[manasecret]

Woah, good episode. I just saw it last night since I was out Mardi Grasing on Tuesday.

Certainly a lot of cool stuff in the regular timeline that you guys have touched on. Bond's theory sounds awesome, but incomplete, and I'm going to read Teuth's.

More notes on the alternate universe:
1. Locke and Helen are still together.
2. Confirmed that Locke did not go on the walkabout as he said to what's-his-face on the plane.
3. VERY INTERESTING one that they just threw in slyly: Helen says that Locke and her family and his dad should get together for their marriage or dinner or some such. Hid dad previously was the one who paralyzed him. WTF?
4. More coincidental running in of characters. Already Jack and Locke, now Locke has run into at least three other characters -- Hugo, Rose, and -- most interestingly I think -- Ben.

The fact that the alternate universe's events seem to coincide with the regular universe's must be a plot device at this point. What's the reason?