I was at church for worship/vocal team practice, which was more about discussing the merits of Michael W. Smith vs. Steven Curtis Chapman, Christmas hymns in corporate worship, and general laughter than actual singing. I got home late to find Beau watching the last minutes of the episode - I ran upstairs to avoid spoilers and then watched it this morning when I woke up.

Good episode. This season is very good so far, although it’s more about the flashbacks than learning anything new about the Island or the Others.

[LATER]: Updated to bring you the latest recap from The Lost Blog. This is getting a link in the sidebar - good insights on the show. Spoilers, of course.

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1. I left this comment on Lost Blog; one or two items were mentioned last week.

   “In backstory world, Kate forges a union with a man who loves brown coats.”

   Malcolm Reynolds?

   “Is it just me or did anyone else become VERY annoyed by the American Express ads that were shown throughout the show?”

   They should do this commercial: “Uncharted island in the South Pacific. You can expect to see smoke-trailing monsters, mysterious hatches, and a wrecked slave ship. And if you happen to get captured by the local psychotic cult, the fish biscuit vending machine won’t accept Diner’s Club, but it will take American Express. Don’t leave home without it.”

   “Do you remember a few weeks ago, when the Others learned that Sayid, Sun and Jin had a yacht, one of them said they needed to get the yacht? They obviously did not want the Losties to have a mean of transportation. So is it possible to get off the island?”

   Maybe not, but it’s possible for the Lostaways to discover the little island where the Hydra station is. “Alcatraz” is evidently not visible from either of the two crash sites. “Zeke’s” “Do Not Cross” line from last season was probably drawn to keep the Losties from parts of the island where “Alcatraz” is visible, and where the Village is located. (Does Rousseau know about the little island?)

   I’ve noticed that Smokey never attacks when there are witnesses. The pilot was already partly out of the plane when he was nabbed - Smokey could have grabbed him without others in the plane seeing him. Maybe he *didn’t* attack Eko that first time cuz Charlie was around to witness.

   Here’s another parallel that may mean nothing. Locke and Eko see Smokey twice, are unharmed the first time, and attacked the second. (Remember Locke was grabbed by the ankle, and Jack rescued him by dynamiting Smokey’s lair.) Any reason for this?

   About the Smokey-as-Dave theory: wasn’t Dave around when Libby was trying to keep Hurley from jumping off the cliff? Maybe Smokey creates hallucinations a la Mandrake the Magician, and can selectively choose who sees them. Let Sawyer see the horse, but hide Dave from Libby.

   (An aside: maybe the appearance of Dave in the sanitarium was a hallucination of a real person - one of the people who died in the platform collapse that Hurley blamed himself for.)

   One other wild theory about Smokey: a parallel to the “monster of the id” in Forbidden Planet:

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forbidden_Planet

   Posted by Alan K. Henderson  on  11/03/06  at  06:25 AM

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