I figured maybe Sun's father had something to do with the Oceanic 6 rescue. Here's why:

Jin went AWOL on him. Sun was pregnant with Jin's child. Maybe her father would help Sun by making Jin disappear, remarry, etc., and meanwhile make her think that Jin was killed, somehow. That's the only way *I* was able to make sense out of that ending.

Oh, and hello, "Mr. Johnson"...I SO knew it was going to be him.

Jin has to be dead. Because if he wasnt then he would have been there for the birth of his child.
So he has to be dead.

He's probably still on the Island. Why would he have to be dead? If he made a deal with the Devil-We-Call-Ben (or whomever) to get pregnant Sun off the Island, he could be alive on the Island. Hopefully, he didn't have to give up his life, just give up the chance to live his life with Sun and their child (for now at least) to be sure she'd be safely removed from the Island. I can totally see Jin making a deal like that to save his wife and unborn child, even if he'd never see them again, or think he'd never see them again.

Don't know if this has been mentioned, but how do you think the Oceanic 6 explain themselves? Meaning, a plane has been found on the ocean floor with the bodies of all of the passengers. Does the rest of the world just forget that? How do they account for the extra bodies on the plane if they "escaped"?

That's a great question and was never addressed in Kate's trial, where we heard for the first time and in the most detail, so far, the story the Oceanic 6 have been telling the world.

The story they tell simply says they crashed "on a dessert Island," 8 survived the crash, but only 6 got home. Kate was the hero of that story, giving aid and finding food for the "survivors." But there was no mention of the footage of the plane on the ocean floor and all those dead bodies.

If Ben loves you, watch out.

I fear for Juliet. I fear no good can come of Ben's feelings for her. I suspect he may be the type of man who would kill the object of his affections rather than let her go (away from the Island or into the arms of another).

I also suspect that whatever may have happened to Ben's childhood love, Annie, whose picture I believe hangs in his living room, may have happened as a result of plans by Ben. It could be that his plans hurt or killed her accidentally ... or not.

I really like Juliet and I really hope no harm comes to her, but I don't have much hope.

Cynthia Watros (Libby) is a guest star for the upcoming episode.

Yay!

I finally watched the Missing Pieces webisodes, and there is one ("Hurley and Frogurt") which mentions Libby. I wonder if she will play a part later (in Hurley's past somehow or maybe his psyche). Or will Frogurt?

Also extremely interesting was "Room 23" about Juliette and a captured child (assumedly Walt) who the Others are all of because he is "special" and "dangerous."

And the very first webisode shows Christian Sheperd instructing Vincent to find and wake Jack because "he has work to do." Jack's dad is going to become more and more integral to things......

I figured maybe Sun's father had something to do with the Oceanic 6 rescue. Here's why:

Jin went AWOL on him. Sun was pregnant with Jin's child. Maybe her father would help Sun by making Jin disappear, remarry, etc., and meanwhile make her think that Jin was killed, somehow. That's the only way *I* was able to make sense out of that ending.

Oh, and hello, "Mr. Johnson"...I SO knew it was going to be him.

Sun's father wouldn't know that she was pregnant since she conceived on the island.

Her father may have something to do with things, however, since "According to an overheard conversation in "D.O.C." as well as information from The Lost Experience, Mr. Paik and Paik Heavy Industries have significant business dealings with the Hanso Foundation and the Widmore Corporation."[source]

Sun's father wouldn't know that she was pregnant since she conceived on the island.

Her father may have something to do with things, however, since "According to an overheard conversation in "D.O.C." as well as information from The Lost Experience, Mr. Paik and Paik Heavy Industries have significant business dealings with the Hanso Foundation and the Widmore Corporation."[source]

Yup, I mentioned that conversation a couple of months ago that references a connection between Paik and Hanso. I'm sure the 3 industrialists are connected... Paik, Hanso, Widmore.

I'm glad you watched those mini-clips from abc.com. They're important

I wrote this on Feb 4th:

[SIZE="3"]I think Walt is NOT a cute, cuddly kid.

Remember when Walt was first in Australia with his mother and her new husband? They were chatting between themselves and Walt keep asking them about his homework, which involved coloring birds in a book. They weren't paying attention to him. An angry looks flashes across young Walt's face and the next thing you know, a bird similar to the one he was coloring smashes into their living room window and dies.

Please, folks, please, if you haven't watched those short clips on abc.com, go see them now. One of them involves Walt and his time with the Others. Walt is powerful and, apparently, when angered he does nasty things. I haven't checked in the last couple of days, so those clips may already be gone from abc.com.[/size]

and

[SIZE="3"]Holy crap! I just watched another "missing pieces" mini-videoclip from abc.com. Holy crap! Given that in the last episode we saw a man with white shoes sitting in the rocking chair in the creepy cabin with Locke, and that man turns out to be Jack's father, you've GOT to watch the first of this week's "missing pieces" videos. Holy crap!

The other "missing pieces" videos have been shown before, but that first one is brand new. Holy crap![/SIZE]

There was no mention of Naomi's body brought back to the ship, nor did we see what they did with it. They helicopter has taken off since the group returned from the Island, so her body must have been removed. I guess the writers can't attend to every little detail, but I wish they would.

I also had never seen THIS before:

http://www.lostpedia.com/wiki/Sri_Lanka_Video

Holy Crap!!!

There was no mention of Naomi's body brought back to the ship, nor did we see what they did with it. They helicopter has taken off since the group returned from the Island, so her body must have been removed. I guess the writers can't attend to every little detail, but I wish they would.

Hadn't thought about that. Of course, that may be why the copter left the ship: they could have left her on the copter and brought the body somewhere. It's hard to know when a detail is left out (especially on a show like this) in order to conserve time or because it's important to the plot. Keep in mind the season has been shortened due to the WGA strike.

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Here's another thing I was thinking about. The episode involving Nikki and Paulo seems to have had no other affect on the show. This seems particularly odd for LOST. So I was wondering how Nikki and Paulo might come back into play or be important to the plot somehow. Then I realized I might be focusing on the wrong element of that episode. Maybe it's the Medusa Spider that comes back into play.

*shiver runs down spine*

Next week's episode is the last before the break (then only 5 more),
and it sounds like it's gonna be a doo-oo-ooozy!
[INDENT]CARLTON: The important thing is that the 5 hours of the show we have left to write are really going to allow us to end the season and sort of finish the season the way we wanted to. Some of the storylines are going to have to be pushed off into season five, some details about the freighter folk for instance, but we're going to get a chance to complete the season. Our concern was really just leaving the season open, not that we didn't like episode 8. I think we both feel like episode 8 is a pretty strong episode, and one that is kind of revelatory. Certain episodes are more revelatory about the mythology of the show, and it falls into that category.

DAMON: It's just a little outside of the box of a normal episode of Lost in that it is intensely character focused on one person as opposed to the whole ensemble and as Carlton says it is a little more focused on filling in blanks as opposed to answering new questions. So it might have been a nice episode to come back to as opposed to go off on. That being said, the last scene in the show we would certainly define as a cliff hanger and really nicely platforms what episode nine is going to be. All things being equal, we're happy we're going out on episode 8.
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