I love Richard!

ME TOO! I hope, hope, hope they make it through everything with their lives AND their relationship intact.

Yes, I kept wondering - Why on earth would she want the plane to not crash? She'd still be in custody. It made no sense to me that she was going along with Jack originally, so her change of mind wasn't a big surprise. Still, I hate to see her come in and mess up a good Sawyer/Juliet moment.

Incidentally, I'm completely over Kate and Jack.

To agree with some of you, I really love Sawyer and Juliet together and I am also so over Kate and Jack.

If Kate and Jack end up becoming more like their pre-Season Three selves again, then I may start liking them again. Right now, they are both a mess and weenie-whiners.

I guess I'm the only one who likes Jack and Kate. But like the rest of you - I love Sawyer and Juliet together.

OK, a few questions on last night and the previews for next week. Is it me or has Locke turned into someone completely different?? I really like the new Locke. I also love the fact that Ben is not in control anymore - and it scares the Bejesus out of him. I also want to know why Richard never ages, but Ellie and Whidmore did or do age. I remember that Horace (in Locke's dream from Season 3) was building the cabin that Jacob eventually will live in. So do the Hostiles and the Dharma people get together before Ben decides to kill the Dharma people. Boy and why does that happen?? Oh yeah and where is little Ben??

Jack has definitely gone down-hill since being action-man earlier in the show. He's become irritable and less decisive. Last season he even turned into some kind of crazy drug-addicted hobo-surgeon! This season he's spent his time sweeping up after Sawyer.

I can't help wondering if he's now back on track though. He doesn't seem too wound up about things, and, since he's about to detonate an H-bomb, I'd say he's being quite decisive too. The main issue though is wether he's still crazy or not. Is he right to follow Faraday's ideas and nuke the Swan? He's also thinking and talking more like Locke. Not so long ago that would would have been a sure sign of madness, but Locke now appears to be very confident of what he's doing. But what is he doing and what is his purpose???

Questions, questions!

One scene really puzzled me and I can't believe Ryan McGee didn't think anything of it:

Did anyone make any sense of the Locke and Richard scene where they were watching the scene we saw earlier in the season where Richard helps Locke with the bullet wound?

How could they be standing there watching that? ... I thought new Locke et al were in present day time?

As I said, in Ryan's blog today; Locke timeshifted right after being shot by Ethan. Ethan died in 2004. So, Locke must have flashed to 2007 or 08 right after being shot and right before flashing to 1954. He had just enough time in 2007 or 08 to have the bullet taken care of by Richard and to get the compass.

But all this happened before Locke left the island and came back. So if new Locke is in present day time, how can he be watching himself in the past? Oh wait... I think I get it now. I have no idea why it never dawned on me that the flash was a future flash. I got it now! Duh!!