Yeah! Remember how creepy that was too? I know it's been explained that they used costumes but it does not really explain that they would use the kids and Cindy that way.

Something tells me that this will not be addressed at all. I will be very impressed if it is. Maybe the brain washing of Cindy might(if she was) cause I always believed that was connected to Karl in that room with all those images.

I've wondered about that too. The first 'Others' we experienced were super quiet, walked barefeet, and seemed to have cavemen stealth and stance. Stereotyping them, they looked rather Indonesian. Like HD said, they look nothing like the 'others' we know today. Maybe they're a group we haven't been quite introduced to yet? Could they be from a prehistoric time?

I think Cindy meant they were there to watch Juliet's trial for killing Danny, when she got her mark.

Arrrgghhhhh. I just read this thread and now my head is exploding. Again.

Just tossing this out there--I wonder if Thomas, Claire's boyfriend and Aaron's dad, has a greater significance? It seems that if Aaron is special, then Thomas has to play some role in that specialness, no?

Not necessarily. Christian Shephard is Claire's father, thus presuming she is the special one.

-A Tribetastic Creation

This is a minor question in the overall scheme, but why did the Oceanic 6 chose to say that Boone, Charlie and Libby survived the crash, but then died? Why them? This has no connection, but Charlie, Libby and Boone have all come back as visions after they died.

For Charlie, it had to be in case his broadcast from the under-water station had been intercepted by someone. Similarly, didn't Boone try to broadcast from the drug smugglers' plane? Libby? I can't remember much about her.

Maybe acknowledgement of Libby's life was a concession to Hurley from the rest of the O6.

Well, the survivors knew for a fact that those three were dead, as opposed to Locke or Sawyer whose appearance would have ruined their story. Plus they forgot about Nikki and Paolo and they probably liked Libby, Charlie, and Boone more than Ana-Lucia or Shannon. That's my guess.

If the orginal "Others" gassed the Dharma Initiative members decades ago, why was the Dharma Initiative still air dropping supplies to the island. Did they not know their employees were dead all that time?

Remember the dead doctor? He was still alive on the boat when Faraday called the boat but he had washed up on shore earlier that day. Time and space are not the same on the island. Also, the island is not detectable to the outside world (unless you follow a known bearing). So I am guessing that the supply drops are out of sync with the rest of the timeline. They occurred earlier in time off island and appeard later in time on island.

I still want to know when we first in the first episode I believe when we saw the trees moving Rose said that sound is familiar, what was familiar about it?

I think I read that one of the sound effects for the smoke monster is a taxi cab meter, Rose is from New York and thus would recognize that sound.

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I am rewatching season 1 and in Episode 2: "Walkabout" at about 9 1/2 minutes in there is a scene with Locke in his office. Locke is punching numbers into a calculator ... it's one of those printing calculators ... the sound effect that it made sounds VERY much like the smoke monster. The sound effect also lingered just a bit after the screen went to black before the commercial break ...

http://fep.abc.go.com/fep/player?src=abccomjs&show=93372