Ji Yeon

Flash-Forward, Flash-Back, Flash... Gordon?

• Let's hand it to the writers - this mixing of future and pasts is a great way to trip us up. You better bet we'll see that trick again.
• To be fair, there were plenty of clues, including the dragon, the haircut, the oversized cell, and his pissy attitude.
• BUT - I was still stumped, even when he said he'd only been married two months.

Dead or Alive?

• That's the question. I say dead as a doornail, but I don't really know what a doornail is.
• Plus: The Oceanic 6 have lied about the other passengers of 815. The tombstone could still mean Jin's back on the island.

You Knew It Was Coming

• No surprise here - Michael is the man on the boat. Now to find out why - tune in next week!

Questions That Will Keep Me From Sleeping

• Is the ship moving? And why is the proximity to the island driving the crew insane?
• Is Ben responsible for the dead bodies in the underwater 815? If not, who?
• What was making the banging Sayid said was "not mechanical"?

Moment That I'll Remember

• Michael emerging from the shadows.

The Other Woman

Now We're Getting Nowhere

• Anyone else not give a flying Hurley Bird about the Juliet-Goodwin backstory?
• Let's have a Juliet flash-forward!

Still, There Were a Few Moments

• The smoke monster has obviously shown its face again, this time reanimating Harper.
• We get a little reveal that shows Widmore is behind the freighter (or so says Ben).
• Uh...

Oh ... That Was All We Learned? How About Some Questions

• Was Harper dead (like Christian and Yemi before her)?
• What are Widmore's real intentions for the island? I don't buy the Jurassic Park reasoning.
• Who does Juliet look like? Ben's mother? His long-lost childhood love?
• How did Daniel get a map of the island that led him directly to the Tempest?

Contrived Baloney That Felt Tired

• The whole "Tempest" station, suddenly going off the handle just in time for the freighties to save the Island...

Moment That I'll Remember

• Ben running up the hill like a twelve year old.

The Constant

Now We're Getting Somwhere

• Desmond is not physically "knocked out of time", he is merely perceiving more than one period of his life at the same time.
• The first time this happened was after the fail-safe key was turned - thereby releasing enormous levels of electromagnetic energy and radiation.
• This time, Desmond's experience was caused by variating from the Island's exit coordinates.
• Daniel indicates that the Island is not physically "knocked out of time", they are merely perceiving time at a different length than the outside world.
• This would seem to explain many things, including Daniel's experiment, the time of day the helicopter landed, even taller Walt - -

But Wait!

• Didn't the calendar in the transmission room say it was Xmas, 2004? The same date the survivors think it is?
• Doesn't that negate everything? So - confused!

Questions That Will Bother Me

• Now that Desmond has his constant, does that mean his perception of multiple moments will end - or that he can control the effect?
• Is it possible for anyone to control the effect and therefore affect future and past events by suggestion?
• How can Sayid fix things so damn fast?
• When are they going to show Ben's spy? (My money's on Michael, but something keeps telling me I'm wrong...)

Awesome and Super-Important Scene Not to Forget

• Charles Widmore winning the Black Rock's second in command Log from the Hanso family.

The Greatest Love Story of All Time Continues

• I cried.

Eggtown

Why Eggs?

• Apparently an "egg-town" is a town to avoid because the purchase goods with perishables (ie. eggs) - who knew?
• Locke made eggs, killed the chicken
• Heavy hints at Kate pregnancy (requires egg) vanish when - -

Good God! Where's that boy's Mother? Let's do some Math

• Aaron - Claire = Really Bad (Remember the fortune teller?)
• Aaron + Kate = Dead Claire?
• Desmond's Prophecy + Jack's Guilt + No Claire = Really Really Bad

Questions That Will Bother Me

• Why did Jack testify that only 8 people survived the crash? What's the official version of their lie and why does the Oceanic Six need to fib?
• Why didn't Frank, Desmond and Sayid get to the freighter? How long does it take?
• Why couldn't Daniel remember the cards?

