So Carl is a droog! (reference: A Clockwork Orange)

\sarcasm{I did not expect that bus.}

After all, it was telegraphed so blatantly. And it was clearly visible in every wide-angle shot and every close-up on Juliet during the final argument on the curb.

Bye-bye Danny.

Yeah, I guess that when Carl gets to the Big Island with Kate and Sawyer, he'll be drinkin' milk, on account of that's what he's drinkin'!

Kind of a slow ep....

You know you're not going to have a sympathetic husband when Zelkjo Ivanek is cast in the role.

I didn't pay attention... was the rain consistent during Jack's first argument with Kate? Because when the Danny & Friends were chasing Kate and Sawyer, it was nice and sunny out.

Since Karl has been subjected to God-knows-what conditioning, I wonder how this will influence his behavior with the Losties.

Kate and Sawyer disarm Pickett and his buddy. Yet later on the beach only Sawyer has a gun. Why did Kate not grab the other guy's gun? Seems like it would have been a good idea.

I think I might just start tallying Sawyer's nicknames. This ep we get Sheena, Underdog, Sister, and Lollipop for Alex, Cheech for Karl, and we again get Freckles for Kate. Creative guy.

The way Sawyer reacts to Aldo's name, I imagined he was already thinking up ten new nicknames for the guy.

Nestor Carbonell makes an appearance. I will forever associate that guy with Batmanuel.

Me, I think of him as the guy from Suddenly Susan.

The whole thing happened so fast that it makes sense that Kate didn't think to take the other gun.

Wikipedia has a chart on Sawyer's nicknames.

Oh, and I forgot to note how satisfying it was to finally see Sawyer not only kick the living snot out of Pickett, but ramming his head into the electrically charged food button.

I forgot to ask this: In what way can Juliet's ex disallow her from leaving for Portland? Do they have children together that are currently unseen?

I believe it was blackmail, Luigi.

I'm not sure what he had on her with which he could blackmail her. Theft of a couple of vials of a substance that she could write off as a side experiment that the company would benefit from? If anything, she can make things uncomfortable for him and his new lady friend given that she was made a new project director, or something, and is having an affair with him. I mean, are you saying that Edmund planned on keeping Juliet with his company forever?

Isn't she testing an experimental drug on a human without permission? Isn't that illegal?

I think we're overlooking a more reasonable possibility. As a research scientist, I would imagine her employment contract contained a pretty tight no-compete clause. In order to go work for another medical research company as was presented to Juliet, she would need to have her boss (in this case, her ex) approve, else she would be legally prevented from taking the job.

Josh? Was this the episode at the end of which Juliet implied that Ben is Alex's father? If so, it's missing from your Notes.

Speaking of which do we know that it's Ben? Has this been firmly established? Do we know that Juliet wasn't referring to someone else? If so, then Ben must merely have raised her, and not fathered her biologically, since Rousseau encountered Ben in his first apperance, capturing him in her net, and made no indication of knowing him. (Or am I missing a permutation?)

To me, it wasn't clear until last week's 'Stranger in a Strange Land' (but I could have easily missed it in 'Not in Portland' as I was constantly interrupted watching it) When Jack was talking to Alex from the cage, there's no doubt that 'your father' referred to Ben.

But yes, 'raised only' is the only way I interpreted that. Wasn't Rousseau pregnant when she arrived on the island?

Kevin: But yes, 'raised only' is the only way I interpreted that. Wasn't Rousseau pregnant when she arrived on the island?

Yes, she was. She gave birth shortly after the ship wrecked, IIRC.

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