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Did Sayid and Sawyer both come running from the fuselage..?

So that explains why it took so long to break up the fight. They were both pulling up their pants.

In Watership Down, the rabbits that live in the oppressive warren are marked in order to sort them into groups. So there's the group with the scar on the left flank, the group with the scar on the ear, etc. The marks, IIRC, regulate where they live, when they can eat, and who they interact with.

Did Sayid and Sawyer both come running from the fuselage..?

So that explains why it took so long to break up the fight. They were both pulling up their pants.

I don't know why this didn't hit me before, but I think that just set off my squick meter. Not the Hoyay, but the Hoyay in the fuselage with all the cremated bodies.

They dusted it out...

Not the Hoyay, but the Hoyay in the fuselage with all the cremated bodies.

Is it really all that different from Hoyay in a crypt?

I get the feeling that the cave group is going to be rewarded for sticking with the island, and the beach group punished for trying to escape

My take is that of the typical hero's journey. All the survivors have the opportunity to be a "hero" within the frame of the story. The first part of the story is the Call. The plane crashing on the island, in this case, is everyone's Call. Jack's personal call was confronting the ghost of his father and accepting a leadership role. Locke's call was taking all that walkabout knowledge and actually using it. Those who accept the Call will continue on the path of the hero's journey. I'm thinking those who accept that rescue may not be coming and have moved to the cave have all, more or less, accepted their Call. Those who remain on the beach have not. There is no "good" or "evil." It's merely those who are progressing on the road to enlightenment willingly and those who have, so far, refused it. We can't have everyone jumping on the bandwagon all at once or it's going to bog down in the mud.

I have an idea that they will start focusing on new characters as time goes on. In fact, I would prefer that they do.

I'd much rather have them to go back and catch up with various characters than to make it all about the core group we know until they start having an absurd amount of crapola, just because the writers are bored with the characters.

For instance, if Jack and Kate decide to get it on, we can shift focus a bit, and show their relationship in the background while some other plot is moved to the front burner. (Example only)

here is no "good" or "evil." It's merely those who are progressing on the road to enlightenment willingly and those who have, so far, refused it.

I'm waiting for the cast to break into that old Dave Mason song...

So let's leave it alone 'cause we can't see eye to eye.
There ain't no good guy, there ain't no bad guy,
There's only you and me and we just disagree.
Ooh-ooh-ooh, oh-oh-oh

I want them to take it back because I like Sawyer but couldn't stand Spike. Hee.

Me too. Well, I sort of liked him until everywhere, and I do mean everywhere, I went on the Internet there was Spike swooning. I got fed up.

I think Sawyer deserves a little swooning of his own, and not as a Spike copy-cat.

Yay for the Sawyer.

Cool points, SA. Good versus evil is not the only polarity that might divide the camps. Way cool.