Great Lost last night – a few fast thoughts:

• Locke wouldn’t have recognized Hurley from Flight 815?  Sure, you don’t immediately memorize the face of everyone on every plane ride you ever take, so the fact that he doesn’t recognize Rose doesn’t bother me.  But the big huge dude with the crazy muttonchops might make more of an impression,  no?
• In any reality, Ben is creepy and annoying.
• In sideways world, Helen doesn’t die of an aneurysm, and he still has a relationship with his father?  After he pushed him out of a freaking window?  Perhaps Alterna-Locke was paralyzed in a different way?
• So Fake Locke can’t look like anyone else now?  But didn’t he appear as Alex to Ben?  Maybe he can’t change human forms after killing Jacob.
• Who was that little boy haunting Fake Locke? Young Man in Black?   Young Jacob?  (Probably not, since he said that you can’t kill ‘him’ – unless he was referring to Sawyer or someone else.)  Grown up Aaron?  Some cosmic referee?  Why couldn’t Richard see him, but Sawyer could?
• Sawyer’s been getting plenty of screen time so far, figuring prominently in Kate’s episode and Locke’s.   Just mentioning it.  And for a con man, shouldn’t he be more aware of Fake Locke’s motives?  He did know right off the bat that the man acting like Locke wasn’t really Locke.  Maybe he is suspicious of Flocke’s motives, and he’s just seeing how it all plays out.
• Whose names are on the cave wall and ceiling?  Everyone who’s ever been to the Island?  Or just the “candidates?”  I’ve read that members of the Others, Dharma, the Freighter Folks, and others were on there, but I didn’t see them.  Is there any confirmed list somewhere made by some meticulous fan?
• And how does one get crossed off the list?  Littleton was crossed out, but we saw that Claire is alive.  What, you have to be sane, too?
• Why wasn’t Kate’s name on the wall? Why wasn’t she assigned a number? Jacob touched her when she was a child.

As an aside, those little cutaways of Jacob touching our characters annoyed me.  We get it.  We remember.  Showing those little reminder shots are put in for the benefit of someone who hasn’t watched all of the show before, and it’s frustrating.  Those people deserve to be confused, and I would think they would be no matter what, what with parallel universes and such.  So if they’re not helping the newbies and they’re annoying the hardcore, what point do they serve?  All right, enough of my griping for now…

So now we know a little bit more about the numbers, but we still don’t  know why they were inscribed on the side of the hatch, or why they were the numbers that had to be entered into the computer, or what other significance they may hold.  I like that we got some more indication of what they mean, and hopefully we’ll learn more about them as well.

I am hereby officially forming something of a half-baked theory:  Mirrors are important in some way to the sideways people in 2004.  They are in a “mirror” universe, right?  On the flight, Jack looks into a mirror and spots the mysterious nick on his neck.  Kate looks into the mirror at the chop shop and then goes back to get Claire.  And wasn’t Locke looking in the mirror as he reflected on calling Jack?  I think so, but I’m not positive.  Anyway, it seems like as these guys look into mirrors, they are getting some revelations from their “mirror” selves.  I think that’s important in some way, though in all honesty I’m not sure how yet.  It’s a work in progress, OK?