But Does It Have 4 Butts?

Well this episode was kind of a filler episode. Not always the most exciting but certainly necessary for plot development. Damn Dancing With the Stars to hell for having a 2 hour premier next week and taking Lost away from us. I thought the whole reason they started in January was so that they could run uninterrupted. Blast!

- Sawyer and Co were blasted waaaay back with the Locke/Well timeshift. So far that our pal the Four Toed Statue was visible over the treeline. Too bad we could only see its ass, I bet if we had seen its face it'd be none other than Richard Alpert.
- Sawyer really progressed in the 3 years with Dharma from the self loathing con man to respectable member of Dharma. Head of Security even. Perhaps he was on the fast track due to some collusion between him and Richard? I'm sure that the conversion they had on the bench was just the first of many.
- Speaking of Richard, apparently the sonic fence does nothing to him or the other Hostiles. So it is only effective against non-Hostiles and the Smoke Monster. What drives this sonic immunity amongst them?
- So the whole Paul/Amy/Horace love triangle was only there to give Sawyer a chance to say 3 years is more than enough time to forget somebody. Here he is now, 3 years post Kate, in love with Juliet and can't even remember Kate's face. I find that believable. What I don't find believable, and what will probably happen, is that Sawyer is going to immediately forget Juliet and want Kate back. Kate, a girl he's really only known for like 100 days or so (however long they had been on the Island), versus Juliet who he's now known for 3 years. Boo!
- Did anyone else notice that Jin was looking at Daniel weird every time the two of them were together? What was up with that? Was it just cause Daniel seems to have lost it or is there something else?
- RE: Daniel - so he's kinda taken Charlotte's death hard. Now he's trying to convince himself not to tell her never to come back to the Island but deep down he knows he's going to tell her because what happened can't be changed. Also - in the 3 years the rest of the crew integrated into Dharma what did Daniel do? We know he makes it to the Orchid Station construction at some point but he didn't seem to be part of Sawyer's security team with Jin and Miles.
- I want to know more about The Truce between Dharma and the Hostiles! Apparently Dharma can't kill any Hostiles. But then again the Hostiles had already killed Paul so are they exempt or would Horace have been able to yell at Richard for breaking the Truce. And dead bodies, there's something important about them. Richard wanted to get his people's bodies and took Paul's body as payment. And Amy called Paul's body "it" before calling him Paul. We know that not all dead bodies stay dead on the Island (see Locke, John and Sheppard, Christian).
- I wonder if Sawyer and Company invent the whole "quarantine" thing knowing that Ben is going to eventually gas all of Dharma in efforts to save some Dharma people?
- So Jack and the rest of the Oceanic 6 get 3 years in the present off Island while Sawyer and Co get 3 years in the past (1971 - 1974, good times!).
- What the hell happened to Bernard and Rose?! They've definitely got to be the skeletons in the cave from season 1. They got tired of that time skipping shit and ended up dying in a cave.
- Who does Horace and Amy's son end up being I wonder. Born in 1974 means he'll be 30 about when the Losties first crash on the Island.