I'm fairly certain it's been years since the time Jack met Desmond. How many years is unclear, but it was sometime way back when. At least a few years. Possibly four, I might guess (if only because I seem to recall a lot of stuff happening with a lot of different characters four years before the plane crash). But who knows. In any case, I'm pretty sure Jack didn't meet Desmond in Australia. So as odd as it is for him to be there (especially with the computer from like 20 years ago, indicating that he might have been down there far longer than seems reasonable for us to assume based on Jack's flashback) in the first place, it's not quite like Jack just met him in Austrailia and then turned around and there he was on the island too. You know?...

I watch Lost too, secretkeeper. Its really a good show. To answer your question, they have a boat for a purpose, maybe sometimes to go fishing and such, and to go kidnap little kids like Walt in their case. But they live on the island and thats why they don't leave. And Michael talked to Walk on the computer in the hatch. Does that answer you're question?

Yes thats a possibilty but why stay there when they can be somewhere else? To get supplies or food or something like that. I know that guy said that it was 'their island' but why stay there for so long?

I guess I wasn's clear on the Walt/Michael thing, is there another Hatch or is there a building that has power that the others live in. Walt has to be on a computer and that computer has to have a power source so what is it. Is it another hatch and is there another computer that can save the world? Hopefully some of these questions will be answered on Wednesday.

I don't think we really know nearly enough about the Others to guess why exactly they're there or why they don't want to leave. Whatever the answer, I would guess that it's deeply involved with the nature of the island and what the heck is going on in the first place, so we're not likely to have a definitive answer for quite awhile. But yes, I would agree that it seems that wherever the Others make their headquarters is another structure like the Hatch, but I would guess that while the Hatch (and the place the tail-section-survivors were staying) are more like outposts, and the Others may have control of a more central facility of some sort. Maybe anyway. Walt's communications with Michael would seem to indicate at least that the Others have another facility of at least the same type at the Hatch, if not something more. But then, on the other hand, I'm far from convinced that it was actually Walt that Michael was talking to anyway. I suspect that it wasn't Walt at all, and may or may not have even been one of the Others... but it's all just guesses at this point, so...

That all depends on how the season ends. In my opinion, there will only be 3 seasons. Last season was more of a getting used to the island and them getting used to the fact that no one was coming. This season is more of a grid-lock with the "others". I think that the season will end with a few main characters dying like Charlie and Syide. Last season they seemed to have big roles, but this season, they aren't that important. Last nights episode was focused on Charlie but that made me think that he is being secluded from everybody and that he will do something stupid to get himself killed. As for the next season, I think that the remainder of the people left on the island will be rescued in the end. Now thinking that there is a happy ending this season, they will have changed their "destiny" and will be rescued. hopefully its not that predictible and throws in some twists in there.

I agree that as this season nears its close, it will probably focus primarily on the conflict with the Others. If they have captured Michael, then that makes him and Walt (plus countless "tailies" that they've nabbed). If the scenes from next week are any indication (which they may not be; those things are always misleading), then it looks like they may be kidnapping more soon. I think that they'll end up taking the Others on some how at the end of the season. As for some main characters dying... I don't know about Sayid. He hasn't been the focus lately, but there are so many cast members on this show, focus has to (and does) drift as need be. I don't know that the fact that it hasn't been on Sayid lately means much. But Charlie... I don't dislike Charlie... but I do kinda think they should've killed him awhile back. To me, when they seemingly killed him, but then it all turned out to be a fake-out, in the first season... I don't like those fake-outs. It seems cheap. And Charlie hasn't really been a necessary character, in my opinion... well, ever, really. But surprisingly, I'm actually changing my opinion now. If you recall, Rousseau (the French woman) warned of some sort of disease or something that affects people, changes them. After Charlie's peculiar behavior last night, I'm starting to think that whatever it was that Rousseau was talking about may be getting to Charlie. Or at least I hope so. That would explain a lot of his actions that are otherwise a bit much, even for the circumstances. But I agree he may very well die by the end of the season.

Um... yeah, I think that's about all I've got right now. Later.

Thats exactly what I think too. I think that the mysterious black cloud has something to do with the disease. What my friends that watch the show too, believe that the cloud goes into your memory and leaves part of itself in you. Charlie watched the cloud and Echo have a stairdown and thats when Charlie started having those "haliousinations" about Aaron being in danger.

As far as the previews for the next episode, I saw at the end the others taking someone. To me it looked like Jin or that girl Hurley has a thing for. It only gives a brief glemps of the person being dragged off. The only reason that I can think of it being that other girls is that the others have a list of the people that were on the back of the plane and they are wanting to complete their goals. I know that Jack is wanting to get the guns but Locke moved them or hide them. I think in the next few episodes, there will be a lot more action.

Where did you find that out? I looked on the website and I didn't see anything about how many seasons they were planning on making.

A thing that I haven't been able to come to a conclusion is where is Michael? Did he get captured or is he still in the jungle? That guy never said that he found or killed him, he never mentioned him when he was talking to Jack

Like I said, I don't know how reliable it is. It's just something I've heard second-hand from some source that said something about one of the creators making that projection. Who knows when or where or even who exactly it was that said it. I can't even remember where I might have picked that up, but good money would be either from TelevsionWithoutPity or Aintitcool news, which are two sites I frequent that regularly talk about Lost. The only thing I can really say about it is: even if one of the creators did say it, you still have to take it with a grain of salt. And the more removed the information is from whoever originally said it... well, just pile on more salt, I would have to say. But either way, I think the safe bet is on more than three years as long as ratings stay up and it doesn't get cancelled.

I haven't analyzed it or anything, nor even taken a second look at it, but from the one time that I watched the scenes, it looked to me like it was Sun that they were taking. I am very curious why the Others seem to choose the specific people they choose to take and when. I don't have too many ideas on the subject.

