I'm not sure what I think about the whole ghost-talking thing going on with Miles, although in the flashback in ep 2, we see him doing his stuff with nobody around, so it's unlikely to be a smoke-and-mirrors affair.

Daniel... I think he's some kind of savant. The whole weeping in front of the news broadcast thing, the fact that the script and subtitles for that episode point out that he has a caretaker, the total awkwardness and the cardcounting all combined? Yeah.

Since Des got Penny on the phone and "found his constant" in both places, does that mean he's saved? Will he die? I hope not. I love Desmond.

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Michael was indeed the spy. Kind of refreshing to see his face again.

I'm guessing that bit where Jin delivers the panda to Mr. Paik's client or whatever was a flashback? And Sun giving birth was the actual flashforward? This shit is kind of pissing me off.

The total fake-out of the flashforward/flashback made me want to applaud the writers. They are finally moving the story forward, and still managed to find ways to mess with the audience. There were a ton of revelations tonight. Finally, this show is returning to form. Top-notch.

Although, now we'll have to wait and deal with Jin's death in a future episode and cry all over again. :(

We don't know that Jin is dead. The date of death was the day of the plane crash. For all we know she left him on the island. The official story has been that everyone but those six are dead, but the other flashforwards have indicated this is not the case.

...why would she go to visit a grave with Hurley alone and cry that badly. Why visit a grave if she didn't need to keep up the fake story about Jin being dead since she'd be going with one of the only other people who knows that he's alive? Hurley would have been constantly saying, "don't worry, Sun, he's still alive."
I mean, what, is she doing a symbolic gesture? That he's not dead, but he's just as good as being dead?
Seems a bit of a stretch.

Michael is the sixth?

"don't trust the captain" thing that Michael left seemed wrong, since the captain actually seems sane and is one of the few characters on this show to plainly explain the 815 blackbox situation.

Jin died before getting off the island, I think, but probably won't do so immediately, much like in season 3 with Charlie. The tombstone did say 2004. That most likely references the day of the crash because if you remember the episode with Kate's trial, the story they told wasn't that they were the only ones who managed to make it out, but the only ones who survived long term. Besides, in the show timeline, there's only a few days in 2004 left, and who knows what the hell date it is in crazy island time.

Upon reviewing, the date did in fact say September 22nd 2004.

I thought this was one of the better episodes as well. Maybe not of the series. Hell of a lot better than last weeks. The flash forward/back really threw me, but what impressed me is that they didn't make the identity of the spy the big reveal at the end. Cause, c'mon. You knew who it was.

What this week's episode leaves me confused about is this. It's been assumed that Claire and her baby were fine because he was conceived off the island. But Sun and daughter survived, conceived on island, born off. The only possible pattern left is what was said about the third trimester. Perhaps babies developing on the island over a long period of time is the cause. Of course, why in the hell that would be is what we really want to know.

About the staged crash. Whole world knows 815 disappeared. They find a crashed plane. They find a black box. Staged or not, it's confirmed to be from the survivors plane. Maybe I should have thought of this awhile ago, but maybe the black box thing just made it trigger. It's universally accepted as fact that all passengers on board 815 died. So how are the Oceanic Six so universally accepted? Why does anyone believe that they were on that plane? Was Naomi bluffing when she acted shocked about them being survivors of the flight, because Miles and the captain both seemed to know all about it.

If the "Six" didn't refer to the children and Jin didn't make it out alive, well, goddammit, give us the last one already.