“Because no one else will have me.”

Is probably my favourite moment in the series to date.

Michael Emerson needs an Emmy this year.

As for Jin and Sun, they will get their own episode soon I’m sure. We’ll find out what was going on with Jin in that freezer contrasted with Sun and Jin finally meeting up on the island. I bet we’ll have to sit through a Hurley episode first, though.

Wouldn’t matter if Sun was dead anyway in the alt-universe. They’re all gonna have to sacrifice the possibility of living in that reality in order to prevent whatever bad stuff is gonna go on on the island. Is my prediction.

The best Arzt irony is when he says he smells like formaldehyde. Because on the island he’s dead. Get it?

@jimp: as for Jin and Sun in the alt-universe… is it possible that Jin’s search for Sun will last most of the season in order to correspond with what’s going on between them on the island? Or, worse: is Sun dead? Think about it: up until “Sundown,” the episodes ran parallel to Season One, both in terms of characters being explored and plotting. So “Sundown” shouldn’t have been a Sayid ep — it should have corresponded with Sun/Jin. But Sun was nowhere to be seen… is it even possible that the title of the episode is a play on the two of them, and that it describes the fact that in the sideways universe, Sun has actually been killed (“Sun = down”)?

I think the “alternate look” in the second timeline is that Sayid doesn’t have to discover that he’s a bad person trying to be good. He just knows he’s a bad person.

Was there irony in how alternaWhat’shisname (the science teacher) was complaining about stains on his shirt, while in the original timeline, he WAS a stain on peoples’ shirts? And further, from out-dated equipment vs. outdated explosives. I chuckled to myself during that little bit.

Call me crazy, but I actually thought the, “You can have mine,” part between the two teachers was kind of important, too. Whether it was to just shut the guy up or out of a feeling of guilt for not delivering what was promised, alternaBen still did something out-of-sync with original Ben by giving up that space. Original Ben would have told him to zip it or given him a, “Sucks to be you, du’n’ it?” look/shrug and gone on his way if a plan of any kind didn’t work out and someone was giving him a hard time for it. Then again, Original Ben would also have figured out a way to *make* it work, like having the principal write the letter and then going after him later- and, actually, *that* was what I was sort of anticipating for a little bit, some sort of twist at the end to show how Ben actually did go after the principal. The fact that it didn’t happen, does, indeed, make it more satisfying, or at least satisfying in a different way. I guess, for me, the “same old Ben” doesn’t get old because it’s not depressing to watch like Sayid’s- his shows a badass that can talk his way out of or into anything, a master manipulator at work, basically the exact OPPOSITE of Sayid in a lot of ways. Sayid is totally powerless in so many ways that watching his episodes is like rubbernecking or watching a train wreck- it hurts, but is unavoidable. So I think I still would have felt “satisfied” if alternaBen had pulled it off, since it wouldn’t have hurt my soul as much as seeing Sayid do the same things he always does.