Yeah, a little x-posty there.

Hee. The funny is, I was replying to the 'doomed' comment. Your post was just serendipity.

If they all wake up in their beds the next morning I am going to be really angry.

The SO still claims (albeit laughingly) that Locke is totally good guy.

Definitely he's manipulative -- he's the one pulling the strings for a LOT of what's happening. When major action gets taken, it's usually got Locke behind it in one way or another. Motive is another thing altogether.

When he did the whole Boone bondage thing, I was thinking that it was pretty irresponsible to leave them tied up in a jungle where there are known predators. Unless he knows the extent and potentially has control of the danger, that is. Locke knew immediately that the danger to Shannon had been imagined -- he should have known that there was a hallucination, but not perhaps what it was, and indeed not that she hadn't come to any harm -- so did he have some sort of insight/tie/control that allowed him to know that?

If they all wake up in their beds the next morning I am going to be really angry.

Absolutely. I would, however, like to see an episode in which one of the characters (perhaps with the aid of Dr. Locke's Crazy-Making Head Ointment) dream/hallucinate that they've been rescued--as long as it's a brief flash, and not a whole episode.

At some point, I'd also like at least one of the characters to freak out about their family thinking they're dead, worry about who's feeding the cat, etc.

This is how things transpired in my head...

Locke and Boone had been going out to the jungle by themselves for how long...a week? They had spent roughly 8 hours a day together for 7-8 days. During that time, I'm sure they talked about a helluva lot and I'm fairly sure Shannon came up A LOT. Locke probably recognized that there were the foundations of an unhealthy relationship, but of course he didn't know about the stepcest.

So after Boone kept pushing to tell Shannon their secret, Locke decided he needed to "free" Boone - for his own good.

At some point, I'd also like at least one of the characters to freak out about their family thinking they're dead, worry about who's feeding the cat, etc.

Absolutely.

It just occured to me that it makes sense that Sun would be the one getting on with life and preparing to be on the island forever andnot worried about teh rest of the world - she was getting ready to disappear out of her old life anyway (until Jin got all charming at the airport and she couldn't leave him). She was mentally prepared for everyone (her father, etc) thinking she was dead or kidnapped or something.

At some point, I'd also like at least one of the characters to freak out about their family thinking they're dead, worry about who's feeding the cat, etc.

I think this is what all the staring into the ocean/fire is supposed to be assumed to be.

Ooh, this is also a good point about Sun. I wonder what happened with all the plans-to-be.

It just seems like a weird thing to say to me after Jack saved his life in a much more immediate way more recently.

Yeah, that sort of amused me, because he was rhapsodizing to *Jack*, who had saved his life *twice*, including charging back into the teeth (or rotors, or id-manifesting tentacles...) of Lostzilla to do so.

Team Mother Abigail (good guys): Jack, Sayid, Michael, Sun, Hurley, Shannon, Kate, Sawyer. (Kate and Sawyer not being your traditional 'good', but who here is? I don't see either of them falling under the thrall of whatever this thing is. Also, while both of them have dirty pasts, I think they like the idea of being one of the cool kids.)

I hope I'm wrong, but there's been a lot of hints that Sayid's vulnerable to being Team Flagg, at least for a period of time.

IMO, Locke is the Mayor of Crazytown, Emperor of Crazyonia, and also his side is bad.

Heh.