Lost is back!

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Desmond, talking to Penny, after 8 years....Penny continuing to look and believe....Desmond reconciling past and future....intense.

[BarTopDancer]

That was good!

I'm a bit confused though. At the beginning, Juliet and Harper were talking about Juliet being big news because she survived a plane crash (so at first I thought it was a FF). But she wasn't on the plane (and it was a FB).

[scaeagles]

It wasn't because she survived a crash....it was because she was there to solve their problem.

[libraryvixen]

Anyone else think that "Date Ben" is creepy? Ugh... I wouldn't accept ham from that man.

[LSPoorEeyorick]

1) We were supposed to think it was a flash forward ("feel like a celebrity" et al) but then Mr. Friendly came in and they revealed that it was a flashback to her first arrival to the island.

2) Yes, yes, YES "Date Ben" totally made me feel uncomfortable. I think we were supposed to feel that way, too.

[libraryvixen]

Tonight's episode was a total mind fvck. Damn the coinciding flashback/flashforward

[Ghoulish Delight]

Sneaky bastards.

So that's 5. And obviously Erin doesn't count if they wanted us to think Jin was #6.

I caught a snippet of the "coming next week" after the last episode, so I had guessed that Michael would make an appearance (all I heard was, "Someone you never expected to see"). I didn't even think to make the "Ben's man on the boat" connection. I gotta assume he's staying in character, not that he's actually forgotten.

[scaeagles]

I had suspected the spy was Michael when Ben told Locke to "sit down" when he asked him an episode or so ago. I would guess he's staying in character as well.

That really caught me by surprise that furture Jin is dead.

[LSPoorEeyorick]

We're starting to get good at guessing what's going on. I knew partway through that something was off about the fact that we never heard the other side of Jin's phone call and had yet to see them together. Tom guessed that due to this, Jin was not #6. But I didn't not guess that he was dead - and for the first time in years, I cried while watching TV.

We are pondering that it's possible Jin is not actually dead, but rather, trapped on the island. He definitely didn't die after coming back; the gravestone lists his death as being part of the crash - and as yet, we're not clear whether he died between that episode and the helicopter flight, or if he is simply stuck on the island.

[RStar]

If Jin diddn't leave the island, then why would he have a grave? And why would Sun and Hurley visit it like a ritual? Sun even said "Is anyone else comming?". But it also looks like people may not actually die the way we think of it. So many that have died have shown up again later.