Brad Smith of The Big Noob went to Hawaii for a vacation in January, and his Flickr set has a bunch of excellent photos from the set of Lost. He was there during the writers’ strike, so production was shut down, and he was able to wander into or near locations that have played a major role in the show, including Jacob’s shack, the main beachfront camp, and the pier where Kate, Jack, and Sawyer were captured at the end of season 2. Here is Mr. Eko’s church:

I hadn’t seen a single episode of Lost until last November, and then I watched the first three seasons in three weeks. It was fun, and now I’m all caught up. Here’s my little Lost obsession, and I haven’t seen any major analysis of this anywhere: What’s with the whole doppelgänger thing involving Juliet, Penny, and Jack’s ex-wife? They all look very similar, and it’s clearly not an accident. The resemblance has been noted in a few places, even on the show itself, in passing, but the larger issue of what this means has not been deeply explored, as far as I know. What does it mean?