I totally want to see a show starring Jin and the guy in the - what was it, baby duck? - suit.

Brilliant idea! they could be swinging bachelors that live with a bunch of girls at a modeling agency and moonlight as detectives at night.

We can call it Jin's Angels.

I noticed the guy announcing the lottery tickets on tv said nobody had won in 16 weeks - there's that number again.

Also I'm sure I'm about a year behind on this one but has anybody ever noted that 42 is not only a lost number but the "answer to the ultimate question in life" in The Hitchhicker's Guid to the Universe?

In case anybody cares here are the lyrics to the song Hurley was listening to in his dream:

All I need from you is a good conversation
Because it gives me sweet inspiration
And to tell you I never felt this way before
I know there is some way today
Love your brothers, my friends, love your sister

Don't know if that is a clue but everything means something on this show right?

As always loved the recap - keep em coming!

no, everything does NOT mean something on this show. jj abrams said in a nytimes interview that so many people assume everything means something and really sometimes they just put crap in because they needed something.

for all we know that branded shark could be totally pointless.

Great recap!
There was a little moment last night that I loved - when Hurley is complaining to Locke about how everyone will hate him for not giving peanut butter to "Claire's...island...baby...?" and Locke totally starts laughing. It was so funny I kept rewinding it; I think maybe it was an unscripted moment they decided to keep.

Great Recap! Some comments:

1) The logos in the new bunker are not the same. Ditto on the shark. (yes I am a big nerd...) The new logo looks like a compass. Magnetism, compass. hmmm. See link below:

http://lost.cubit.net/pics/twoLogos.jpg

2) New fun site:

http://mrclucks.com/

Make sure to click the paragraph symbol...

JoeyJoJo Out!

I was a bit disappointed with last nights episode...i think the previews for next week were better than the entire episode itself. Hurley sucked in this episode as did his back story we had seen before with DJ Qualls and that girl from Life As We Know It! Seeing Jin speak english in the promo's was cool, but a letdown on the show. Don't get me wrong, i balled my eyes out at the end and was wondering why i liked Rose so much when she had only been on like 1 episode before and now she's a star.
Either way, great re-cap, thanks for putting the internet info upfront.

These recaps are hilarious. I have read other blog and recaps and compared this they are nothing. I did hear though that in the first season, Roses husband was black. They hsowed him walking back to the bathroom in on pf the flashbacks...whats up wioth that?

At the Mr. Cluck's website..anyone else notice the freaky message?

THIS SHOW IS SO STRANGE AND WONDERFUL!

If you go to IMDB you will see that on next week's episode M.C. Gainey is listed as "Kelvin" which is the name of the man Desmond said was in the hatch with him but died. In last season's finale, M.C. Gainey is listed as "Bearded Man"... he is the guy on the boat who kidnapped Walt.

Spoiler :(

Dude! hilarious recap. I totally enjoyed that episode. I love that everyone thought Rose's husband was the beefy black guy but was instead the geeky white guy. perfect. I'm all set with Jack/ Kate. googly eyes over BBQ is just stupid

Dude, you suck at accents. Not Scottish. Mancucian.

Great recap!

Did anyone else notice, Hurley's boss at Cluck You was also Locke's boss at the box company too??? Good old Randy...

I did like the line, "Driveshaft? More like Suckshaft!"

So what's up with the "Apollo" candy bars and the mention in the recap above of the secured version of the Hanso Foundation website that says something about a spaceship?

Very good point psychologist. I just did a whois search of that spaceship site and it seems like it has fake info - not the abc info like on the hanso site.

That was an interesting observation about Hurley's boss. You know, later Hurley buys the box company so maybe he hired that guy for some reason.

Was Hurley so mean to Charlie and so nice to Rose because Charlie wanted something and Rose didn't? He treated his good friend like crap and then brought a random woman to the hatch.

Please explain one simple thing to me: Why is Hurley also called Hugo? I though Hurley must be his last name but his boss was calling him Reyez (sp?).

Are we sure they showed Rose's husband as being black last season?

I nearly cried my eyes out when Rose's husband idenified himself. I love the action and adventure, but man, this show has heart.

Another consideration for the term "Apollo" on the candy bars is the Greek mythology of the god Apollo. Check out this website about him: http://www.pantheon.org/articles/a/apollo.html

It references swans, a difficult to reach floating island, prophecy, colonization, a plague, etc.... Also of interest is that he has a TWIN brother.

Here is an excerpt from the site: "When the goddesss Hera, the wife of Zeus (it was he who had coupled with Leto) found out about Leto's pregnancy, she was outraged with jealousy. Seeking revenge Hera forced Leto to roam the earth in search of a place to give birth. Since Hera had forbidden Leto to stay anywhere on earth, either on terra-ferma or an island at sea, the only place to seek shelter was Delos, being in the center of the Aegean, and also difficult to reach, as there were strong under-currents, because it was said to be a floating island. Because it was a floating island, it was not considered either of Hera's prohibitions, and so Leto was able to give birth to the divine twins Apollo and Artemis (before Leto gave birth to Apollo, the island was encircled by a flock of swans, this is why the swan was sacred to him)."

