Elsa and Sayid repeatedly refer to “The Economist” as “him.”
It certainly seemed from the previews for next week that Kate was one of the celebrated Oceanic Six. She was the one wearing the sunglasses, no?
There’s also a woman on the boat named Regina. I don’t believe we know her last name. I was wondering if “Elsa” was really Regina.
Elsa had a distinct German accent. Did Regina? I don’t remember who she was-- was she the woman Faraday was talking to about the rocket?
What was with Lapidus taking so much care to tell Faraday (in what sounded to me almost like a menacing tone of voice) that he was under no circumstances to talk to Minkowski on the phone, but rather he was only allowed to talk to that other person?
-Kris
I like that while Jack is moping, Hurley is in a mental institution hiding, Sayid is out taking heads.
It’s not clear what the significance was between them, but I think the point was to start exposing that there are factions among the freighter folks, just as there are factions among the Others. Same thing with the comment about how Naomi was upper management and didn’t really explain who’d hired her?
Yeah, remember in episode 2 when Miles tried to call and talk to Minkowski, and he was told that Minkowski was “busy”. Assuming Minkowski is one of the head hanchos, you’d think he’d want to talk to the away team whenever they needed.
I looked through the past Lost threads, and I find it incredible that apparently I get to be the first to mention the significance of the name Minkowski (as in, Minkowski space). I probably missed it somewhere, though.
I remember thinking the first time I heard his name that I should look it up and see what significance it had. Seemed like an odd name to pick just at random. But I forgot…
I’m waiting for the day a new character is introduced with the name Red Herring
He’ll be dating a young school teacher by the name of Miss Direct, no doubt.
Okay, here’s what I don’t get…the clock that Faraday has with him had traveled essentially the same path as the rocket - freighter to island - aboard the helicopter the day before. Wouldn’t the helicopter and therefore the clock have been subjected to the same time travel as the rocket presumably was, so that the two clocks should actually be in sync once the rocket reaches the island?
Is this a hole in the space-time continuum, or just a gaping hole in the script? 
I’m thinking they both synced the clocks to 0 at the time they decided to launch the one. Otherwise, they wouldn’t need to launch it, they’d just say to each other over the phone “What’s your clock read?”.
That is, if they had reason to suspect time difference problems already. Which they probably didn’t. Still, I think they synced to 0.
Couple observations about Sayid.
When he’s playing golf against the Italian guy, and he loses the bet, he says that it appears the 5 iron was the right choice. Well, it was the right choice for that guy, but if Sayid had hit a 5 iron, he’d be even farther away for the flag than what his 7 iron produced. In fact, he’d probably be off the back of the green.
And then when he’s in the cafe with Elsa, he orders an “expresso”. Surely he’s got enough smarts to know that it’s an espresso. That seemed really out of character unless he was trying to make himself appear to be a yokel, which doesn’t seem to be the case.
And I’m still struck by the absolute utter lack of interest that Jack showed in Faraday’s experiment. I mean, he heard and saw enough that he should’ve been aware of the implications, yet he never asked even one feakin’ question.
Actually, I suppose they must have had reason to suspect time difference problems already; else, why launch a clock, of all things? So, yeah, my reasoning in the first part works: the clocks were being used more as timers than as “What time of the day is it?” devices, they hadn’t been running yet before the launch, but they were both started off at 0 at the time of the launch.
Cool. Speaking of significant names, my ears finally pricked up at “Saint Sebastian Hospital” while catching up on Through the Looking Glass last week.
I guess because it was mentioned so early on and is so nicely inconspicuous as a hospital name, I never thought much about it.
But it fits in with the Apollonian theme they’ve had going on. How does a Catholic saint relate to classical mythology?
This finally clicked for me when I heard “Saint Sebastian” for the umpteenth time during that episode, which then concluded with Ben Linus in a position that was evocative of St. Sebastian’s martyrdom.
(Linus, of course, was a son of Apollo - given over to be raised by others (shepherds,) which didn’t work out so well as a dingo ate his baby. Apollo reacted to this insult by whipping up a nice little child-killing plague. Oh, that wacky Apollo!
Possibly he’s asking ‘Is she dead’ to make sure there’s no loose ends, like people who know too much running around. And Ben’s observed the Losties long enough to know none of them volunteer info, so he’d better ask explicitly.
“Obviously”? 
It’s just as obvious that the next big mystery will be “How is it that the island is at the South Pole?” or “How is Walt’s mom still alive?” or “Did it appear that Kate and Juliet were living an ‘alternative lifestyle’ in their flash-forward?” or “When did that other plane crash?” or “Since we’ve seen Charlie-ghost and Boone-ghost, will we see Shannon-ghost too?”. Hell, we might even find out that somebody is going to nuke the island and that will take precedence over anything else. Like usual.
On a more general note, this last episode is where, imho, the series pulled one too many surprises out of its …hat. Why do we need to find out the identity of this guy when we don’t even know the identity of Jacob?
Really… when it was revealed that it was Ben that was giving Sayid his orders my heart sank a little bit. I know that in Lost the mystery is the story but the sheer amount of unanswered questions (and the writers desire to add more to the mix) implies that even the “big mysteries” (like who is Jacob? or what’s the big deal with Claire’s baby?) are, in the end, no more important than than irrelevant queries about the characters (like who was with Jack when he got his tattoo?).
So I’m beginning to think that this one is just going to end as the X-Files ended, with the story over and nothing really explained. It’s a fun journey though and, as long as it doesn’t end in a clip show, I’ll stick it out to the end a “fan”.
Though I do think Lost will eventually have more Unanswered Questions than any TV show prior.
A character on Lost showing an inexplicable lack of curiosity? Failure to ask follow-up questions? I’m shocked! Shocked!
Yeah, I know. It still bugs me, though.