BWAH!

Am I the only one underwhelmed by last night's episode? We didn't learn anything new. Not really.

I'm not feeling the love.

I'm with you, Teppy. I was surprised to see the mad love. It was cool for a while, but then I realized we really weren't seeing anything we hadn't already inferred (or that couldn't have been told in dialogue). There was some good stuff, and I think we got to know the characters a bit better, but overall, I expected something better. And the end, which was the end of the previous episode, gave me bad memories of the first three episodes of the season, where we saw the same scene fifty zillion times.

Interesting theory I read on LJ today: the Others are already dead. Which is why they're taking only the children and the "good" people -- in some sort of a litmus test for the afterlife, I guess.

That doesn't explain why the Others are corporeal, or how they can be killed if they're already dead. Perhaps a whole new theory of the afterlife will be forthcoming.

Discuss.

Why is everyone so surprised to see mostly Americans on the plane? I got the impression that Oceanic is supposed to be a US airline of some kind (don't know why, that's just how I've been interpreting it). In MY experience, Americans like to fly US airlines, French like to fly French airlines, British prefer British airlines, etc. So it makes perfect sense to me that there aren't that many Aussie folks aboard.

Hmm. I tend to fly whichever is cheapest and/or most convenient. Do most people really go by the country of origin? I've never noticed that before.

I have nothing useful to say about the show, since I haven't seen it yet. Does ABC do reruns later in the week, or will I have to wait a while to catch this one again?

Oooh, tavella, that's a neat speculation.

The idea Steph mentioned goes along with the theory I've heard from several places that the castaways are in some kind of Purgatory. Maybe the good folks can go right away, but the people who have some issues need to work them out first?

But don't the people taken just get turned into 'others'? And they don't seem particularly at peace with anything, what with the random attacks and sneaking through the jungle and whatnot.

Dude. Reavers.

Someone on LJ made a startling observation: Cindy was a stewardess on the plane. You see her in the flashbacks. That's how she knew they were flying off course.

She never said? She was the other one who was certain she hadn't seen Nathan? I thought I knew she was a flight attendant because of something she said this week.

Guess not.