Dude, if Jack had any quinine in his bag to start with, I'd eat my shorts.

Surely there was tonic water in the drink cart.

Surely there are mosquitos on the island.

polar bear mosquitoes

"I Shall Not Walk Alone" by The Blind Boys of Alabama.

Hey, cool, I wondered if it was them. I thought this week's ep was the best use of a montage so far (partly because it was so short).

Behind the HAWTness of the Kate/Sawyer kiss, I couldn't help wonder if either of them had brushed their teeth in the past two weeks.

No kidding. Maybe they're all using Sun's magical toothbrushes.

Vonnie's mapping is awesome. I realize now that Charlie is the perfect cross between Xander (earnestly dorky, rejected at first by almost all the ladies) and Oz (sweet, diminutive, musician, painted fingernails!). Also, a big yes to this:

Maybe Locke is Ethan, but they think that he is Giles.

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Big ass Jersey mosquitoes

Aside from the whole shaving issue, what are the women going to do when they get their periods? (One presumes they won't actually become malnourished enough not to have them.)

For real, yo. I mentioned this to my mom, who also said she hoped they had a stash of Advil for cramps.

Though serious trauma can make a woman miss her period, and if anything qualifies as "serious trauma" I'd say a plane crash onto an island that has funky shit going down definitely qualifies.

Oh, that's the other fun part -- hope none of their plastic stuff is biodegradable plastic. Especially the plastic keeping the drugs dry. Aspirin, for one, gets all melty when it gets wet.

In addition to malaria and all those nice infectious diseases, I think in the interest of National Geographic we need to have some poisonous plants, preferably ones with really big spines that only stupid television people would go play with. Poisonous bugs are too hard to see on camera, and poisonous animals would require more silly CGI. (Although I am open to [a] a few nice giant bats and lizards in close-up and [b] the wanton importation of wetas, just for the jolt of bugs bigger than one's haid.)

I'm betting DDK's character speaks English. It's an HSQ moment that they can delay for years, and we all know the actor's quite fluent.

But what reason does he have to keep it a secret? The language barrier's only ever caused him trouble.

But what reason does he have to keep it a secret? The language barrier's only ever caused him trouble.

Not really. He got handcuffed, but he knew he'd eventually be let out. And when someone supposedly doesn't speak the language, people tend to talk in their presence as if they weren't there. Serious advantage there.

It will be a deep, dark secret, one that makes us love him with a fiery burning passion!

But actually, after hearing his OMGWTFYOUSPEAKENGLISH!!?! in Korean, I don't think he does speak, after all. And this is sad, because he is now the only completely isolated character on the island and it's only going to get worse.

Also! Seeing that pretty much all the internal violence on the island has come from misunderstandings about personal property, it seems like someone should have, at this point, made a big pile of everything they have and have found and said, "Okay, tell me if you recognize anything that belongs to you. Because otherwise, it's all salvage, and you can't really beat people up for picking up something they don't know is yours."

Also? Saywer's been reading that book for freaking-ever. Don't you think Boone could have casually said, "Hey, that's my book!" at some point prior to going through his stuff and getting beaten up?