If Ana realized Goodwin was dry at the time of the crash, why would she wait 44(?) days to confront him? She could have possibly prevented the other (Other) attacks.

Don't believe she realized it right away. After Nathan was missing, I think she put two plus two together.

If Ana realized Goodwin was dry at the time of the crash, why would she wait 44(?) days to confront him? She could have possibly prevented the other (Other) attacks.

I think that is exactly why she told Eko "this one is on you" when Cindy disappeared. Ana feels responsible for not confronting him sooner when it appears she suspected him for a while. I think that's partly why she broke down and later came down hard on our rafties and shot Shannon, too, because she didn't want to make the mistake of hesitating again. Interesting that it would then turn out that acting rashly was her mistake but now you can understand why she did.

I think she just didn't put it all together until after Nathan dissapeared from the pit and they went trekking through the jungle again. She didn't started to become suspicious of Goodwin until then. Being dry wasn't cause enough to think Goodwin was an Other. Bernard never landed in the ocean either. Perhapse she assumed that something similar happened to Goodwin during the crash and he ended up on the island instead of the water.

Why does she wait until the two of them are isolated from the group to confront him? That was a pretty silly plot point. She forgoes using Mr. Eko, the pit that she dug, or any help from any of the other survivors and confronts him alone out in the jungle? I guess she knew she had a future on the show and the writer would give Goodwin a deus ex machina death.

I also like how her infiltrating the pit with Sawyer and co. now makes absolutely no sense. Once the list is revealed and it's known that the others know who everybody is in the tailsection, why would she go down into the pit if she suspects they might be the others? The writers either didn't think very far ahead or very far behind because the finding of the list and AL infilitrating the pit are logically exclusive.

Weak writing. It's alarming how lazy they're getting to be about plot holes and maintaining some believability.

I also like how her infiltrating the pit with Sawyer and co. now makes absolutely no sense. Once the list is revealed and it's known that the others know who everybody is in the tailsection, why would she go down into the pit if she suspects they might be the others? The writers either didn't think very far ahead or very far behind because the finding of the list and AL infilitrating the pit are logically exclusive.

There had to be like 200 people on that plane. I don't think anyone thought that list was an exclusive list of everyone on the plane. It wasn't a flight manifest, it was just a list of their group of people. This in my opinion, did not exclude the possibility that there were other survivors. I don't see a problem there.

I don't understand at all why those things are logically exclusive. Goodwin (most likely) gave the Others the list of 9 tailies to take. Sawyer & Co. could be a new group of Others trying to infiltrate Ana's group and take one or more of them away, and so she wanted to test them. Makes sense to me.

Yeah. She probably figured that if she went in the pit with them that they wouldn't be able to fool her if they were Others and they knew that she was with the survivors. They would have probably tried to use her by threatening to harm her if they weren't let out. Instead, Sawyer, Jin, and Michael seemed sincere. They didn't harm her. She realized they weren't others when Sawyer pulled the gun. She knew they were still dangerous though so she left them down there a bit longer after that.

i don't see a plothole there either. it seems to me that if they found that hatch, they might have the slightest inkling that there might be other people other than the others [stay with me here...] on the island.