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John - I'm assuming you realise that the Faraday cage is a real invention by a real physicist (Michael Faraday) and that its mention on Doctor Who had absolutely nothing to do with Lost. Apologies if you do, but I just wanted to check because it seems like you think Doctor Who was referencing Lost.

I'm a bit confused about something. We've seen that Derek and Jessie were a couple in 2027, and yet in the latest episode Derek referred to the friend that he murdered, and how Jessie couldn't have known him because they are from different futures or something. And in the previous episode he...

I don't see how this explanation makes any more sense. I mean, if the studio is indeed pandering to people who like their HDTV screens filled, why stop at distorting the credits? Why not distort - or better still, crop - the entire film?! If the idiots don't care about missing picture...

This is wrong. I saw The World Is Not Enough twice in cinemas (for my sins) and the oil-covered globe in the opening titles was perfectly round. One only has to glance at the image of Roger Moore to see it has been horizontally squeezed. Even the text looks wrong. What's even worse is that the...

They can't kill young Ben. They could try, but they would fail. The past cannot be changed. Whatever happened, happened... and they were always part of it. Put it this way: when Jack, Locke and Sayid were holding Ben captive down in the Swan station (back in Season Two), if they had somehow been...

Loved seeing Idris Elba (Stringer Bell from The Wire) back on my screen!

Seems like this show remembered what made it compelling in the first place: the characters. You can jump about in time all you damn well please - for me the last two episodes have been the most enjoyable Lost in a while. The problem with the dense mythology episodes is that, while they give...

What a fantastic episode! A real tour de force performance by Terry O'Quinn and the best writing from Damon and Carlton in quite some time. Everything just felt right, like classic Lost of old. Great to see the Hydra station so unexpectedly; it looks like we've got a fresh batch of red shirts...

I think it is both simpler and more complex than this. The reason that nothing they do in the past has any effect on the future is that they have always been part of the timeline, i.e. when Claire was giving birth back in the first season, future-Sawyer was actually witnessing it. Had...

Fantastic episode this week. Did anyone else spot Sarah Wynter from 24?

OK, so I was wrong about that - there are clearly occasions where the Others have deliberately killed survivors without provocation. However, I think these are exceptions to the rule. I think they see themselves as a peaceful group of individuals despite occasionally turning a blind eye to...

Todd, we have learned several things about the abductees: 1) When Ben saw the plane crash, the first thing he did was order Ethan and Goodwin to infiltrate the survivors and make lists of names. Presumably this was to determine who had survived. Meanwhile Mikhail gathered information on the...

I just get the distinct impression that Richard is the only ageless character. It was that exchange between Locke and Juliet where Locke asked her "How did you know he'd be here?" and Juliet replied "Richard's always been here". That implies he - and he alone - is the oldest inhabitant of the...

I don't think the whispers have anything to do with time hopping, and I don't think the writers had any clue what they were when they first appeared. I'm not even sure we'll get a definitive answer to the whispers besides spirits or 'memories' of the dead. Think about it - Miles can speak to the...

The only thing that contradicts this is the fact that the helicopter was closer to the island than Jin and it wasn't within range. However, as I originally suggested in my "excruciating logical contortion", the chopper was too high to be caught in the radius.

I think there are two things happening here. A lot of the dialogue on Lost sounds muffled because it's recorded on location with lots of background noise (ocean, wind in trees, nearby traffic) and they try to fix it in post with varying degrees of success. Even on Blu-ray in uncompressed PCM...

I can't say I've noticed it before, but the audio on Wednesday night's episode was dreadful. Not just the centre channel, either - there seemed to be a lack of surround info, and some out-of-phase effects across the front soundstage. I assumed it was a one-off due to a broadcast fault.

Here's another mystery: We're assuming that it's the Losties who are time-hopping rather than the island, in which case the island must have moved geographically. However, surely if the island has moved from its original spot, then when the Losties time-hopped into the future (from their...

I'm a little confused... on the one hand you say that the freighter did not time travel (because Sawyer and Juliet noticed it was gone after the first time-hop) but on the other hand you say it did (because if the helicopter had returned to the spot where the freighter exploded, the wreckage...

If it is a plot hole, it's one of the laziest ones I've seen. When the writers blew the freighter up, they clearly knew that Jin survived and would get involved in the time-hopping. Surely it crossed their minds that if the chopper was too far away (having turned back for the island moments...

The explanation is pretty simple: neither the freighter nor the helicopter were within the radius, because they were not at sea level. The chopper was still in the air and the freighter had sunk. Presumably Jin threw himself overboard as the freighter exploded and he was submerged for a few...

I haven't mixed the stations up. Just because The Orchid is the time-travel station, that doesn't mean The Swan has nothing to do with it. Desmond's brain went time-travelling after he blew up The Swan, and the purple sky effect was similar to when Ben pushed the donkey wheel. There was clearly...

I totally agree, it just looks amateurish. I remember hearing that J.J. Abrams rendered it in preview quality on his PowerBook, and nobody bothered to re-do it. If you look here, though, you'll see someone has made a much nicer version. Pity it's 30fps and not 24fps.

Something I've noticed this season is that the layout of the credits during the opening minutes is slightly different. The majority of you probably wouldn't notice, but I find the minutiae of films and TV shows interesting, including typography. Previously the credits were always neatly aligned...

Let's assume that Ellie (the cute blonde with the rifle and the dodgy accent) is Faraday's mother. If she was twenty years old in 1954, she would be in her 70s by now (which fits perfectly with Eloise Hawking's appearance). Let's also assume that Daniel is in his late 30s, meaning he was born...

Ron, the compass was only introduced about 5 episodes ago so it's not exactly proof of a grand design! I think the writers were "making up shit as they went along" right up to season 3 and the infamous Jack tattoo flashback, which was responsible for convincing the studio to grant the writers an...

Ellie's maiden name is probably Hawking. Simple as that.

You beat me to it! When Faraday mentioned burying the bomb in concrete, I instantly thought of the massive concrete wall in the Swan station, and what Sayid said about it reminding him of Chernobyl. If this is true then we might finally get some definitive answers about the 'incident' soon...

Yeah, that's what I'm getting at: Michael was meant to die on the freighter, not return to the island with the Oceanic 6. BobV mentioned that Ben knew Michael would surely die on the freighter - the point I'm making is that this information is pretty much irrelevant. Michael was going to die...

I think the point about Michael is that he did nothing to change his destiny. He was meant to leave the island with Walt when he did - it enabled him to delay Widmore's men from reaching the island, and delay the bomb on the freighter thus giving the Oceanic 6 precious extra seconds in which to...