Here's a couple more questions:

Why was Jack bleeding on the plane?

Why did Jack only get 1 bottle of vodka this time instead of the two he got last time (or is that just a random change of events?)

Why didn't Shannon return to LA with Boone in the new reality?

Charlie didn't O.D. on the plane. He just swallowed the bag of heroine and choked on it.

why did radzinsky cut out a part of the swan orientation film and put it in a bible in the arrow station?

3. How old is Jacob? Pretty old since he seemed to be around when the Black??? Was sailing. ("The Incident") More to come...

Isn't it called the Black Rock?

Sadly I need to quit reading this site. I'm still only on season 5 of Lost an every other news item here now relates to Lost.

Spoilers...suck...ass.

Cya when I'm caught up. =)

Bet u that Bernard and Rose are Adam and Eva...

Another question: How come the VW Bus was able to travel in time, too?

Follow me on this..

1. the trigger blast reset time to the point where Oceanic flight 815 pass over the time (but not true point in time).
- Jack gets 1 extra drink, not 2.
- Hurley is now the "luckiest man alive"
- Where Walt and his dad?

And (WTF!) the Island is now under water.

Oh, btw the plane is not off its flight plan so how close was it to the island (the EM effect 1st cause it to get "lost" then when near the island cause it to breakup (yup, got a couple of parts when they were fliming the pilot on Ohau in 2004 (that poor L1011)(the sign at the pilot filming area, where the old L1011 was layed out said "PILOT" on the 1st line, "Lost" on the 2nd)).

Time is right with all on the flight (except why was on the Desmond (was he still on the sailboat).

2. now you have the "base set" of the people on flight 815 and the ones on the island who jump in time and the ones who were "saved" and lived 3 years off the island.

- Mess with time and time gets you back.

anyone want to bet that "chrsitian" was the smoke monster the whole time

and that syid is now jacob

and back on the "x" world
both smokey and jacob are out there
havin been released with the sinkin/explosion of island

if Desmond was really on the plane and not a reality bending halucination
then the reason why hes there and no the island
cause the explosion killed
dharms people
the others
including whidmore and ben
so penny was never born nor faraday
and desmond is normal!

ps charles whidmore is working for Smokey since he was banished!

"Another question: How come the VW Bus was able to travel in time, too?"

Most likely because they were touching it at the time. When they were shifting through time before weren't they on a canoe and it came with them? I think the rule is that anything moveable that's they are touching comes with them. So guns, clothes, VW bus etc.

36: This is just speculation, but the comment that the Smoke Monster made to Richard might be less literal. Richard served Jacob. Jacob is dead. The chains that Richard is out of may be his bond to Jacob (thus possibly losing his protection from the Smoke Monster and possibly his immortality).

98: The "they" to which Jacob refers seems rather obviously to be the survivors from the past. The statement immediately precedes the scene in the past where the bomb explodes. They came from the past to the present, probably to face off against the Smoke Monster.

You know, this just occurred to me: "Lost" is written by the kid who writes "Axe Cop"...
I actually enjoyed last night's episode quite a lot. I'm not one of those "Lost" fans who rabidly end up watching it again frame-by-frame (although I'd like to know what books Desmond was reading on the plane), I just let it unfold each week and get a kick out it. Sure I can do some speculating, but I'm always wrong anyways -- which I like. At least the show isn't predictable.

If the statue is in fact Taweret, then I suggest you read the link below.

http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/taweret.htm

Then one could speculate that this storyline is somehow tied into the Egyptian mythology with Taweret being the guardian of women and children. And her involvement with Set who she chained in order to keep his evil under control.

I look sooooo cool. It scares me.

As to 98, I have an alternate theory. What if the 'they' Jacob was referring to was the other survivors, (Jack, Hurley, etc.) who were being transported to the present? For some unknown reason, their return to the present was important to Jacob, and 'they are coming' was a warning to Smokey Lockey, or Smocke as I'm calling him. Just an alternate theory.

36. Chains...hmm...If I remember correctly, wasn't the Black Rock a slave ship?

I've got a headache!

I am good enough, I am smart enough, and dog-gonnit, people like me.

I think Hurley's luck or lack thereof was all something in his head.

In the previous reality that's been going on the previous 5 seasons, the plane crash and all that happened afterwards was the final straw that led him to believe that he had bad luck whereas in the new reality he just overlooked the bad things that had happened to him thus far.

#118 - Re: Jin's bag of money

As I recall, some episode a while back we learn that Jin was trying to get away from Sun's father, and he wanted to go to the US an disappear.

