UPON FURTHER REVIEW

Let's get our nerd on now and analyze the data from this week's show in a very random and inaccurate manner...

I'm very curious to know whether Jin is stuck in Rousseau's time, or if he's jumping around with everyone else -- if so, it's awesome in a very Douglas Adams way that he drifted through all those different points of time only to be picked up by a hugely improbable rubber raft.

I don't think the show wants their to be any black and white/evil and good characters. Benjamin Linus is one of the most complex characters I've ever seen. And I guess my admiration for Benjamin Linus is of a piece with my admiration for Stringer Bell. (Don’t freak out, he’s from a different show, THE WIRE)

The difference between Stringer and Ben, or one important difference, is that Stringer didn't want to be a bad guy; he just saw it as the most efficient path that would end in his becoming a legitimate businessman. He was Joe Kennedy, let's say. Ben Linus just is who he is. He may not be gratuitously violent or manipulative (that's debatable, actually), but he will never try to leave manipulation behind like Stringer tried to move past killing.

Another difference is that Stringer's tactics were pretty identifiable -- he applied economic theory and robert's rules and public choice to violence and drug dealing. Ben relies more on an implausibly supernatural ability to read motives and to predict conduct. this makes String more believable and less of a comic book supervillain tan Ben.

When the jumps in time occurs and they go to a new time, what happens to theirselves (is that right?) in the time they just left? I know that’s confusing, but let me give you an example

Locke is talking to Richard in the tents last episode and all of a sudden locke and the others are transported to a different time and everything is gone. BUT WHAT DOES RICHARD SEE ON HIS END? Does locke just disappear in front of him mid sentence?

Just really confuses me

- So its official (or damn, damn close), the sickness that killed Rousseau's team was the time jumping, the bloody nose, etc.

- Are they are totally setting it up for Sawyer and Juliette to get together?

- I’m developing a nosebleed fetish.

- Jin is alive, cool. I wonder if that was the plan all along or they decided to bring him early (perhaps earlier than expected as I always assumed he was alive) because of negative feedback to Jin "dying" lasgtg season

- Jack has become a wishy washy dick who no longer stands for anything, man of science, my ass! Grow some nads, dude.

Okay - dark ufo has screenprints of Sun's package. It refers to the subject as SHE, staying at 103 pinecrest drive, driving a yellow VW Bug. If I'm reading the report correctly, the pictures we see attached to Sun's report are actually the pictures the subject under survelliance received in the mail (apparently so anxious to receive that the subject would go to the mailbox 7 times a day and camped out by the mailbox for 4 hours waiting for them). It also states subject was speaking on the phone and said Lee Chin is dead, a victim of suicide. It talks about HER calling Oxford City cab to take her to an animal clinic (Ben?). It also mentions HER going in a hardware store and buying all the black, green, and red spray paint. This is strange stuff - and it may be jibberish - but maybe it's not...

My opinion - Maybe Sun was running surveillance on Eloise Hawking for Mr. Widmore.

I would have to say that there is some evidence to support the fact that Ben's "moving" of the island and the Oceanic 6 leaving triggered a lot of the island's history that we already know. The island was moving through time and space, so it caught many things by surprise during that process:

The Black Rock
The French Crew
Desmond's boat
The real Henry Gail's balloon
The Nigerian Plane
The referees from Super Bowl XLIII (who clearly were not watching the game I was, so they must be time traveling)
Michael Phelps’ bong

Basically, the time jumping was already written into destiny, so anyone aware of it already knows what is going to happen and when. Ben and/or Widmore are such people.

Nose bleeds are happening to people who have been on the island along time. I’m guessing Charlotte and Miles (and, of course, Juliette) were all clearly on the island before and I’m sure Miles was born on the island before the whole baby-kill plotline was developed.

LIST:

People who appeared on the show who I’m pretty sure will have nothing to do with the final outcome:

Eko
Shannon
Walt
The dog (oops! My bad, the dog is time traveling)
Nikki (although she was smoking hot)
Paolo
Flaming arrow death guy

FEEL FREE TO ADD TO THE LIST, and add your own comments as always, or do what you normally do and avoid this post because you hate the show and are sick of people talking about it…