A few things I have noticed!

A lot of you Dharmaholics have probably watched the episodes so far as closely as I have and as many times as I have, so these things may not be a big surprise for you. But in the first 3 episodes of this season I have picked up on quite a few things that kinda make no sense, but some sense at the same time.

Firstly, if we look at the Pilot episode and LAX/What Kate Does there are a few inconsitencies. Examples?

Pilot: Cindy gives Jack 2 bottles of vodka.
LAX: Cindy gives Jack 1 bottle of vodka.

Pilot: Rose is carrying Bernards wedding ring as his fingers swell when he flies
LAX: Bernard is WEARING his wedding band.

Perhaps one of the most confusing differences for me was the Sun/Jin difference.
Pilot: Sun is Mrs Kwon
LAX Sun is Miss Paik and NOT wearing a wedding band.
I wonder if this is related to what anti-Locke said to Sawyer about not being sure if it was Sun or Jins name in the cave?

OK, now onto my favourite part, theories. I'm actually a little short on theories so far this season, but I'm sure that will change in the next few weeks.

As you all know...my love for CHARLIE has never died and never will, but I'm starting to think the FATE on the knuckles may be more than just a random event.

As we see in the 'alternate timeline' Claire is basically forced to keep Aaron as his adoptive parents no longer want him. On the island she was also forced into keeping him and later realised she did really want to keep him all along. Also, Charlie... he was going to die one way or another in both timelines. He told Jack he was SUPPOSED to die. Another example of FATE. Kate DID escape Edward in both timelines...FATE people, FATE. One way or another, all out lostaways are meeting up with one anoyther in the 'alternate timeline'. This suggests to me they were all destined to meet whether Jacob willed it or not.

Alpert is a person of HUGE interest for me this season. I'm REALLY hoping we get to see where and when he came from. Also I would LOVE to know exactly WHAT Jacob did to him. What we know so far is he is VERY old and Jacob made him the way he is. My theory is that Alpert arrived on the Black Rock. i think this because of anti-Lockes comment 'good to see you out of those chains'. I think Alpert was made the way he is by Jacob because of his prior knowledge of the Hanso's. As we all know, Magnus Hanso (captain of the Black Rock) was the great great? grandfather of Alvar Hanso (financial backer for DHARMA). So if a random prson arrives and has knowledge on those trying to exploit the island...I would want to keep them around for as long as possible.

Sayid and Claire are the thing worrying me at the moment. I have heard people mention about Sayid's current situation and asking why they would want to kill him if his death will bring trouble. My answer to that is...HE DID DIE and now he has been taken over by the darkness and now they ARE in a lot of trouble. I think they need to poison him BEFORE the darkness reaches his heart because THEN he will become some kind of immortal maybe? Claire: I've never been her biggest fan...in fact she has ALWAYS annoyed the hell out of me! nevertheless i still want to know what the hell is going on with her crazy Danielle style at the moment. Does the fact she was taken over by the darkness mean she died too? Can only dead people be infected or can the living also be infected?

Back to the anti-Locke. At the end of Subsitute, a couple of quite meaningful things occured for me. Firstly, the white and black stones on the balance. Equally balanced to begin with, then the white is removed, leaving only the dark. Secondly, the numbers and the names of the 815 survivors. The only one of them I can see any kind of coincidence anywhere to is Jack..Number 23. His seat number on the ORIGINAL flight was 23A. All of the other losties and their numbers don't match to any seating that I can see. In fact only losties that had any of THE numbers as a seat number, were Jack, Rose, Bernard and Ana Lucia. Maybe me reading too much into it, but I REFUSE to believe the numbers against their names are just because 'Jacob got a thing for numbers'.

Ilana...I found it very interesting that she took some of the ashes that Jacob left behind after he burnt up in just a minute or so. Two things crossed my mind about this. 1: The ahses will be used to somehow ressurect/clone Jacob or 2: They will be used as some kind of weapon against the anti-Locke.

Anyway....enough of my thoughts now. Please email me any thoughts you wish to share, or just leave them in comments below. I will expand on my random thoughts once I have had time to fully digest another few episodes.