Episode 3-1: "A Tale of Two Cities"

• First season was about the Losties, second season started about the Tailes, and maybe this season is about the Others.
• The two citites in the title are (perhaps obviously) the Others' village and the Losties camp.
  
• The Stephen King book Juliette had picked for the book club was Carrie, which is about a girl with telekinetic powers that got stronger as she got older. This may be a reference/connection to Walt and the powers the Others took him for and tested.
• When the plane broke apart in the sky, and the Others ran out of Juliette's house, some of them started to talk about the "source", like they knew something was happening and just wondering what the cause was.
• They all instantly looked up at the sky, all around, like they were expecting a plane crash.
  
• Looks like the Smoke Monster may have been responsible for the plane crash (or is that just smoke from the plane?) http://www.thetailsection.com/ScreenCaps/lost.3x01.003.jpg
  
• Ethan was working under Juliet's house. Perhaps they were in a relationship.
  
• Clear that Juliet was a mess before the book club, and then was snippy about picking a book that Ben didn't like. Looks like there is some tension between Juliet and Ben.
  
• Seemed clear that the Others were not surprised when the earthquake happened during the book club, as they knew what to do when it happened. They did not appear surprised when they say the plane in the sky, NotHenry (Ben) clearly had a plan in place as soon as the plane blew up in the sky, like he has been waiting for something like the crash to happen.
  
• The executive producers have acknowledged that there was more than one faction of the Others. There is the belief that there are 2 different factions, not just dissension among Ben's Others.
  
• If Ben sent Goodwin to infiltrate the Tailes for a few days and "get a list", why were some of the Tailes taken their first night on the island?
• Where does Rousseau fit into this all? Does she not know about the village of Others? or does she? She did hand Ben to the Losties, knowing he was an Other. Is she part of them? Does she work with them or against them?
• I speculated (and then saw that others do as well) that the village may be the ? on the map in the hatch that Locke saw on the hatch door. http://lost.cubit.net/pics/2x17/blastDoorMapOverlay.jpg We initially thought that Locke and Eko found the ? on the map in episode 2-17 "?" but it ended up being the Pearl Hatch. The section on the map says "Designation Unknown. Purpose Unknown. Relation to D.I.H.G (Dharma Initiative Hanso Group) Unknown." Perhaps there is a "cloak" hiding the village from strangers or it is in a crater on the island that makes it difficult to find.
• When Sawyer finally figured out how to get the fish biscuit, the boy in the other cage told him the bears figured it out in 2 hours. Did that cage hold the polar bear that we saw in the first season?
  
• When Jack asked Juliet what the name of the hatch he was in was, she said "They called it Hydra.", not "it is called Hydra". which can imply that she is not part of the "them."
• Some believe that Jack is not really underwater due to the way the water rushed in (or didn't rush in like it would have if he was truly underwater). Plus, in Sawyer's cage, there was a pipe with the Hydra logo on it, which may mean them telling Jack he was underwater may be a mental game. It definitely implies that Jack and Sawyer are at the same hatch (a zoological hatch).
• The logo on the shark in the second episode of season 2 was not the Hydra logo. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v36/mmbox7/hydra.jpg
  
• The info on Jack that Juliet claimed to have gotten could be from outside world contact, like she implied, or perhaps it came from drugging Jack and getting info out of him., or maybe from Kate, who looked very guilty (and hurt with the raw wounds near the handcuffs), who may have given up the info if tortured (perhaps her and Jack talked about things like that "behind the scenes" that we didn't see), since she was put in the cage near Sawyer before Juliet talked with Jack about the information. Or perhaps the info was found and collected from the plane (he had his doctor's badge on the plane). Or perhaps it was from memories plucked from his mind by the smoke monster that the Others may control.
• The escapes in the hatch (Sawyer and the boy, Jack and Juliet), were they staged, both of them? just the one outside?
  
• Have heard that the first 6 weeks of the show will be its own separate storyline, like a miniseries almost (perhaps it will the rough 2 weeks Ben told Kate she has ahead of her or perhaps it will be resolution of the captured Losties).
  

Easter Egg:

• When Jack was following his ex-wife, there was a shot of a finished crossword puzzle. Some of the clues filled in were odd words that may be connected back to the show, like Necessary Evils, Vital Statistics, Raft, Heroes and Essential Fallacy. Here is a screen shot of it. http://gallery.lost-media.com/albums/ep-caps/season3/3x01-cities/1/twocitiescap-0091.jpg

Random LOST stuff

• Nicknames: Jater = person who wants Jack and Kate together. Skater = person who wants Sawyer and Kate together.

Spoilers

• Next episode: "Glass Ballerina" Sun and Jin-centric.

• Sayid's plan to find Kate and Jack puts Sun and Jin's lives in grave danger. Meanwhile, Kate and Sawyer are forced to work in harsh conditions by their captors. NotHenry (Ben) makes an offer to Jack that is difficult to refuse.

• This season:
  

• We'll learn how/why Locke got in the wheelchair this season
• Will learn about Jack's tattoos
• We will get back to Michael and Walt's story, but not for a while.
• 2 people close to Sun will die this season (but they are close in different ways)
• Sun has dream of the future, which features her 9 year-old daughter.
• We will not learn who the father of Sun's baby is until the season finale.
• Kiss in season promo commercial is not quite what it seems (Kate and Sawyer kiss), but there will be another kiss during the season.
• We will see Sawyer as a bona fide wuss, but for good reason.
  
• Also learn a secret that he has an entire different role in life than we, and he, ever knew.
• New character this season: Colleen, in her late 30s, tough, obvious has some military training who doesn't flinch when a gun gets put in her face, trusts few on the island and only let's herself be emotionally vulnerable in front of her significant other.
• Actor Nathan Fillion, of "Firefly" tv series and Serenity, the movie, will be making an appearance this season as Kate's ex-husband.
  
• There is more than 1 faction of Others on the island.