Was there any significance to the years, months, weeks, days, seconds, etc; that Juliet has been on the island?
Just that it completely contradicts what the producers/writers told us early on… that the “when” wasn;t important and that it (the story, whatever) wasnt supposed to be based on any particular “time period”.
Yeah, but we already know from last season that the show originally started (in show time) on the exact date that it aired (in our time).
We also have the reference to Jack not being on “Jacob’s list” from episode 3.06.
I thought the guy at the end said that the company was in Portland, then said “well, not in Portland” which led me to believe that it was very near Portland. I could be misremembering, though - yours sounds plausible enough.
I thought he said the actual facility was “remote” which is why she couldn’t bring her sister.
Could be. I see I’ll have to watch it again.
Are we taking bets as to whether or not Juliet eventually talked them into letting her bring her sister anyhow and that the opening scene with the sister was actually on the island?
Well, I was thinking her sister was actually her brother who had a sex-change but still wanted a baby.
If you think about the sequence of events that unquestionably took place in Miami, then it seems impossible for the opening scene to have been on the island. For instance, the two encounters with Ethan. If you want to bet, I’m game, but I don’t know how we can be assured that this issue will ever be addressed again.
This is what’s known as a joke. It’s like saying, “Hitler? He’s a nice guy. Well, he’s not always nice…”
The island is very close to Portland - in a galactic sense. I mean, it’s on the same planet. Probably.
P.S. - It’s not LOST TIME, it’s TIME LOST. As in Marcel Proust.
Say you’ve never read this book and have no idea how it would tie into our convolutedly wonderful primetime scifi soap opera. Would you care to posit a theory? What are Proust’s main themes/struggles here? If anyone’s read it, that is. Wikipedia can give us a summary, but as for specific tie ins, theories, etc., well, probably not.
The guy didn’t strike me as a jokster, but OK.
I’m thinking that the first scene actually happened later in real time. The sister looks sicker as if her cancer had progressed. Juliette walks out into the drab hallway and and greets Ethan with a nod.
The scene Rachel informs Juliet of her pregnancy happened earlier in Miami.
I’m thinking that the timeline will be borne out in yet another flashback.
But then again, we are talking about Lost so anything is possible.
I saw Juliet greeting Ethan in the opening sequence with just a pleasant wave that you would give to any non-threatening stranger you pass in the hallway.
Right, and then later she asks him if she’s seen him somewhere before.
So, what is the view that they see when she opens the curtains? Is there a large metropolitan city called “Miami” on the island?
Also, when Juliet sees Ethan at the interview, she mentions having seen him earlier in the hallway.
And a pregnant Ethan would certainly explain his chunkiness 
Dude, I was thinking the same thing (well, I was after the dude mentioned Juliett was able to impregnate a male mouse.)
I believe ABC is allowed to have only one show with a character who is a transsexual (Ugly Betty). I believe that Juliet’s sister was impregnated by just getting an injection of some kind and not through artificial insemination.
Maybe it’s a form of parthenogenesis that Juliet has developed.
Juliet obviously misses his sister or her child. She was crying in front of a mirror when we first saw her this season.
Rachel looks bedridden to me. I think it would be a fairly simple task for Dharma to setup a display in the window with a Miami scene, complete with sound effects.
She just says, “Have we met?” She doesn’t mention when she might have met him or anything about a hallway. She could have seen him getting out of the driver’s seat of the bus for all we know.