According to the IP search on the Hanso website its clearly an ABC site. I'm not sure what the deal is with th HTTPS site, maybe someone else could have registered it. I will say the whole bigspaceship1 site seemed very fanlike and amatuer.

Joanna, please don't be rude. And it's spelled "Mancunian."

Psychologist, Apollo had a twin SISTER - Artermis is a woman. sorry but it really bothered me lol - anyways, awesome recap, i love it when lost gives me a nice warm happy feeling at the end... :)

Sorry, Artemis is how u spell it

the morse code title on bigspaceship1.com translates to
ALL THE RABBITS DOWN THE HUTCH
[yes, hutch, not hatch]

Why hasn't anyone commented on the part where there were 42 survivors from the front section of the plane, and now 23 from the tail - will there be another hatch somewhere on the island with 16 people? 15? 8? 4?
Was this mentioned and I missed it?

Now there's a www.bigspaceship1.org that is different from the bigspaceship1.com one
The Flash is back to the two polar bears and the code reads "Chocolate Asclepius". If you pause (uncheck play) the animation when the two bears intersect and the red dot appears you'll see the text 2FENO6 in the red dot. Don't have any idea what it means

I don't know about anyone else, but I watched it late at night and that guy in the chicken suit freaked me out.

Someone asked about Hurley's name earlier...all I remember is him saying that his name was Hugo, but his friends called him Hurley.

Seems more likely to me that the pushing of the button is keeping something going rather than preventing something from happening. Maybe Walt said not to push the button because it is enabling bad things to happen. And by the way, where is that kooky kid?

Great recap, but Charlie wasn't the singer of Driveshaft...he was the bass player...!

I looked up "Asclepius" and he is also in Greek mythology. According to what I found online, he is the son of Apollo and the Greek god of healing as well as a famous physician. Supposedly he could bring the dead back to life. Weird.

so what do we think happened to the other people from the tail section? did they get the sickness rousseau talked about? (i'm beginning to wonder if the sickness isn't from radiation from an underground reactor or something of the like, given jack and sayid's discoveries.) did the tail section go 'lord of the flies' and kill some of their own people? were they killed by 'the others'?

that's lost for you: three new questions for every answer.

Maybe I missed something, but how did the guy who sold Hurley the ticket know he was the winner? I guess Hurley is the only guy in town that plays the lottery or something. And what was with DJ Qualls's reaction to Hurley winning? If my best friend just won 153 million I think my reaction would be something other than pissed off. Oh, and I'm surprised you didn't mention that "The six-foot-tall black guy covered in muscles" is Adibisi from Oz. Except if it was Adibisi he would have just sodomized and killed everyone is sight while somehow keeping his little knit hat on his melon!

Eddog - I mentioned it was Atebisi from Oz the first glimps we had of him!

He's back, and scarier than evah!

Great recap and love this show!

But I do hope that the casual Lost viewer doesn't need to know all the details from these "clue" websites to get answers.

JoeyJoJo, remember in last weeks episode, during the film. The scientist said they were in bunker 3, also called swan. There are six bunkers out there, so the symbol for the other lost passengers is probably another bunker that was deserted for some reason. I had assumed that all 6 bunkers were spread out through out the world, but maybe they could be spread out through out the island. On a personal note, I couldn't stand Charlie in this last episode. He was being such a punk to Hugo. Wish Hugo would speak up and tell him to back off. Okay, I'm done venting. :) Also I think the guy in the Chicken suit was Indian not Arab. Have you guys seen this website
http://www.oceanic-air.com
It's supposed to be the website for the airline. It says they are out of business because of the loss of flight 815. Click on the green Find button and it will take you to a seating chart of the plane. Really cool site.

jrsc #26 - I thought the same thing regarding the number of survivors and "the numbers".

I think "Hurley" is a nickname because he gets sick / vomits / hurls easiy. Didn't he mention something last season when Jack was operating on the Marshall and Hurley passed out? In any event, I'm sure we'll eventually get a flashback showing the reason for the nickname as well as how Locke became paralyzed.

Ummmm Dude, Charlie has a British accent not a Scottish one.

how about the semi-hidden message on oceanic-air website?

"I survived a horrific plane crash and am stranded on an island somewhere Northeast of Australia and Southwest of Hawaii. In the event that I am never found, please forward word of my fate to my parents."

and even more hidden is a picture of a postcard to Walt from his dad and hand drawn picture of a boat. You have to highlight and copy paste the oceanic-air president's statement to word to see this picture and message
"If anyone should find this message, please get word I'm alive and stranded on an island somewhere in the South Pacific. Please send help soon. Things are bad. And they're getting worse...
Sally
"

Thanks for the link to the Oceanic Air site...if you look carefully under the "All Flights Cancelled" message, there's a secret message. Also, on the page with the seating chart, click on the flashing "F", then the green "Pre-board Check-in". Interesting stuff from there....

