I wonder if those rules are honor bound or tangible, as in if Ben shot Widmore, he wouldn’t be able to raise the gun at him as some force keeps his hand down, or something.

Listening to the LOSTcast now and it seems that each number of The Numbers is associated with each candidate, and the lower the number, the better the candidate. Jack is associated with 23, and Locke, more of a man of faith, is 4. Then when I heard them say that, I realized Locke-centric episodes have been 1×04 and again this season 6×04, not sure about the others ones in the past, but that can’t be a coincidence I think.

It’s nice that for us on the U.S. east coast we get 24 on Monday then LOST on Tuesday, a strong way to start each week, however, come today (Thursday), my long time LOST watching day, things feel a bit anti-climatic, like there should be something to punctuate the week with.

So basically I liked this episode, most of it at least. I agree with both of you that Jack was just ignant in smashing the mirrors, and that Jacob should stop messing around with everyone and just SAY what the hell is going on or what he wants them to do.

A lot of Hurley in this ep. which is good, as he’s really the last ‘pure’ character in my mind, the only one unsullied one of the whole bunch. Jack’s story with the kid was interesting, but I’m not sure where they’re pulling all this new stuff from, and to see that Japanese dude back in the real world. I guess they’re going to eventually explain why EVERYBODY is back in LA because they keep on doing it.
Jack was likeable in this ep., at least when he wasn’t going off on one of his pointless rages like smashing mirrors. Seriously dude, you really need to calm the f*** down.

LIghthouse didn’t really do much for me though, more names, but at least this time there was a way to find out some answers from them, of course until Jack came along, dumbass….

Glad Kate didn’t come along, and glad she’s not a candidate either.

Too much Claire time and her acting all tough and crazy, just didn’t work for me. Even if that big black dude was shot he shouldve grabbed her neck and snapped it before she tied him up. Damn it would suck to get an axe in the stomach like that.

As for who’s coming, hmm, my vote is on Widmore. I really hope it’s not Erin as taking him out of the show was a smart move. We don’t need to go back to the baby scenes again.

Got to give this ep. a 3 because we didnt get any answers, just more questions.

It`s necessary at this stage to have a character like Hurley voicing our thoughts. If not for him, we`d be far more negative on the show than otherwise. The writers are using him to basically call themselves out.

“Oh, here we go trekking through the jungle again. Good times.”

“Here`s Adam and Eve, I wonder if we`ll time travel and become them?”

“How come we never saw this lighthouse before?”

Jin lying to Claire I think was done out of self-preservation. He could see she was murderous and absolutely convinced that the Others had her baby. To say anything different from that would make her torture and kill him. So he just told her what she wanted to hear. I was annoyed though that he didn`t tell her it earlier. Why lie there doing nothing for so long?

Nice pointer to her `friend` seeming more evil. He has made her nuts, and will send her to kill all the Temple folk if possible. I guess he can`t enter past the line of ash himself but he can send her in with dynamite to blow them all to crap.

I really liked the Jack sidestory too- him sayign that to his son was kind of a pivotal moment for him. I am not my father, all that. Great stuff.

Jack smashing the mirror though, again annoying. I understand the desire to not be a game piece, but why not just take a look at all the images. Ugh.

Very mixed up plotting so far. Jacob sent them to Temple to save Saieed, but that failed. Then everyone left the Temple, which seems to be a good thing because it looks like all the Temple people will die. It really is like a game of chess now, endless gambits and sacrificial moves being made way in advance, just to get the characters into the right position for a checkmate.

If Locke is at Claire`s, is Sawyer right behind him? Will Jin get co-opted in a search for his wife?

Hurley finds a secret tunnel, we don`t even get to see it! Secret tunnels are so par for the course now on LOST that we don`t even see it.

A lot of Star Wars references this episode? Hurley mentions Ben Kenobi as comparison to Jacob. Was there one more?