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It looked like a shipping carton for Dharma Initiative ranch dressing.

Loose dirt allowed air to filter in and and John's son put him in a box that had a pocket of air. Kevin's respiration and metabolism were slowed by the weak poison. But if you insist I suppose you could go with the Rankin and Bass explanation, "there must have been some magic in that old silk hat they found. Cause when they put it on his head, he began to dance around."

It was a Geronimo PD uniform and the name tag was Jackson. There was also an Apollo candy bar hanging out of the jacket pocket.Just joking. I scrutinized every little detail in Lost looking for clues, and while it was fun, I ended up being a chump for doing so. I'll not be led on another snipe hunt. As for me, I'll let the mystery be.

That is the only way the show is working for me. The characters on the show are dealing with an unseen, unknowable force and we are just watching them cope with it. You said a lot of things in here, but I agree with most of your analysis. I'm having fun with the show, but last night they got a little too specific with the unseen force. I'm writing it off as weak poison and a hallucination.

Purgatory comes to mind, it's in my favorite song too.[NASAL TWANG] But I've heard that I'm on the road to Purgatory And I don't like the sound of that [/NASAL TWANG]

You mean when our bodies decompose and breakdown on a molecular level? Sure, and then our atoms are eventually absorbed into the soil to form new molecules and end up as nutrients for carrots and snow peas. Solent Green is people, and so are all those locally-grown high priced hippie-friendly veggies. Seriously, I didn't catch an omitted verse from the Iris Dement version and the David Byrene-Natalie Merchant version. I agree with you, that the viewers are not being mocked. The only message I get is don't try to figure out all that God crap and the mystery of the plot. Just enjoy life and this show on a simpler level.

Part of me wants to agree with you, but "The Island" won't let me do that. Sorry Rev, but your questions are not valid. You need to "let the plot be" and just enjoy the excellent characters, tense scenes, great acting, and subtle cultural references.

Oh, I am really hating this season's theme song, despite its very wise advice to "let the mystery be." The nasal twangy singing makes me angry for an unknown reason. Scratch that, I know why it pisses me off. It is an annoying sound and I don't like wise folksy spiritual hippies. Of all the people Kevin killed last night, I wish one of them had been that theme song. At least we were ridden of Patti's imitation Texas twang.

The reason that I think this was a waste of an episode is that it didn't advance the plot forward. We knew Kevin and Patti would do battle. We knew that Kevin would probably win. About the only thing we learned was that Kevin will be saddled with another burden from killing Patti. He will be different, probably he'll have afterworldly insight, or streaks of gray hair. Like a poster upthread mentioned, it was a bye week for the plot. There were enjoyable moments in the episode, but I think they could have done Kevin vs Patti in 30 minutes. Anyway, I'm sticking with the show for the rest of the season. I knew the show was going to be "Losty" going into it last season, so I can't rag on it too much. I'm just disappointed in how Lost it got last night. That was too much Lost and too long of a battle.

Meh, kind of a waste of an episode, it was so very very Losty. I guess the island chose Kevin. Oh, I'm sure the ladies enjoyed seeing Kevin come out of the bathtub.

I don't really miss AM radio, because it sucked, but it is a fond memory of being a kid in the 1970s. I had a decent sounding Panasonic portable radio and a big old Schwin touring bike with baskets over the back tire for delivering newspapers. I'd wrap the Panasonic radio in a towel to keep it from bouncing around in the basket and listen to music as I rode. It was about the size of a lunch box, maybe a bit smaller. I also had a Philco radio in my room that was from the 1950s that had vacuum tubes. It sounded great, and I loved listening to it at night when the AM signals bounced and you could pick up stations hundreds of miles away. I can remember being home sick with the flu during the late fall of 1977 and listening to Carly Simon sing the theme song to "The spy who loved me" on it. It was poring rain and I was looking out the window listening to that song and wondering about the future, dreaming about being an adult. I was so sad when it stopped working, but I eventually discovered the FM band and there was a decent college station in the next town. Fond memories, but there is no way I'd want to go back to the 1970s. I'm jealous of kids today, and would eagerly ask to be a kid in 2015, should I ever find a genie trapped in a bottle. Hopefully, the genie would look like Barbra Eden and not that blue one from the Disney movie.

