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Dang, I was hopin for Calamity Jane to go into a nice swearing fit.

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I saw Ethan immediately and sadly, the bus was given away. Also, the logo for the bioscience company was similar to Dharma so it's some sort of affiliate. These clues were a little too obvious for me. But the big question that has been answered, in my opinion, is that we are in reality as opposed to a dream or purgatory. We now know for sure that people were intentionally sent to the island for research purposes. Could be an interesting 15 weeks ahead!

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Jack's second unintentional slip up added power and purpose to Kate's emotional recount of their first conversation. That scene was quite nicely done I thought.

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I actually thought the retelling of the story was really forced. I mean it was a nice moment, dramatically, and I get that Jack had to ask her a question where she could lie without the others knowing, if she were really in trouble. But for it to be a two minute story, and for her to tell it when she was standing right next to Juliet (who had a gun and could shoot her the second she finished the story) made no sense.

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I saw Ethan as well - but when I saw him I thought that we were in a flashback from Earlier on the island - and when her sister said that she liked it on the beach I still thought it was in a DHARMA facility on the Island - then she opened the blinds.

Also : Mittelos is an anagram for Lost Time.

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Damn it! Why did I think that Danny's name was Jacob. Who's Jacob now? I need a score card.

Hopes out of the pool.

Love the Micro Deadwood reunion. Can Clench and Swengen come back in flashbacks?

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This episode was okay, but it highlights the main problem for me in season 3: The others have turned from a creepy, mysterious, panic-inducing set of poeple who you don't want to come in contact with to a highly complex, creepy, but ulitmately non panic- inducing group of individuals. With the producers showing the power stuggles and exposing us to the others in a more personal way, they have, for me, taken away that feeling of uncertainty and dread that was present when they first appeared. For instance, Tom/Zeke was scary as heck when he appeared out of nowhere to take Walt, shoot Sawyer, and appeared out of nowhere in the jungle to stop our heroes' progress towards finding Michael. Now in season 3, we see Tom chatting it up and being chummy with Jack. And the character of Pickett has turned my opinion of the others from menacing people into brutish hotheads that simply follow one messed up creepy dude called Ben Linus. As for Juliet, turning her from a potentially uncertain enemy (for all we knew, she could have been the real brains behind this stuff) into a sympathetic patsy reveals a menacing trait about the others, but it's something that doesn't really surpise me and now takes Juliet out of running as the potential person behind everything. Now obviously it is only seven episodes in and anything can happen, but does anyone really feel that sense of uncertainty with dealing with the others anymore? I am sure the eyepatch dude will make things interesting again.

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Great episode. Kate may not be able to come back for Jack, but that's not saying that Sawyer can't come back to get a little bit of payback, and that Kate can't come with him for that purpose.

Also, Jacob was the one who made the list that Ana Lucia found, I think. However, I think the video was referring to a biblical Jacob. Man, that video in Room 23 was very freaky and killed any theories that Ben might really be a good guy who's just very motivated. Even so, he's still one of my favorite characters.

I can't wait to see Sayid go all military on these guys, especially Ben.

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Frustrating bit of dialogue from the episode:
Jack: So, if you can get off the island, why didn't you just take him to a clinic?
Tom: Well, you see, ever since the sky turned purple...
[Jack slices artery and things go haywire.]

Such a tease.

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I think we've certainly been given a lot of progress with some of the mysteries in this episode: The question of how long The Others lived on the island: Born on it, or outcasts from The Dharma Initiative...and it looks like a little bit of both. We also finally found out if The Dharma Initiative was a program still in progress: it was supposed to have been canceled due to some disaster in the 80's or 70's and Juliet was recruited in 2001. I know it may not even be Dharma, but a completely new program by Hanso.

Did anyone else feel a little disappointed by not having Alex spend just a little bit more time with Kate so that Kate could tell her, "Ben's not your father, but I know who your mother is!" Also, did anyone see Alex in action and think, "like mother, like daughter! "

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watch the trailer for 3x08 - Flashes before your eyes here:

http://www.dharmasecrets.com/forum/index.php/topic,9712.0.html

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Well, I MAY have got some faith back in LOST. I'm glad I watched. I wasn't going to.

I STILL want to know what the black cloud monster is and WHAT is with the polar bear's and something invisible knocking down trees in the first season?

Maybe I WILL make it to the end of this mess after last night's episode. Kind of cool seeing something about the Others.

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Re: #10 Wait!! I missed something!! If Ben isn't Alex's father, who is? and who's her mother????

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#13 - Alex's Mom is Danielle - the crazy lady from the beach.

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An OK but preictable ep IMHO.
The producers seem to have made the desicion to widen the number of characters integral to the plot line. This allows for more eps to be produced, but may well make the who story more confusing to most viewers. And a confused viewer may begin to start missing eps.

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Alex`s mother is the French woman Rousseau`s daughter. she was taken as a toddler when her ship crashed on the island. From the episode I gather that Ben must have her believing he is her dad.

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Once Danielle realizes that there is a second island, and her daughter is there, Kate won't have to go back. I'm sure Danielle will handle things.

Alex' father was part of Danielle's team, correct? He died. It's not Ben...or is it?

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Good episode. It didn't start with a bang, but it built momentum and delivered. I thought that Juliet's back story was quite interesting, too. And I don't know if it's just because MC Gainey is the man, but Tom is now one of my favorite characters. Ben waking up on the operating table was creepy as hell.

Call me naive, but I think Edmund getting hit by a bus thing was coincidence, or fate. Fate is definitely a theme on the show, and it wouldn't be the first time something "convenient" happened to get somebody on the island. I don't buy the overwhelming conspiracy bit, either.

Also, i don't think the Others are DHARMA/Mittleos. I think that Juliet, Ethan and others were doing research on the island and their guinea pigs turned against them. It would make sense if Ben actually was born on the island for him to be one of those "guinea pigs."

One last thought? Wouldn't it have been cool if Alex came back with Sawyer and Kate, and Claire recognized her?

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This episode officially brought me back on board. I've been really wavering on this show, especially since I really didn't get involved until the beginning of season 3 (watched 1 and 2 on DVD in a two week binge session). I felt like we've been getting dicked around pretty hard with little or no progress being made on many of the threads to the narrative.

Kudos to Dr. Funbags though on the anagram. That's baller, and most definitely not a conincidence. I also agree with Reuven at #9 that Tom's little cast off remark about the sky was pretty frustrating.

The whole Milettos thing really points to the Dharma initiative being some sort of separatist/utopian movement, or renegade scientific group (see: The Village). Clearly this group will do whatever is necessary to keep their "thing" working right, as they've held Juliet hostage and perpetrated all sorts of other nastiness. My worry is that this is too obvious of a theory though, and that the producers are just going to swing another 180 on us, which would be upsetting as hell.

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Danielle has lived on the main island for years and hasn't yet seen the second island just offshore? Pull the other one;)

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