I found tonight's Lost episode, "Two for the Road" pretty boring and nonsensical... until the last three minutes! Spoilers below the fold.
Update:
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First, I'm thrilled that Ana-Lucia is dead. Woohoo! Second, I was completely shocked when Michael killed her to free White Henry Gale. I can only assume that the Others agreed to release Walt if Michael would free White Henry Gale and infiltrate the castaways. Obviously all the information Michael gave Jack, Kate, and Locke about the Others was false, and Kate should be able to put the pieces together because she saw the fake beard and knows that the Others aren't really dirty and weak like Michael described.
I'm pretty sure that White Henry Gale is the leader of the Others. When WHG was talking about "Him" he first said how brilliant the Others' leader is and only then mentioned that He is unforgiving and will probably have WHG killed. Plus, it's obvious that WHG is psychic and is using his powers to subtly manipulate his captors, particularly Locke and Ana-Lucia.
My prediction for the end of the season is that the castaways follow Michael and confront the Others, who will turn out to be waiting for them. The situation goes against the castaways until Walt shows up and decides he's still on their side, despite having been mostly assimilated into the Others. Walt's psychic powers turn the tide of the battle and give the castaways the upper hand.
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At one point while you fast-forwarded through the commercials, I thought I caught something that said "Hanso" on it. But I figured I was mistaken, I had "Lost" on my mind and could find names and shapes from the show where they did not exist. But it turns out there WAS a commercial for the Hanso Foundation, right in the middle of the regular commercials, with a number you could call. I heard about it on the radio this morning - they called the number and played back what the message said - a password for the site - but just as they were going to talk about what one could do with the password ("There are four places you could enter this..."), I had to go to a meeting. (And then the meeting was cancelled. Grrr). So the information to be had by following the trail of the commercial is unknown to me. Of course, like the map on the blast door, it's probably nothing solid, just more seed for further uncertain speculation, but who knows. I'm gonna have to go look this up online.
Here's something about the commercial:
http://www.tvsquad.com/2006/05/03/hanso-foundations-877-hansorg-whats-it-say/
http://tinyurl.com/n36mk
On the same site, someone guesses that the woman Jack's dad went to talk to may be Claire's mother. An interesting theory.
You can see the ad - and lots more stuff - at
www.thehansofoundation.org
Apparently they even have a "Mathematical Forecasting Initiative" under their "Active Projects". Which confirms my theory that Henry Gale is the Mule.
Bernardo: Thanks for all that info. I really like the WHG-as-Mule theory.