Maybe it's banshees.

Hee! laughed hard enough I had to explain myself. That was a fearsome movie (in more ways than one), wasn't it?

Greg suggests a wendigo for the monster and thinks Robert ate Alex. I keep telling him he needs to sign up and just say so himself, but he's afraid he'll get sucked in and never get out again.

Checks for Cleolinda's Lost crackrecap for tonight.

but he's afraid he'll get sucked in and never get out again.

And this is a bad thing because? The Republicans won and we've all been sucked into a fairy mound where we can't leave until the Elf Queen is dead. And since she's immortal, we may as well do the best we can to escape in any way we can. I'll stay here, thanyewverymuch.

I'll tell him you said so.

Sayid said he was responsible for Nadia's death.

He also told Danielle he had held on to the hope that she was still alive, so I'm guessing he's just assuming she didn't get away at this point.

Not that I wouldn't love to be proven wrong.

I notice that Rousseau mentioned the Black Rock -- so kudos to the French translation people, because that is evidently a landmark/plot point....

Hee! laughed hard enough I had to explain myself. That was a fearsome movie (in more ways than one), wasn't it?

Oh so scary. I can't even bring myself to rewatch as an adult to laugh scornfully and mock the pitiful special effects.

It will always stand alongside Watership Down as "movies I never should have seen as a child".

Have we seen anything resembling a black rock yet? On the beach or from it? In the jungle? Black rock makes me think meteorite. Meteorites have been worshipped in more than a few cultures.

Volcanic sand and rocks are black, too.

I was assuming that the rock was where the ship ran aground. Might explain the cable - it was slack enough at the shore for Sayid to pick up, so maybe it is/was a swimming guide.