#128 - Re: Smoke Monster's Home

I thought it was fairly clear that he wanted to go to the temple, and that's why everyone at the temple went into a panic, locking down the fort and making the black outlines to keep it out (just like that one guy made a circle of black sand around himself to keep the smoke monster out)

I quit watching this show years ago because it was too silly and contrived. After reading this ridiculous
list I'm glad I didn't waste my time watching the show

You missed some obvious ones like when was the island submerged? This one is interesting because in 1977 the statue was intact, but in 2007 the statue is broken and submerged. New Otherton is built, so we know it has been submerged sometime in those 30 years, and given the condition of things it can't have been that long ago as things haven't eroded substantially.

Another is why was Juliette talking about getting coffee before she died? Also how and why did she actually know it worked?

You also ask the wrong questions about Claire. In this episode there is no confirmation that Clair is pregnant at all, that's an assumption at this point. Given the changes in the alternate reality storyline I don't think anything can be assumed about the characters past at this point.

The officer that was transporting Kate got hit in the same spot on the head in the alternate universe as he did when the plane was going down. I wouldn't put it past this show for that to have meaning.

"1977 the statue was intact, but in 2007 the statue is broken...things haven't eroded substantially"

Seems like a H-Bomb might do the trick of destroying the statue.

i was also wondering what book desmond was reading, did anyone catch that?

Juliet wasn't saying "it worked" as in the bomb blew up she meant that it fixed the present time...that's why she was ordering tea or whatever when sawyer was talking to her, she was in the present non island world

I think that Jacob is now in Sayid's body, just like the MiB is in Locke's body. They are both dead in the "H-Bomb World" but their bodies are being used as chess pieces, so to speak.

You know everytime the statue is mentioned it is referred to as Tawaret, yet I don't think that has officially ever been confirmed.

For my money Sobek is a more likely candidate. Look him up at:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sobek

He is a god of the river (probably literally meaning the Nile, but possibly metaphorical), Warfare (conflict is certainly a theme on the island) & Fertility (a major theme of the Dharma group); he has a crocodile head (which I always thought the statue had rather than a hippo!) and carries an Ank (the statue has one in both hands - though this is not uncommon for Eygptian gods).

Especially interesting are the bits:

"Sobek's ambiguous nature led some Egyptians to believe that he was a repairer of evil that had been done, rather than a force for good in itself, for example, going to Duat to restore damage done to the dead as a result of their form of death. He was also said to call on suitable gods and goddesses required for protecting people in situation, effectively having a more distant role, nudging things along, rather than taking an active part."
&
"He was also shown with an ankh, representing his ability to undo evil and so cure ills."

Some of these questions are above are kinda easy. I love the show but I think I have this season figured out already.
- The bomb created an alternate timeline and it is skewed off the current one. See Back to the Future 2 for the same timeline concept.
- The survivors were sent back to thier normal time and contrary to the above article are not dealing with the fallout of the bomb, the bomb never exploded in thier timeline. Like Miles said in one ep, they are always experiancing thier present and they cant change that.
- The alternate reality might be unstable. Hence the weird things on the plane and Charlie saying that he was supposed to die, like he did in the original time line. I predict as the season goes on the new timeline will slowly converge with the original because the new timeline probably wasnt meant to be.
- Healing on the island is obviously Jacob as the man in Black is the Smoke monster, hence the water changing colour because Jacob died.
- Alpert came to the island on the Black Rock slave ship, hence the chains reference.
- If Locke and others have been possessed by the man in black, its prob safe to say that Jacob was controlling Christian and probably Sayid now.
- Since Desmond technically was dislodged from time, he will be the constant that converges the two timelines. Farady noted him as the constant back in season 4.
- Oh yea and obviously the Island sank in the alternate time because a H Bomb was set off in a hole that was drilled halfway into the island.
- The reason why some of the events are different in the new plane is because some people were effected by the island before without knowing it. Like Hurley got the numbers from the crazy guy who heard it on the radio broadcast. No Hatch, no island, no radio broadcast hence no cursed numbers and why he is so "Lucky" now.

Anyways I guess now its just seeing how right my predictions are but for once in my life I think Im one step ahead of this show, or at least on pace with them.

By the way, Christian is old smokey.

In response to:

"I think that Jacob is now in Sayid's body, just like the MiB is in Locke's body. "

the MIB (Smocke) is not in Locke's body. If you remember Locke's dead body is laying on the beach. Smocke only took on the appearance of Locke. He doesn't possess the body. As for whether Sayid's body is now inhabited by Jacob or whether the possible fountain of youth in the temple has made Sayid immortal only time will tell.

I believe the Temple Others are the original crew of the Black Rock, thus their unusual outfits. I think they, like Richard are immortal. I also think Richard was a slave on the Black Rock.

NRC :sobek is the only one that is listed to have 4 toes. toataly with u on this one. and i think Richard Alpert + eyeliner = Ra

I think I might have to delete SciFi Wire from my shortcuts until Lost airs over here. But it's good to know it lives up to expectations.

