Ok, so Sun wasn’t after Ben which does beg the question of how she knows that Ben was ‘responsible’ for Jins death. What can I say, Sun going after Jack would have been more interesting and disruptive to the group, but oh well. FYI, I am one of those people that think Ben is a Good Guy in all this. He works hard shuffling people along, manipulating them because he has to and because telling them outright wouldn’t work. Poor guy needs a break!

The writers nearly delivered the back story for Rousseau, along with some excellent close up action with smokey. I love the clicking and mechanical noises as it dragged them along like reeling in fish (literally and audibly), and the slow, deliberate clicking as it reached around Montands arm before snapping it off.

Some people have commented that it sounded like Hurley reading the numbers on the radio the French camp had. While I don’t think it is, it would be an excellent twist at the end, and would tie in with the notion that it was Charlie that set the musical security keypad, i.e. they were both instruments in their own doom. The numbers that Hurley read were picked up by Leonard, causing him to go? to a mental hospital that Hurley ended up in, only to? pick up the numbers from Leonard, and then after using them to win the lottery, ending up on the Island, with the numbers, and then ultimately recording the original broadcast.? This show has shown several times it it going in circles so it isn’t out of the question.

Did anyone else get the idea that Montand was similar Sawyer not only visually, but he has the same sarcastic tone. Also, since Rousseau was pregnant, that makes her an ideal substitute for Claire.

Also, since the speed at which you get a nose bleed is relative to the time you have spent on the Island, I think we can assume that since Daniel has not been blighted with Crimson boogers, he hasn’t spent that much time on the Island…yet. This would make it seem like Daniel only goes into the past in the guture, so all the gallavanting around, scaring young Charlotte and bumping elbows with the good doctor Chang would seem to take place after Charlotte’s death, which probably promted all the time travel in the first place. This would also make sense with Charlotte only just remembering that Daniel was the scary guy from her childhood. Only at the point of her death does he resolve to go back and save her if possible. Alternatively, warning her was an accident based on the notion that they end up in the Dharma time period which was purely random and only caused by some incident (i.e. locke turning the wheel at a certain point in time). Until that event happened, they were only going to be in dharma time for a few minutes and now they are stuck there, therefore Daniel has time to go warn Charlotte. (Yes, this is with the hindsight that they end up in the Dharma period as covered in 316). However, that just added on to the theory.

We still have to deal with the fact that 3 years has passed off Island, while on island, I think, only a few days have passed. Of course, when you are time travelling, it’s hard to keep track, and now they are 30 years in the past, does it really matter, except that Kate might have slipped into Sawyers old ‘Older Woman’ category.

Am I the only one that thought Christian was a little pissy at Locke, and less than concerned for the fact that Locke was about to give his life for the Island? Something seems up with that.

Anyways, just some thoughts on that episode which I haven’t been able to get written up.