[tackles Consuela and drags her into the mud]

WOOHOO!!!

So, so, so true. You learn this quickly in the military, who's got it and who doesn't. It can be used on groups, or individuals. We've seen it used on both groups and individuals by Jack and Kate. We've seen it used on individuals by Jin. He can't use it on groups, because of the language barrier, but his individual use of the VoC comes out of the cultural role of the sexes, not from true command. He's actually just a bully. I think one of the things we're going to see is how Sun learns to subvert the individual use of it and possibly gain her own. Also, Boone would like to have it, but doesn't. Locke has it, but doesn't really want to have to use it, as Jack didn't, but realizes he must.

Okay, overanalyzed that to death.

NO. Sail, that was awesome. Thank you. (See? I'm so glad we have this thread.)

Sean, I think Daniel posted once that each episode was supposed to be two days, and the season being forty days. Also, I came across that info on TV Tome as well. I think the dialogue supported that, counting the pilot as one two-day episode.

They do seem to have been oddly passive for having been there for 6 days.

I think there might be some residual denial, which was addressed at the end of Wednesday's episode, when Jack put forth the question of, "what if no one comes?" So, I think going forward, there will be a change in that attitude. Also, I think there is fear of the monster, that keeps them more or less in one place. I hesitate to say, "a la The Village ," but that might be deliberate.

And, yay! Lost thread!

I think this Penny Arcade needs to be linked in the new thread.

I think Jack has a thing for Kate. Has anyone else picked up on this? It's really subtle.

I didn't find that subtle. I think she has a little thing for him, too. I don't think they'll do anything about it this season. It was more obvious first couple of episodes, but then she betrayed him by being a criminal, and he was all lily white... of course then we find out that he's not so much the lily and she... we'll probably find out she was some sort of freedom fighter or she released lab animals and someone was killed accidentally or something.

One thing of interest to me is the twice mention of "four years"...

Locke has been in a wheelchair for four years, and Sawyer said, when Kate fell on top of him, that he wished he'd this had been his birthday wish 4 years ago.

I wonder if others will have mention something happening to them 4 years ago?

Seems to me like everyone has a thing for Kate. Of course, televised options include pregnant, bitchy, married/unintelligable, and drowned. Cryptic seems the least problematic way to have a relationship, really.

I didn't find that subtle.

Psst. Sarcasm.

Locke has been in a wheelchair for four years, and Sawyer said, when Kate fell on top of him, that he wished he'd this had been his birthday wish 4 years ago.

le nubian, that jumped out at me too, and I am very much waiting for the other people's Four Years Ago mentions. The thing is, they might all end up being connected, and it could work for the fourteen we know, but it's going to be more of a stretch to make all forty-sevenish of them have a connection when we don't know the others' stories. The connection may be more tenuous, though. Something Big happened to each of them four years ago. Which would have been 2000, which suggests either crazy millennium action or wacky election hijinks.

Seems to me like everyone has a thing for Kate.

Well, she's hot. It happens.

Psst. Sarcasm.

Pssst. Brat.

So, I'm surfing over to futoncritic.com and found on the front page a mention of ABC shows going over (and sometimes under) the 60 minute threshhold. This is a "no duh" to me because they've been doing it for 3-4 weeks but nice to know my Tivo isn't crazy.

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