Guesstimates

Two theories that involve slightly spoilery information about Lost and The Sopranos, so if you’re not all caught up with both, you might want to tune out now:

1) In the Slate.com dialogue for the latest Sopranos ep, Jeffrey Goldberg airs a suggestion from his friend David Segal that Paulie is a rat. Anything’s possible. What grabbed me here is that in the dream Paulie has, he asks slain snitch Big Pussy, “When my time comes, will I stand up?” People have been assuming this to mean that he wonders if he’s got what it takes not to be a rat if the offer is presented to him. But Pussy’s last words before Tony, Paulie, and Silvio killed him were to ask if he could sit down.

2) Since he finally got back from the Others’ compound and got a change of clothes, Jack from Lost has been wearing…a red shirt. Given the fact that the show’s writers are giant nerds who indeed have referenced the redshirt phenomenon during this very season, are we to interpret this as coincidence, fate, or fake-out?