Quote from: Jim Cobb;226952

what i want to know is who\'s behind the hanso foundation?

probably either that chick or that dude

i know that sounds slightly general but the chick who asked about the shadow of the statue to lapidus, and the dude who was asking miles the questions in the car.

but if they were to be working for someone, i would say..............

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the jonas brothers!

no way.  the head honcho of the hanso foundation would not be out there doing their own dirty work.  that would be like charles whidmore hopping on the freighter and heading on down to the island in place of that lunatic captain.

good catch!

i expect "the variable" to be just as good as "the constant". definitely my most anticipated episode since i saw the title a few weeks ago.

F-you Eloise!!! Ah Desmond!, Ah humanity!

this episode was certainly worth the week off in anticipation....

all of the flashback scenes were planned to the smallest detail, and executed perfectly....  i had totally forgotten that it was faraday crying when he saw the fake oceanic plane underwater... what season was that originally aired on?! season 2?  

soo..... if they *do* prevent this electromagnetic catastrophe, will that undo the whole penny/desmond relationship too? that\'d be awfully tragic, i love those two, they always make me cry !!

i had totally forgotten that it was faraday crying when he saw the fake oceanic plane underwater... what season was that originally aired on?! season 2?  

soo..... if they *do* prevent this electromagnetic catastrophe, will that undo the whole penny/desmond relationship too? that\'d be awfully tragic, i love those two, they always make me cry !!

completely forgot about that too. but that scene was after/as they introduced faraday wasn\'t it? season 4? the undoing of the future is something the writers are going to have to explain. i\'m still unsure that "whatever happened, happened." faraday seemed to change his mind, but i don\'t think that means anything. if they prevent the disaster, desmond will never have to "push the button"...but maybe it undoes whatever lead to whidmore did to make hims such a prick (probably not)...or maybe it undoes whidmore even having penny...so many variables

they won\'t prevent it.  dan didn\'t prevent his mother shooting him. and the purpose of his mother shooting him is probably to keep the incident from being prevented.

so no free will then? i think it\'s clear that this is heading towards jack/kate not preventing the disaster. there\'s just too much going on on the island for them to flash off (or whatever would happen).  they still need to deal with this impending "war." there\'s no way they\'re getting off the island any time soon.  but if they did prevent the disaster, what would happen? they end up "where they belong." where is that exactly? season finale\'s going to be a game-changer

by the way, the next episode is

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alpert-centric

!!!!!!

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an alpert episode next week HAS to be sick. he is one character that we still don\'t know a whole lot about... except that he doesn\'t age and he seems like a pretty important guy.

Watch it on the spoilers!

Yesterday was a great episode.  I went back and rewatched the Farraday explanation to Kate and Jack just to be sure I got everything.  The scene set up so casually and then Daniel drops that huge meatball.

I gotta believe that Daniel went into the others camp and got shot on purpose.  The way he approached the situation really left no other recourse than him being shot.  You don\'t just waltz into "the others" camp and threaten to shoot Richard and not expect reprocussions, especially considering that seems to be the opposite of his personality.  Maybe him getting shot is the first step in changing the course of events?  Maybe he dropped the knowledge bomb on Kate and Jack because they are best suited to handle the mission?