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Emy, I think the writers have thought of a way out for Walt's age issues. Alex, Rousseau's daughter, looks older than 16 so they could say a side effect of the "sickness" or of the vaccine they take is to age faster. It would enable Walt to continue without loss of credibility.

Jimbo, nice observation about the tube and the geography of the island. That tube had to be very long! On the snow globe possibility, I thought the white light special effect was to suggest the opening of a "portal" to another dimension. The arctic station could be monitoring the pulses emitted when both worlds come in contact. The island could still be a "snow globe" or a world of its own.

Das mole; you have more questions than can be answered but with regards to the list of names: Jack, Sawyer, Kate and Hurley have all spend a lot of time in the hatch and have all expressed their disdain at pushing the button. Could it be they were taken away to stop influencing the rest? Hurley, I first thought was just tagging along to report back on what happened. Could it be that the Others have realized the button isn't an issue anymore, now that someone has activated the failsafe? Hurley was one of the "good ones" so they don't need to keep him captive. They first want to get rid of the bad ones.