After Miles got the nosebleed and he told Daniel, Daniel told him his theory about it, which was the duration of how much time you have spent on the island. When Miles said he had only been there a few weeks Daniel answered, are you sure?

I was thinking that maybe Miles is the son of Pierre Chang. We know he had a baby when the Dharma stations were being built. And they seem to have the same nasty disposition.

Will, you may have it right about the focus of Lost. This series can be told over a campfire and marshmallows. They can make do with very primitive special effects and still remain compelling (as with my audio CD of Prince Caspian read in a most engaging and delightful manner by Vanessa Redgrave). It is the storyteller’s ability to pause for effect and say “Boo!” that makes the audience hide under their blankets.

Seth, is it Aaron or Jin? Aaron’s lived an uneventful life in the city. He’s loved only his mommy Kate. He’s not actually taken initiative to take care for another living being — yet. As for Jin, sure he tended to his chores on the island but he experienced only the brief moments on the freighter while off island and was unconscious during the time travel episodes until now. Dunno. Still working on this one.

There IS a possibility The Little Prince is not so much a person as a SITUATION. The Locke-Sawyer troupe have travelled to three different “worlds” in this episode alone. The Little Prince went to six asteroids inhabited by a self-deluding control freak, a conceited man, a self-loathing drunk, a possessive man, a man of duty, and a skeptical map maker. Once they revived the anthropologist and headed for the Zodiac, Sawyer saw Kate and you could see the happy/sad/painful self-denial in his face (although the background music did most of the storytelling here). Sawyer was a con artist with a grudge who grew into this magnificent selfless hero on the island — the self-loathing drunk? Then came the shoot-first-ask-questions later outrigger canoe people — control freaks? Then the storm and the shipwreck articles from the science team with an aggressive guy grilling Jin about “how do you not know how you wound up in the middle of the ocean?” before Danielle snarled at him — the skeptical map makers?

Then again, maybe it IS a person. The Little Prince had to die in body to allow his essence to return to B612. Locke died in body, but Ben implies something of Locke must be brought back to life on the island ‘or all that we’re about to do is for nothing and i think i WILL have a few slices of bologna to go please.’ Locke is, after all, leader or “Prince” of the Others and the Others control this island, so Locke is Prince of this island. Locke was travelling with Sawyer et al through those three worlds of this episode.

Aside. I keep looking for eyeshadow on Richard Alpert but the close-up at the 1954 camp in episode “Jughead” cleared up that mystery. He’s got thick eyebrows. Since it’s not a unibrow but two distinct brows, it only LOOKS like eye shadow from a distance.

… and why does my formatting go berserk when I press “POST”?