"LOST" In the Shuffle

I've been under the weather lately, and to ease my pain I bought the first complete season of LOST. So before I go any further, I want any fans who don't want surprises exposed to skip this post; it may contain spoilers for you. You have been warned.

Some General Observations:

Watching a show's entire season over a weekend as opposed to one episode a week gave me a unique perspective on how things unfolded last year. You notice little inconsistences and your concept of time changes. When you watch a show and it ends, you move on with your life: there's work, housecleaning, shopping, eating, socializing, blogging and countless other things you do before the next episode. Time passes. So when you watch the next episode and a character says, "It's been a week since we did 'X'," and "X" happened last week, subconciously you believe it. But when you watch back-to-back-to-back episodes you're more skeptical for some reason.

I checked some other "LOST theories" sites, but really didn't read any talking about how (in the opening credits) the names of the actors change where they're displayed from episode to episode. Case-in-point: in the pilot, the actors names were all over the place. The significance? I don't know.

Watching episodes at night with the lights off adds to the spookiness factor, especially when one of the main characters is chasing his deceased father through a mysterious jungle.

Character Notes

Going by Boone and Shannon's comments on how their seating arrangement worked out, they weren't supposed to live. I suppose that's why both characters were basically useless as far as contributors to the other survivors. It's also interesting that all the rich or well-to-do people (besides Boone, Shannon and Hurley) died in the crash while the Middle Class (and later on, tail section) people survived.

Was it me, or did it seem like the writers orginally intended for Hurley and Claire to get together, then decided to pair her up with Charlie after the lame drug rehab episode?

Sun's claim that Jin "has a temper" like he's abusive or something doesn't wash. Other than pounding the living hell out of Michael, he's been fairly normal (considering the circumstances). And in the flashback, he pushes Sun away. I caught that because I remember thinking that he was going to slap her -in fact I expected it. When he just pushed her I was like "Whoa, whatever he's going through hasn't altered his self-control much." And that;s the things about Jin: there's always a logical explanation for everything he's done. He's been the most logical male character on the show so far.

Island Questions:

Why hasn't the "Island Security System" (ISS) attacked anyone on the beach? Why aren't the Others afraid of it (don't tell me they control it; otherwise they could've used it to get Walt and Turnuphead earlier)?

What did they do with the first polar bear's body? What happened to the coffin of Sayid's friend? His ghost wasn't walking around the island like a certain doctor's...

Why, when people lie about where they're from, they use Canada? I swear the next person who says anything about Canada makes my "guilty until proven innocent" list.

Did the Others just basically decide to ignore Danielle after they took Alex? And why didn't the Others loot the Black Rock? You would think explosives might come in handy in case you say, have some enemies on the other side of the island hoarding children and infants you'd like to kipnap.

More stuff to come. But now, back to my medicine!