Damon and Carlton confirmed in the Official LOST podcast we’ll get more 4-toed statue stuff this season.

Ben’s one weakness has been eliminated, his daughter. Now he’s impervious. I like that he is a physical badass, very unexpected.

Since the Darma guy has a baby, will Darma do something to release the power at the Orchid that prevents babies from being born? Or, was it explained somewhere that he brought the baby to the island from the outside? Also, there’s no way an Asian man of his stature is being woken up by his wife to feed the baby. How much time was supposed to have passed between the Darma group and Ben’s group occupying the village? The bungalows they live in show no signs of wear when either group is occupying them. For some reason I thought there was a long gap there.

What’s with the skipping record and the morning routine? Are Desmond and the Darma guy both some kind of anchors in time, or do you take those scenes to be simple ways to show the monotony and large scale of time that these two characters have to deal with? Why did the Darma guy have to discuss the details of time travel with the laborer? You’d think they could have found a better way to write that. Clearly the physicist will eventually control time travel, but what about the guy who helped Locke from Ben’s group of others? Can he travel through time, or is he just non-human and ageless?

It’s interesting to know that the Darma people were struggling with a hostile native population back then as well. Will this lead us to an explanation of the three-toed statue at the end of season three (or four), or was it the people in military uniforms we saw at the end of episode two? I hope the statue will be explained at some point this season. Maybe that ageless guy is really a three-toed native.

Locke will come back to life once they get to the island, right? I hope they don’t keep him on the show in flashbacks and flash-forwards unlit they finally get back on the island at the end of the series, or worse yet, write him off the show.

How did Ben know that Hurley was having internal struggles over lying about what happened on the island? I like that Ben has so much power to manipulate people, but I wish he were more vulnerable physically. I remember last season or the season before he manhandled someone. It’d be more interesting if he were more vulnerable in that respect.

interesting premier.

Jin is in the credits still.

Hopefully it can work out that we can watch an ep together, maybe sometime in late March or early April!

Loved that whiny guy getting hit with an arrow and only one other random person taking one. Loved every single scene with Hurley in it… I Heart Shit Tzus… priceless! Loved the introduction of this female witch overlord… we haven’t seen her before, have we? Love that Desmond is the magic man, he may be my favorite character and I feared he was dead.

I did not however love most interactions with Sawyer… all I can say is Kate ain’t worth it! I would not be said if she was gone. I am not sure I am all that excited about any of the stories of the six besides Hurley and Sayid and also think I will miss whole episodes actually revolving around one character, I think that was one of the coolest things about the show.

But that said, with this lost in time element and a greater view of the power of the island, I think it has amazing potential and I have faith in the writers to keep doing what they are doing and keep Lost as the above and beyond best show on television.

I too think that Locke will come back to life when he returns to the island, the use of the Other that always looks the same leads me to believe that. I am also really intrigued by what other dead people we will see more of… will Jin and Michael reappear? Wouldn’t be shocking…

Anyway looking forward to the next episode and more great discussion!