"don't mistake coincidence for fate" I CAN FINALLY SAY IT

"what if the horse is an other" - @quiet

[previously on lost opens with Charlie and the heroin]

@Paradox: "oh no"

jeeeeeesus christ this flashback is rough

waste of ranch composite tbh

sawyer's face any time someone shows him kindness

are you gonna beat me with your Jesus stick?

"what if stop responding to it was the solution to all of the island's problems?" - @Paradox

"are you OK father?" I'm going to sob

we went back and freeze framed on the smoke monster because quiet and halley didn't even see that there were images!

halley thinks that the smoke monster spares good people (locke, hurley, eko)

sometimes hetero love triangles work

interesting to put an episode about Jack Shepherd performing an actual miracle immediately after the Mr Eko episode

[right at the end of the first flashback] "so this guy dies." - @Paradox

we all burst out laughing at "you better hope sawyer comes to get his bandaid changed" / "time to go get your bandages changed" and halley declared that the show rules

"what if an incident is getting catfished?" - @quiet

misogyny time on hellmurder island

why the fuck did locke bring up sawyer's name

Geronimo Jackson!

halley and quiet think that what Ethan was is different from what beardy & co are

"you will always need something to fix"

"I thought earlier that this was gonna be the 'jack just has the worst time' flashback" - @quiet

asks a cop "how long would it take to train an army" in 2004. and not the actual army guy.

oh my God after he said the thing @Paradox went "Jack?!"

"we're two seasons in and we're making the island into an army. we're doing combat." - @Paradox

"what if Ethan IS The Roman?" - @quiet
"we have new evidence that Ethan is a one off terminator, The Roman" - @Paradox

it's sooooo hard not to accidentally call Beardy by his name

quiet has just compared Desmond to a little guy living in the others' fridge

quiet: "what if Ethan is an incident?"
halley: "what if every time you don't push the button there's an Ethan?"
quiet: "Yeah!"

Quiet: "Sophia led us to The Roman."
Me: "Now that's an interesting theory."
Halley: "Now hear me out. What if Sophia's part of The Island."

"What if past viewers of lost are the antagonists of lost" - @Paradox

huh Charlie's dream closed with the flashback noise

Charlie sure in a spiral here. he tries so hard. he's so bad at trying but he tries so hard and the cards keep getting stacked against him but not as much as he fails

you all every butties

hurley's so funny in this episode lmao lmao lmao lmao

I forgot just how hard this episode was to watch, Jesus christ

I genuinely have no idea whether Charlie has been using either in the present or the flashbacks

oh my goooooooood i just realized what they did by putting the episode where Locke says "charlie wants to save aaron because he can't save himself" right after the episode where Sarah tells Jack "you'll always need something to fix" they have nearly the same core character flaw with different circumstances and different Has What It Takes scores I need to lay down