Loved the "Hello?" even if there was a moment of cognitive dissonance having it happen to the only cast member who was also in The Matrix. (Okay, not the first one, but still, I can't have been the only one expecting the computer to tell him to follow the white rabbit.)

Eko makes me happy. I hope it's a while before we get his backstory, because right now I'm digging the mysterious silent thing he's got going.

Loved Hurley's thumbs-up to Jin in the beginning.

I like that Ana Lucia is tough. I like that she's tomboyish and is willing to kill for vengence and protection. I understand her psychology and I find her extremely sexy.

What I absolutely detest about her is her inability to see beyond her own stubborn decisions. Once she's made a decision, she'll plow ahead no matter how fucked up things get. And she pushes everyone else along with her. She expects everyone to follow her with no questions asked because she saved them in the beginning. Nobody knows what's going on. Nobody knows exactly what to do. Not even her. She covers her insecurity with determination at the expense of others. That, to me, is a supreme example of a shitty leader.

I just wanted everyone to tell her to fuck off. She's still self-righteous under the guilt. She hasn't learned her lesson yet.

Yeah, but they seem to be showing her as DelayedEmotionsGirl.

So Jack is like Clinton, and Ana Lucia is like Dubya?

So Jack is like Clinton, and Ana Lucia is like Dubya?

Yes. I was definitely comparing Ana Lucia to Shrub in my head.

When Kate motored off and they showed the house facade for a beat too long afterwards, I immediately thought "Oh come on, they're not actually gonna—" KA-BLOOEY!!!

I am glad that her murder was a coldly premeditated one, and that her espoused reason for it was crazy resentment/overidentification rather than just mom-protection.

I've decided that Evangeline Lilly is just a hell of a sceen-kisser, because I am firmly in Jack/Kate = no chemistry camp yet that kiss was HOTT. (Not as hot as the Sawyer/Kate kiss, but still hot.) It's not just the kiss itself, but the motivation behind it--that Kate was trying to force her attraction to Jack in this messed-up self-loathing/Oedipal way in which she made Jack stand in place of her father, a good man whose perceived decency couldn't sway her mother's fascination with the wreck that was Wayne (= Sawyer.) All that psychological baggage and the wrongness of its all made that kiss a lot more interesting than it would have been, had it occurred while they were randomly flirting on the beach or something.

Despite sort-of-predictable back story, this is the most I've liked Kate in a long time

Seconding Matt's gladness over the cold-bloodedness of Kate's actions.

Despite sort-of-predictable back story, this is the most I've liked Kate in a long time

I agree, even if I didn't find the Kate/Jack kiss hot. I found it awkward and random, and was pleased to find out that that's because it was awkward and random.

because right now I'm digging the mysterious silent thing he's got going.

Heh. JZ and I started laughing after the Eko/Locke scene with the new film. And started MST3King over their dueling enigma-off.

"Oh you think you're inscrutable. You don't even know the depths of my enimagmatic plumbless depths! Did I say depth twice? I raise my eyebrow at you!"

"You only think you know that I don't know the dark secret lurking behind your mysterious silence, my friend. I've known all along that you know that I know that you had the film. Do you think it was just a coincidence?"