Oh and I forgot to mention the explosives on the boat, what's up with that?
Scary!

I am a bit perplexed about how old they are trying to say Aaron is.

Sun !!!! You go girl,
Kickin Daddy's butt where he works really raises you in my esteem.

Obviously everyone who made it to the boat doesn't survive or actually get off the island. Who are the two that the Oceanic 6 say lived and then died, and why?

@angelleena
<<Wow, this episode blew me away.>>

You and me both! I've been getting so breathless watching Lost lately, it's a wonder I don't asphyxiate! :-D

<<They are really starting to give a lot of information away now.>>

Yes and no...they really didn't tell us too terribly much we didn't know before. For my money, the biggest revelation of the night was that flash-forward pregnant Sun wrested control of Paik Heavy Industries from dear ol' dad, giving him a delicious and well-deserved verbal smackdown to boot! Sooooo satisfying. >:}

The details of the Oceanic cover-story were also rather interesting!

<<There was just so much in this episode. Hurley getting the car with the bad numbers was freaky!!!>>

Oh, HELL yeah! Looks like Hurley's the first of the O6 to realize they never should have left. On the Island, Hurley'd managed to shed his curse...but now, it's baa-aaaack!

<<I was glad to know Jack finally got the truth about Claire but how hard was it for him not to show emotion???? He is not allowed to let on he knew Claire at all.>>

Yup...clearly there's *some* kind of Faustian bargain in place there or you just know that Action-Jack and Sayid would have been using the press conference to screw Oceanic and get the world over to that Island to see the weirdness and shed light on its secrets.

That said...OMFG...Matthew Fox actually *acted*! I fear I shall faint for I am overcome with the vapors. You actually got to see Jack Shephard's brain go "tilt" at the info that Claire is his half-sister and Aaron his nephew. Mebbe O'Quinn or Emerson sat the boy down and gave him a lesson or something. :-P

<<Oh and I forgot to mention the explosives on the boat, what's up with that?>>

I think it's pretty clear that the C4 is set to detonate if the device strapped to Keamy's arm stops transmitting that he's got a pulse. That would also explain the radio-frequency interference preventing the reef-detector from working. Boat gonna go BOOM next ep., I'm all but sure!

@Yuni
<<I am a bit perplexed about how old they are trying to say Aaron is.>>

Actually, did you notice how Ms. Decker (Michelle Forbes, the Oceanic flack) cut in when they started prying too much about Aaron? This is clearly known to be a weak link in the story, given that Aaron is actually a few months older than he would have been per the official story.

This may actually be the first chink in the armor of that story...someone I read somewhere suggested the idea that in S.5 or 6 we might see a movement to debunk the O6's story...that it might even involve Walt, who would know a thing or two about it. I think that's a dramatically interesting idea. It could also be a bit of a goad to get any "unconverted" O6 (like Kate or Sayid) back to the Island if public opinion gets whipped up against them in addition to all the other signs from the Island that it wants them back.

Next week is going to rock the fucking house! :-D