man...

i may not have the time to recap, but i can still ask some questions here... probably to myself at this point, but...

is locke maybe some kind of C3PO to the others ewoks?
not sure what happened with the whole cooper thing, and i guess we won't know for a few weeks yet - but the others just all taking off like that, i wonder if it's related to locke's comment about the chicken in the fridge... the island healed him and later spoke to him (or at least made him look it in the eye), and he seemed to be implying to ben that it was his lack of respect for the island that had let his tumour spread.

the others then left 'downtown', leaving those that weren't good (am i forgetting someone that jack has killed, or have we just not gotten to that flashback yet?) to be judged by the smoke monster.
are they just going deeper into the jungle to live peacefully off of the island? to show locke the 'box'? are they headed to exterminate the losties camp? but then they would be bad... how did these 'hostiles' wipe out the dharmas that were there without getting blood on their hands? or did the island tell them it was okay?
was mikhail faking it with a hidden ketchup packet?

was juliet in on the gassing or was that the one thing she wasn't lying to kate about? i don't think she was left behind as some kind of mole, that would be too obvious. but she obviously awoke before anyone else and had time to drag kate into the jungle with her to try and gain her trust. nice try. was jack involved somehow? is this his and juliets plan? or were the two gas canisters next to jack supposed to explain why he was still out a day later? or did kate and juliet just doze off and not fall asleep for a whole night? why did the monster not judge her when it flashed at her - she killed danny in cold blood. does that maybe have something to do with the injections? does it keep the monster at bay? i loved how when kate saw it coming she just fucking took off at first!

i was hoping des was gonna ask sawyer if he had "the beast in his sights" when they were on the grassy knoll there... and do all grifters fall back on the door to door bible thing, or just bones' dad and cassidy?

great stuff.

so glad there aren't any repeats 'til the end...