re: Lost Rewatch Questions

1) Her father was from the Island, so I think it was a reasonable guess that she knew that the only reason he sponsored the "Race around the World" was to find the Island. So she looked for electromagnetic anomalies due to what her father told her about the Island, and what he was surely looking for himself.

2) I don't know about that specific Walt instance and don't care. I think it's somewhat implied it was Walt himself there.

3) Simple answer: he was too old.

4) End of the world it's implied

5) This one is easy: because the Smoke Monster didn't want Ben to hear him. Ben was key to his plans, and he wanted him to be eratic as possible.

6) I think once Jacob died the rules went out the window until the new protector made them. If Hurley made the rules, then Ben couldn't break them.

7) I personally think that Dave in the hospital was Libby's first husband, and on the Island it was MIB trying to convince Hurley to kill himself.

8) I can answer this definitively. That was an abandoned plot. It was supposed to be Jack's crew from Season 6 shooting at Sawyer's crew from Season 5. They just couldn't implement it.