Does certainly have that sound about it...but that may also be malleable depending on whether or not we get that last hour of Lost this season. (In which case, I strongly suspect that 4.13 would be a 2-hour called "There's No Place Like Home" and 4.12 gets another title entirely...)

Christian Shepard's evil twin, Also named Christian Shepard lol

Maybe Later on we'll find out that Locke is Jack's evil twin too :P

That was Christian. He took the spider venom that makes you appear dead for 24 hours.

/complete speculation

Debunked with evasive caveats does not equal debunked!!! Particularly with these writers.

I wish I could hear that 4/20/07 podcast, but it's no longer up on ABC. I'm unconvinced. The people at LOSTpedia do fine work, but they are even acknowledging that this is "qualified" statement, and they can't yet explain the inconsistencies. Are we 100% sure that LOSTpedia has NEVER been head-faked by Cuse/Lindelof trickery? Surely there is some degree of head-fake going on here.

The authors of that LOSTpedia entry seem confident that Christian's "dead but still shows up on the island" status is analogous to Yemi's. I wonder about this -- I think it's more analogous to Nikki & Paolo, who were also "dead In terms of actually physically corporally in existence" -- (e.g., no pulse and turning green) until the moment they opened their eyes and realized they were being buried alive. That whole "spider venom" thing that Arzt described is central to my theory. And I would say that's the #4 possibility on your list.

If you're skeptical about this theory, then I'm not even going to go into my "Christian Shephard is the architect of the plane crash scheme" theory. (I AM sending it to USA Today, though!) But I don't see anything here to dissuade me. The podcast might, admittedly, truly debunk this. They play coy sometimes, but I don't think they lie. I wish someone actually did transcripts of the podcasts as opposed to brief summaries. Christian in the whispers, and appearing in the cabin, admittedly, hurts my case here. I would assume only dead people can do that stuff. But we don't know for sure what regulates the ability to whisper or appear in cabins...

I guess we'll know for sure on May 1!!! (MAYBE....)

<<It could very easily be that one of the first things the O6 does upon returning to civilization is to bury Christian Shephard's body.>>

But his body still hasn't turned up, has it?

No you're right. I think it would be a tie between Hurley and Jack being the focal points in 5/15 show.

No, there wasn't a central character.

<< Did my mind just go blank? I don't remember any specific central character...I mean Hurley maybe, but it seemed to be a general flash forward of the O6. Right?>>

It *was* an "all of the O6" flash-forward. When this was posted they weren't even done filming yet, and everything was just going by rumor and on-set spying.