Here in Albuquerque, which has quite a large Hispanic population, Reyes is pronounced as one syllable, basically like “raze” or “race” or “res”. It’s hard to write an English word for it.
“rise” would be close also. A lot of Hispanics I know have subtle differences in pronunciation, and if you hang out with them long enough, you will notice.
I wasn’t putting it in terms of how it “should” be pronounced; I just thought I recalled Hurley pronouncing it in one syllable, and wondered why he didn’t correct her. Since he was already irritable.
I can dig it. Strangely, I have met several people from Northern New Mexico who pronounce Martinez, which pretty much always has the accent on the second syllable, as Martin-ez, with the accent on the first. It just sounds weird. 
Sorry for the hijack.
I’m wondering why the episode title is so non-descriptive.
Early titles had something to do with the theme of the episode. Many had double meanings or at least puns. We used to find deeper meanings and discuss them in these threads.
“(Asian Reporter) Tricia Ta(ka)na[sub]ka/sub is Dead” seems to only refer to one unimportant (in the scheme of things Lost) event and just happens to be a line spoken in the episode (possibly only because it is the title).
What’s up wit dat?
Oh, that wasn’t the only lousy editing. I was amazed to see that Vincent ran out of the jungle with the hand in his mouth, forearm danging. Next scene, it’s the forearm in the mouth, hand danging to the right. A couple scenes later, forearm in the mouth, hand dangling to the left. Christ, it’s a friggin’ dog running through the jungle. You can’t keep track of the one prop he’s carrying?
Aside from that, however, highly entertaining.
[hijack] At one point, Mr. singular interrupts and I freeze the screen. He asks me to take him for a haircut tomorrow, as his long blond scruffy hair is driving him nuts. I look at the frozen screen, where scruffy blond Sawyer is beaming out at me, and think “I dunno, I kinda like scruffy blonds…” 
[/hijack]
Surely the van would have no fuel, a flat battery, and be generally rusted solid.
I liked the episode because it focused once again on the core group. All the tangential plots were getting depressing. The great thing about Lost in S.1 was the chemistry between interesting characters; that’s been (ahem) lost for a long time.
Well, I think it’s referring to the fact that Hurley knows when bad things are about to happen. Maybe not quite at the same level as Desmond, but he gets these gut feelings and they’re accurate enough to be trusted.
Also, now that Hurley has cheated death and brought a dead car back to life, the curse (as represented in this case by the meteor-flattened reporter) is dead. At least in his mind.
Would have been funny as hell for them to kill Charlie in this episode, though. Survive the car thing, but then be hit by a falling tree on the way back to camp. Gotcha!
After they magically avoided the rocks and were driving around in circles in the field, I said to my husband, “Watch, they’re going to fall in a pond and drown.”
I’m glad I didn’t read any previews for this episode, because I honestly didn’t know who the flashback was until Cheech said, “Live a little, Hugo. It’s just a candy bar.”
I love that Hurley hired his butlers from Bennigan’s.
Yeah, my husband the chemical engineer said, “Dude, that gas would be turpentine by now. And I don’t care how close to death I am, or how stranded for how long, I would not drink that beer.”
And I did love the line, “Hey, what’s with the head back here?”
Ah, Characterization, old friend. Welcome back.
My favorite part was Hurley trying to Nickname Sawyer. “Touche”.
That was my thought as well — the gas would be full of water, the battery dead, etc.
Did anyone else get the impression the writers got their inspiration for this episode from watching “Little Miss Sunshine”?
Lost 3.2.
Taking complacency and mediocrity to new heights!
Would anyone else, in Jin’s position, say, “No, I will not shove your ass down a steep incline in the hope that you MIGHT be able to jumpstart a thirty year old van that will result in your pretty much guaranteed death unless it happens to start”?
The episode was fine, but the van story was just silly.
As for the significance of the episode title, Tricia Takanawa being meteor’d to death is what prompted Hurley to go to Australia. So, that’s why it was of some importance.
Oh, and it’s just sooooo nice to see our Clever Losties chasing after The Others…again…with an easily-managed team of four guys. And their guide post is the shadow of Eko’s stick.
I’d feel better following Locke into the woods to go after the others if he’d told me he’d determined the compass bearing based on doing peyote.
-Joe
Now all we need is for B.A. to convert that microbus into an urban assault vehicle! 
The battery wouldn’t be a factor if you’re roll-starting it (which is what they did, although Hurley incorrectly called it “jumpstarting.”
As for the rest…well, the Black Rock was also unusually well-preserved, and I think the producers were making a similar point with Roger’s Type II.
You’d need the battery for the tape deck though.
Did I miss something or did NO ONE say anything about gasoline in this episode? You’d think that the writers would have at least thought that someone MIGHT bring that up and come up with a wild explanation for how the tank is full or how there happens to be an extra tank in the back of the van or something. yeesh.
Oh, and will someone tell me what Sawyer is supposed to be sorry for? Even Kate was a little confused on that point when she asked him to say he was sorry.
Holy crap, I HAVE Asian Exotica.