I'm hoping that they don't go too far into Sci-Fi territory with the explanations. I don't mind unexplained coincidences, but rips in the space-time continuum is a bit much for this show, I think.

I was just starting on the TWoP thread for the ep, and someone pointed out another number reference--in the beginning, when Swoosie asks Locke about the footballs, he says, "Aisle 8 for regulation, Aisle 15 for Nerf."

It may just be as simple as the fact that when the plane went down, they never found it after extensive searching, and so presumed everyone on board died. So it's presumed nobody survived...but maybe people will start looking for them now...

(and maybe the island doesn't want them to be found and that's why the plane crashed to the ground at exactly that moment, before Boone could say more...)

I got an email that told me that "as a Christian, David Fury should..." and some advice on how to make LOST even better.

I was confused. I just replied, "David Fury is a Jew, though I'm not sure what that has to do with LOST."

"David Fury is a Jew, though I'm not sure what that has to do with LOST."

Uh, Jews did get lost in the desert for 40 years.

I think I'm supposed to be guesting on a LOST themed college radio show at 5:30. I think.

Uh, Jews did get lost in the desert for 40 years.

So the hatch is filled with milk and honey?

Just a bunch of manna, actually.

also? Every time someone mentioned "immaculate coneception", I yelled at the TV "That's not what that means!!"

Even if it's being said by someone who is canonically lying and at least a little crazy?

While you have a point, it's still a thing that's commonly confused. I'm only pedantic about it because *I'm* Catholic, and yet I always manage to forget the actual definition sometime during the year and so hit my head every time we're reminded of it at Feast of the Immaculate Conception. YICMV?

They'll probably show us the paralysis somewhere in season 3.

So true; I don't know why I was actually expecting to learn the thing I *wanted* to know.

I thought Mousetrap was a good metaphor for the series. Little pieces are put into place, and then Bam!

I'm also wondering if Locke's original injury was at least partly psychosomatic. Powerful stuff, the mind.

Kind of reminds me of a Superman comic I had growing up. It was one of their "Imaginary" tales of the future of Superman. At some point Mankind progressed to the point that he wasn't needed, and Clark Kent started having trouble walking, after a while, he couldn't stand up, and "superman" was no more. Until an adult Jimmy olsen finds him and reminds him of who he is, and Superman sets off to find another planet that still needs him.

Um, I rambled. A bit.