The only "spoiler" I quit reading was the one about Sun and Jin as it was about an upcoming episode. Everything else was either stuff we've speculated about ourselves, or the producers just giving us some background on what they were trying to achieve. There's still a heck of a lot we don't know.

What I'm now waiting for is the Lost equivalent of Angel becoming Angelus, or Angelus snapping Jenny's neck. I'm not saying that analogous events will happen, merely that Lost has great HSQ potential of the good kind. I just hope it lives up to that potential.

Jack snapping Uber-Bitch's neck. I could get into that.

Now I kind of want to make (or see) a show where there is secret hidden dialog or messages hidden in the caption track.

The Thanksgiving O.C. episode -- where Ryan goes back (yet again) to Chino and gets in a fight with some of his brother's friends -- slipped into the captioning of the fight: "What the fuck?"

I rewound my tape about 3 times to make sure I read it right.

I'm sticking by mine, dammit.

You'd think he was the leader, but no. Also, big with the killing things.

Fiver, to me, has to have an intuitive feel about him, rather than a knowledgible-ness. I think Locke's wrong about the island, and Fiver would not be. I haven't really seen a Fiver, though I could see Sun or the kid going that way.

Jack snapping Uber-Bitch's neck. I could get into that.

Does that mean Shannon's going to start dating Locke right before?

I haven't really seen a Fiver, though I could see Sun or the kid going that way.

I was about to say, Walt would make a good Fiver, if you're Bigwigging Locke. The kid does have the spookiness about him, what with conjuring polar bears and controlling the weather.

Does that mean Shannon's going to start dating Locke right before?

P-C, spoilers go in the other thread.

Bigwigging Locke

No way. Locke is all Fiver, all day, every day.

Fiver, to me, has to have an intuitive feel about him, rather than a knowledgible-ness. I think Locke's wrong about the island, and Fiver would not be.

I haven't read WD (only seen the movie, and that very long ago), but just from the descriptions here in thread, I've been meaning to chime in that I really don't think Locke maps out to Fiver at all.

From 'Suela's descriptions earlier:

Fiver, his visionary brother. Small, incredibly insightful and brilliant but prone to flakage.

That description just dosn't fit Locke, for me. I don't see him as prone to flakage, nor do I see him as insightful (not the way I understand Fiver to be insightful). And, his prior handicap notwithstanding, he's not small or frail at all.

I think P-C's right, Walt maps out to Fiver much better.

Locke picked up on the strangeness of the island LONG before anyone else, in a way that seems to imply more than just practical know-how at play. Between that and his talk of destiny, sounds visionary to me.

I think P-C's right,

That is probably a phrase in one of those languages I don't speak.

Fiver is the advisor to the hero, the power behind the throne, in a non-Wormtounge kind of way.

Locke=Fiver. Taking all cash bets.

I think P-C's right, Walt maps out to Fiver much better.

I just want to give credit to DebetEsse for putting forth that idea first. She also suggested Sun, and I'd like her to expand on that, cause I don't really see it so much.

What are some other clues about Michael's relationship to Walt? It struck me when conflating the idea of "Walt's mother" with "Michael's wife" was questioned. Is he maybe only a stepfather? What were his lines about not being a part of his life until two weeks ago? I got the impression he and his wife were estranged, or maybe he'd actually just up and left when Walt was born.