Then go back to the seating chart and click on the 4-8-15...numbers in sequence.
I love this stuff!

Could Walt's picture be on the milk carton because he was kidnapped? Love love love the recap. I thought I was paying attention!

there is so much to discover on the seating chart, this is where it took me at the end:

http://www.oceanicflight815.com/

the morse code title on bigspaceship1.com translates to
ALL THE RABBITS DOWN THE HUTCH
[yes, hutch, not hatch]

Serious? I did a morse translation, and what I got was "Sometimes a polar bear is just a polar bear."

WEIRD.

there were 16 original survivors from Rousseaus group...

The hidden message on that site...on ABC.com they have a journal/diray that you can read. I believe Sally is who writes that as well

oops I meant diary

Yes, thank you Palmtree (#34) for the oceanic-air website. awsome!

also, if you click on the Pre-Board seating chart and rearrange Ethan Rom you'll get another little treat!

Ethan was not on the plane though..why woudl he be on the seating chart?

Go to the island insider link and you'll get an option to answer a question that will sign you up to get insider emails from the "Lost writing team"

I clicke don all the numbers in order on the oceanic site and it brought up a preview...it says the survivors are not the survivors they thought they were...

so...we have 42 survivors from the front of the plane, 23 survivors from the back of the plane, 16 survivors from Rousseau's group..hmmmmm...what about 15, 8, 4?

How many have we lost from the orginal group? I hear one more person is going to die... so could there be 4 dead? Are there 8 left in the tail end? which would mean 15 of them are dead/gone?

I always thought that the Apollo bar was just a cheeky nod to the Mars bar. That, and Apollo is the same name used in both Roman and Greek mythology, which is very rare (http://www.crystalinks.com/romegods.html).

Also, I'm seeing different morse code message on the bigspaceship1.com site: 'Sometimes a polar bear is just a polar pear' - puns for pear/pair and polar can definitely mean polar opposites (more magnet, compass references). I guess the morse code message will keep changing periodically.

And lastly, that mrclucks.com keeps changing back and forth between the subliminal jpg and the word scramble.

ha!

P.S. My take on 2FENO6 - '2 if he knows 6' - to which I can only reply: 'Who is number 1?' :)

CB:

Ethan Rom is an anagram, when you rearrange the letters to spell something else (and that something is a little creepy, by the way) you'll get another sumpin' sumpin'.

Yeah I know I asked that question before I went and looked. I already knew what to scramble it to... thanks for the heads up..Ill do my research before i run my mouth next time. :o)

I'm not sure if anyone has posted this, but the new logo in the second bunker is an arrow inside the normal Dharma logo. There is a fable involving Prince Siddhartha and a swan whose wing was pierced by an arrow (http://www.buddhanet.net/e-learning/buddhism/lifebuddha/5lbud.htm).
Pretty weird stuff. Any ideas on the relevance?

Where does Ethan fit into this whole thing anyway?

Could Ethan have been "the one" Desmond was referring to? Or was he simply just one of the "others"?

And why do I have this terrible feeling that the real answers will be totally anti-climactic after all these clues and webistes dedicated to finding out info?

Keep in ind that ABC may also be planting information that isnt "fact". Just to lead us in a completely wrong direction. Some I am sure are true, but not all. I think Ethan was just a radioactive Psycho and one of the "others". He wanted Claire for the baby, the reason is unknown at this point. Maybe the baby is special like Walt.

I was wondering where Ethan fits in too.

Hurley did own a Canadian shoe factory that ultimately burned down. Since Ethan's from Toronto, maybe he had some part in that factory? I wouldn't be too surprised, has Hurley owned a box company that Locke was a manager for.

Ana Lucia is getting on my nerves...she is such a raving biotch.. Hurley was perfectly nice to Charlie, he was told to keep it low. He trusted Rose because she really didnt care what was going on "its your business". Rose is a bitm ore mature than charlie, and will help more than hinder the situation..unlike charlie.

ETHAN WASNT ON THE PLANE. How do we really know he was from Toronto?

When Hurley was doing his census, he asked Ethan where he was from. His answer was Toronto.

That's all we really have to go on.

That's true, Ethan said Toronto but when Hurley finished his census he noticed that Ethan's name was not on the seating chart. Ethan was not on the plane. He must have gotten to the island another way like Desmond.

JRSC:

Your question:

Why hasn't anyone commented on the part where there were 42 survivors from the front section of the plane, and now 23 from the tail - will there be another hatch somewhere on the island with 16 people? 15? 8? 4?
Was this mentioned and I missed it?

Well 8 and 15 = Flight 815!

Now that damn 4?!

another thing about those numbers. On the oceanic website I sent out earlier, it looks like those that survived were seated on rows based on the numbers. 8th row = Shannon and Boone.
23rd row= Kate and the Marshall.
42nd row = Ana. I forget the other numbers. All I know is all that playing around on that site gave me a headache, but it was well worth it!

