Actually, I think I liked it better than you did this time around.

I always like to blame things on the viewing environment. I had to watch about twenty minutes with low volume and closed-captioning since the girls were talking house stuff.

Have I mentioned I love the music on this episode?

By the way, I misinformed you. J.J. Abrams wrote the Alias theme song, not Michael Giacchino.

"We need the sunscreen, princess," was what did it.

Yep. I enjoy the sibling rivalry.

The hives thing didn't bother me, because Jack was obviously mid-conversation with the guy, so had taken some history. Plus my mom started getting hives only after my dad died, and still gets them when she is stressed out. I also had a friend who got them the way the rest of us might blush--if she was embarassed or nervous, you could see the welts pop up.

I get a kind of pre-hives from my food allergies (red flush on my neck and chest with only a bump or two) when they get bad, but sometimes when my allergies are only acting up a little, stress can bring it out.

you can still do what we call "the 60 Hz jitters" when you come in contact.

Unless, of course, Jack was lying to the guy, as he mentioned to Hurley the guy was a hypochondriac.

But then it got bigger, so...

Maybe Sullivan will be the first casualty since the drowning.

Yes, the producers aren't helping themselves with the savings that woudl come with a reduction in cast size!

I think some sort of jungle rot is a distinct possibility, what with them all living in a dank cave system right by an active spring and getting sweaty and/or rained on constantly when they're out and about.

One good (?) thing is that with so many mouths to feed, they're unlikely to run into food preservation problems.

Don't know much about Ethan yet, but I really liked the Rash Guy. (Does he have a name?)

Ebola Jones, according to cleolinda, which might be my next favorite nickname after Snicker Bitch.

I think Andrews is trying an Arabic accent, but I have no idea how good it is.

My housemate saw him on... some show recently, and said his real accent sounded different. (Actually, she thought he sounded Australian, but I'm pretty sure he grew up in London, and I'm guessing he's of Indian or Pakistani descent. Anyone know what his ethnic background is, exactly?) So he is attempting an accent, but I don't know how successfully, since I wouldn't have the first clue what an Iraqi accent should sound like.

Also, this episode made me like Boone a bit. (My default position on Boone is that he needs his ass kicked, and often.)

Yay! It was starting to get lonely here in my little corner. I like Boone's character a lot (and, okay, it doesn't hurt that he's very pretty too), though I agree that a couple of ass-kickings would not go amiss. The sibling rivalry cracks me up.

I'm pretty sure he did recognize her. He did a double take when the guards were first bringing her in. Perhaps he was hoping she wouldn't recognize him.

I was thinking that he did recognize her. In my script the reason he felt responsible for her death went back to childhood. If only we had done this or that differently our lives would have taken us on a better path, perhaps together. t /sap

I'm still stuck on the Sayid/Nadia thing. I think he did recognize her. So how far back is the "childhood" we're talking about? I wouldn't recognize people I went to grade school with, but maybe that's just me. So if he should know she wasn't called Noor, that means she changed the name (to something Russian!) when she was a child. I really need to know her backstory now, and I'm quite sure we aren't going to get any, because she's just there to be the reason for Sayid's guilt complex.

On a semi-related note, does anyone know if "Noor" is a unisex name, or only a girl's name? I have a fanfic character who insists his name is Noor. It's set in the future, though, so I'm likely gonna use it anyway.

On a semi-related note, does anyone know if "Noor" is a unisex name, or only a girl's name?

My only knowledge of the name is that it's the name of the queen of Jordan, who, IIRC, is from the US.