Hi,

The toggling keeps up I think. I hate so much back and forth in one episode.

For some reason I used to see the characters as on the spectrum of good and bad.
Goodness and badness seems to be meaningful to the island. By the end of season we can see for example that Jack is going to be a good character. Sayid is good but has done some bad things and might have some reckoning. Same with Eko. Ben seems bad but we know that bad and good are not constant . . ..
Rousseau seems neither good nor bad because she is too alone. Or maybe her aloneness is good. Michael betrays his group for what seems to be a false promise perhaps.

And I guess this matters to me. I will stop trying to think of things this way for purposes of our discussion. There are plenty of other patterns to look for in Lost.

I do need to know in terms of the show, whose truth I can trust. I guess we are supposed to mostly identify with the people on the plane but that is changing as new actors get added to the cast.

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Not to complicated things but the writers decided that they did not know what to do with Walt so he (and Michael) are only seen a little in the show after season 2 becuase Walt went through a growth spurt and is mentioned as Tall Walt because he is not the same size he would be in island time.
Shooting on the set took place over years ( 2004-2010 (?) and a child like Walt (Malcolm David Kelley) had a chance to basically grow up but the number of days the passengers are on the island is relatively few (101 days I believe).

This is what I saw about Danielle Rousseau as little bit of a Jean-Jacques Rousseau figure:
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