I am assuming that some kind of teevee magic will save Michael, Jin, and Sawyer.

They have floating bits to cling to and it is likely the tide will steer them back to the island. I want Walt back though!! I was really enjoying his character. The scene where he jumps back after Locke touched him (last week) was lovely.

The ladder to nowhere was somewhat of a let down. I would rather they didn't show the contents at all.

True that Kate most likely looks out first for her own back. A good plan.

Why didn't they take someone expendable, like Scott?

But then who would comfort Tracy?

The thing that bothered me the most? Dynamite was pretty much invented AFTER there were no slave ships, much less pirate-y looking ships, afloat. (Technicaly 1863 by Nobel, but it wouldn't have been available in nicely stencilled "EXPLOSIVES" crates until a while after.)

Between Lost and Alias, this is definitely "JJ is a meanie" night.

and so it should be

Kate will more likely have Locke's back than Jack's. If I were Kate I would have Jack on my lying sack of shit list.

Yeah well it isn't like Kate tells the truth all the time either.

It wasn't slaves to the USA.

Slavery wasn't invented by the colonies, nor was it stopped worldwide because of the US Civil war.

IIRC, Brazil was the last major nation to stop slavery (aside from home-grown versions) in the 1880s. I'm talking the wide-scale trans-oceanic shipment of slaves, not what goes on in Africa, et cetera, today.

well, these were special slavers, and...and...they were, um....punished...by the island...

Heh. I suppose it's just more likely that the producers haven't much more knowledge of history than your average high school student who spent most of the year on the Revolutionary War and two weeks on the Civil War and never got beyond Reconstruction, if at all.

Or, well, maybe special slavers, at that.