How about another substitute-

Pregnant Kate instead of pregnant Claire.

Hmmm....that's interesting, but would there ever be a conclusion to that pregnancy, given we've only got a few episodes left this season and just next season till it all needs to be wrapped up. LOL

Hmmm....And would Kate have to get off the Island in order to give birth safely? No, because she would have conceived off the Island.

Hot ziggedty...this could be the start of one big happy LOST family, all sort of related and heading for inbreeding if left alone on the Island.

..conversation with Charlotte where she revieled she knew faraday as an old man ...

She never said OLD. She said "there was a man, a crazy man, who really scared me." Nothing about old, nothing. Daniel as Charlotte knew him as a little girl is probably Daniel as she and we know him now, which would aid in her ability to recognize him, though without 100% assurance...she was a little girl, after all.

I just want to thank everyone for all their thoughtful, cogent posts. All the ideas and analyses are so interesting. Thanks for the good reading.

I just want to thank everyone for all their thoughtful, cogent posts. All the ideas and analyses are so interesting. Thanks for the good reading.

I always enjoy your posts Maggers....you always make sense of what confuses me.

She never said OLD. She said "there was a man, a crazy man, who really scared me." Nothing about old, nothing. Daniel as Charlotte knew him as a little girl is probably Daniel as she and we know him now, which would aid in her ability to recognize him, though without 100% assurance...she was a little girl, after all.

I take your word for it. I was going off memory and most likelly have it wrong. You always remember way more lol. I think I was just adding thoughts to memory.

I take your word for it. I was going off memory and most likelly have it wrong. You always remember way more lol. I think I was just adding thoughts to memory.

That is how I remembered it, and to verify, I went back and transcribed the dialogue verbatim.

I was thinking that there are substitutes... Maybe the unknown guy is a substitute for Aaron....or Ben is Aaron's substitute.

Don't forget, Aaron wasn't 'on' the original flight so this leads me to think that maybe AlvinFox has it right with Kate being pregnant.

What I really don't get though is the need to recreate the original flight at all, given that there are far more things that haven't been recreated than have. I mean, is it really necessary to mirror Kate and her marshall by having Sayid with a marshall? It just seems a bit unnecessary.

That said, one thing I do think is important is a dead Locke being there instead of a dead Christian. We've learnt now that Christian is mucho important so does that mean that his arrival on 815 was as important as Locke's arrival on 316? I think definitely. And I can well believe that Dead Christian's arrival was engineered in much the same way that Dead Locke's was.

And I bet there was another 'dead arrival' before him. Jacob, anyone? Maybe Ben's been keeping him prisoner all this time (remember the ash?) because he's narked about not being as important as he'd like to be.

Excuse me the stupid question, I forgot: Who is the Dead Christian??
*ShameOnMe*

Excuse me the stupid question, I forgot: Who is the Dead Christian??
*ShameOnMe*

He's Jack's Dad. If you remember, back in Season 1 (seems very long ago now!) Jack was transporting him, in a coffin, back to LA on the doomed flight 815. Since then, he's been popping up more and more frequently on the island, most recently to tell Locke to turn the wheel after he fell down the well at the end of 'This Place Is Death'.

Ohhh, yeah. I remember!
Wow, can't be a coincedence I guess.
I am really excited for the new episode this evening, I can watch it tomorrow
the name "Life and death of Jeremy Bentham" is quite promising.