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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mark" data-source="post: 1850581" data-attributes="member: 5">You're picking nits.  Clearly they meant to (mislead) suggest certain things (if not specifically, at least by inference) so that they could enhance the surprises, which in the case of Jack was that his father was dead, Jin that she speaks English (whether or not you were ahead of the curve), and Kate that she was (in fact) the criminal being transported.  (Further...  Locke's secret was, of course, that he is disabled and Sawyer's that he was the victim at the source of the confidence game being played out in his background sequence, rather than the actual confidence artist.)As to Charley, I leave it to someone else to fill in that gap as I was unable to catch that (full) episode.I fully expect them to suggest at the outset of Sayid's background sequence that he is a terrorist, only to devulge by the end of it that he is actually a spy on the trail of a terrorist who now feels he failed everyone.  The opposite would be no different, really...if, say, they suggest he was on the trail of a terrorist on to eventually divulge that he is an actual terrorist (and, perhaps, leave whether he is responsible for the crash up in the air for later in the run of the show).I expect other such tales to include things like us being mislead to believe that someone is on a trip, having won it in a contest, only for us to discover it is the culmination of someone spending a settlement in a lawsuit against a drug company because they have become terminal due to company negligence.I wonder how many other sensational scenarios someone could concoct, and how close they will turn out to be compared to some that they will drop on us in coming weeks?I'm surprised to see people debating the shades of the colors, when my assertion is only that the colors are in play.  If someone says that something is red, saying you do not think something is dark red but merely a light red isn't in disagreement with the point.  I've usually seen gamer crowds as too clever to fall for what turns out to be cheap trickery in plots of shows.  I'm finding it hard to believe more people aren't stepping up to say that they agree but are just enjoying the variations the writers are spinning...which is the last bit of spice that is making this meal we're being served palatible, to me anyway.At the end of the day the whole show is nothing more than an expanded variation of No Exit by Sartre.  They probably all died in the crash.<a href="http://www.theatrehistory.com/french/sartre002.html" target="_blank">http://www.theatrehistory.com/french/sartre002.html</a></blockquote>

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