Great ideas everyone. Random thoughts that came to me:Ben was using a cane this episode. Is his health deteriorating because he shot Locke. Hadn’t he gotten better when Locke was around?
No one has mentioned Juliet. She’s still shifty, but she has chosen her side, and it’s with the Losties. She has betrayed the Others too many times now. She can’t play the Others off the Losties and vice versa any more.
I loved seeing Walt again and think it may have been the form Jacob took to save him. Hopefully this means we’ll find out what happened to Michael and Walt next season.
Mikhail is turning into an intriguing character too. We’ve seen him lose two of his “9 Lives.” It seems as if his character will be around for the long haul and could have an impact on the good versus bad island in the future.
I think that Ben is correct about Nadia being bad – Locke seems to confirm that, and Penny has no knowledge of Nadia’s boat - but he's lied so many times, no one will believe him. The flash forward was great and I didn’t catch on to it until Kate showed up (although I did wonder why Jack was using a very modern RZR cellphone). In this version of the future, Jack and Kate made it off the island. Did anyone else? I think not. Kate moved on but Jack is overcome with guilt with leaving people behind and has turned into his father. But I thought it was Sawyer in the casket. That’s the only person (that we’ve met so far) that Jack would offer his condolences to Kate over. However, I think the flash forward is something that may happen, but it is not definite. There are so many stories left on the island, that we may see flash forwards that change as things occur on the island (like with Desmond's reliving the bar fight). Although I think we’ll see Claire and Aaron in a helicopter during the finale of season 6! I also like that the island is becoming a character in and of itself instead of just a mysterious, dangerous place.