Are they making Desmond look like Jesus on purpose?

You do know that Henry Ian Cusick (Desmond) has played Jesus in two movies? (one is yet to come out.)

[...] 1. De live-blogged the show at Thinklings. Unfortunately, we weren’t attending the same party. He says, “Locke is mute, and Charlie can talk (and talk, and talk). Punch him, Locke!! Please! You’ve done it before! I can’t take the charades!” We were saying, “Oh, good, Locke can’t talk. And Charlie can. Please let it last for a couple of episodes at least.” But it didn’t. By the end of the episode, Locke is making heroic speeches again. He’s the macho leader guy who’s redemed his mistakes by rescuing Eko, almost single-handedly. But I would have loved to have seen him carrying Eko on his back by himself all the way back to camp. Locke turns into The Hulk! Only he doesn’t. Charlie’s right. THey ignore him until they need him for guard duty or to hold up the other side of Mr. Eko. Then, Charlie’s their best friend. And Charlie is funny. Locke isn’t. [...]

Desmond mentioned "the Speech" to Hurley early in the episode. When Hurley said there hadn't been a speech, Desmond looked confused for a second, and then said something like, "oh . . . yeah . . . right." Desmond's beard is significantly fuller than it should be in just one day since the hatch imploded.

Just how did Locke, Eko, and Desomnd survive that hatch implosion?

bottom line: Desmond did some time-travelling. that's why his beard is too full, and why he knew about Locke's speech before it happened.

Locke did not earn his way back into my good graces with this episode. And that has nothing to do with being part of the pot-head commune.

It was Boone in Locke's hallucination.

And who’s this new chick?

That "new chick" was Kiele Sanchez!
Finally.

It was cool to finally see her after being teased by the presence of her name in the opening credits since episode one of this season. But it was weird how she and that other dude walked up and were all, like, talking to Hurley and them like they were part of the clique all along. Sort of jarring.

That said, in my mind, and in my best Comic Book Guy voice: Best episode (of this season) ever.
Loved the flashback, loved the focus on the Lostaways part of the island, loved the trippy peyote-dream thing.

I even loved having a glimpse of the old Charlie. The Charlie I liked before he went stonefreak and got smacked around.

I thought the commune dudes were survivalist militia-types and I thought they were making bombs in that tent right before Eddie said he wanted "in" on whatever they were gonna blow up.

I also thought we were gonna see Locke get paralyzed in a shootout or something with Eddie, but then he probably would have been in jail for a long time if he'd survived, not working at a box factory and planning trips to Australia. I guess we'll see his paralysis thing another time.

who was the guy in Locke’s hallucination?

Boone, played by Ian Somerhalder. Big part in the first season. Stepbrother of Shannon, Sayid's dear departed dame. Boone went on a mission with Locke in Season 1 and ended up dead.

Cara, you need to rent the first season of "Lost," because so much of even this third season plays off stuff that happened in it. Plus, it's just the coolest.
Watch Season 1, or else you'll be . . . lost. ;-)

Thanks Jared :-)

Ok, a concern about next week . . . the Sawyer, Kate, Jack "love triangle" is getting so, so old. I really hope it's not a focus of The Others.

Loved the return of dream Boone. That whole scene in the airport was great.

I saw the greenhouse and the fertilizer and immediately thought "they're growing pot." When Locke laughed at Eddie's comment about getting in on the bomb planning, I laughed, too.

I don't think it's farfetched that the cops took the chance that Locke would pick up Eddie-the-hitchhiker. He's a do-gooder and likely to do that kind of thing. From there it was up to Eddie to do what needed to be done to get invited to the farm. That's undercover law enforcement.

I loved that this episode brought us back to season 1 - tying the whole thing together better. And I can't wait to see next week's episode. I think Benry was yelling at Kate about Sawyer.

The presentation of Paulo and Nikki was weird. I thought they'd be presented in a mysterious way, not as one of the 'regulars' that people know and trust as flight sruvivors.

I think Desmond has more of a John the Baptist vibe, you know clearing the way for the coming of the Locke!

I was hyped going in, but meh coming out. This was a catch up with rest of the show episode, like episode 2 was last year. Just marking time. We didn't really learn anything more. Locke trusts too much, gets betrayed too much, but never really goes the revenge route.

Charlie will become the Island tour-guide after they get rescued and they open the island up for tourists. The dude has been on like every quest the islanders have gone on.

Hurley rocks, and his delivery of choice lines is awesome. The airport dream sequence was really good, and a return of Boone as the guide for Locke was a nice touch. Boone never got a fair shake on the island.

psychic or time traveler... he did appear nekkid, ala ahnawld in Terminator... Maybe he's been there and back again. Was the hatch a tesseract?

Oh yeah, we haven’t mentioned Desmond’s weird precognition with Hurley of Locke’s speech.

Is Desmond psychic? That ties in to the paranormal angle (with Walt and all that).

Or did the anomaly, implosion thingy cause some rift in the space-time continuum?

Ahem . . . Please refer back to Comment #5.

That is all.

8^)

Calvinator: Dude! Can't believe I missed that. I confess to, when opening up this thread for teh first time, finding it already full of comments and therefore only skimming them after reading Bill's recap.
Won't happen again!

Okay, I've been thinking about this off and on today, and I have a question:

Wasn't Charlie in the vacinity of the hatch when it imploded? Locke and Desmond were locked inside and Charlie was helping Eko try to break in, right? Sooo, why was Charlie back at the beach with Claire and Aaron while the other three were blown to Kingdom Come? Did I miss something? Or is this another indication of some sci-fi time rift issue?

Just wondering...

Thanks, Jon! It's been too long and there are just too many details to remember! But then again, that's why this is my favorite show in a long time, isn't it? :o)

I'll take your Grey's Anatomy and raise you a nip/tuck...

Its funny, I see some real spiritual truths in some of the most secular places.

Heroes, What About Brian, Jericho, Lost, Grey's, Six Degrees, etc... I'm horrible. :D

Anyone else reading along in this comment thread and get tripped up by the word 'Daddy' in #22?

Maybe it was just me, but I didn't see that comin'. :-)