Because it's the SPOILER thread. No courtesy coverup needed.

But we're just having the same conversation as we were having in the other thread.

A *SPOILER* warning in the Thread Title is all that's necessary. Spoiler tags in the thread would be redundant. If you havent seen the latest episode, stay out of the thread marked SPOILERS. Simple as.

Do you get a credit in the season finale?

Yes, it will read something like this:

Creative yet WRONG theory about Ben....Maggers of the RJ Board

I like my theory, it makes sense to me, there is a nice cohesion to it, but this is LOST. Making sense is not necessary.


Also, I started the other thread on the 4th season of LOST, but there is no spoiler warning in the title of the thread. As far as I know, there is no way for me to go back and change the name of the thread.

But a MODERATOR can. Hey, Marc, could you have gone in and changed the title of the original thread to include a spoiler warning, now that you are a moderator?


And regarding Kate's favor to Sawyer, I also immediately went to his daughter, which could turn out to be interesting if Kate ever meets up with Sawyer's daughter's mother, whom, of course, Kate knows.

A *SPOILER* warning in the Thread Title is all that's necessary. Spoiler tags in the thread would be redundant. If you havent seen the latest episode, stay out of the thread marked SPOILERS. Simple as.

There is a spoiler warning in th thread title and no one is using spoiler tags. I don't understand what you're getting at.

There is a spoiler warning in th thread title and no one is using spoiler tags. I don't understand what you're getting at.

If you were anxious about spoilers, you should have put a spoiler warning in the Title of the other Lost thread.

The discussion invariably moves on with each episode that is broadcast. If you're not up to date with Lost, you shouldnt be in a Lost discussion thread. If you want to post something from the current episode about Ben for example - even the fact that Ben isnt called Henry is presumably a spoiler to somebody somewhere. This thread has gazumped the nice little thread we had going.

Amen to that.

Now: isn't it funny that when we saw Jack at the end of Season 3 in the first of the "flashforwards," he makes a crack about his father? "Well why don't you go find my father and we'll see who's more sober?" (Something along those lines.) Do you think that between flashforward periods presented in "Through the Looking Glass" and "Cabin Fever," he sees MORE of his father (and thus experiences more of his pill-popping alcoholism)? I'm willing to bet so!

Also, it was good to get an inkling as to what happened with Jin and Sun before they wind up separate ways (hopefully only in location and not in life and death!) in the future, when Jin was talking to Charlotte.

It was SO sweet what Juliette said to Kate. Granted, it doesn't quite make up for that pathetic and horrible thing she said to Jin about Sun being pregnant, but it took her a lot of guts to come out and tell Kate that the man she (Juliette) likes is in love with her (Kate). A lot of guts, and a lot of maturity. It was very sweet, and further makes me feel she's truly a good person, no matter what questionable things she may do otherwise.

Finally, it was SO upsetting to see Hurley in such a state of distress about Charlie and whether or not the Oceanic Six were alive or dead. Just heartbreaking.

Amen to that.

Ditto. I totally agree.

Finally, it was SO upsetting to see Hurley in such a state of distress about Charlie and whether or not the Oceanic Six were alive or dead. Just heartbreaking.

Yes, to see the tears in Hurley's eyes and the way he couldn't even make eye contact with Jack.... gutwrenching.

I love the new compassionate and caring Sawyer. Since he joined up with Locke, he has looked out for his companions as he seldom did (at least willingly) on the beach. He ran to look for Danielle, Alex, and Karl when the fighting started, and he ran to a burning building to get Claire, despite warnings from Ben that there was no time and that he wouldn't be able to get back to safety. Sawyer is so protective of Claire and the baby. I'm loving it.

Jack, on the other hand, is becoming more annoying, especially off the Island when he gets involved with a woman. Yes, he's an alcoholic, yes, he has serious daddy issues, and all of that adds to his inability to relate well emotionally. But his controlling distrust of the woman that he's with, first his wife and now Kate, is a little scary. He's a boy in need of some serious therapy.

Miles' ability to see dead people is so helpful on the Island. The fact that he saw Jack and Claire's dad walk off with Claire was great. Perhaps, when/if ever Miles describes to Jack the man Claire called "dad" and with whom she walked off into the jungle, Jack will realize that he and Claire are related. Wouldn't that be the bomb.

Jack and Claire's dad is a definite manifestation of the Island, perhaps powered by Jacob. It is not a beneficent figure. Claire has finally been separated from her baby. Ben and his people could not do that. It took the power of the Island to do it, a direct intervention, if you will.

I got chills when Hurley relayed Charlie's message to Jack, that he shouldn't be raising Aaron. Jack, the alcoholic, pill popping obsessive that he becomes off the Island, should not be raising anyone.

We see the beginnings of the need for Jack to go baaaaaack.

Did any one notice that BEFORE Jack saw his dad, the smoke detector went off? Maybe because Jack's dad was the smoke "being"?

Did any one notice that BEFORE Jack saw his dad, the smoke detector went off? Maybe because Jack's dad was the smoke "being"?

I thought the smoke detector was beeping because the battery was dead or dying. It gave that same sounding beep as the computer in the hatch. Jack noticed and climbed up to change the battery. Then saw his dad.

So, maybe you're right, Cobalt, maybe the Island can send out "smoke signals" in the form of manifestations that can set off smoke alarms. That's wild.

Has this already been discussed? If so, I'm not going to go searching the board for it, so I'll ask it anyway.

Rewind to Season 1, I believe the episode is called "Maternity Leave" (but I'm not certain). Claire's been kidnapped by Ethan, but now she returns, and starts having flashbacks to when she was in the ward. Did anyone else think Jack's father was in the hallway, talking to Ethan, in one of those flashbacks?

We should start keeping a list of all the Island sightings of Jack's father. So far...

• Jack seeing him, which results in...
  
• ...he's disappeared from the coffin, apparently
  
• Possible hallway sighting (above)
  
• In Jacob's cabin (on the chair, when Hurley first looked inside)
  
• With Aaron and Claire
  
• Off the Island, in the hospital (in the future)
  

...did I miss any?