The Economist - Lostpedia
-The Economist is a British magazine that deals with politics & economics, famous for publishing all articles anonymously, the collective voice being valued over an individual's.
-Elsa may be a reference to Ilsa Lund, the tragic female lead in Casablanca, a movie that centers around political intrigue, clandestine love affairs, and a cafe.
-The cafe Sayid and Elsa meet is called "Die Mauer" (the wall) -- a reference to the Berlin Wall.
-The scene where Kate sees Sawyer's shoes walk through the door from under the bed is an iconic scene, mirroring Sawyer's backstory in Season 1 where a young Sawyer sees his father's shoes from under the bed, walking into his room after he shot Sawyer's mother, and sat on the bed to shoot himself. (Juxtaposition)
-After being called "Tubby" by Miles, Hurley says: "Oh awesome, the ship sent us another Sawyer."


Lost": Spoiled Bastard.
Sawyer practically proposing to Kate...
K: How long can we play house?
S: Why don't we find out?

'Lost' Dueling Analyses: The Economist - Celebritology
-3:16 on the island and 2:45 on the rocket these are not stating the time of day, right, but rather are measures of the inutes since the launch of the rocket: the rocket's transit took 3min16sec on the island, while the rocket itself was in transit for only 2min45sec.
nah I guess that's not right, since that would mean that *more* time passes on the island while *less* time passes off. and that's backward (well at least as far as the talk, wh all seems to be about time off the island being ahead. so maybe the watches were regular watches giving the time of day (not stopwatches). ok this point is unclear (and I shld have been talking hours: minutes rather than minutes : seconds) The Economist/Theories - Daniel's experiment - Lostpedia: Were the time shown in the clock the times of day, such as 3:16:22pm and 2:45:04 pm, or were they stopwatches, synchronized at the moment of launch? .. posits they were clocks and not stopwatches. We do not have confirmation, and if they are stopwatches it changes things.
-Re: time on/off the island - think of it this way... we, in TV land, have spent 3-4 years watching "Lost" and the plot involving the Losties and the Others and everyone else has only advanced 100 +/- days.
also, the whole thing about Naomi's and Elsa's bracelets. I don't think that it was the same bracelet per se, but identical bracelets given to two members of... what? Abaddon's crew? This obviously makes me think that Naomi and Elsa are linked (they're working for the same person or group), that both of them are bad guys, and that for some reason these bad guys are underlings to something bigger that Ben is trying to destroy.