Why you gotta be like that? :p

He can be another Matthew Mcconaughey and not wear one. Ever. That would be perfect.

I missed Pirate Bill's excellent point that the timeline diverged in 1977 when the bomb/incident happened. That's a satisfactory explanation for why the sideways world is so different from what it "was" or rather would have been.

I know a lot of guys who would actually prefer him that way!

Darlton said on the podcast that they don't want viewers to think of the two timelines as distinct and strongly hinted that they will merge at some point.

I enjoyed the "Sawyer gets laaaaid" story with no less than 2 partners plus a reference to the Kate bear cage incident. Dug Good Guy Det. Ford - nice to know he's got it in him somewhere. Conversely, also fun to see him up to his lying again. He called Kate "Freckles"! :)

Seeing Sayid all messed up was creepy.

I wish Claire was a better actress.

Was fun to see Charlie's brother at the police station.

I was hoping we'd see Charlie too, perhaps at his bottom asking his brother to take him to rehab. I am curious why his brother was in LA.

It's actually possible that the timeline diverged way back in the 1950's....since Locke, Sawyer, Juliet, Dan, Charlotte and Miles all visited the Island in that decade.....after 815 crashed.

I think it's impossible to say when/how/if the sideways timeline diverged from the known timeline(s). So far, we only know for sure that Ben and his father were on the island; the Losties don't seem to actually remember being on the island and may never have been (at least in their sideways life). Personally, I think it probably did diverge at some point but I'm not discarding the possibility of it being a parallel timeline (as opposed to a divergent one).

I was just reading some spoilers on another board. If they are true, we get Jacob's and Smokey's back story in the penultimate episode...