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Question: These particular Dharma people who Sawyer's with when Kate, Jack, etc. return are in the past, right?

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That's my sense of it - the van is still working, not at a bottom of a hill with a skeleton in it. It seems to be pre-Ben Dharma (since he killed them all later, right?). It does explain how the Others knew a lot about the castaways in season 1 and 2 etc., that the castaways showed up in the past while the Dharma people were still around.

Gee this is hard to talk about - time loops give me a headache .

Now, if they are supposed to be in the 70's (which Juliet indicated while talking to Sawyer, I think), where are the love beads and tie-dye t-shirts? Or disco balls ... he he he.

Is lost a repeat in the U S tonight?

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I like that Lost is complicated, but sometimes it's a little too complicated!

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J.J. Abrams also produced Alias, and that was another show that completely reinvented itself with each new season. Lost seems to be following the same pattern.

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The smoke monster dates back to Season 1 or 2, doesn't it? Seems like it killed someone (the science teacher guy?) a long time ago.

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The writers have done a good job at surprising us so far, so I expect the finale to be equably memorable!

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Question: What happened to Rose and Bernard and the rest of the minor-character survivors? Suddenly it seemed there were only the Oceanic 6 and Sawyer and his little band.

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I'd much rather them have killed off Desmond at the Looking Glass.

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What happened to Claire? Is she dead or just missing?

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I think we're not supposed to know. Gee, now I'm wondering where my head was when I watched all this before. I can't even remember the episode where she was there last. I remember her and her (and Jack's) dad lounging in that spooky cabin, but that was after she was dead/missing.

Y'know, it wasn't really the Oceanic 6, was it? It was really the Oceanic 6.5 or the Oceanic 7 (depending on how you think about Sun's baby) who left the island. Neither baby has ended up there on an island on which women can't have babies without dying. I wonder what's going on there.

I may have to go back and watch last season somehow. The more I think, the more it hurts.

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I finally caught up with my "Lost" watching, so I can join the discussion on this thread now :-)

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Remember in Season 1, the psychic told Claire that great evil would come to her baby if she wasn't the one to raise him. Well, she's not raising him now...

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Did the psychic say evil would come to the child, or that the child would be evil? Another thing to go back and check .

This time-travel thing is making me even more confused than Hurley (I loved that part, though - who's the dimwit? ). And do we have any clues as to who the Others are? I'm trying to remember what Danielle said about them (although I guess it's hard to trust anything she said since she was crazy). When Richard went to the building with little Ben, I half expected them to beam somewhere.

And what was up with Sawyer letting them drug Sayid? I get that he didn't have a whole lot of choice, but did he really want to make an enemy of Sayid??? That's not a good thing to be. Any idea why Sayid wouldn't just go along with Sawyer's original suggestion that he play defector and join the Dharma folk? Not that I think that would have been fun for Sayid, but why would he reject a (seemingly) sensible plan?

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I'm still waiting to find out how Hurley came to be on that plane to Guam. Guess that will be covered in an upcoming episode?

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I wonder why Sun was so willing to go back to the island and leave her child behind. I know she was anxious to find out about Jin, but I would think she'd choose her child over that.

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I was wondering that, too. What on earth would compel her to leave her baby? There must be something other than looking for Jin that compelled her to go back. My swiss cheesey memory is blank as to what info we got about Sun's return.

Maybe I should start taking notes, although I guess it's a little late now .

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Not that I think that would have been fun for Sayid, but why would he reject a (seemingly) sensible plan?

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What on earth would compel her to leave her baby? There must be something other than looking for Jin that compelled her to go back.

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I've decided not to overthink the possible reasons why Kate and Sun didn't bring the children back to the island with them. Being the cynic that I am, I think that this was done to make it easier for the writers. I figure that the children won't advance the storyline on the island very much, and would likely just pose problems or get in the way, so the easiest thing to do would be to leave them behind. I mean, how do you trick the Dharma Initiative into thinking that a 3-year-old is a new recruit?

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I've decided not to overthink the possible reasons why Kate and Sun didn't bring the children back to the island with them. Being the cynic that I am, I think that this was done to make it easier for the writers.

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LOL - yeah, that's sort of what I decided about the Sayid question after I posted last night. If he stayed with the Dharma people, how would that advance the plot? Much more interesting to have him shoot Ben and go rogue. More fun than having him in the motor pool. Now will Sayid become the crazy guy in the woods? That could be interesting ...

Unfortunately, I suspect that Sayid has actually started Ben on his evil way, since he ends up with the Others and "loses his innocence," whatever that means.

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...where Kate intervenes to try and save Ben's life - her behaviour made more sense in the context of having to give Aaron up.

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Oh yeah - that does make more sense.

So, who would have let Ben die and who agrees that he's still just a kid and should be saved? It's the old "would you kill Hitler as a baby" scenario.

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