I guess the blank that appears in the sentence “of the developing African nation of ..”, refers to Zanzibar (since this was highlighted in one of the letters that show up in one of the easter eggs). Perhaps the capital (since that’s also a blank in one of the following sentences) of Zanzibar is a password that we need for the login… Since on the old site, Copenhagen appeared to be the password that revealed a secret letter…

I agree that the good/bad thing very well could be a fanatic guideline made up by a person who controls The Others in much the same way other fanatical groups are convinced to follow a number of chosen guidelines.

I have just seen the latest episode, I am staggered ! Those twists were absolutely amazing, I can’t explain why Ana was so suddenly killed (they really ought to explain it). What I mean is, out of blue, she becomes really naughty on a simple day : a “one-afternoon” stand with piggy Sawyer and a murderous drive…not that I consider the both are the same, but they really made an effort for us to appreciate her on previous episodes, and show her as a nice girl.
This was too fast I think, it makes me sad to lose her so suddenly.

As for Mickael, firstly, I thought he committed suicide by aiming for his heart, and the theory would have been his sacrifice for his son’s life. But I read all the posts, and you all agree to think he shot his arm.
I hardly believe the theory about his next active complicity with the others : what for ? Being a mole ? He’s done now !! How will he explain that Henry undid his tie, stole a gun, being locked, and then killed Ana peacefully seated on the couch ???? NO WAY MICKAEL WILL REMAIN A MOLE !
Either he’s gonna be an hostage for Henry to get away, either he’s gonna kill himself with the gun, but I am sad that we won’t see him anymore like the cool guy he used to be in season one …. this is awful !!!!!!

About the good and the bad ones, I widely share Cecilia’s point of view.
In my opinion, the show clearly changes. Before this was the story of survivors surrounded by weird creatures and stuff like that.
Now I think this is more a show like 24.
I see Henry like some crazy terrorist guy, I mean a crazy fanatic guy, from a religion or a sect.

Try to talk to a extremist Muslim, he will tell you that we, Western people, are bad : he sees the world as though there were two sides, his and other’s. I mean Locke is considered as a good guy because, unlike Jack, he’s open-minded with mysteries, faith, irrationality, and also because unlike Sawyer for instance he never hurt anyone.
Of couse for us this separation is stupid ! Locke is as good as Jack, or even Sawyer who is so funny. But still, the terrorists are crazy but their sense of reality give us doubts.

That’s how I interpret the apology of Jack with Locke about the Henry torture with Sayid. I mean the whole show is now about “HOW DO WE REACT TO FACE TERRORISTS ?”.
They are nuts, irrational and violent, how do we have to be ?
They have some values, do we have to reject them all ?
We don’t understand why they hate us, we are looking for some reasons, but there are not.
We may have hurt them first, does it a reason why we should let us hit by them ?

Does anybody feel the show this way now or am I wrong ?

I agree that in reality, no person is either good or bad, but what if the memebers of the Dharma Initiative for some reason need to determine which people are good or bad in a moral sense. Of course it would be simplifying life, but if say, only a limited number of persons could get on board a spaceship to be saved from the apocalypse, then there would need to be some form of rules for selecting participants. Some would be labeled “suitable” or “good” and others would be “unsuitable” or “bad”.

I’m not saying that there’s a spaceship involved, and I’m not sure if I belive that the Dharma Initiative are trying to save certain people from the end of the world, I’m just using examples to explain my point of view on the good/bad thing.

As for this article on the “good” people, I’ve always been a little hesitant to theorize about what good meant in this context… I’ll be the first to say I really have no idea and only guesses. I would just say that I *hope* it isn’t just morally good vs. bad, which would be oversimplifying life… and this show has always been great about showing us the complexity of human beings and their motivations–that only in bad Hollywood movies, are people purely one or the other. “Good” could mean suitable for experimentation, for example.

I agree that “Him” is probably refering to Hanso himself… always seemed the most viable choice to me. One interesting thing about Hanso is that though he is such a supposed humanitarian, the only photo of him offered up to us to date is that blurry one that is now on thehansofoundation.org (it’s also the one that was shown in the Orientation film found in Swan Station).

For weeks, I kept waiting for this issue to come up again and it did not. I think this is the reason the Others wanted Walt – for his special supernatural powers that he might possess. I wonder if this “supernaturalness” has anything to do with the Others? Just a thought.