SPOILERS, SPOILERS, SPOILERS
Hey, if you're reading a thread on LOST, you gotta expect people to give details, so read at your own risk.
OK, so we know the suspicious Mr. Armageddon or whatever his name was that visited Hurley in the nut house is the guy in charge of getting together the group to go to the Island with Naomi as leader. Given the reference to a Dharma polar bear found in a desert by the nasty redheaded archeologist, we have to think Dharma is behind this group, or funding this group. I mean, why wouldn't Dharma want to find Ben? Ben gassed and killed 40+ Dharma people back in the days of the Purge. I imagine they've been trying to find that bloody island for years, which is exactly what Ben has been saying all along. He doesn't want them to find the Island, not so much for the sake of the Island (though that may play some part in his twisted mind) but more for the sake of saving his own skin.
Here is a contradiction in that theory. Why is Dharma so intent on finding the Island if they drop food to the Island on a regular basis? Is it because they can do a fly by drop (maybe with robots) but if they get too close their radar and instruments go wonky? Could it be because Ben has been jamming that signal for 16+ years, but now he isn't so the Island can be found? But there still is some huge force on the island, electromagnetic or otherwise, that seems to confound instruments. Perhaps that's why Jacob is technology-averse.
Now we have Locke taking orders from Walt vs Ben taking orders from Jacob. Do you suppose Jacob was once a young, gifted boy like Walt who somehow wound up on the island long, long ago? And I wonder if Walt wasn't so much allowed to leave the Island as maybe kicked off the Island because perhaps, just perhaps, he is as powerful as Jacob, in whatever spooky way they are powerful, and Jacob didn't want a rival?
I've always enjoyed Jeff Fahey and those remarkable blue eyes that give him a sort of unbalanced quality. He never seems quite right in the head. Here he is on the Island as a scruffy drunk pilot with an oddly sharp memory.
So, kiddies, what have we learned tonight? I still think Dharma is behind everything, and Penny's father is behind Dharma. But what do I know?
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