I think we are getting a bit crazy with the numbers because werent there more than 42 original survivors from the front of the plane? Maybe there is no correlation at this point with the numbers and the amount of people...

FYI about Sawyer's pee-on-it remark: in the first season Hurley got stung in the foot by something in the ocean and said the only way to stop the poison was for Jin to pee on his foot. I guess word got around. It's not a Sawyer fetish, it's a Sawyer taunt. Not that Jin understands anything he's saying.

Where was Locke from, because Locke worked in the box company that Hurley owned, remember? Hurley's boss at the Chicken Shack is also Locke's boss at the box company. If Ethan worked at the box shop (which I highly doubt), then Locke is from Toronto. Is this an SAT question?

I have Locke listed as living in Tustin CA. He works for a box company out there. He was also raised in a foster home but I'm not sure in what part of the country.

Locke's from California; I want to say Hurley is as well.

The factory in Canada made shoes.

If you click on Jacks seat, a bottle of Vodka pops up and does weird stuff on the screen??? On the Oceanic website

ALso onthe oceanic website...who is Edward Mars?

Yeah I know and no matter what I do I can't get it to do anything else. Did you click on Kate's seat? That's pretty cool. I don't want to tell you in case you didn't do it yet. Shannon's seat is interesting as well.

oh hes the marshall, oops

Ed Mars is the Federal Agent that brought Kate back from Australia.

As fun as the seating chart was, I could only view a handful of the main survivors - Jack, Kate/Mars, Charlie, Boone, Shannon, Rose, and Locke.

I got a little fed up once it wouldn't advance any further. Am I the only one who's experienced such difficulty?

when i went on the www.oceanic -airlines.com website i did not get a picture of a postcard from walt to his dad...

if you select the whole page (control + a) and past it in say word - I get the whole sally message and also a picture of Claire's ticket...

On the site http://www.oceanic-air.com if you look at the tracking of flight 815 it read give us the boy.

Same problem here Victoria..

I hate to be a downer, but I'm getting a huge Twin Peaks vibe off this season.

Nah, just kidding...

I love being a downer!

Seriously, I hope they are telling the truth when they say they have it all figured out and they're not just jerking the audience around.

Isn't the guy in the chicken suit the convenience store worker who tells the reporters that Hurley won?

He probably knew it was Hurley who'd won because Hurley probably played the same numbers every week.

No I thought he only u sed the numbers once...I dont think he ever really said how many times he used them...I think the chicken suit guy was just a reference to the fact that things changed once he won, an his dream was telling him that things may change with all pf the food and that situation...etc

but yes it was the convenience store guy..

http://www.bigspaceship1.org/

"This site now says Contents of this file have been redacted in accordance with the Hanso Foundation Security Directive v.8. Special security authorization required on secure terminal."

Weird....

Did you see the quote by Shakespeare? ABout patience...LOL

I just want to know what kind of special skill Sayid learned as a Republican Guard that allows him to estimate how thick concrete is? No offense, but the last time I started at a slab of concrete I couldn’t tell if it was 8 inches, 8 feet, or 8 miles thick!

Kudos to the comment about him estimating the concrete being 8 or 10 feet thick. And when did he go to Chernobyl to witness first hand the concrete used to bury the reactor? Lame.

Victoria~I got Ana Lucia's seat, click the flashing F and her seat turns green and then click on it.

You may have heard this already, but when you go to
http://www.oceanicflight815.com/ click on the bar code at the bottom and type "theislandiswaiting."

There were originally 47 survivors from the front part of Oceanic 815. Then Hurley discovered that Ethan wasn't on the plane which brought us to 46 survivors. Then the marshall, Boone and Steve/Scott died/were killed. So now there are 43 survivors. We will get to 42 when someone else buys the farm.

Did someone mention this already? Sawyer asking Jin to pee on his wound is a reference to last season when Hurley asked Jin to pee on his foot after he stepped on a sea urchin or something. Hurley was trying to bond with Jin b/c he thought Jin was pissed that Hurley didn't eat the fish he offered him on, like, episode 2.

so the 4 in the numbers is a reference to how many of the original 46 will be killed off maybe. Cause I heard a female dies soon..

What about the guy that blew up (dynamite)? who was he?

Callygirl thank you! i was wondering what the code was!

I forgot about him - so we're already at 42...

So I am really starting to think that those numbers really have nothing to do with how many survivors there are. BEcause when this female dies we will have 5 dead and we'll be at 41...

I mean the original number for the front of the plain was 47 (not a number) 23 original from the back (most of them gone now) and then 16 from Rouseaus (sp?) group (all but 1 gone)

oops I mean 46 original (no ethan)DO you think that the big black guy from the tail really is either one of the drug dealers from the heroine plane? Or maybe he is an "other" like Ethan was.

I believe y'all forgot about the woman who drowned in the first season...and you've subtracted, but you forgot to add "Claire's...island...baby". :)

ha!

