There was some discussion that viewers didn't see the Jack's appendix-removal scar during shower scene in last week's episode. This lead some to believe it never happened (the shower scene... or the operation).

Henry dug up this screen-grad, and I enhanced it...

...the scar is there! The theories can stop now.

After the roller coaster thrills of last week's episode, I thought "Something Nice Back Home" was a bit of a slow-down.

Before I delve too far into the plot and details of last night, I have a new theory: dead people on (and off) the island are all the same person/thing. Could it be possible that every time someone sees a dead person (like Jack's dad, Charlie and next week's Jacob) they are actually seeing someone or something (smoke monster) that projects an image of the dead person.

Maybe there is technology on the island that allows a person to look like someone else OR maybe the smoke monster is able to look like a person. Remember when Mr. Eko looked into the smoke monster and saw all his own memories and thoughts, including images of his brother? Could smoke monster be capable of more? Was the smoke detector's failure in Jack's office a hint that smoke monster was there? It's all nano-bots, I think.

ANYWAY, here's what I was left with last night:

• The promos for the show drive me CRAZY! "The island claims one of the survivors as its own." What? Was that Claire? What does that mean? Is she dead?

• I don't think we've ever travelled past the point in time when Jack and Kate meet at the airport at the end of season #3. Time jumps on the show seem to occur in the space prior to that and after the 6 are off the island.

• Sawyer may be alive in the future. Kate seems to be talking to him on the phone.

• Jack's addictive behavior seems to be aided by jealousy of Sawyer.

• Are we finally convinced Jack and Claire are step-siblings?

• Why did the island let Jack get sick?

• Jack is an irresponsible pill taker! Never mix meds with alcohol!

• Dan is still irritating. Jin, please break his fingers like you promised Charlotte.

• Jack's proposal to Kate was a nice moment.

• Jack was reading Alice in Wonderland to Aaron. Is this a clue?

• Hurley tells Jack in the future that they are already dead. HMMMM.

• Miles can see dead people. Or, at least, he can see the past. Is Miles a time-shifter like Desmond?

• When Juliette told Kate about Jack kissing her, I almost punched the TV. But then I realized her intentions were good. This proves my theory: Juliette's a blabber mouth, don't tell her anything (or kiss her).

• I feel the most sorry for Hurley. He needs something good to happen to him.

• Sawyer is standing up for everyone!

• We might now have a clue how Sun gets off the island (Jin's threat to Charlotte).

• Russo and Carl are really, really, really dead. In-the-ground dead.

• Next week's promo finally shows us Jacob. Sigh. Why show him in the promo? He DOES look like Eric Stoltz in "Mask." REMEMBER: Jacob is dead. What we see is really just smoke monster pretending to look like Jacob. That's what I think.

• Change your batteries in your smoke detectors! It's saves lives, sanity and a fortune in prescription medication costs.

BuddyTV.com's Lost Easter Eggs from "The Constant" are enough to hurt your brain.

They wonderfully point out the cool things in episode 4.5 such as the references to "Slaughterhouse Five," the importance of The Black Rock, the new Hanso family member (from the auction scene), mentions of Charles Dickens, the overuse of "the numbers" and a theory of who might have opened the door on the ship. Was it THAT guy over there ---->?

Read the Lost Easter Eggs here

I'm a bit late on my blog entry for episode 4.4 "Eggtown", I've already forgotten some of the items I wanted to talk about.

In this episode, we find out that Kate is probably not pregnant with Sawyer's baby...instead she ends up adopting Aaron (the magical island-born baby) somehow. The immediate thought after the final scene is, "What happens to Claire?". The writers might want us to think that Claire is dead, but I have a feeling that she doesn't die. In the flash forward scenes, I'm guessing she is one of the survivors that are still on the island (I know, it's a stretch).

After seeing Episode 4.3 we know that Sayid is the Oceanic 6's 4th member. We also know that Ben, the mastermind that he is, probably gets off the island more than we've known. Can we also assume that the people on the ship fail at their mission? I think that was a detail that a lot of viewers might have missed...

Is this the book that a mentioned a few weeks ago (READ HERE)???

Are those the eggs the episode is named for?

OK, with just a couple of weeks to go, let's get all caught up with the show.

Last thing we saw was Charlie's death, the weird funeral and the revelation of the shocking flash-forward with Jack and Kate.

Where will season #4 start? In the flash-forward moment or back on the island.

My feeling is that we won't see the flash-forward for a while; but I think it be cool for the show to cut between dual story-lines occurring with the same characters... one in the future and one on the island.

And what's with the weird city reflection below the LOST logo in the teaser spots?

Is anyone watching the mobisodes?

UPDATE:
• Juliette in the coffin??
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• A message on the official boards says that Season 4 will take place in 2006 and encompass one month.

• Was Penny wearing the same thing she wore in last year's season finale when she got the phone call from the arctic stations? Could last year's finale been a FLASH-FORWARD too?

• What was "the temple" that Ben mentioned?

• Could the person in the coffin be a new character?

• Screen-caps seem to point that the person in the coffin's name starts with a "J" and ends with a "ntham". Could it be Jeremy Bentham, named after the father of utilitarianism? The same way John Locke is named after a philosopher?

• Or is Jacob in the coffin?

• Where's that FOUR-TOED FOOT STATUE!?!

I'm thinking the funeral was Locke (see evidence in comments from David) and Kate ends up with Sawyer.

What are your theories?