Yeah, exactly, the little things stick out the longest. Like the whole thing about Libby taking up different identities and being a patient in the same mental ward as Hurley, that was such a twist.... and they never went anywhere with it or spoke of it ever again.

And of course, Walt, are they ever gonna explain any of that?

The Libby thing has always bugged me because it didn't seem like a little thing at the time--they really put a lot of emphasis on it and then it just kind of fizzled out. I feel like they really should tie that one up, but I dunno... I can't imagine how they'd work that in.

think back to Jack and his "new" scar from having his appendix removed as a kid. it seems that the bomb changed things that occurred even before the bomb went off. i'm not sure how changing the past can change the past that happened before the past that you changed, but i'm sure we'll get an explanation :D

That sucked.

seriously they're making it up as they go along.

THE WRITERS DIDN'T EVEN KNOW THE ANSWERS TO THE QUESTIONS THEY MADE IN THE FIRST FEW SEASONS

no wonder it's so ****ed up.

Why do you say that? They know the ending of the show and the general arc, so everything else in the middle that isn't as important essentially can be made up "as they go along".

That's what we call...... writing.

Last week, they SAID in the preview for this weeks episode, they SAID "Questions will be answered". They only gave us 2-second clips because, for some reason, to show us any more would ruin this week's episode. TOTALLY untrue. They played us. Total bull****.

Yeah, if you think questions haven't been answered you just plain haven't been paying attention.

So far this season we have learned

-That fake Locke is also the smoke monster.
-That he used to be capable of shapeshifting into whatever he wanted and that he has manipulated people in the past by taking the forms of deceased friends.
-That Christian (Jack's father) is most likely associated with him as well.
-That Jacob was truly the protector of the island.
-That the purpose of the list was to choose a new protector for the island, and that is a HUGE reveal because it now explains perfectly why everyone is on the island.
-And not only that but now we know that certain people have been assigned one of the infamous numbers, giving yet another clue to their significance.
-We have finally seen Jacob's list and you can easily look up all the people that are confirmed to be on it on Lostpedia.
-That Jacob's mirror device is how the others managed to learn so much about the plane crash survivors.
-And by obtaining this knowledge Jacob somehow influenced their being on the island.
-The sickness that was mentioned way back in the first season (by the french woman) has been revealed as something that turns people towards evil.
-Locke's remark to Richard about how it's "good to finally see him out of those chains" possibly confirms a very very old fan theory that the others are descendents of slaves from the black rock.
-That the temple at least used to have mystical healing properties and may be connected to how Richard and Jacob never age.
-That the incident really was caused by Juliet.
-That it successfully created an alternate future.
-And most likely the reason everyone is still alive in the main timeline is that somehow the incident sent them back to the present.

In short, you're a complete moron.

Well said. Last night's episodes was one of my favorite of the entire series. It was very, very dark.