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.

Just wait, Gus. I'm all full of whacked out theories and philosophies. I'm brewing up a long, long post about various themes in Lost. I'll probably post it in my lj in the next couple days.

I like the theory too, Sail, but what do you see as Sun's, Jin's, and Hurley's calls? Sun's could be accepting her decision to stay with Jin, but I don't know what Jin's would be, and all Hurley said about going was "I go where the boar is."

Sun's could be accepting her decision to stay with Jin, but I don't know what Jin's would be, and all Hurley said about going was "I go where the boar is."

Think of the Call as the acceptance of a burden. Sun's burden is to bring Jin back to being a loving husband and not a mafioso. Jin's is to become what Sun needs him to be, a truly loving husband. We haven't seen Jin's story yet (if we do), only Sun's. Hurley...he's one of the travelling companions of the hero(s). Just like the Scoobies were Buffy's companions on her hero's journey after she fully accepted her call in "Prophecy Girl."