I'm kicking myself now for not taping Lost from the beginning. There's too much stuff that needs to be double-checked!

I like the wish-fulfillment theory of the island, but some things I can't reconcile with it. Sun seems not to be happy with her marriage. If the island were fulfilling her wishes, I think Jin would be dead. Everyone's wish is to be rescued - the island isn't going to fulfill that one. And, if the island gives people what they want, why did it (or its avatar the Not-Dinosaur) kill the pilot?

Also, do we know that Michael is Walt's father? Has the kid called him Dad at all? Maybe he's Walt's older brother, or his uncle, or something. Anyway, what is Michael wishing for? I'd guess, either to be a good father (figure) or not to be saddled with the kid. I haven't seen any sign of either one being fulfilled. Or of any wishes from Michael at all.

One thing I see that all the survivors have in common is that they didn't want to go wherever they were going. Jack had to go back and deal with his awful family and his father's funeral. Kate was going to trial and probably jail. Maybe Sun didn't want to go to the States and/or continue her loveless marriage. Maybe Claire didn't want to be a single parent, and the closer the baby's birthday comes, the closer she gets to going someplace she doesn't want to go - single motherhood. (However, she doesn't want to lose the baby, obviously.) Talk about a village - she'll have 45 people helping her when this baby comes. Well, 44. Shannon doesn't seem like the babysitter type. I don't know what the otehrs might have wanted to avoid, but there's enough tension there to think they could've had some unpleasantness coming at them. Hurley's the only one who seems to have no dark secrets. (I love Hurley.) Getting crash-landed on an island with little hope of rescue is a guilt-free way of never having to go home and face the thing you most want to avoid. (I may be thinking this because I recently had to go back home and deal with something I really really wanted to avoid, and for a while there, "stranded on a remote island" was looking like a pretty good alternative.)

Damn, I didn't even expect to LIKE this show, much less be analyzing it to death.

(edited to clarify, though you probably can't tell.)

Ashtareth, you have spoilers in your post that need to be whitefonted. (the stuff about Sun .)

Also, do we know that Michael is Walt's father? Has the kid called him Dad at all?

Yes. He has said so.

And, if the island gives people what they want, why did it (or its avatar the Not-Dinosaur) kill the pilot?

What if the pilot was near death/going to die soon anyway? Maybe he was in a lot of pain and secretly preferred death?

In "Walkabout", Walt called Michael, "Dad" - but what I noticed is that Michael seemed a bit surprised by it. At least IMO.

It was said in the show that Michael was not a part of Walt's life until two weeks before the flight. Walt was living in Sydney with his mother, who just died. I think that is where the suprise came in.

Also, do we know that Michael is Walt's father? Has the kid called him Dad at all?

He has, and even if he's not, Dan Kwa's Good Dad score sheet is still hysterical.

Right, Lee, but that stuff isn't a spoiler. I just made it up.

That's just how it seems to me. I have no inside knowledge.

Right, Lee, but that stuff isn't a spoiler. I just made it up.

I'm a spoilerphobe, and I saw nothing spoilerrific. It was all based on our perceptions of the characters as they stand.

I'm debating going to tvtorrents.net and torrenting the Lost avi files before they disappear. I think the user "lol" (heh) makes some of the best encodings, and you can usually store two hours worth of his/her avi's on a 700 MB CD.

Okay, mad-skipping to the end.

Re: Jack not a doctor: Did anyone notice in the last episode that the porter(?) in Jack's dad's hotel room addresses Jack as Mr., and Jack doesn't correct him?

Ah, sorry Ashtareth. I misunderstood.