Damn, I love it when episodes end at horrible points! This one was quite a ride getting there too. Season three is shaping up to be very good it seems. My hopes are increasing for the show as well.

Originally posted by: C3PX
I am really not seeing any similiarity between Hanso and Mikhail (Kelvin was Desmond's room mate at the hatch, not the eye patch guy). I am sure they are not the same actor, and I am pretty certain they don't intend them to be the same guy. Also I think Ben would know who Hanso is, and he seemed to regard Mikhail as a crazy ex-soviet communications officer who would shoot him if he didn't give warning before approaching his house. I imagine if we are ever going to learn anything of Hanso on the show, tonight may be the night for that.

Ahh, sorry about the name mixup. I read a blog by searching for "eye patch guy lost" in Google and read about that name for the eye patch guy. I forgot that there were two eye-patch fellows.

In fact, now that you mention it, I bet Hanso (if he's Mikhail) came to the island with Kelvin in an effort to save the island from Ben and his "hostile" followers. They made a deal for peace and cooperation with Ben (pretending to be surviving Darma workers) and were allowed to do their Darma duties unhindered as a result (like pushing the button). Of course, that all assumes Mikhail was being truthful when he mistook the plane-crash victims as the "hostiles" and wasn't merely pretending to mistake them at that time.

About identifying Hanso with Andrew Divoff's face, I pride myself on my skills when it comes to noticing small, visual similarities and I'm almost certain they're the same person. You can look at the nose and where they meet the eyebrows and many other small features and see them completely represented in the other photograph. Sure, the overall look is very different, but it's the details and the general shapes that match (as far as I can tell anyways).

As for the island, I've been guessing for quite a while now, based on the "fate" motif of the Island and Ben's early words that God couldn't see them, that the Island is actually an alternate version of the earth where this island actually does exist in the pacific due to a different evolution of the earth (and perhaps even a different evolution for the earth's inhabitants). It's the theory that I'm sticking to since it's the one I came up with on my own.