Lost Recommends

• Valis, by Philip K. Dick
• Xanadu, the movie I assume and not the musical...

Moment That I'll Remember

• Miles and the grenade. Messed up, man.

The Economist

Yeah! Shoot that guy!

• Wait, Sayid! You're off the island. Everything's supposed to be peachy now...

Questions That Will Bother Me

• Why is Sayid working for Ben?
• Who was the "R.G." Naomi's bracelet referred to?
• What's Mr. "I've lived here my whole life" doing globe-trotting under aliases?
• Whose list are we using now?

Let's Play

• Where's Jacob's cabin? Anyone?

Question That Won't Let Me Sleep

How does Time operate differently on the Island?

Daniel's experiment with the beacon and the watches is finally solid proof that time operates differently on the Island than off it. We saw a 31 minute disparity between the supposed and the actual arrival time. This explains a few things - like why Dharma drops were never accompanied by a plane - but still leaves the question of what time it is off the Island. Is "taller" Walt proof that the rest of the world has been moving faster than on the Island?

I have ultimately always believed that Jack and Kate are Adam and Eve, but that would mean that Time would have to operate cyclically, and that the Flash-Forwards we are seeing are also Flashbacks in a way. And this is where I get too confused to go on...

Moment That I'll Remember

• The creepiest vet ever saying, "good".

Confirmed Dead

Okay, Now THAT's a Premiere!

• Anyone else think this was the mindf*ck we were expecting in the Season Premiere?

Information Overload

• They found 815! And it's filled with dead people! But they're not really the survivors?
• Four new characters, four new flashbacks, - sensing an - Eli - Stone - moment... [faints]
• Polar Bear in Tunisia? Must - resist - seizures!
• Picture of Ben in leisure suit? My heart momentarily skipped several beats...

Questions That Will Bother Me

• Why does Daniel think that "light scatters strangely" on the island?
• Who is Minkowski?
• Who is Ben's spy?

Strange

• When Miles exorcises the ghost, the picture frames turn from wood to metal... What's up with that?

Wacky Theories That Won't Let Me Sleep

Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse Theory

Very simply put, the four "rescuers" each represent one of the four horsemen. This is backed up by the

Red Heifer Theory

That suggests that the red cow Frank saw as he came up the hill is symbolic of the Red Heifer that in Judaism is traditionally thought to be a sign of the coming Messiah.

Moment That I'll Remember

• Locke yelling, "What is the monster!" at Ben

The Beginning of the End

Questions That Will Bother Me

Jacob's Cabin

• Why was Christian Shepard in Jacob's chair?
• If Jacob is so adverse to technology, why is the electric lamp turned on inside the cabin?
• How can Hurley see the Cabin? For that matter, how come the damn thing moves?

Charlie

• Uh... so he's dead, right? But that other guy can see him. And he's... there... talking...

General

• Who are the rest of the Oceanic Six?

Wacky Theories That Won't Let Me Sleep

The Ho Ho Ho Theory

• Hurley bought Ho Ho's before he saw Charlie the first time
• A sculpture of the letters H-O appear when Abbadon confronts Hurley
• Jack and Hurley only get up to H-O in their game of Horse

H and O are the 8th and 15th letters in the alphabet, so that makes sense. But who says, "Ho Ho Ho"? That's right - Santa Claus (a guy who makes lists about the naughty and the nice). Where does Santa Claus live? The North Pole! What else lives at the North Pole? You got it - Polar Bears and Magnetic Properties, just like on the Island. "Ho" is also the periodic table's symbol for the most magnetic of elements - Holmium! Which leads us to:

The Vile Vortices Theory

I'm not really going to try to explain this to you, just guide you here for more info. The basic gist is that there are "gateways" along specific lines of longitude and latitude, places like the poles and the Bermuda Triangle, that are connected and lead to one another. Sounds like a good explanation to me!

Moment That I'll Remember

• Jack pulling the trigger