Just don't take any of my tinfoil, Sail. I've got the heavy-duty stuff, over here. and i know you've been looking at it.

I don't see Jack's occasional rudeness as him being callous and selfish, just sometimes focusing more on his own issues or on the crisis at hand than on the other person's feelings. He's still hero-y. I agree about him now getting a chance to shine, but how much of that is the island mojo and how much is simply rising to the challenge of the circumstance?

The only thing, imo, that would be more disappointing than "They're all dead!" would be a Good vs Evil a la The Stand division. I'd much rather see the group of them coming around to working together - bickering notwithstanding - against the dangers the island, and trying to solve the mysteries rather than trying to destroy each other's Army of t Deity . (I hated The Stand .)

I'd much rather see the group of them coming around to working together

Working together's for squares. You want them to hold a summit? Pass an island test?

Well, really, I'd want them to kill and eat the most annoying ones, but that's probably not prime-time...

I don't mean they should become one big happy family. I just dislike the Good vs Evil storyline, in general.

The islanders will divide. Humans form camps. Silly humans.

The tension between camps is the stuff of stories. Conflict. The Romeo and Juliet of it all, when my man Hurley captures the heart of the Uber-Bitch.

Oy.

The islanders will divide. Humans form camps. Silly humans.

Do you think, with only 46? (Not the silly part, 'cause, yeah). I mean, with so few humans, I might tend to think safety in numbers more than ... ew, those guys are weird, I'm moving my hut. So, I'm saying, they have conflicts for sure, but they try to muddle through it as a group. Maybe a couple of outliers. I dunno.

So many possibilites ...

Now we're getting into pig on a stick, let's kill the Hurley territory. I don't like it. I'd prefer that things be a little less divisive, more with combining and recombining based on relationships and betrayals, eddies within the group, without it splitting and becoming two entirely separate groups.

I was thinking something (happens now and again). It went something like: What if we never find out how/why the polar bear got there? What if it's just part of the island's past and makes it interesting just like hidden depths in a new friend, about which we may never know the truth, make the friend interesting? And then I thought, well, then, that makes the island a character, with flaws and secrets and bad hair days just like the rest. And I liked that thought, so I thought (again, yes!) that I'd share it with all of you.

I'd prefer that things be a little less divisive, more with combining and recombining based on relationships and betrayals, eddies within the group, without it splitting and becoming two entirely separate groups.

This is what I'm thinking. Deena says it pretty.

I might tend to think safety in numbers more than ... ew, those guys are weird,

Because you are one of the less silly, though always amusing, humans. Humans divide, even when it is contra-survival.

So many possibilites ...

Yes!

is the island mojo

I'm not sure the island has mojo. I'm thinking more like a catalyst. It's not an active thing, but once you come in contact with it, you change.

The islanders will divide. Humans form camps. Silly humans.

46

Hmmmm. Humans have 46 chromosomes. Which must be divided into 2 sets of 23 in order to recombine and replicate. Ashtareth? I need more tinfoil! I'm looking at you, girl.

46: Humans have 46 chromosomes.

BWAH!

Gawd, I hope that was a joke.