Awww, shucks, Cobalt, thanks. Nurses are special people.

Be well Maggers, enough for tonight. I had a truly bad day. I'll watch that newest clip/hint and contemplate.

Be well Maggers, enough for tonight. I had a truly bad day. I'll watch that newest clip/hint and contemplate.

Feel better, babe. Have a good night.

Ben has been someone also in tune with the Island. I guess one of the tests to determine if you are special enough to receive the messages is to see if you can, literally, see Jacob.

I want to know more about Ben's backstory. Curious about what brought him to help kill everyone in the Dharma project. There's got to be more to it than what we know. I'd like to see a Richard flashback this season. Wondering how he managed to not age at all in the past thirty years. Though he did morph from hippiedom into a yuppie. Did the Hostiles knock off the Dharma people because they were meddling with forces on the island that shouldn't be messed with?

I want to know more about Ben's backstory. Curious about what brought him to help kill everyone in the Dharma project. There's got to be more to it than what we know.

There will be more, I'm sure. I bet there will be a story about Ben and his little girlfriend, Annie, the one who made him the wooden dolls for his birthday.

I'd like to see a Richard flashback this season. Wondering how he managed to not age at all in the past thirty years. Though he did morph from hippiedom into a yuppie

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LOL, what you think looked like hippie clothes, and they could have been, I think look like old pirate clothes, or clothes dating back to the Black Rock. But I like that, hippie to yuppie.

Did the Hostiles knock off the Dharma people because they were meddling with forces on the island that shouldn't be messed with?

You just might be right about that.

Yes, I want to know more about Richard, too. I'm curious as to how Richard can leave the Island so easily. Remember he recruited Juliet in Portland. I would think that if the Island prevents you from aging, as it seems to have done with Richard, then you'd think it would be like Shangri-La, that no one would want to leave because suddenly they'd turn into a wrinkled old pear. Sort of like Kohlabati and her necklace . But Richard looks young and handsome (very, very handsome ) whether he's on the Island or in Portland. I have a theory about that, too, but I'll hold off because it has to do with one of the little video clips that appeared on abc.com and not everyone has seen them.

But Richard looks young and handsome (very, very handsome

Come now, The guy wears more eyeliner than Alice Cooper. Did we have this conversation last year? I just got dejavued!

There will be more, I'm sure. I bet there will be a story about Ben and his little girlfriend, Annie, the one who made him the wooden dolls for his birthday.

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LOL, what you think looked like hippie clothes, and they could have been, I think look like old pirate clothes, or clothes dating back to the Black Rock. But I like that, hippie to yuppie.


You just might be right about that.

Yes, I want to know more about Richard, too. I'm curious as to how Richard can leave the Island so easily. Remember he recruited Juliet in Portland. I would think that if the Island prevents you from aging, as it seems to have done with Richard, then you'd think it would be like Shangri-La, that no one would want to leave because suddenly they'd turn into a wrinkled old pear. Sort of like Kohlabati and her necklace . But Richard looks young and handsome (very, very handsome ) whether he's on the Island or in Portland. I have a theory about that, too, but I'll hold off because it has to do with one of the little video clips that appeared on abc.com and not everyone has seen them.

I haven't seen the show (though I believe the massed opinion of the gang it's excellent). But the other day, while working me fingers to the naked bone, I leafed through a book that claimed there are disquieting similarities between LOST and GILLIGAN'S ISLAND.

Can that be true?

Come now, The guy wears more eyeliner than Alice Cooper.

But at least Richard's eyeliner is neat and stays in place.

Did we have this conversation last year? I just got dejavued!

It's The Island, I tell you, The Island!

I think the person who looked out of the cabin window was Locke. It was his big eyeball that you saw and that scared Hurley.

It's the person who was sitting in the cabin in the rocking chair that I was, and I think that Jim was, referring to.

I knew that it was the Rocking Chair Guy who you meant.... but I don't think the Window Guy was Locke. For one thing, I'm sure I saw the vague outline of hair, and that's something Locke does't boast an awful lot of!
My money's on Michael.

... it is revealed that the black smoke doesn't like the electromagnetic fence that protects the Others. I assume that Jacob is within the bounds of the fence in the vicinity of the Others camp (though it's ever been stated as such so I may be wrong) so I don't see how he can transform back and forth and move to either side of the fence.

I don't think Jacob is within the boundaries of the fence, otherwise Hurley would have come across the fence before coming across the shack.

On a related note: don't forget that Jacob had some kind of aversion to technology. So if the theory that Jacob is the Black Smoke is true, then that would explain why it (the Black Smoke) was unable to cross the fence.

I knew that it was the Rocking Chair Guy who you meant.... but I don't think the Window Guy was Locke. For one thing, I'm sure I saw the vague outline of hair, and that's something Locke does't boast an awful lot of!
My money's on Michael.

I just re-ran it and freeze framed it and there's nary a hair to be seen, except for an eyebrow. I would have sworn the eye was green, and Locke's eyes are a beautiful green, but it could have been brown. The skin looked white to me, so I don't think it's Michael. I still think it's Locke.

We shall see...watch, it will wind up being someone we don't even know yet.