Back to the conversation about the ethnic background of some of the actors. I'm happy to give some slack on this. I mean, I'm half Iranian, but very few people would be able to guess I have any Iranian blood in me by my looks. Actors are there to act.

Dude, Sawyer just gets hotter and hotter.

Here's my theory about the polar bear: Crazy!woman and crew (the millionaire, and his wife....) brought bear cubs with them.

What? It makes as much sense as anything else. When she said "If we're lucky, it's one of the bears," all I could think was, "BearS, plural? Bears, plural, different species? Brown, black, grizzly, and polar? Got any pandas stashed in the back of your creepy hut of solitude?"

There must be koalas, because there's eucalyptus.

Here's my theory about the voices in the Blair Witch Jungle of Mystery: they've crashed on Club Med, and they haven't explored the island enough to find the nude-beach-Mai-Tai-drinking-volleyball-playing resort. And what they're hearing are the voices of the frolicing Club Med-ers. What? Sayid said that someone needed to walk the perimeter of the island so that they could map it, which implies that they don't really know what's going on on the other side of the island, and I say LUAU!!!

My favorites from Cleolinda's recap:

So of course he manages to set off, like, three dozen other tripwires and the original wire is like "HA HA!"

Ebola Jones may also be over in the corner whining about his flesh-eating rash, I'm not sure

(Look, I know she's supposed to be kind of unbalanced, but it's hilarious to me that one minute she's like, "YOU! I KNOW WHAT YOU ARE! THE POLAR BEARS WATCH ME UNDRESSING! THE PLANTAINS LISTEN TO MY SECRETS IN THE DEPTHS OF THE NIGHT!" and the next minute she's like, "So, who's the babe?")

Mercutio asks if this is what Hurley's wasted his time on, like there was something else Hurley was supposed to be doing. ("These bags won't go through themselves, dude!") And Jack's like, "You built a golf course?" Jeez, man, all he did was dig a couple of holes and make some flags. You people really do need to mellow.

I am just sitting there staring at the TV in shock that Mercutio does not step up and just go, "Wait, wait wait, back this train the fuck up: POLAR BEARS?"

Here's my theory about the voices in the Blair Witch Jungle of Mystery: they've crashed on Club Med, and they haven't explored the island enough to find the nude-beach-Mai-Tai-drinking-volleyball-playing resort. And what they're hearing are the voices of the frolicing Club Med-ers.

Hee! That's my theory, too. Only it's kind of a gothy Club Med, which is why the voices are spoooooooky.

Jeez, man, all he did was dig a couple of holes and make some flags.

Well, he also cut the grass somehow. I mean, it was longish, but it wasn't long enough to be wilderness.

My big comment on the episode: when I am fleeing from torture/execution, and some dude shoots himself and his buddy to buy me time to escape, I do not pause in my escape to write long lines of poetry! That is what Significant Looks are for, Nadia!!

Also, Ms. Rousseau really really not French-sounding. There was some word with a prominent H in it, and when she said that one word I was like, "Oh look, now we are in Sarajevo!" I mean, there is vague-foreignness and then there is not actually knowing what a French accent sounds like.

Do not personally understand the appeal of golf. Clearly, there is some kind of appeal, unless everyone was so desperate for fun they were pathetically grateful for any effort thereat by their mates. Personally I would have preferred a really big and exciting sand castle, or something.

Do not personally understand the appeal of golf.

If you're going to be walking around in the hot sun anyway, you might as well be hitting something with a stick.

The end of the game was such a Caddyshack moment. I was waiting for the course to explode.

After two weeks on a remote tropical island with no tv/internet/radio/newspapers/immunity challenges, I think golf would start to look pretty good.

After two weeks on a remote tropical island with no tv/internet/radio/newspapers/immunity challenges, I think golf would start to look pretty good.

What Jessica said. I wouldn't make an effort to watch a golf game, but if it was watch a golf game or sit on the beach for the five thousandth hour, I'd pick the golf.

And this was my favorite episode so far.

Why am I not taping these? Why do I not have TIVO?

I am sad.

I can think of many many things I would rather do than play golf, even on a deserted tropical island. There has not yet been a single instance of tree-climbing for the sake of throwing things (coconuts, bananas) at innocent passers-by, for instance.