While that is a fascinating concept I make it a strict rule not to have anything to do with mpreg. (Man Pregnancy for those who have not played in the deep end of fandoms.)

I suppose, scientifically speaking, the challenge of a male pregnancy is along the lines of making the barren fertile but I mean...c'mon. Who wants to see Jack waddling around the Other's island complaining about lower back pain and his craving for pickles an ice cream?

Anybody have a theory for that rather noticeable line about God and Jacob?

I seem to remember that during Juliet's first interview with the rep from Mittleos that he mentioned Juliet was able to medically impregnate a male field mouse in the lab. So what if Mittelos' purpose (and that of the Others and their Island experiment) is to successfully achieve male pregnancy? Could Mittelos, rather than meaning centerless, be more symbolic of something that is womb-less, e.g., men?

The Others seem to be fixated on male babies/kids, what with Claire's and Walt's kidnapping. Plus, (I think) all of Rousseau's friends who died were men; were they used as guinea pigs?

My big question now is about time....Mittelos is an anagram for "lost time", the guard was reading a Brief History of Time, and Juliet was specific about her "time" on the island...does time move differently on the island? More slowly than in the outside world? More quickly?

And is the time conundrum a way to let Walt age (he can grow taller and older off the island, so when/if he returns, and it's only days later, they can explain his growth spurt)?

I would think the connection is that an HBO series is a great showcase, and the actors now have time on their hands. Though I guess Kim Dickens showed up before Deadwood was cancelled (not counting the movies). After Carnivale went off the air, Clancy Brown showed up in the Iraq flashback.

Besides Dickens, Paula Malcomson and Rob Weigert, are there any other Deadwoodies I'm missing?