P.S. Victoria (#76) - On the seating chart, seats 4A, 8A, 15A, 16A, 23A, and 42B activate other seats (along with the aforementioned blinking 42F). Each of those activated seats does something, including Harold Wollstein's - 23C (from http://www.driveshaftband.com/flight815_3.htm). And as DD (#77) mentioned, if you copy all of the home page of www.oceanic-air.com and paste it into Word, you can see one of three (random) images: Claire's ticket, a postcard from Michael to Walt, or a couple more of Michael's drawings - along with two secret messages, one from a Sally and one (according to the source) from Robert.

But the baby was born at the end of last year - so you have to add one to the number in the camp. Everybody always seems to forget that :)

even with adding the baby and subtracting the girl who drowned, we are already at 42...this means we will be at 41 after the next woman dies, which I hear is soon...

who is Harold Wollstein?

did you guys notice that if you go to the bigspaceship1 website that instead of it having a real header at the top of the page there is some sort of morris code?

i personally cant tell you want the dots and dashes mean but if anyone else can read m.c. please check out the site and let us know

Wow...when I copied (CTRL + A) and pasted the oceanic-air home page into word I got these funky sketches.

One sketch is of the Statue of Liberty and the NYC skyline (pre-9/11) and another of a guy slumped in a hosptial bed all bandaged up with a b-day cake on his lap with 7 candles on it.

too freakin' weird.

Maybe Jack's father will be alive - his body wasn't in the coffin, right? - which will bring us back to 42 after someone dies. Okay, I know I'm grasping here.

Ive heard it says Chocolate Asclepius, apparently Asclepius is the god of healing or somethign like that and is the brother or son or something of Apollo. SOMe thing the Apollo bars are actually a cure or something to the sickness that has killed so many...

oh..it seems they're michaels' sketches (duh!)

go to www.driveshaftband.com
It says that Charlie has been dead for a year, and not 40 or 43 days...WHat the hell is that all about. Im still reading so...

OMG, when I recorded the audio from the dream sequence on my old analog tape recorder, manually switched out the tape to then playback backwards, I heard the distinct voices of what I can only assume are the de Groots have wild monkey sex.

Oh, and you have to play it back through a fan on high. It's really, really weird.

Whatever SG LOL

Earlier today, www.bigspaceship1.com had a flash of two polar bears, and the morse code title was 'Sometimes a polar bear is just a polar pear.' (see post #53) Now, the page has changed to a picture of a satellite and the morse code title is 'Se [sic] positive think negative' Also, there is a song playing - sounds like Alvin and the Chipmunks singing a song called 'May you wish upon a satellite' (or star tonight).

CB, the driveshaft website is in real time versus 'Lost' time: Charlie's plane 'disappeared' a year ago.

And as per the Lost mythology -Everybody is Somebody - according to http://www.driveshaftband.com/flight815_3.htm , Harold Wollstein was the next big inventor, who justed happened to be on Flight 815.

ha!

YEah I figured the whole site was on real time since the season starts in September, again, I should have researched before I opened my mouth...lol.

Is that site an ABC site or just a made up one?

BEsides that did we ever hear anything about Harold on the show?

Oops - that should be 'Be positive, think negative' - that wacky morse code.

Nope, haven't heard anything about Harold on the show - only on that webpage.

And shelley,

If you reload the oceanic home page, copy it, and paste it three separate times, you should get three different images...

ha!

Any ideas on who the other chick is from the new hatch, the blonde one. Anybody notice her showing up somewhere else?

Thanks for the tip, Ha!

And a special thank you to TVGasm bloggers for transforming me into a geek of Dungeons and Dragons proportions. Without you all, Lost would only be in my life for one hour a week. It now seems to consume an unhealthy amount of my time and I love every minute of it!

I want to see a Kate vs. Ana Lucia match!

Jacks dad will reappear as one of those zombies. Thats my guess.

Well, if there were 46 original, and 5 died, including the female that's supposed to buy the farm, that makes 41. But if you add Claire's new baby, that brings the number back up to 42... heh, heh.

yes but then another woman is suppose to die which brings the number back to 41..

more than 5 died. 1 Boone, 2 woman who drowned, 3 teacher who blew up, 4Guy Ethan killed to get Claire, 5 The Law Enforcement guy, 6 future woman to die

thats 41 with the baby

Is it just me or does the Driveshaft "hit" sound like the opening of Ebony Eyes by Bob Welch? You can listen to a clip on Bestbuy.com.

Has anyone noticed that the numbers on Hurley's lotto ticket are the same as the code numbers on the computer?

the morse code on the www.bigspaceship1.com site translates to...
'Be positive, think negative!"
not polar bears or rabbits.. look for the spaces between the dots and dashes people!!

Why can't i get the HANSO video to load?? anyone else having this problem?

Hey, Kate! Are you a newbie to Lost?

And Lost in PA--the morse code on the spaceship site keeps changing. All interpretations have been right.

Now the spaceshipt site has pictures of 15 squirrel faces LMAO

Am I the only one that can't figure out the anagram?

