Follow the Leader

I really need to rewatch this episode, I don't know if I was overly tired or what but nothing really jumped out at me as mythologically significant.

I do have one big thought as sort of a prediction for "The Incident." In this episode Eloise seems more than willing to go along with her dead son's plan to alter the timeline. She's the one strong-arming Widmore into allowing the Losties to try to detonate the bomb. I'm not sure how they think they will survive if they detonate an h-bomb on the island, but let's ignore that for now.

Whatever happens - if they are successful in detonating the bomb or not - that is going to be a contributing factor to the Incident. Whatever happens next week is going to convince Eloise that she needs to guard the timeline rather than attempting to alter it. I have no idea what that could be, but something major is going to happen which will put her on the path she will be on for the rest of her life.