Meedley, you made my head spin! But this past episode sheds a LOT of light on the rabbit video!
Yeah Desmond better not get killed off, nor Sayid. I would be a whole new shade of disappointed if that happened because I absolutely love where these stories are going. The Penny story was brilliant, and I have a feeling it will only get better as we figure out why she's been looking for him for 3 years and how she knows about island (or more, how long has she known about the island, since Charlie or before?) Daniel Faraday asked if Desmond had been exposed to large amounts of radiation, and I'd like to take this moment to remind myself of something.... was it Desmond who turned the key to shut off the electro-magnetic shield as the sky went purple?
Also, I missed last week's again so I watched the rerun right before the new one. During the rerun, there were pop-ups with extra information throughout the entire episode along the bottom of the screen. These popups were chock-full of hidden details that would bend your mind, but also really helped to understand a little more about what's going on. A lot of it was recapping as they were talking, but some was like "The song playing in the background is the theme from Xandau, a story about a fictional island where dreams come true." or "Kate's lawyer played in the movie Frequency where his name was Jack Shephard."
Did they show this during the episode or is it something they added to the rerun? If they added it, maybe they will do it for every episode during the rerun prior to the new episode - so make sure to watch it again, you might discover more like I did!