"And remember, this is for posterity. So, be specific."

Previews for next week and Alias at :53 or :54 past the second hour.

Hmm...not quite sure what you mean by "anvils", but if it's predictable or obvious elements in the show, I know what you mean. Not a bad bit of television, kinda Lord of the Flies meets The Stand (at least that's what sprung to my mind), but kinda predictable (I'm like "he's gonna throw those drugs into the fire") and it didn't really stand out as excellent TV in my view.

The acting is pretty nice, though, and I admit I'm really curious about who hit that Sayid (sp?) fellow at the end of "Moth."

One question: where does OMGWTF Polar Bear come into it?

OMGWTF Polar Bear

IIRC, that's from the 2nd half of the pilot.

For more on the anvil, see: [link] and [link]

It comes from the pilot. At the end of the second hour they get attacked.

Actually? "The Moth" is generally regarded as the most predictable ep the anvil people point to the hard hitting message about drugs, IIRC.

The show really should be seen from the beginning to really get to you, I guess.

4000 holes in Blackburn, Lancashire numberslut?

Now we know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall....

Uh...and some Buffista thought it was a Polar Bear? Or there somehow was a Polar Bear on the island? Was it on vacation? Did it think that it was a bird because it was raised by a family of migrating birds and didn't even know it was a polar bear and then fly south for the winter?

Back in the second half of the pilot, a group had gone off to track down the transmission they were getting on the plane's transceiver. After finding out that the message was in French and had been on a repeating loop for 16 years, they were attacked by, yes, a polar bear.

Interesting thing that nobody on the island has realized yet, but the audience was shown during the ep, was that earlier in the ep, Walt (the boy) had been reading a comic book he retrieved from the wreckage, and in the comic book was a polar bear. Between that, and the fact the boy has had a few coincidences happen when he wished them to (his dad said he would go looking for the boy's dog when it stopped raining, and--bam!--it stopped raining immediately), a popular online theory is that Walt has strange capabilities of wishing things into existence.

Ah...there's more to this show than meets the eye methinks. If they didn't explain away the Polar Bear and they made sure to show the comic book Polar Bear to the audience just enough (but not too obviously), then I'll be that's what it is. The show seemed pretty realistic to me though, psychic abilities would definitely be way out of left field. Here's hoping they won't go too far ("off the wall and swimming with magic robots.").