You know, I hate to rain on everyones parade, but I think the whole reocurrance of the numbers all throughout the show is more of just a harmless fun injoke, and not that signifigant. Its stil fun to look for them. Like a wheres waldo kinda thing.

I couldn't get some of the hidden pictures from the front page so being a true geek - I went to view..source and found the following hidden messages for the tops of each page (I think)
track flight: I survived a horrific plane crash and am stranded on an island somewhere
Northeast of Australia and Southwest of Hawaii. In the event that I am
never found, please forward word of my fate to my parents.

track results: If you are reading this note PLEASE get word to my wife that her husband survived the crash of Oceanic Flight #815 along with 47 others. Darling, I miss you so much and dream of the day I can see your face again. The very thought of that day is all that keeps me going here. Please don’t forget me!

seating chart: I would like to inform my financial institutions that I will be late making my September mortgage payment as I am STRANDED ON A FRIGGIN' ISLAND IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE!
Please have the Government send a search team immediately. OR don't. Shouldn't all the taxes I pay cover an expense like that?

check out
http://thedharmainitiative.org/orientation/ if you want to see the film (I could never get it to work from the other page) - if you back it up to thedharmainitiative.org you get an screen asking for your user ID and password

I love that you all are so hardcore about all this, I would never have found any of those sites or knew about copy and pasting it and whatnot. This is NOT helping my addiction!

(and btw, who knew more than one person could use the same username? i'll have to come up with a new name!)

Yes, Kate more than one person can use the same name, as I have noticed there is another Victoria.

Who the hell is Sally?

And if another chick is gonna die, I hope it's Kate, although Ana Lucia is just as bad.

As far as the Ethan Rom anagram goes, isn't that common knowledge?

Not to me I guess, lol

Ok I am very bad at word games...can someone tell me ehat the Ethan Rom unscrambles to?

Ok forget it I'm not so bad...I got it...!! YAY ME!

check out the theory of satalites on this blog:
http://communistdanceparty.blogspot.com/2005/10/lost-friday-volume-2.html

Glad to see there are other LOST junkies out there.
This is another good site that follows how each castaway is connected, the numbers etc. A lot of info. http://www.cubit.net/lost/connections.php?PHPSESSID=b784735916df3b6b000c0f98fc8f4c3e
User friendly, without all of the hidden codes.

The only thing that has been cofirmed regarding the female who dies. It will not be Rose or Rousseau

Glad to see there are other LOST junkies out there.
This is another good site that follows how each castaway is connected, the numbers etc. A lot of info. http://www.cubit.net/lost/connections.php?PHPSESSID=b784735916df3b6b000c0f98fc8f4c3e
User friendly, without all of the hidden codes.

The only thing that has been cofirmed regarding the female who dies. It will not be Rose or Rousseau

ok wait....according to one site I saw (I don't remember which one) Ana Lucia was in seat 42 F. but if you look at the seat chart on the oceanic site, there is no seat 42F...Sorry if this has been noticed before.

oops...nevermind. yes there is. they're numbered weird. forget that.

I think I need to stop reading these comments because while I love hearing about new theories and about stuff I missed from the episodes but I don't like hearing spoilers. I don't suppose the powers that be would like to make it a rule not to post spoilers?

Milkshake,
There is a rule. Usually TVGasm puts a big NO SPOILERS message in the "post a comment" area. I don't see it now. We don't appreciate spoilers and they relegated to the message boards (and you have to identify it as a spoiler). I haven't really seen any Lost spoilers yet.

Thanks for the info suebee - I'm glad to know this is at least supposed to be a spoiler free zone.

If you read through all of the posts on this page there are at least two nuggets of info that I wouldn't have known about until future episodes.

They are post numbers 10 and 92 (among others). I believe I even posted the word "spoiler" after the first one.

I hope everybody can stick to the rules cause I very much enjoy reading the comments otherwise.

Thanks Milkshake! Couldn't agree more.

At risk of being a loser, I personally would prefer that people think in their heads instead of through their fingers on this board. No offense intended and please correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't know how much folks care about someone's thought process described every 2 minutes while they figure out easter eggs on another website.
That said, I thoroughly enjoyed the recap and the show. Didn't everyone get the warm fuzzies when Hurley distributed the food? We've been inundated with information this season...this episode was a like vacation from overthinking but still satisfied the jones for information.

Okay, I don't have old episodes of LOST, but I'm under the impression that Bernard has appeared before. Could someone check to see if he is the same guy who confronted Jin in the lavatory, to let him know that he was being watched on his way to L.A.? I may be way off base on this one....

Also, I suspect that Kate and Ana Lucía are in cahoots. I think Ana Lucía has shown that she's awfully good with a gun. She was probably aboard that flight as part of a plan to help spring Kate from custody.

