OKay, stupid question, but what dos MiB stand for? I keep thinking Men in Black, but obviously that's not it.

Close, it's Man in Black. In the episodes with him and Jacob on the island in the past, Jacob had a white shirt on and he had a black. And we don't know his actual name yet.

Let's just call him Tommy Lee.

I laughed out loud when Flocke announced his master escape plan was to fly a crashed airliner off the Hydra island.





Of course he could be lying

Welcome to Lost, we'll have to fill you in on seasons 1-5 sometime.

Or if they do ask him, the response is "I'll tell you everything you want to know, but first....."

Wow...that would change everything!

This episode's ratings tied for the series low.

Doesn't bode well for a seventh season.

Um, yeah.

I'm surprised. I figured they could ride the last season wave to decent ratings all year.

I wonder why.

LOL all I can figure is that either there was stiff competition tonight, or the general public has decided that this season is completely confusing, moreso than any other season, and is starting to give up on it.

I still love it, but even as someone who has never missed an episode, reads about it online and participates in discussions, I'm still often wondering, who's that character again? Haven't we seen that location in some episode years ago? OK, so the guy dressed in black is really the smoke monster who is now impersonating Locke? And he's wanting to do...what again?

I'm in this until the end, but even discussing the show at this point lends to confusion. :P

How do you climb stairs, go up escalators, stand near glass barriers on high floors, etc. wearing a skirt that short? Won't people totally see your butt or vajayjay? You'd be totally embarrassed!

I'm embarrassed for her. I'll help her cover up, with my hands.

For some reason, I had a weird thought after watching this episode. It has been suggested that we have been seeing pieces of an alternate/non-Jacob/no crash/no island timeline. What if this is actually the original timeline? Maybe by the end of the series, something big will happen off the island in 2004 to create the actual timeline that we all know. Meanwhile, on the island, the war plays out and at the end there is a white flash. We're back on Oceanic flight 815 all expecting to see a repeat of the season opener - no island, no crash, etc. Instead, boom. The plane crashes and the series ends right back where it began.

Not a weird thought to me, as I posted something similar a few pages back. But the "end of the flash-sideways leads into the familiar timeline" twist... I like that.

I have nothing against what AM is doing now.

Which is not posting videos.

Team Smoke Monster was the best, the others were just a bit too long. About like the cake video. It's not really funny, more like, "WTF?"

I never posted anything about you. I don't dislike you, personally, the vids were just a bit meh.

I think I agreed with DRG earlier in something along these lines. Problem is that if the flash-sideways is the original timeline and the crash still happens at some point all of our castaways would know each other prior to the crash. Despite that hole, I think this line of thinking is on the right track.

This is basically my thoughts exactly. I think they are doing this for a reason and the naysayers will see the bigger picture as the season unfolds/once it's over and I believe this season will be better for some when seen with that perspective. We ARE getting answers in each episode, just not the ones most fans may be looking for, or not in ways that are overtly obvious. This is going to piece together as one season beautifully, I think.

And we aren't just seeing the characters not involved in the crash...we are seeing them how they ended up if Jacob didn't influence their lives.

I don't try to follow the hype behind this show. Each episode I just let it unfold as it comes to me and have loved it so far.

I didn't notice the sound part...interesting observation. Perhaps it's like the reset time line is the current time line of the season with flash backs showing how we got to that place (the events on the island that lead up to the reset.) Interesting observation indeed.

And yes, in the reset they only do not crash but Jacob never influences their life. It makes all the difference.

I have to disagree with this...I always thought that the smoke monster was manifesting itself as people who were dead. It was clearly more than just a defense system from early on in the series. That was just a simplistic explanation of what it was to tide viewers over until we got the full explanation.

And wasn't Vincent with Rose and Bernard in 1977? Vincent has died, folks. Sorry. Rose and Bernard are dead (and the remains in the cave...something I hated the idea of at first but came to accept it) and Vincent is dead as well. They didn't time flash back to 2007 after the bomb went off. I am sure Vincent is alive and well and wagging his tail in the reset time line but he's probably part of the remains in the cave. Somebody suggested that was the head Claire found for her "baby."

Having the sideways flashes turn into the timeline we all know and love would be a satisfying conclusin that doesnt make the past 6 years seem wasted

Interesting take and I'd like to see it play out. My only hesitation in accepting this is the writers did promise that all the character's stories would be wrapped up, and to me that would leave the show in a perpetual loop. Either way would be fascinating, though.

What the hell did they do to her lip? Could the artist not tell the difference between lip and shadow? Almost looks like a cigarette awkwardly jammed in there too, unless that's supposed to be a tooth. I don't get it.

Yea, I'm not sure if Kate realizes that it's someone else entirely! Sawyer never tells her, and she still thinks it's Locke.