I didn't love last night's episode, either. Yadda yadda, they're marooned, yadda yadda, the Others are after us, blah blah.

I'm interested to know why the Others wanted nine of them, and if the reason they were successful in taking them was because the group of Tailies was so much smaller than the Front Enders (or whatever they're called).

And I think now that they're going to be integrated into the main cast, we'll get backstories, but we won't have to get as many -- Cnythia is conveniently gone, we don't really need Bernard's backstory, so we'll get Ana and Echo and Libby.

I'm still enjoying watching some of my favorite characters, but I am less and less convinced that this is ever going to wrap up neatly. Where's Rousseau? Who has Walt? The Others? Or *other* Others? Why is Walt magical thinking boy? What's the deal with the hatch? What's the deal with the second hatch the Tailies found? What's the significance of the numbers? What's with the magical healing (Locke) and the coincidence of everyone's lives overlapping pre-crash? And that's not even every question you could ask about this island. Huge thumping mechanical dinosaurs, anyone? Whatever happened to them?

Right now, I'm just itching to see Sayid go off the deep end.

What's the deal with the second hatch the Tailies found?

It was a Dharma Initiative thing, but it was a different logo than Desmond's hatch, right? Desmond's was the swan, and the Tail-section's hatch had (I think) an arrow.

Of course now I want to go back and check out the logo on the shark's (?) tail from the episode Adrift. I know it was a Darma logo (but I couldn't tell if it was a swan or an arrow). Has anyone seen a screencap?

I know it was a Darma logo (but I couldn't tell if it was a swan or an arrow).

I'm fairly sure everything from the first logo episode was a swan, but I thought it didn't actually *say* Dharma on it. Could be wrong, though.

My question about the second hatch was a little vague -- I meant, is this a hatch the original experiment participators knew about? It looked almost like an emergency safehouse -- blankets, Bible, etc. Although how a glass eye is helpful is a little beyond me.

Although how a glass eye is helpful is a little beyond me.

You say that now, but if somebody poked one of your eyes out, I think you'd be grateful to have a spare on hand, missy!

True.

[mom voice] "It's only fun till someone loses an eye!"

Shark screencap: [link]

It doesn't look like the swan, but it also doesn't look like the arrow.

t edit Here's the arrow logo from Hatch #2: [link]

So, shark has logo #3.

I liked this episode, but I'm an Ana Lucia fangirl.

There was a wee bit of information--it's the first conversation with the Others that's happened right? I mean, actual conversating.

Ana-Lucia is indeed GrrrlFight Girl if she can kill a large man like that in single combat. She may be even deadlier than Kate.

This episode certainly provided a little insight into why Ana Lucia is so very growly, but I firmly believe some of that was there all along -- digging the hole, knowing the knife was not only military but probably twenty years old, willingness to torture, and of course fighting and killing Goodwin. I'm thinking she's ex-military or something, but I also want to know more about her personal history -- when asked if she had kids, there was along pause before she said "No".

And while most people would be rightly concerned about the fate of two helpless kids in the hands of abductors, the snatched adults didn't seem to ping her at all. So there's that to be found out.