But to not be thinking about it, a little creeped out, a little scared? Wondering who was next?

agreed brenda. that would be why i would seek out a hunky male to keep me "company".

if they get backed into a corner, I'm sure he can find something to blow up.

The mysterious hatch leads to a room with a giant red floating ball in it that makes a sound like an MRI machine. Maybe they can blow that up.

They can probably recycle some footage, even.

DH wrote the episode guide in there!

Jessica! If I send postage will DH sign one? I'm going to try and get a bunch of sigs on those and it would be the cutest thing ever to have his autograph on one.

I'm not bugged by the Claire search ending. There's 48 of them, they don't have detailed maps or communication. Once they've searched the area immediately around the camps, which I figure they spent the next couple of days doing (since the next episode was explicitly said to be 4 days later), it starts to get really pointless. They are far more likely to lose another person either to the Others or an accident than they are to do anything useful; only two of them have any tracking skills at all, the rest of them would have to walk right into the Others' camp to find it. Jack clearly decided to search smarter, not longer, by having Sayid decipher the maps. Which I thought was sensible of him. I'm not one for romantic gestures, and people wandering around in the jungle so that they can feel less guilty would have been that, rather than a practical solution.

However, I agree that they were oddly slack in their attitude towards the jungle. Jack trekking down the trail didn't bug me; I can see him figuring water needed to be transported and that he wasn't a likely target. Kate, she clearly thinks of herself as a tough little wench, so I'm okay with her doing it too. Sayid had a knife with him. But Sun? The incredibly overprotective Jin hasn't noticed that she's wandering away for hours into the jungle? And especially, Walt. Michael, who in early episodes before the kidnapping, was reluctant even to let him go down to the beach by himself with Vincent, is letting WALT take a walk in the forest by himself?

I find it odd that they haven't set up hunting parties and instead expect to be fed. Jin fishing on his own, expecting Locke to get the food, it's all very weird.

The garden made an assload of sense though. How many? 40? 40 mouths to feed.

Everyone poops, so they need to set up a place far from camp for sanitation reasons, and they need a place to wash clothes and themselves or they'll get the prickly heat.

What is there on the island they can use to make bread? Anyone know if anything is there?

What is there on the island they can use to make bread? Anyone know if anything is there?

Well, they have what might be called the Spanish/Portuguese explorer package: things like pigs, guava, and papaya. And they've got bananas, and I'd be very surprised indeed if they don't have the rest of the Polynesian food package; taro, sugarcane, yams, sweet potato, breadfruit. Taro can be dried and ground to make flour, if you don't mind purple bread.

ETA: Poking around the net suggests that pandanus and arrowroot flour would also be likely. They need to take Sun on more expeditions to locate stocks, so she can improve the garden.

What is there on the island they can use to make bread? Anyone know if anything is there?

...and suddenly, everyone is very sorry that the book Boone brought with him is not Swiss Family Robinson. (I learned what cassava flour is from that book, and also that you can make gelatin from seaweed. Dude! If only there were ostriches on Lost Island!!)

But yes, the organizational aspect is strangely still lacking. Hello? A kidnapping, and you don't even institute the buddy system??

the organizational aspect is strangely still lacking.

Yes. This.

Every now and then, I think about what things would be like if a cadre of Buffistas had wound up on the island. Either we'd have built a four star resort with all the amenties or we'd still be arguing over what to name the island.

we'd still be arguing over what to name the island.

I thought Buffista Island had been in the works for a while now.

Do we have any survivalist experts among us? I know there are a number of good cooks and at least one heavy-duty home repair person.

Do we have any survivalist experts among us?

Hikers, campers and climbers are a good start. Got a few of those.