S6E3 RECAP

L: Lo - - the most interesting or amazing event in the Episode was Dogen telling Jack that Sayid had been "claimed." As speculated last week, the Temple's reaction to the news of Jacob's death was like the palace defending against a coup. And in North American Native Indian culture, a coup meant to touch an enemy as a sign of bravery or to claim an enemies possessions in battle. It also dovetails into the notion of Osiris reincarnation through Jacob touching several of the 815ers.

O: Obnoxious - - the most obnoxious part of the Episode was, for the second week in a row, Kate bouncing off Jack and Sawyer. I am tired of the Kate mini-soap opera story line of who is going to take her to the jungle prom.

S: Story line - - I am now still confident that my theory that the story line involves the afterlife through a variation of Egyptian mythology will still play out. Dogen cryptically alluded to the fact that everyone was "brought" to the Island . . . i.e. through death on Earth.

T: Time line - - I really do not care for the new-alt-parallel 815 LAX time line. If it is "a what if" flash forwardish character realization that the 815ers' lives were not so great off-island, well we already knew that. If it is "a contemporaneous" new multi-universe to show that Juliet was right, "it worked," it has little to do with the resolution of five seasons of Island whomping events.