I want to know how Naomi got a picture of Desmond and Penny. During his flashbacks when they got the pic taken there was only one copy of it and Desmond took it with him when he broke up with Penny.

Anne,

Re: comment #41 -- I don't know the exact answer to your question, but I do know that weight loss is not always as simple as calories in, calories out. Perhaps Hurley has a thyroid issue. I also believe I've come across information on studies showing that in some people, lack of food causes the body to conserve calories even more than normal, all in an effort to prevent starvation. People who are fat now, according to a news show I saw recently, are the products of generations of natural selection. Those who tend to put on weight were more likely to survive for all but the last century or so. Hurley's weight may not be as odd as we all suppose.

Or maybe I'm just too believing! :-) But that's my 2 cents.

#56: Nikki and Paolo getting buried alive convinced me more than ever that the writers are making it up as they go. They had such a short and finite story arc, that I think the writers were trying to introduce some new characters, decided that they couldn't really do anything with them, gave them a self-contained back story and killed them off. (No sense paying two stars you can't use!)

What if both Clare and Charlie are hurt and Jack can only save one of them and Juliet tells him to save his sister?

#56...I'm going to guess..they sucked in some sand and died.

#52...at the end of last season the scientist called Penny.


Given all the others know..they surely know Jacks fathers name is on other birth certs..maybe they will tell him.

What if the head monk sees Des and Penny together but the lady in the picture on the head monks desk doesn't see them together. 2 different future seeers..2 different futures seen.


I wonder if we will have to wait for the series to be over and when the rerelease the Seasons with commentary will we ever know all the clues they were giving.

I really like these biblical reference.. i wish they would share more.

Great episode. All your comments are good. But here's my question. What happened to the two who were buried alive a few episodes back?

who is Jacob that you keep mentioning? did I miss something in this episode?

This was a good episode, and I admit that I sincerely thought that Desmond would let Charlie die. The scenes in the jungle were really interesting and dramatic; you could almost feel Desmond's tension as Charlie approached what only Desmond (and God, unless God can't see the island as Ben said) knew would be his death.

I agree with whoever said that the monk seemed to deliberately force the meeting between Desmond and Penny. That there was a photo of the old lady who told Desmond his destiny in his last flashback episode on the monk's desk only reinforces that -- not that I noticed that during the episode, I only find out about those things online.

The Korean ghost story was hilarious. Awesome scene, especially how it started out light-hearted like that and it ended up with the helicopter crash.

So if the book was a Portuguese copy of "Catch-22" (the novel), then does that imply that this new woman (Naomi?) is working for Penny like those other Portuguese speakers, in the research station at the end of the Season 2 Finale? I think so. I like the theory that the whole thing, Others, Dharma, smoke monster, numbers, four-toed feet, etc. aside, is centered around Desmond and his girlfriend's quest to find him. He has turned out to be a quite central figure, and he's one of my favorite characters.

So, the Jack-Kate-Sawyer love triangle has become a love quadrangle, apparently, with the addition of Juliet. I can't believe that Kate is so shocked that Jack is showering affections over Juliet instead of her. I mean, he saw her having sex with Sawyer, and then when he eats dinner with Juliet, she goes and has sex with Sawyer again. Well, that'll really show Jack, huh?

I don't know if Juliet will be a love interest for Jack for long. I mean, she's going back to the Others in "one week," so I don't know if this "love quadrangle" will last. The last time it looked like there would be a second woman added in was with Ana-Lucia, but she didn't really ever get involved with Jack despite the speculation that she would, nor did she get involved with Sawyer, except for when she had sex with him as a con to get a gun.

In the end, I don't care about the love triangle as much as I care about the stuff going on in the jungle. So, now that an outsider has crashed on the island, let's get some answers about how she got here. How did she find the island with the magnetic field? Was the field what caused her to crash? What's up with that crazy helmet?

And if Desmond couldn't bring himself to allow Charlie to die this time, will he ever do it?

And now that Bernard has been mentioned again, will he and Rose ever reappear? (I like those two characters, mainly because it's nice to have a couple of genuinely good-hearted characters on the island. Unless Bernard is the leader of the Others, like #51 said. Now THAT would be creepy.)

No me gustó ese episodio, me pareció aburrido y predecible. Pareciera que su único era decirnos cómo Desmond conoció a Penelope

nice recap, thanks. i was trying to figure out who naomi was and that's why i read it. wikipedia is really disappointing on lost--their heroes page is amazing. jack was not really cold to kate, but he did give her the "cold shoulder" by ignoring her flirting. how did you know naomi's name? why do you say the two guys who noticed the electromagnetic anomaly were working for penny? i know i missed some episodes, but are you talking about the two guys in the spaceship? i thought they were russian? ok, i'm lost. :)