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The girl noticed while listening from another room, something I somehow missed - Kate and Claire are apparently the only two people in the alt-timeline who don't have drastically changed pasts. Everyone else has pretty different lives and livelihoods. Some details remain the same, but their station in life is pretty different, typically for the positive.

Kate and Claire are sort of (and I know how weighted this word is in Lost) constant across the two timelines.

I'm wondering if the writers are setting up Claire to be Kate's opposite number. Where it appears Smokey isn't sure about Kate, doesn't seem to know about her or consider her a candidate, I don't think anyone knows that Smokey has Claire wrapped around his finger.

How interesting if the final battle to set the timeline straight finally is played out via Kate and Claire representing Jacob and Smokey.

Other than that bit of speculative fun, the episode was sort of blah. Jack smashing the mirror, Jacob catching shit from Hurley about being a secretive dickhead, (Audience identifies with Hurley as their surrogate more than ever) Jack connecting with his mormon vampire son...pretty ho-hum episode. Although the question as to whether Claire sees Smokey as Christian instead of Locke is interesting.

I also love how many people spent most of last night and this morning trying to figure out what 108 meant, when the episode itself explained that didn't matter at all. "Who is 108? Wallace? Who is Wallace? WHERE'S WALLACE, STRING? HUH? WHERE'S WALLACE!" 108 didn't matter, because Jacob just wanted Jack to see his house on the way to 108, smash the mirror, and stare at the ocean. Because lord knows he's never done that before.

But yeah, the lost numbers add up to 108. I'm sure there's some deeper significance there, but I bet it's just another sleight of hand mind-puzzle to distract from the bigger mystery that's unfolding.

Also, I'm curious - the Lost screenings at the Bagdad are showing diminishing attendance every week since the forced hiatus we had to take in week 2 thanks to OMSI. Is the shrinking attendance a result of the show's quality so far, the night it's on, our presence as annoying personalities jumping up and talking before the show starts, or a rough combination of all three?

It's weird because this show is more popular, and starts more conversations, and features a fanbase I'd say is equally, if not moreso, rabid than Battlestar's, and while that show was lucky to pull a 1.1 rating on a Friday night, we never had less than a full house every week, and often had to turn folks away at the door. This show is pulling 12's on a Tuesday and we had a pretty sparsely attended Hi-Def projection on the biggest beer-theater screen in town.

I mean, so far, discounting that bad Kate episode from 2 weeks ago, this has been a pretty solid start to a season of Lost. And yet people seem to be pretty ho-hum about the whole thing post season premiere.
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Despite being a relatively better show than most, it's seriously decelerating towards the finish line which likely accounts for the poor attendance. Watching now seems perfunctory even though the numbers are decent.

That being said, I liked this ep. better than most. We saw signs of the island life/LA life convergence you predicted. Jack not remembering getting his appendix out as a 7 or 8 year old coupled with the image of his childhood home in the mirror may suggest some sort of cross-memory meld about to take place.

Kate's brief presence made me actually "boo!" out loud. At this point there's NO WAY the Jack/Kate romance has any juice left but yet during their one, brief conversation you could see Jack lapse back into that aggravatingly doe-eyed sucker mode. Puke.

Hurley: You hungry?
Miles: Yea, I could eat.
Hurley: Me too.




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