I too was not intending to be snippy, just responding in turn.

Good point! Of course Jack read it!

And then there was the whole thing Richard said to Locke: "You're going to have to die, John." He was going to have to die in order convince the rest to come back. Which also implied that he would have to kill himself. So the fact that John killed himself shouldn't have been a huge surprise to the audience, but I am really baffled as to why it was to Jack, who read the damn obituary (a prop that even that long ago had the name Jeremy Bentham on it). The Lost producers KNOW the fandom screencaps the shit out of everything—hell, they COUNT on it—so I'm really surprised they fucked this up. Maybe Jack didn't believe the obit, but even then, it shouldn't have come as such a big shock since the seed had already been planted.

We have no heat, our furnace guy is in Puerto Rico, and the guy that's covering for him has informed me that we're third on his list. Plus? The kids are home on vacation (but we can't do anything, because we're waiting for the furnace tech), so I probably read in the snippy. I'm sorry about that.

Shouldn't Locke's corpse have looked worse if he died by hanging?

Are we really sure that they came back to the "real world"?

I mean, I don't even think I like that theory, but I just thought about it, and...

Shouldn't Locke's corpse have looked worse if he died by hanging?

The Fishers did a good job.

I know I am a quibbler that quibbles but, Jack dives into an unkonwn pool, not knowing the depth, then tells Hurley they can stand in the water. A doctor...unless they've never seen the inside of an ER..is unlikely to risk breaking his neck that way!

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The Fishers did a good job.

Bwahahahahaha!!!

Well played, my friend, well played.

I know I am a quibbler that quibbles but, Jack dives into an unkonwn pool, not knowing the depth, then tells Hurley they can stand in the water. A doctor...unless they've never seen the inside of an ER..is unlikely to risk breaking his neck that way!

Hasn't he been in that pool before? I'm pretty sure that's the pool where all the corpses and wreckage ended up.

My hope is that Ben tried to get to Penny and Desmond kicked his ass, or Penny did, or they did it together.

Teppy, the recaplet (much shorter than a recap; but still detailed because...well, I can't do too short) is here: [link].

Thank you, ma'am. Sounds like we didn't miss too much. (My gamble was that most of the exciting stuff would happen in the last half, which was true -- except for last week's, b/c we got Jin and young!Rousseau, etc., in the first half.)

Mrs. Faraday said they had to try to make everything as similar as possible to the Oceanic 815 flight.

Did Hurley have Charlie's guitar with him? He had a guitar case, and it made me go "awwwwwwwww!" (Assuming it was Charlie's. A random guitar is less aw-making.)

I hope to high heaven that Ben didn't kill Penny,

I seriously think that would have happened onscreen, since the season finale 2 seasons ago (was it?) made such a big deal about Ben finding Widmore and telling him that b/c he (Widmore) was responsible for Alex's death, then Ben was going to kill Penny.

because Penny and Desmond's love is the one (other than Bernard and Rose) that matters to me on this show.

I was so frustrated -- but not surprised -- that we didn't get a Sun/Jin reunion last night.

Did Hurley have Charlie's guitar with him? He had a guitar case, and it made me go "awwwwwwwww!" (Assuming it was Charlie's. A random guitar is less aw-making.)

And how did the guitar end up on the island too? Is it a proxy for Charlie? This strikes me as the handwavey sort of thing that helps us accept that Hellboy's Liz can be totally aflame, but her clothes don't burn.

I'm also thinking that I must have missed something with Penny this week and last. She's hurt?