It's cool to have Dr. Cheng be more than just the orientation video guy for all the hatches. It's fairly obvious he is THE lead scientist on the Island for the Dharma Initiative. But wow! Is he arrogant or what? Gotta wonder what his home life is like, though his wife seems to look at him lovingly...
I don't think Dan being in the scene implies that he was once a member of the DI. By the way he averts his face from Dr. Cheng, I'm guessing that Dr. Cheng would know that he wasn't supposed to be there. The foreman on the other hand is more of a blue collar guy, he probably doesn't know half the guys on his crew. I'm not saying that Cheng knows everyone on the Island, but he would certainly be enough aware of the personnel to know Dan didn't belong.
Neil 'Frogurt'
His name had been dropped since season 2, and he was introduced as a character in the mobisodes (where did that terminology come from?) before season 4. He was plenty annoying in the mobisode, but way over-the-top in the first two episodes of season 5. I would have thought he'd be one of the first to die on the Island. Surely Ethan would have killed Frogurt rather than Scott, or was it Steve? Maybe the time jumps were just a little too much for Frogurt, and he really snapped.
Background Characters
Speaking of background characters, I would have preferred having the characters of Scott/Steve elaborated on rather than introducing Nikki and Paolo. In fact when we first met them, I thought Paolo was Scott/Steve and Nikki was the chick he'd been hanging out with since getting to the Island. The audience would have been way more accepting of that I think. They could have even kept the same storyline about the diamonds and all that. And I think the extras on the show have worked long and hard enough to get a chance to have some character development, don't you?
The Blood Sample
I think that Ben is behind the lawyers getting the blood sample from Kate. Jack is pretty despondent about the prospect of getting Kate to want to go back to the Island. But Ben, "has a few ideas," about how to get her to come along. The way Ben manipulates people is to have them think whatever they do is their own idea, when it is really his own. The only way to break Kate out of her playing house with Aaron, is to threaten that status quo. It gets her off balance enough to revert to her old ways of running, and what safer place to run from the authorities than the Island. Not that she is thinking that just yet...
Hatch Era Desmond
I'm confused as to exactly what time period it is when the characters knock on the Hatch. Desmond comes out in full quarantine gear, but it is before the 815ers found the Hatch. If Desmond doesn't yet realize the hazmat gear is useless, wouldn't it be Inman to come barreling out of the Swan? He told Des that he was the only one that could go out. But if it is after Inman's untimely demise, then Des would know that the hazmat suit had a bunch of tears in it. Unless it was just Inman's turn to sleep and Des didn't bother to wake him when someone started pounding on the door. But that seems unlikely to me considering how unsure of things Des seemed at that point in his life.
The Safehouse
When Sayid fights those guys at the safehouse, I thought they were sent by Ben. Sayid has obviously had a falling out with Ben since the events in The Economist. Ben didn't look all that pleased when Jack told him Sayid showed up at his door. Like Sayid would ruin the inroads Ben had made with Jack. And the guys were using dart guns. They didn't want to kill Sayid, they wanted him alive. If they were Widmore's men I'd think they'd want Sayid dead for all the killing he'd done for Ben.
The 1950's Others/Hostiles
I was pretty sure Jones would turn out to be Widmore. Widmore has always seemed to be an arrogant, overly possessive man, and the way Jones asked what Sawyer and Juliet were doing on 'our island' just fit the bill. And how could Widmore have been so possessive of the Island in the present if he hadn't been on the Island at some point in the past.
I didn't immediately think that the blonde Other/Hostile that took Dan, Charlotte, and Miles prisoner was anyone that we should have recognized. On first viewing, I didn't pick-up on her being named Ellie. And I don't know if I had heard about the enhanced version of The Lie indicating that Mrs. Hawkings' first name was Eloise. But looking at things now, and the fact that Dan's mother is supposed to be in LA, I would say that Ellie is Eloise is Dan's mother.
The Other's Camp
My first impression of the location of the camp was that it would turn out to be the location of the barracks in the future. But that all depends on what time they jumped to at the end of Jughead. Some have speculated that the clearing was the same place the '04 Others stopped at after leaving the barracks. The place where Anthony Cooper was chained to that pillar. The reasoning was that Dan told them to encase the bomb in concrete. So obviously, the bomb is encased in the pillar... Go back and watch The Brig from season 3, you'll see that the pillar stone, not concrete, and is aged much more than 50 years in my opinion. I think that pillar is from the ancient civilization that built the four toed statue.
The Location of the Bomb
The pillar is only one of the locations for the buried H-bomb that people are speculating about. Some think it is buried at the Orchid. Cheng does say there is an almost unlimited energy at that site. Some think it was buried at the Swan. There was a doorway sealed up by cement, and Sayid made a point of saying the only time he'd heard of things being covered by concrete like that was in the aftermath of the Nuclear accident at Chernobyl. And there is a group that seems to think that the bomb is incased in the four toed statue out on the coast. Go back and watch Live Together, Die Alone. Take a close look at the statue when Sayid, Sun, and Jin look at it through the binoculars. It is stone, perhaps even marble, but it is not concrete. I think the bomb is in another yet to be shown location. I think it has a further story surrounding it, but we haven't seen where it is located at yet.
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