this season opened with them in their respective cages or enclosures

Too much time between seasons! I really need to get the season 2 DVDs to rewatch. It's amazing how little I retain over the summer.

Was no one mildly bemused by the fact that the girl Alex(andra), supposedly the stolen daughter of Danielle, called I'm-gonna-keel-you-Sawyer-guy "Daddy"?

i'm pretty sure she called him Danny, which we saw later was his name when fakebeard!guy radioed him and said so. what i'm wondering is why Ben asked about her? what is she to him?

I can't decide if the whole "second island" thing is fake or not.

I think Jessica's got the right of it. I'm very bad at mentally mapping a place unless I've walked or driven it myself.

Sail, then clearly you need to go to the island, and if you can get off again, report to us all what's going on.

Can you bring me back a prezzie? I like something in a "ripped abs and no shirt." I'm not picky.

Was no one mildly bemused by the fact that the girl Alex(andra), supposedly the stolen daughter of Danielle, called I'm-gonna-keel-you-Sawyer-guy "Daddy"?

i'm pretty sure she called him Danny

Yup. (I had closed-captioning on.)

what i'm wondering is why Ben asked about her? what is she to him?

Alex asked about Ben, too. Something like "Where did you take him? Where's Ben?"

Weird, I heard "Daddy" too.

Our satellite pixellated during the shirtless Nathan in bed, I was very upset. I'm just trying to figure out why in the hell why they want to kill Sawyer so badly? I really wish they'd give us some insight into the Other's motivations/reasons/something! Otherwise, I just.don't.care. what happens to them.

I am loving Pissed-Off-Not-Gonna-Take-It Jack!

I'm curious about Alex and why they let her run loose on the island (like her mom) and why Ben was concerned where she was.

all I could think of was the probable size of the audience of leering Others just on the other size of the bars.

Or in Ben's little observation booth. Between that and the fish biscuit/ no shower... ewww...the Sawyer/Kate was less interesting for me this time because that's all I could think about. The only question answered tonight was "where did all the medical equipment from the Staff go after Claire escaped?"

I'm just trying to figure out why in the hell why they want to kill Sawyer so badly?

Yeah, I'm really confused because Pickett is all, "This is for Colleen!" When...Sawyer had absolutely nothing to do with Colleen's death, as far as I remember.

My problem with Kate/Sawyer or even Kate/Jack is that I find all three of them more interesting when they are not involved with each other. All this maneuvering by the writers to throw them into a romantic triangle makes me think that they didn't care who ended up with Kate, as long as it was one of these two guys. (Personally, I'd find it more interesting to see Jack/Sawyer!) I liked Sawyer as the island hoarder, pissing off the other lostees. I like Jack as the isolated prisoner, dealing with his captors on his own. I liked Kate as the woman with the deep dark past trying to convince everyone she's just another woman.

Couples can work on this show--Sun and Jin, Rose and her husband, Charlie and Claire (actually, Charlie is only interesting in his relationships with others on the island--Claire, Eko, Locke, Hurley), even Sayid and Rousseau. Just not this forced triangle.

Well, Danny is looking to kill *somebody* in vengence for Colleen, and since Sawyer got the jump on him at the rockpile and gave him a beat-down, he's elected Sawyer as the vengence shootee. I think. Otherwise, I got nothin'.

I buy "Danny" instead of "Daddy." I just didn't remember his name was Danny.