see more of CFL. As we learn more and more about the island, I’m doubting her story more and more. We already knows she lied about Ethan, so I think she knows a LOT more than she’s letting on.
Well, these people aren’t really the brightest bulbs in the chandelier, so to speak. How much time did they spend trying to bust open the hatch, when the front door was nearby?
Other than Hurley, the whole lot of them are now convinced to push a button every 108 minutes.
I’m thinking the plane that brought them to the island was painted yellow, and was shorter than the regular planes.