And let's not forget that Kate's backstory has still not been resolved. Yes, she was wanted for getting her high school sweetheart killed and then for staging a deadly bank robbery to steal the little airplane. But before either of these two killings happened, Kate had gone to the hospital to see her dying mother, and it's clear that she was already a wanted person. As she walked down a corridor, she hid her face from a cop posted outside a hospital room, and even her mother was freaked out upon seeing her. Plus, didn't she make or get a phone call on her cell while she was there? Again, I don't have the DVD set (yet), but I can't help but suspect that Ana Lucía and Kate belong in the same posse.

And for those of you who are negative on Kate, I say, "cut her some slack." In the first place, the writing for her character is downright awful. Whereas she was interesting in the pilot and first few episodes of the first season of the series, she's now been reduced to being the pretty girl and has been given some of the worst dialogue to deliver out there. I'm rooting for Evangeline Lilly, 'cuz I think she has potential....

Today the morse code spells out "in girum imus nocte et keonsumur igni." Which is similiar to the latin phrase "IN GIRUM IMUS NOCTE ET CONSUMIMUR IGNI." This phrase is a palindrome, and in english it means "We go in circles at night and are consumed by fire."

I guess the Romans never learned to stop drop and roll.

http://mrclucks.com/

If you take a screen shot when the chicken turns green with all the numbers.

It says, Jack Will Di...
http://members.cox.net/xxaznightsxx/jack.JPG

Proper Link

Jack Will Di[e] ?

ABC should release a LOST Soundtrack. The Piano melodies in the show are downright awesome.

more spoilage, although no one seems to know if that site is real or not... :(

MrCluck is being hosted by another site.

http://www.redbunny.com/mrclucks/mrclucks4.gif

RedBunny seems to be a website that makes fake websites for Television shows. So it could be real? Maybe ABC paid Jason Ruby to make MrCluck.

http://www.redbunny.com/mrclucks

In response to Diana's queries about Kate's backstory, I have a theory, not a spoiler, just my own theory. I think Kate was responsible for her father's death, that's why her mom freaked out when she saw her. I think her father may have been abusive. This all comes from the one episode where we see her childhood sweetheart. If you have the DVD watch that episode and pay special attention to the tape they made when they were little.

if you go to bigspaceship1.com and see the polar bear and hear the industrial noise... listen for awhile and you'll notice its a loop and mixed in with the noise is a voice. if you take it into protools and play around with it - you can make out that is says the following - 'everything will change".

Re: Victoria's theory on Kate's background...that's right, the tape she and her childhood "boyfriend" made, did reveal that she was abused and has a traumatic past....Anyway, all we can do is speculate, (i.e., my own theory about Ana Lucía), which is the greatest fun that you can get out of this series...that, and this blog.

Hey, by the way, what is the difference between "spoilers" and just sharing theories on this blog? I'm kind of new to this whole blog thing, and I don't want to overstep my boundary and cross some cyberline out there....

A spoiler would be if you had some kind of insider information, such as a certain character would be off the show. I personally think spoilers are more relevant to reality shows where someone might know ahead of time who wins. I would say that people here appreciate and enjoy speculation.

On Saturday, I checked out bigspaceship1.com and the morse code title was the following:

-.. .- ... .... / ... .-.. .- ... .... / -.. --- - -.. --- - -.. --- - -.. --- - / ... .-.. .- ... .... / -.. --- - -.. --- - / ... .-.. .- ... .... / -.. .- ... .... -.. --- - / ... .-.. .- ... .... / -.. .- ... .... -.. --- - -.. .- ... ....

(Google morse code)

The image was virtually identical to:
http://3quarksdaily.blogs.com/photos/uncategorized/rotsnake2_5.gif

I've got just one word for ya: Layers. This show has it in spades. My hat is off to those working on the show and the websites. Y'all are entertaining us on every level. Cheers to you!

ha!

Someone plotted the numbers into a google GPS map. The location is off the northeast coast of Australia, on-route from Sydney to Los Angeles. (goto google maps and type in 4.815 162.342)

The place it plotted was near the Marshall Islands and Micronesian Island Federation. These places are protected by the U.S. due to atrocities committed by the U.S. after World War II. After the surrender of Japan in WWII, the U.S. wanted and needed to do more research on nuclear weapons. Several bunkers were built underground in these federation islands while nuclear/atomic bombs were tested above ground. Many indigenous people died right away. Others have been riddled with radiation poisoning even to this day!

Maybe this is a connection?

I think the marshall who took custody of Kate IS her father...

BTW, I see no spoiler in either #10 or #92--cast lists and news releases are like previews...

Bobbie - post 92 didn't mention a news release. I don't read any Lost news releases so I have no idea if that's where the info came from.

I guess what is and is not a spoiler can be argued about. As far as I'm concerned - if you mention something from a future episode it is a spoiler. I'd personally rather wait until I watch the episode to learn what is posted in number 10. But that's just me - this isn't my blog or anything so it's just an opinion.

