Oh, you mean the backgammon.

Hee. The black & white's not an anvil, right? Right? Also? Is there a white rock that corresponds to the black rock? Cause there could be on a volcanic island.

I HAVE TO GO BACK AND WATCH EVERY SINGLE EPISODE RIGHT NOW!

Oh, someone on TWoP pointed out that Ethan Rom not only anagrams to "More Than" (as, I think, Nora pointed out) but also...OTHER MAN.

The WILL to LIVE, people! Help a sister out!

Share that, sister. I got Tylenol Nightime Cough- it promises minty freshness!!

Lilty, your roommate sounds...interesting.

The psychic deliberately put her on the doomed flight.

I can't figure this out. Because initially whatever he saw that was blurry was too horrifying for him to consider. But then he changed it to "you must raise the baby, or it's all doom and disaster for you both". So logically he'd "know" she'd get through the crash and the birth and the island living all right, but...what was so scary in the first reading then? Unless the second vision allowed him to see that the baby would be some kind of Miracle Child on the island, counterbalancing the forces of...shaky epileptic trees, or whatever.

Ethan seems too old to be any sort of child of Danielle's.

Initially I thought so, too, but I looked up Mira Furlan (who plays Danielle) on IMDb, and she was born in 1955, which makes her 49. (WOW, she's a well-preserved 49 year-old.) So, 16 years ago, she was 33. Old enough to have a 10-year-old child.

Plus, I like my pet theory. I shall hug it and squeeze it and call it George.

Initially, it looked like Claire's past would be something sad but commonplace, then the psychic dude showed up and I was all, ARRRGH, the creepy! At this point, I don't think anyone would have a normal back-story, because 1) it makes for boring TV, and 2) the island clearly has a purpose for bringing each and every one of them over to it. And now, I'm talking of the island as if it had a consciousness and stuff and no, I'm fine without my Thorazine shot, thank you!

(I'm kinda wishing Nathan Fillion really were playing Ethan, because Fillion can really bring the creepy.) (Also, I like looking at Nathan Fillion.)

What Zenkitty said.

And Claire's story? Fairly mundane but still interesting, perhaps carried by the acting.

What Polter-Cow... waitaminnit. Mundane?? She's carrying Satan's baby! What more do you want?

I tell you, this show is not good for my blood pressure. I was CONVINCED Claire was gonna die in this episode. Then at the very end, I was convinced it was going to be Charlie instead, and OMGnooooo! And now they've been kidnapped! Aieeeee!

Alse, re: Locke's eyes in Claire's first dream: I was pretty sure there was one black eye AND one white eye.

Ooh, really? I didn't catch that--my TV doesn't do so well with the really dark scenes.

what was so scary in the first reading then?

Maybe he took some psychic correspondence courses in between the first and second readings.

Lilty, your roommate sounds...interesting.

At least 7th Heaven isn't on tonight.

I didn't see the eye colors either. Dang tv.

as, I think, Nora pointed out

I wish. I lack the brain capacity, at this point, to point out stuff that's not: heh heh heh. Hurley funny. waitaminute- didn't that drug guy use to be a hobbit?

t scratches ass

I'm starting to wonder if Locke isn't so much the Voice of the Island as he is someone who is asking people to choose sides.

It's almost as if he sees everything totally objectively. Which I can imagine will be disputed, due to his own creepy Nature!Warrior! factor, but he's always very clear and fairly unemotional about what others' choices are. Even with the anvilicious moths swirling around, he was very much, "You can do this. Or you can do that. Choose."

And those choices don't seem to matter much to him. As others' opinions of him don't.

She's carrying Satan's baby!

I did get a serious Rosemary's Baby vibe when she was approaching the crib in her dream.