Well, if either of you run into Robert Gant during the course of it, send him my way.

I volunteer to be Robin's understudy.

We need to form a line.

ETA: Hee hee - we have hijacked the Lost thread.

takes back the Lost thread

I just saw the episode. I 've decided I am surprised by Lost everytime I see it. I enjoy it more than I suspect I will. There was talk about Lost in Natter - I don't remember who all was talking about it - but there was the feeling that in each episode there was redemtion. I don't theink Claire was redeemed - she was still selling her baby . ( I know it was adoption, yet the amount of money made it seem more like selling) However, I don't think she was evil, or in need of redemption - just faceing a relatively common problem that there isn't a good solution for.

Quite honestly, I don't think it's at all evil to "sell" one's baby to a good family that's eager to raise it lovingly when you don't feel up to the task yourself. Mothers (or parents in general, as some fathers factor in to these decisions) may feel like they're failing by giving the baby up, but far better to fail in a way that leaves the baby with a stable home and parents that are up to the pressures of raising it.

Yeah, even at 1/2 the value (which makes it closer to US dollars) it's still pretty good money ($20 K AUS).

And that was the "additional" amount to be paid after the baby arrived. They didn't say how much money she got up front, too.

ETA: Plus? What Matt said makes sense, too.

She got half up front and half in L.A.

Yeah, she had done nothing that needed redemption -- except possibly in her own mind.

When I think of the island as Redemption Island, it's in that everyone on the plane gets a nice enlightening and angsty backstory. So no one is as bad as you might have thought, because they have, you know, history. Which is why I want Hurley to have an evil past, and once about which he's not even repentant. He just also happens to be a people person. Oh, and Kate was a drug dealer. And Michael a pimp. And they'd do it again, if they had drugs or hos.

She got half up front and half in L.A.

That was the deal for the psychic said he had set up. I got my number from the other couple, the ones that were setting her up in Brisbane. I can see where I erred.

Redemption has always been you have done something really evil - and by act or word you are forgiven. so that explains what I didn't understand. but I do see what ita meant.

and see, I wasn't trying to say that Claire was evil for 'selling' the baby. In fact I don't think she was. there was just an interesting emphasis on money

I read the emphasis on money as being shorthand for all the pressure she was getting to give up the baby.