I agree with Milkshake regarding spoilers ... anything about a future episode that goes beyond what's seen in the "Next on Lost..." previews is a spoiler, in my opinion; whether it's from a specific spoiler site, from cracking a webpage, or from imdb.com doesn't matter. That's different from speculation about what might be coming, which is what I figure this blog is for, at least partly.

Just my opinion!

Would it be too much to ask for everyone to go back and re-watch season 1 again? Reading all of these comments are quite frustrating. There are 42 original survivors still alive. They are not counting the new baby or anybody else on the island. They came up with 48 survivors after the initial turmoil calmed down. 6 people died on the island during the first season.

I am introducing this show to my younger brother and I am rewatching all of the episodes with him. I think this is the third time through season 1 for me. You pick up quite a bit with repeat viewings. Plenty of stuff I take as a given I see so many have missed like Rose being in only one episode? No, she was around last season. People not counting Artz as a death. Come on . . .

And when did this site turn into such a spoiler-driven website? I can go elsewhere if I want to read all of that. I, too, have read that someone dies but I don't need to read about it here at my laugh-out-loud, trusty TVgasm because I don't think that was the initial objective of this blog.

As for the Oceanic website, they constantly put in a fake spoiler. Don't read into it too much. Before episode one, the "spoiler" was of an extra page in that episode's script that had Jack running through the forest and bumping into his twin.

I realize EdHill LOVES this show, but I fear that you might be encouraging spolier talk on this blog with your references to such.

Well now that I understand what spoilers are...I'm glad I haven't been spoiling!

I tend to not want to know much about a series or a film before I go see it. I love the surprise factor.

However, I do think it's the prerogative of each user to not click on the links that are provided within the blog, if they don't want to know more about what's coming up next.

On the other hand, I would hesitate to ban all links to spoiler sites, particularly for those people whose enjoyment of the series is in great part due to their sleuthing activities online. Simply put, bloggers should refrain within their blogs from divulging the actual information (provide only links and very general hints about what can be found there) and respect the choice of those who don't want to know more.

thanks, sg dub, for the only comment that made me laugh. you made it well worth skimming through all of that craziness. b-side, j-unit, edhill, someone, please redirect everyone to the forums like the good old days (unless they have a nice snarky comment to entertain us all)

i didnt read the cap or ever did i wathc this but i looked at the pictures and all i have to say is:
??????????
WEIRD

For the record, all legitimate sites will have links on them that are Terms of Use links, they go to Disney TOS pages.

If there aren't Disney links, it isn't a legit site.

The cluck site, the bigspaceship site, and the driveshaft sites are all just fan sites with unreliable info. The dharma initiative/hanso site, oceanic airlines site and oceanic flight 815 site are all on the up and up.

Palm Tree (#34) - thanks for the Oceanic website. The one bit of irony I found was the banner pic they have loaded is of the island with the raft in the distance with the column of black smoke to the right. Paired with the caption "Taking you places you've never imagined." God, I love those twisted Disney bastards.

Bobbie (#159) I am pretty sure the marshal and Kate were lovers at some point. That seemed pretty obvious to me, but I could be wrong.

FYI - it would appear as though the bigspaceship1 site is NOT an official Lost website. If you go here and read the first paragraph/visit the links you can piece together from it that these are pranksters (who got their start in pirate radio) and they are having fun with Lost fans.

Also the secure version of thehansofoundation.org is now redirecting the site to the original non-secure portion that is ABC owned. It would appear that word has reached the powers that be.

ok would someone post already what Ethan Rom stands for? I hate it when somebody just says they know it and acts al smug and doesnt say what it means..

other man

Thank you mountain girl! I thought I was going a little bizerk when I saw the raft and the smoke. I asked a friend to check it out and make sure I wasn't just seeing things. :) Can't wait till tomorrow night.

Does anyone have any ideas about what the significance may be for Ethan Rom being an anagram for "other man" actually is?

Ethan Rom = The Roman

Anybody else think the Hanso foundation might be run by Locke's kidney stealing father? Sure looks like him if you pause your TiVo.

Also, I have this feeling that Locke's girlfriend from Married with Children is employed by his kidney stealing father. I have no evidence for this just a feeling.

Did anyone notice the blonde chick with the great cleavage was the chick from Titus?

Great recap! Btw, when you mentioned the Enterprise vs. a Star Destoyer, my 7th grade Star Wars addiction kicked into high gear. And I'm sorry, a Star Destroyer has some 100 turbo lasers, torpedo launchers, and 100's of Tie Fighters and Bombers that would make the Enterprise explode like a can of chili. The fascist Empire would make mince meat of the Commie Federation any day of the week. ;)

The song playing at the start of S02E04, wen Hurley is eatin like a glutton is "Slim Smith - My Conversation"

WHERE IS THE NEW RECAP? I wait and wait for the best blogs ever created on this website!!!! Everytime I check it, there is a new one but for a different show...HURRY UP WITH THE LOST RECAP!!! :o)

The code on http://www.bigspaceship1.com/ now says in girum imus nocte et consumimur igni which a Google search says is a riddle and the search also displays many different interpretations.