The book Desmond was reading is Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie.

An additional question for the new episode:

What happened to Locke's suitcase of knives? Is it significant that two of the lost items in the non-crash world were very important in Season 1 of the crash world?

I think we are getting close in figuring out who Richard is. His skin tone, eye-liner, immortality and intelligent demeanor might suggest he is an egyptian god. Now the chains definetly have something to do with it. I do not think he was chained up on the Black Rock. I am thinking he was chained becuase of his evil powers. several comments above me someone linked the story of the goddess Taweret. That article mentions that She had Set chained up. I know its a long shot but I think Richard used to be evil.

I think this can also be answered...

25. Why does Smokey have a taste for some people and not others?

Since it appears the MiB is the smoke moster there is a consciousness at work. He/it chooses who to kill and who not to.

Did anyone notice Jin's watch was different when the Border Guard was looking in his bag?

@NRC & koolaid, the statue is Tawaret. There was a hidden message/contest/puzzle in Wired Magazine a wile back. It stated that the statue was Tawart. About the four toes, they originally planed for the statue to have 6 toes. But it was too easy to not see this. So they changed it to 4, just to make it easier for people to tell it did not have 5 toes.

To answer one question, jack only got one bottle of vodka because, if we recall the season 1 premiere, he gets two, and uses one on the island to clean his wound. No island, no extra vodka required.

They didn't just stop the plane from crashing , THEY CHANGED HISTORY(from when they made the boom on up)!!!

They took the Islands power, causing it to sink.

And since the Island was screwing with all their lives for a long time before they got on the plane things ON THE PLANE CHANGED!

i.e. Witemoore was involved with the Island in original time line, but now it sank in like the 60's maybe Desmond had no reason to do the yachting thing to impress him. So he could be on the plane.

WAIT!!! Now that I think about it!!!

THERE ARE NO TWO GROUPS OF SURVIVORS!!!!!

Cheap Time line:

60's when they blew the bomb>2004\5ish when the plane crashed/didn't>COUPLE MONTHS LATER The Hatch went BOOOM!!> the Survivors at the "present"

SO just because the plane didn't crash and the island is underwater dosen't meanthings won't change in the future/ present!!!

Where are Rose and Bernard on the island?

When Anti-Jacob told Richard, "Nice to see you out of your chains" I thought it meant that Richard was a slave dating back to the Black Rock. At some point, he ingratiated himself to Jacob and became his messenger.

I think I missed something. I just got to watch this episode online (it was 43 min long) and I didn't see some of the stuff you are all talking about (MIB/Locke comment to Richard about Chains, MIB comment of not what but who, Jin having money and dealing with customs). Did I miss something?

Another question?

Is the flight attendant more important than we've previously been led to believe?

She was originally one of the Tailies but went 'missing' when the Tailie group trekked across the island to find jack's group. We saw her again as an Other in an Other camp and then again on Hydra Island at some show or Vote with some kids (who I think we were to assume were the ones kidnapped from the Tailie beach). Then we saw her again with the Other Others at the Temple this week. Why was she and the children welcomed by the Others while every other Survivor has been treated as a hostile threat?

Me thinks there's meant to be more to her character!

110. WHO CARES?

I think you guys are reading too much into Richard wearing eyeliner. Mostly because he doesn't. That's just how the actor's eyes look. Seriously.

How come no one ever brings up the fact that this whole incident is and endlessly repeating time loop. One that has been going on and on for an unknown amount of times. How else do you explain Jacobs knowledge of the survivors and his being able to visit and influence them before the crash. This also explains Faradays mothers insistance on his giving up music for math and her being upset with Desmond when he wasnt going to buy the ring. It also explains Desmonds visons of the future. They arent visons but memories of things that happened before.

I've been searching everywhere for this question, to no avail...

Why did Cindy say they came on the 'first plane' with her? That implies there is another plane after 815 (not Yemi's or 815 would be called the second plane). Did I hear her wrong?

@websterguy: Agreed. The actor has very dark eyelashes. He explains in an article here:

www.premiumhollywood.com/2009/01/28/once-more-for-the-record-nestor-carbonell-does-not-wear-eye-make-up/

@DNMcG: The first plane was Oceanic 815. The second plane was Ajira 316.

@LOST: Thank goodness you've introduced even more new characters 6 seasons into a 6 season show. This show definitely needed an angry Japanese man.

@JL The Lost Premiere is in 2 parts, u only watched the 1st part, go find the 2nd episode. Then u will see what evry1 is talkin about.

