Excellent episode. The connections with the episodes focusing on the "Fusies" were excellent, in particular the bit with the transmission and the encounter with Jin, Sawyer and Mike.

As soon as they found that transmitter, it became clear that a bridge was being made with Deus Ex Machina, and we now know that the real transmission that Boone received in that episode was indeed "We're the survivors of Flight 815", and it was Bernard who made it, and the closed captioning in that episode that gave it as "There were no survivors..." was flat-out WRONG!

It looks like Ana Lucia is gonna lament the fact that she killed Shannon. Maybe she should already be lamenting the fact that she indirectly led to Nathan's murder as well by imprisoning him in that pit.

IMHO, Ana Lucia doesn't come off very well in this episode. I haven't really liked her from the start, but I reserved judgment of her until I saw her side of the story. Having seen it, I find that I still don't like her. Anyone have any thoughts about this?

I the very point of characters like Sawyer and Ana-Lucia is that we're not necessarily supposed to like them, as they're all haunted by personal demons that make them act in less-than-ideal ways. Sawyer is filled with self-hatred, and wants everyone else to hate him too. Ana-Lucia is still dealing with her past, though she's managed to keep the Tailies alive, she's probably a bit stressed from her time on the island. I know I'd be.

Yeah, well, I've somehow managed to like Sawyer. Ana, though, not yet.

Josh M: Yeah, well, I've somehow managed to like Sawyer. Ana, though, not yet.

Yeah, same here. There was something always compelling about Sawyer. I *wanted* to hate him from the start, yet I knew there was a depth to him. With her, she just has this fake hard-a@@ mentality from the start. It seems like an act, and it bothers me.

There is a new guy here at work that I see in the halls from time to time, who looks strikingly like Sawyer. I have to wonder sometimes if he is intentionally playing the resemblance (even to going without shaving.)

Every time I see him, I'm tempted to ask "Are you Lost?"

I know what you mean about sawyer. he is such a jerk that you wanna start smacking him around but then he has this soft moment where you see throuhg his shell and feel sorry for him.

I keep waiting for ana-lucia to collapse or spaz out from all the stress as this does feel too much like a I am tough and SPOILER WARNING: have to proove it and here i am a badarse cop who aint no girly girl. I wonder if this is where the creators are going with the character? Maybe she breaks down on the island and has to be rebuilt personality wise or something very jedi awakening happens to her.

Moderator, R's message contains a spoiler. Can we hide that portion or something? (He says SPOILER :A-L's a cop, which we don't know yet in this episode.)

Clearly, it is time for the flying monkeys.

Only eight episides in, and this is the second time in which the cliffhanger of the previous episode was reprised as the current cliffhanger, without advancing the plot forward. I like formalism but they're really stretching the Rashomon aspects.

Good episode otherwise though.

Don't worry, it's the last one. This season.