You can read all sorts of stuff about LOST all over the Internet, so I'm going to talk about just one little bit from last night's episode. Honestly, I'll probably end up rambling. I promise not to talk about obvious English-major stuff like Alpert giving Locke a compass ("What's it do?" "It points north, John.") and how that's a chronological narrative call-back to when Alpert met Young Locke in the past and arrayed out the baseball glove, the book of laws, a vial of sand, a compass, a comic book, and a knife, and how Young Locke willfully chose the knife as he wanted to be a man of action and not the compass as he should/would/could have chosen, in order to lead the way for the Others.

LOST is full of that sort of thing, so I'm going to talk about the weird stuff. Weird even for LOST, like the characters with the changing eye colors and shirts with dis-and re-appearing sleeves and whatnot.

(Here's some links to some massively large photos which show Jack's eyes two different colors, and then a later version which shows him with two same-colored eyes, but now Locke's are two different colors:)

http://www.lostisagame.com/Pictures/S3_poster_large.jpe

http://www.lostisagame.com/pictures/S3_feb07_large.jpg

Last night, though, I was happy to see Ana Lucia again. When she stopped Hurley, she pointed out something that's been out right in front of us for a while, but no one seems to consider.

Not only do the dead appear to the living, but the dead are self-aware of their own non-living circumstances. That's kinda weird, isn't it? Hurley sees Dave, Kate sees her horse, Jack can't stop seeing his father. Locke is told by the mathematician that he knows he's not making sense because he's been dead for twelve years. Of course, Hurley seems to be a nexus of this sort of thing, what with Dead Charlie hanging out with him, and Mister Eko playing chess with him. And of course Ana Lucia asking him "What if I were real?"

I'm not sure anyone in the show has an answer for that one, as reality seems quite fluid around them. Not just time, as shown last night, but reality itself. Which may explain the characters with the changing eye colors and shirts with dis-and re-appearing sleeves and whatnot.

But I'm glad the show is really letting its freak flag fly. There's no denying it now; this thing is as hard-core science fiction as BATTLESTAR GALACTICA, thanks to all the embracing of time travel. Sure, we've had Desmond bouncing around since the end of Season Two, and some suspicious things here and there. Like the time-travelling bunny experiments and all... but with last night's Faraday-in-the-Seventies, Sawyer's "Son of a*FLASH* ...bitch!", all the quantum physics and machinations and all. Honestly, if Kier Dullea shows up in a red spacesuit at some point I would not be surprised.

Here's some fun stuff:

• Frogurt: dead! Also, he was wearing a red shirt. Classic!

• Faraday introducing String Theory to middle America via expository dialogue.

• Doctor Chang Candle/Halliwax/Wick is wearing a Swan logo even though he's shooting the training film for the Arrow.

• After all the WE HAVE TO GO BACK emphasized in the last few episodes, what's up with Walt? Why doesn't Walt have to go back, too? I mean, I see why Des or Frank don't have to... but Walt was on 815 like everyone else.