I don't need to see Besty die, and I agree it would probably play better if they leave us with her being sick, but still alive.

You're right, it was probably a relic of the 60s. Shag carpet would be very comfortable in a Venn diagram with hippies, lava lamps, beads, and twangy sitars.

You didn't really miss anything important to understand what is going on this season.The older Lou in season one only referenced a really bad crime scene he worked in Sioux Falls. Season two is the story of it.

That is the way I'm remembering shag carpet, low rent and ridiculous. I don't know if it every enjoyed popularity outside of a very small segment of the population that thought it was trendy.

My earliest memories of shag carpet are ones of my parents criticizing it. We never had it and I was under the impression that it was one of those things that was a flop with consumers from the outset. Like Ford's Edsel it was well known for being unpopular.

Maybe Lorne Malvo is the Undertaker's apprentice in 1979?

I can see why we don't get much of Keith on the show. His fragmented talking style is an editor's nightmare. https://youtu.be/22Cnsas5iHM That said, I like Kieth, he reminds me of the Lorax.

The clip of him crying again in the upcoming episode should be cringe worthy TV. I agree that his talk of voting-blocks and and the evolution of the game is mostly an exaggerated talking point. It reminds me of something an English Major would say in a classroom. He has spent too much time talking about Survivor on podcasts, and it has hurt his game. It hasn't helped it.

Damn! Now I want to know what kind of beer it was. I didn't recognize it. I just looked at a bunch of photos of 1970s beer cans, but didn't see anything I thought was it. It was a gold and red can, right?

I'm sure you are right in that the pull tabs were probably still around to some extent in 1979, especially on regionally marketed beer cans.Over all, I'm pretty confident that they started disappearing from nationally marketed brands in the middle of the decade. Not that I was criticizing the show for getting something wrong with the feel of 1979, I was primarily responding to Lonesome Rhodes's comment about pull tabs not being banned. I think the creators have some artistic license when it comes to recreating the year 1979. I don't have a problem with them melding elements of the the entire decade into one year. It is fun and just a TV show. Those leisure suits and pimp coats that the Kitchen Brothers wear, and some of Simone's clothes were really something you would have seen earlier in the decade. At least on the East Coast that stuff was out of style in 1979.

@Lonesome Rhodes The old pull tab aluminum cans were in widespread use during the early part of the 1970s, but largely gone by the end of the decade. I was just a kid back then, but I made my pocket money collecting cans and returnable bottles, so it was something I was aware of. I'm pretty sure that the transition to the current style started around 1974 or 1975. As I remember, it wasn't the result of legislation, but more of an industry response to criticism about litter and aluminum recycling issues. There might have been a few off brand beer producers that were still using the old pull tabs in 1979.

Dodd is a total ass, but I like how they have given the character some traits that make me smile sometimes.His reaction to the old fashion that Charlie ordered, and the little whistle he uses are good examples of what I'm talking about. Another was his reaction of pride that Bear chose the buckle over the strap. Oh, and we finally got to see Bear act scary last night! I knew he would be good at it.

That is one of my favorite movies. Great dialog, excellent soundtrack and some fantastic acting. John Goodman was good in that as where many others. Nathan Arizona cracked me up every second he was on screen.

The scene in the basement where Peggy takes out Dodd and his henchmen reminded me of Home Alone. She leads them into her fun house and takes them out with unorthodox tactics and their own bungling. It might be far fetched in reality, but they sold it to me in the context of the show. Great scene! I can't wait to find out if Hank went down there or not before going to meet Lou. Oh, the "shocker stick" that someone asked about upthread is a cattle prod. One has to assume that Dodd modified to deliver a more intense shock, but I doubt it is intended to be lethal. In an earlier episode, Dodd was using it to incapacitate the KC henchmen in the donut shop.