as for the alt timeline: i think they all feel that something is off, kind of like when jack talked about knowing that he still had something to do on the island. they just know but don’t get it fully, yet. and i think somehow they “remember” the other timeline. for example, the way that sun totally flipped when they were wheeling her into the hospital and she saw locke. it was like she was terrified. then there’s locke’s sleep-speech to jack about how he should have believed him. somehow they know on some level about the “real” timeline. i think.

and sun and jin. oh man. that killed me. it was just brutal and heart wrenching. we have been on such a journey with them over the years and i for one have totally fallen in love with them. i sobbed. SOBBBED.

i think lapidus might turn up like a deus ex machina or something. the fact that nothing was mentioned about him dying makes me think he’ll pop up at some opportune moment. plus he’s just too cool to kill off with no mention or fanfare.

i think des is going to make it, at least long enough to do whatever needs to be done, whatever that thing ™ is afraid he will do. i hope. i love des more and more every episode.

i just hope that sawyer sucks it up and realizes that they’ve got to stop that thing ™ and stop being so stubborn and selfish. kate will go along with it cuz she’s such a lame-o, and hurley is all about doing what’s right.

i find it so interesting/ironic that now that jack actually (FINALLY) believes that locke was right, he’s still fighting “locke” in the form of that thing ™.

I was very sad after that episode… it reminds me of Harper’s Island, a murder mystery show. It got down to just a few main characters left and the show just has to end soon after that because it’s so depressing.

I am pretty sure that Locke thinks that Sayid killed Des, so that may buy the group some time.

I, too, wonder where Miles, Richard and Ben ran off to. Hopefully they catch up with the surviving group to increase their numbers against Locke.