When the Iron Giant appeared she was supposed to drop her bag and run. Instead she just ran. If the dynamite had been in her bag with all that banging around there'd probably be a new Kate-shaped crater.

My thoughts exactly, only I was saying to the TV: "Hello, Kate, dumbass, you're supposed to be dead now!" Honestly, I haven't always hated her, but lately she's been really annoying - and it would serve her right and be a real Darwinism if she got blowed up real good because she was too dumb not to RUN WITH DYNAMITE!! Stupid Kate, won't even die when she's supposed to. Why Jack was "protecting" her I have no idea, even he was making these faces like he was disgusted with her.

I liked this ep a lot aside from the fact that it had about 85 million commercials.

Did anyone else think that the fact that the rudder fell off the instant Walt said, "She was wrong" about his mom not letting Michael see Walt meant that Walt wished they could stay on the island? 'Cause I couldn't figure out what they could have hit to make the rudder magically fall off with such force like that.

Also, Hurley SO should have volunteered to carry all the dynamite. Of course, no one would have believed him, but that's what I was expecting him to do.

I knew Arzt was toast when he had more lines in the teaser than the clique. Also HA HA HA HA everything about that was funny.

Also loved Locke fucking with Jack and doing the Operator "bzzt!" noise. That was like something my BF would do.

ETA I've given up on Alias - I just don't care anymore.

Also, Hurley SO should have volunteered to carry all the dynamite. Of course, no one would have believed him, but that's what I was expecting him to do.

Exactly what I was thinking, arby.

I thought it was great, and I didn't realize the boat people were the Others until someone else pointed it out. It makes more sense than my original theory, was that they were going to sell Walt into kiddie whoredom. Good catch on the "boy" part.

So, who wants to bet that next season, when they find Walt, he's on a big throne being worshipped by the Others as the One Who Makes Weird Shit Happen?

Also, my money's on the whole frickin' island being hollow and filled with tunnels and machines and freaky shit like that. I'm not even sure it's a real island.

I'm also reminded of the Lovecraft bit in At The Mountains Of Madness with the flying things in the tunnels under the Elder Thing city.

Also, they really should have had Kate on the boat. She woulda capped everybody on the other boat in two seconds flat. Sawyer, not so much with the shooting skilz.

Also, my money's on the whole frickin' island being hollow and filled with tunnels and machines and freaky shit like that. I'm not even sure it's a real island.

There was a lot of mechanical stuff with the exploding ground squirrels. And the hatch probably leads to security system stuff. And someone just happened to turn the light on at the right time (or they were listening to Locke and thought, hey, this will totally freak him the fuck out).

So, who wants to bet that next season, when they find Walt, he's on a big throne being worshipped by the Others as the One Who Makes Weird Shit Happen?

The Others are gonna be in for a world of hurt until they figure out they'd better keep Walt happy.

Huge thing on Jimmy Kimmel tonight with Lost. Some funny (DM flirting with HP's wife in the green room- there was a whole thing about her being the lottery girl from Hurley's flashback who made out with Sawyer) some not (a bit about what happened to some characters) and some HoYay-kinda (JH offering to trade bug spray to Jimmy Kimmel for a kiss).

So, who wants to bet that next season, when they find Walt, he's on a big throne being worshipped by the Others as the One Who Makes Weird Shit Happen?

I'm going to die if the Groosalugg shows up.

I handwaved it as the explosives being from Rossseu's ship, and she was just storing it in the Black Rock.

That was my thought, too. My problem is that the Black Rock is way too intact to have been sitting out in a jungle in the weather for more than a hundred years.

Interesting article about last night's "Lost". A short excerpt:

What do Hurley's numbers mean? Again, who knows? (Um, apparently, the Hatch.) The numbers made the episode — especially during Hurley's mad dash to flight 815 — wildly entertaining, partly because each time we viewers noticed a number, we felt really smart. Like Hurley's hotel room number being 2342. Noticed that one? Brilliant! And then each of the numbers — 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42 — showed up on the big guy's dashboard. Noticed that too? Great. $1600 in exchange for a scooter? Cute. Gate 23? All right already. An entire girls sports team with numbered uniforms, all in order? The number stuff got blatantly comical by this point, but this was still one of my favorite scenes. It was significant in that we learned that everything and everyone Hurley encountered that day tried in some way to keep him off the flight, yet he managed to get on the plane anyway. It makes me think that since Hurley himself is invincible, maybe there weren't supposed to be any survivors of Flight 815. Maybe it was supposed to be a normal plane crash in the ocean somewhere, and Hurley's presence on the plane is what initiated this weird limbo the characters have been living in all season. This heavily Hurley (ha) theory does give him most of the power on the island, but maybe that's how it's been all along. Shhh. Don't tell Locke and Jack!

BTW...I wonder if Hurley and Walt met at the hotel prior to the plane ride. I think Michael's hotel may have been the same as Hurley's...