From Kristin at eonline:

Here's what Damon Lindelof (the boss man) said at the Globes, when I asked if we'll find out what the monster/beast/entity is, "I think it's a Dave-Maddie issue, which is, the audience thinks that they want Dave and Maddie to hook up, but once they do, you're like 'Aah, I wish they never hooked up!' So, despite all the people who are saying 'We wanna see the monster, we wanna know what Kate did, you must answer all these questions!,' we're comfortable just knowing the answers and holding them back until we've earned it, or until we've introduced mysteries that are even more compelling than those. At least, that's the juggling act. Eventually, everyone's gonna get really frustrated, but there's a reason why they didn't show Alien in the first reel of Alien, or the shark in Jaws. You'll learn when our characters learn."

Do you think they're all really dead on Lost?

Deadly attractive, yes! Damon says: "That's a very interesting theory. I heard that theory. We might've even talked about it once or twice. But how would you explain people dying on the show then? I mean, they're just deader, they're more dead. They're moving to a spinoff is what it is. Everybody we kill off will be on ABC Family on a much cheaper island."

"That's a very interesting theory. I heard that theory. We might've even talked about it once or twice. But how would you explain people dying on the show then? I mean, they're just deader, they're more dead. They're moving to a spinoff is what it is. Everybody we kill off will be on ABC Family on a much cheaper island."

Ha! I love it. The spinoff will be called Misplaced.

The spinoff will be called Misplaced.

Or Found.

Deadly attractive, yes!

Zing!

I am manual labour girl. Show me the heavy and I'll lift it.

I came out as Sawyer on that quiz though, so perhaps I wouldn't be all that helpful.

I wasn't particularly put out by the 'dropping' of the Claire storyline. I figure that most of the people on the island are a lot more worried about themselves than someone they may never even have spoken to.

I figure that most of the people on the island are a lot more worried about themselves

They're not acting worried about themselves much either. Strange man appears from nowhere and kidnaps two people, and kills (even if temporarily) one of them? Everyone's just going about their business.

How many people know about the crazy French lady? That doesn't bother them either?

Well yes. Worried about themselves being dragged off into the jungle by mystery psycho would still seem pretty sensible, though. Especially since they can't really comfort themselves with visions of the determined rescue effort, now can they?

I think it's a Dave-Maddie issue, which is, the audience thinks that they want Dave and Maddie to hook up, but once they do, you're like 'Aah, I wish they never hooked up!' So, despite all the people who are saying 'We wanna see the monster, we wanna know what Kate did, you must answer all these questions!,' we're comfortable just knowing the answers and holding them back until we've earned it

"I have no freakin' idea, and so am falling back on the Moonlighting Defense."

I wish someone would say, "I have no idea what it is."

It would be so damned endearing. I'd send cookies!

I'm not sure what action they could take that would make them feel safer than just staying on the beach. If they head off into the jungle, Puff the Magic MacGuffin might get them. And, by this point, they've come to rely on Locke for a lot of their 'venture in to the jungle' needs. It stands to reason that they'd expect him to take care of tracking down Claire as well.

The thing I find most frustrating is not knowing who knows what. Which characters know that the plane was off course? Have they told the redshirts yet? Who knows about the polar bear? The transmission? The bodies? It's difficult to get a handle on how sensible people's actions are without knowing how much information they have.

It's difficult to get a handle on how sensible people's actions are without knowing how much information they have.

I'm not criticising people's actions so much as the writing. If they're going to not be scared, I want to be sure it's purposeful (and hopefully has a cause or payoff) and not laziness in the creation.