We watched this week’s episode of Lost last night, and whenever I see a new episode of that show, my head starts buzzing around and around with all the theories and I can’t think of anything else. Then nothing gets around here for three days and hoo-boy, if my mom could see that pile of dishes in the sink, she’d swear I was someone else’s baby who was switched at the hospital at birth.

So, in an effort to remain part of my mother’s family, I’m going to spew out some current thoughts of mine on the show. These are not spoilers as I personally know nothing about where the show is going or what is going to happen. But there will be attacks on various internet pet theories. Superfans, you have been warned.

Who are the Oceanic Six?
Five of the Oceanic Six have been confirmed on the show: Sayid, Kate, Jack, Hurley, and Sun. The only place I read about Lost is in Entertainment Weekly — although I am sometimes obessive about the show, I have no time for chat rooms or fan sites or crazy Lost online games in which you have to collect one-second snippets of a video file and put them all together to reveal… absolutely nothing about the show. At EW they think the sixth member is quite obviously Baby Aaron. But that doesn’t make any sense…several times the Oceanic Six have been referred to as “survivors of the crash of 815,” and the outside world thinks that Aaron was conceived and born by Kate on the island (because the rest of the world thinks the survivors were there for a couple of years, while Aaron is only a few months old).

Personally I believe that the sixth member is the person who was in the coffin at the end of last season’s finale. Someone who got off the island with the five we know about, but was killed after a few years of being back in the States. We know from Jack and Kate’s conversation in the finale that the coffin person is a “him.” I think that person is probably Sawyer.

What happens to Jin?
Again, EW thinks that the grave that Sun visited with her new baby, supposedly Jin’s is bogus. They think that it’s a grave that was either created when the outside world thought Jin died in the plane crash, or else it was created by Sun once she was off the island to explain where her husband was.

But, let us consider the evidence that Jack presented at Kate’s trial. We know from a later conversation with Jack and Kate that Jack’s story at the trial is the story they’ve been telling the world about the crash, their accepted cover story. Jack’s story says that eight people survived the crash, but unfortunately, only six of them survived to make it back to the mainland. So this tells me that when the Oceanic Six finally leave the island, there will actually be eight of them making the attempt, and two of them are not going to make it. Jin is one of the extra two who leaves the island with the Six, but is killed during the escape attempt; so his grave contains his actual body. I hate, hate, hate to predict this, but I think the other person who comes along for the ride, but who is killed en route, is probably Claire.

So. If this season ends with eight people making an escape from the island — Kate, Jack, Sayid, Hurley, Sun, Jin, Sawyer, Claire (with Aaron) — that covers all the major speaking parts except for Locke, Bernard, and Rose. So why is Jack so tormented about getting back to the island? Is he really that attached to the extras and red shirts that have been floating around in the background?

Or…is he thinking about Juliet?

Okay, I feel better now. I’m sure I’ll have more venting to do next week!