I've been wondering the same thing. From what the dude said, I believe he told Jack that Michael hadn't found them and that he wouldn't. If that's true, then it implies that the Others didn't capture him and didn't seem to intend to. But even with that, I wouldn't be surprised if the writers just ignore that implication and have him turn up as a captive anyway, when and if we get to see what becomes of the Other's captives.

In regard to the black cloud or Lostzilla as I believe TelevisionWithoutPity refers to the Lost monster... I'm still trying to figure out exactly what I think about that, but you may be onto something there.

I can relate to the not having time to catch up with these things, though just in case you were inclined to catch up at some point, you wouldn't actually have a "few seasons" to catch up on (unless you wait it out quite a bit more) They're only in the middle of the second season, so.... just FYI.

I don't think that's what they were getting at in the question of what the numbers signify. Yes, the numbers (according to Hurley's flashbacks) appear to be supremely unlucky, but we still don't really know anything about them. Why are they unlucky. Why do they show up everywhere, such as on the hatch (or even on fortune-cookie fortunes on Veronica Mars -- Hee!)? What is their relationship to the island. Just the fact that they appear to be somehow unlucky really doesn't explain anything. Though, one more thing we do know about the numbers though from Season 2 is that they are used as some sort of entry code to be put into a computer that they found down the hatch. It was indicated that something horrible would happen if the numbers were not entered everytime the clock started to run down, but who knows how much of that is true, or what might really happen. They're doing it anyway, just in case...

While I agree that Walt is probably fine, I think we should note that we don't really know that. We haven't actually seen Walt since he was taken by the Others. Some of the characters have seen him in the jungle drenched in water and muttering something, but they're visions of some sort, not unlike many of the visions that different characters have had from time to time, such as Jack seeing his father in the jungle in the early part of the first season. The closest we've come to to real confirmation about Walt's state of being is his communication with Michael on the computer, but as stated, we can't really be sure that it was Walt talking to Michael on that computer. In fact, while I fully believe that Walt is fine, for all we actually know about the situation, he could even be dead. Not that I think he is. Just that we haven't been given positive confirmation on his well-being. Just indications about it that have led us to jump to certain conclusions. And really, just as Harry Potter fans, we should be well guarded against such conclusion-jumping already, as experience with the HP books should only have shown us how erroneous we tend to become when we allow ourselves to be led in such a way.... if you follow me there (I think I worded that in such a way that even I had a hard time following myself, so I hope it makes some amount of sense).

The numbers on the hatch are obviously what the numbers are for the computer and Hurley's winning lotto numbers. I can't remember them all but I am pretty sure that none of them are prime. Most lucky numbers are prime like 3rd times a charm, or 7 but all of the other numbers aren't as lucky. Thats my therory on that anyway.

Not to jump to anything, but if he wasn't OK, why would he be able to use the computer. I think that him being soking wet was because of the rain. Before Boone's sister was shot, she and Sayid saw Walt, but it was raining. When she first saw him, there was a thunderstorm outside I believe and thats what woker her up to see Walt. As far as what he is saying, I think that he is speaking backwards. He seems to pause between words and he sounds like hes hick-uping. If you try to talk backwards, it sounds a lot like what Walt is saying.

4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42 ... If I'm not mistaken, those are the numbers, so one of them is actually prime. In any case, I still don't think much has really been explained about the numbers.

Even if he was okay, why would he be able to use the computer? As I pointed out before, we don't really know that that was Walt on the other end of that computer. Yes, whoever it was claimed to be Walt, but that doesn't mean that it's true. Case in point: for all anybody here knows, I could very well be a giggly 13-year-old girl who likes candlelit dinners and long walks on the beach. I'm not, but I could easily claim that I was, and who here could really dispute me? You can't see me. You don't KNOW that I'm not a giggly 13-year-old girl who likes candlelit dinners and long walks on the beach. In that sense, the person talking to Michael on the computer could very easily not have been Walt, but led Michael to believe that it was Walt for whatever other reasons. And when you think about it, this possibility makes sense because whatever Walt's doing while being kept by the Others God-knows-where, it really doesn't seem likely that the Others are giving him computer-time. And while it may be conceivable that he's managed to get to the computer from time to time without the Others knowing, it really isn't conceivable that he's managed to get away multiple times, AND have those times both (because it seemed to me like there were at least two times they talked on the computer, probably more) just happen to coincide with time that Michael is on the computer. Now, of course, one could argue that Walt's very special powers that he may or may not have could be giving him just the luck he needs to defy the odds in this situation, but on the other hand... maybe not...

In my opinion, Walt wasn't actually there in either cases. He was just appearing to Shannon just like Jack's dad appeared to him. So I don't know how that would affect whether he could be drenched by the rain or not, if that is the case. But I personally was under the impression that there's a different reason why he appeared to Shannon (and Sayid) so wet. But that's beside the point. About the speaking backwards thing... yeah. I agree. In fact, I didn't hear it, but there's a radio show on a local radio station here on which the people who do the show really like Lost and discuss it every week. And the week that Walt was talking backward to Shannon, they took the audio clip and played it backward to determine what he was saying, and apparently he was saying something about, "The Others are coming." Like I said, I heard all this second-hand from a couple other people who heard the show, and if he said more, the people I heard it from couldn't remember what the rest was, but... there that is.

If you're speaking of the significance of "42" that I think you're speaking of, then I just have to say: nice reference. And with that, I'll just say: So long and thanks for all the fish!

So sad that it should come to this! / We tried to warn you all, but oh dear / You may not share our intellect / Which might explain your disrespect / For all the natural wonders that grow around you!