I have a few theories, a few other ideas, and some gloating.
First, some new questions: If the island is under water, etc., and all those things that happened after the bomb (whenever it occurred but for the sake of argument lets say 1977) like the building of the hatch and pressing the button (not to mention the arrival of Rousseau, etc) never happened in the island-under-water reality. So that dude in the nut-house with Hurley never heard the numbers. So Hurley could never have heard the numbers. SO WHY WAS HURLEY IN AUSTRALIA? I thought he was there recording the commercial, but since people already saw the commercial and recognized Hurley, that is doubtful.
Another question: What changed so that Boone didn't bring Shannon back with him?
Now the gloating: I knew the smoke monster was Alex and Locke (and Christian), because Alex told Ben to do whatever Locke said, etc. etc... he has obviously been manipulating the situation for a very very long time. It was also Smoke-Locke who told Richard to tell real Locke that he would have to die, so that Smoke-Locke could take his form.
This did lead me to believe - as recently as a few minutes ago, and probably still now, that the comment above by "strider47" must be on point. "How come no one ever brings up the fact that this whole incident is and endlessly repeating time loop. One that has been going on and on..."
However, I had an idea while I was watching, which I believe solves all the problems, and (more importantly) keeps the structure of the series - in its entirety - balanced. Here it goes:
Ok, The first three seasons were all flashbacks, and when season three ended with a flash-forward, then continued on with flash-forwards, I figured this would continue until the times met up. When the 6 returned to the Island, the flash forwards, and correct me if I'm wrong, stopped. However, the time shifts seem to have compensated for this. Anyway, the scenes where everyone is ok on the plane, I believe, are still flash-forwards. And the bomb worked, as in it blew up, but that was what happened anyway, I think. Time will reset, however... just not yet. There must be some other event that has to happen in order for the plane to not crash, for the EM disturbance to go away, etc. Because it is a time loop, that thing can happen in the "present" island where the survivors are now, or there can be another time shift where the event occurs in the past, or anything else under the sun. The key is, the time will be reset before the last episode. The event to reset the time simply has not happened yet.
SO - the storyline where everyone lives - is still a flash forward. It is a flash forward because the survivors in 2007 have yet to do whatever it is that must happen in order for the island to sink before 2004 so that the plane can fly over unharmed.
Either that, or Jack is dead, and we are seeing Jack's personal heaven, or some "life flash before he dies" thing; Sawyer did say he would kill Jack, and even though he took it back, that sounds like classic foreshadowing to me. Sawyer just might kill Jack.
More theories: Sahid is not Jacob, he is whatever Ben became with the "consequences" of when he was in the temple. Whatever it was, it made Ben a tool of the smoke monster, which I believe is why Jacob never contacted Ben before. So, since Hurley is the only one who can see Jacob - Hurley is the new leader of the others.

More ideas to come... I hope I at least got one of these right...

I don't know if my last post will ever show up here, it said it was submitted, but i don't see it yet. Anyway, assuming, it does show up, I have one more thing to mention...
The over-arching theme has been debated. I think it is clear now, that the theme is "free will vs not-free will." Before, I assumed it was "free will vs. destiny" but it has become clear that there is no "destiny" on the island, only events planned out and manipulated by the Smoke Monster.
Continuing, this also responds to "azsinzz"'s comment about Widmore working for Smoke Monster once he got off the island. I disagree. Jacob is obviously pro-free-will, and Smoke Monster is not. Jacob is free to leave the island, Smoke Monster is not. Jacob has always been free to leave the island. Who is the only other person that we know of who ever left the island before Dharma showed up? Charles Widmore, to marry Penny's mom and father her. Who could have possibly taken him? There was no sub. It must have been Jacob, however he did it. Also, when Ben excommunicates Widmore, Widmore tells Ben that he has a choice here, he doesn't have to banish him. Almost (i'm guessing here because I haven't checked but it sounds right) the same language Jacob used before Ben killed him.
SO, I think Sayid is probably now susceptible by manipulation by the Smoke Monster like Ben was the entire time he was leader. It was also Ben who chose to move the Others into the barracks after the purge, right? Why would he do that? To be protected by the sonic fence. The others lived all together outside the sonic fence, however and the Smoke Monster, we assume, was out there too. Ben probably was sick of the Smoke Monster in whatever incarnation he chose to be in, so he moved everyone into the protection of the fence. Now that I think about it, the smoke monster must have been taking the form of Ben's mom, right? It did it at least once, we know... Thats enough back to work.

Jacob has been reincarnated in the body of Sayid. Dead is Dead, no one comes back from the dead.

Ahhh...but...Nothing is irreversible

What was Hurley doing on the plane in the first place in the alternate "None Crash" time line? The reason he went to Australia in the first place was to find out about the numbers. If they are not cursed - and it's hinted in this time line he used different numbers to win the lottery - why would he have been in Sidney?