There are little things that lead me to think Hurley's intelligent, just not well educated. I'll have to think about it.

And the only "dumb" things he's said is a simple misspelling (common one, too) and the remark about dinosaurs, which, given the circumstances isn't that far out.

He's just a "Dude!" kinda guy, but not a Keanu Reeves character-type level of dumb.

Hurley knew how to fish, yes?

Shannon isn't doing anything in particular for me, Jessica, though I find Sawyer more irritating.

Locke and Charlie both pop for me as characters with some depth--I mean, that's portrayal not writing, but they feel like people instead of archetypes. I like Hurley and Sayid a lot--they almost pop for me--and, surprisingly, Claire. Oh, wait, no, it's not surprising. Claire's earnest. I always like the earnest ones.

I just loved the way Charlie and Claire had that moment when he was asking about her baby. It was so sweet and it seemed as if Charlie really did care instead of just asking out of politeness.

Sawyer, I like. I mean, I don't like him, but I buy him. Shannon sticks out like a sore thumb because all the other characters are so well written and acted, and she's so completely two-dimensional. And not even believeably so. (And I have a sinking feeling she'll end up like Cordelia, only without the giving us several years of snarky goodness first.)

He's just a "Dude!" kinda guy, but not a Keanu Reeves character-type level of dumb.

Oh, definitely. I didn't meant to imply that he was a moron or anything, just that he seemed of fairly average intelligence.

I've got all but eleven of these clues.

Anyone think that maybe Jack's first surgury didn't go as well as he told Kate?

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Maybe it wasn't a boy...maybe it was Locke!

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P-C, I love you to bits. Thank you. I was putting babies to bed and got to turn it on just after that scene.

I don't buy Shannon either. A girl with money and decent looks, who can't put Sawyer down when he implies she'll sleep with him for sunscreen... just doesn't click.

I don't think that once the dura mater has been ruptured and "nerves spill out like strands of spaghetti" it's all that easy to just tie a bow around it and kiss everything better. Odds are Dr. Jack's patient ended up in a wheelchair or iron lung if she survived at all. Which would also redeem that schmaltzy single tear he cried while telling his story, as it may have been bitter aching regret rather than being moved by how touching and inspirational his own story was.

I'm betting she survived. Guilt's much worse when there's a survivor.