Penny sure let it ring enough times, and for a woman who has a bajillion dollars and an auto-dialer device that runs constantly for 3 years, you'd think she'd have a voice mail system.

I think the problem is that the Island isn't necessarily on the timeline they think they're on? Maybe?

But Sayid didn't seem surprised that it was Christmas Eve, meaning it matched up with his estimate of approximately what day it should be.

WAIT A BLOOMIN' SECOND.

I think I might know why Daniel was randomly crying in the premiere! What if he became unstuck in time before and thus knew the plane would crash? And, seeing the footage, he knows what's in store for him?

Or did they have to have been through a particular event - the radiation or the other thing that I can't recall in order to time travel?

Daniel specifically mentioned a high dose of radiation as being a possible cause of Desmond's unstuckness.

WAIT A BLOOMIN' SECOND.

Good theory!

Daniel specifically mentioned a high dose of radiation as being a possible cause of Desmond's unstuckness.

Or electromagnetism, which I think is what would apply to Desmond, given what happened when the hatch blew.

So has the unstuckness always been a problem with the island, or is it something that started happening when the hatch blew?

Want a funny? Lot's of people online are saying last night's Lost episode is one of the best yet, or certainly in a long time.

So I went to find the ratings, as my "we are not them" alerts went off.

12.85m viewers. One of the lowest rated episodes of Lost yet.

TWELVE MILLION VIEWERS. BOO-FUCKING-HOO.

(But, still, heh. Ratings are so meaningless. They only measure how many people wanted to see a particular episode, not how good it was. [Case in point: "One Angry Veronica," generally agreed to be the worst episode of VM, is the second-highest-rated episode. (Thankfully, "Spit and Eggs," one of the best, is the highest-rated episode.)])

I think shitty TV gets higher ratings because people watch it. I mean, Nightrider's remake got 14 million viewers or some such - and the 5 minute averages show it rose as it went along. ROSE. It's FUCKING AWFUL!

Ratings are meaningful in that as soon as the network sees they want to do a wacky time travel ep again, I suspect they'll be saying 'Yeah, don't do that. Blow something up instead! Work in a threesome, get a computerised car into the island!'.

Except for the fact that none of the promos even hinted that they were doing a wacky time-travel ep! Which, well, I was glad of, because that made it more surprising. I like previews to get me excited, but I don't actually need them to make me watch the next episode of a show I'm watching regularly.

Oh, I know P-C - but it suggests the regular audience tuned in, and then tuned out. It lost, like, 3 million viewers in one week. Something made them switch off.

Jack/Kate/Sawyer drama, maybe?

I mean, isn't a drop in ratings more a result of the quality of the previous episode? (Not that this explains SCC's dropping ratings, because it's been consistently pretty damn good.)