Hello Cindy,

>CH>So. What do you make of tonight's episode????

>LL>It was the Rapture.  And we got Left Behind.  :'(

>CH>Hey all this just keeps getting weirder...

>LL>"Curiouser and curiouser", as Alice would say.  :)

CH>"My but what big teeth you have Grandma!- Little Red 

I have read many different versions of "Little Red Riding Hood",
some of them rated `X'.  If you like movies, Sam Neil and Jennifer
Lopez starred in a modern day version of "Little Red Riding Hood"
which was a true horror story that would make your skin crawl.

>LL>Makes sense to me.  Until next week, anyway.  :)

>CH>Blink blink.

>LL>I'll fill in some of the blanks for you between now and next week.  :)

CH>Lee? It's nuts right now. Others say that 'the others' just left for
CH>another part of the Island...

Who says the Others left for another part of the island?

CH>and Ben is manipulating Locke.

Who says Ben is manipulating Locke?  It could be Locke manipulating
Ben to think he is manipulating Locke, thus enabling Locke to get what
Locke wants.

CH>I don't think they're leaving, they can't now can they?

Who says the Others cannot leave the island?

CH>The sub is gone.

We know that Locke blew up a sub.  We do not know if there is another
sub. Nor do we know if another sub is needed. We know an airplane comes
around every now and then.  We know the Others had a boat.  Okay, more
than one boat.

Obviously, the Others were never worried about getting stranded
on the island.  It could be they can come and go as they please.
It could be they have no desire to leave.  Or, they might have
found another island that holds even more secrets...

CH>And anyway if Locke left the island he'd no longer be free of a wheel
CH>chair...

We do not know if Locke would be free of a wheel chair or not if he were
to leave the island.  Ben tries to manipulate Locke by trying to make
Locke believe he (Locke) would need a wheel chair if he (Locke) were to
leave the island.  But that does not mean that Locke would need a wheel
chair.

CH>I think Ben wants to find out how he too can be now wheelchair free..

Who says that Ben is confined to a wheel chair?  Ben could be faking
it, as an appeal to sympathy, in order to get Locke's help (to learn
more secrets of the island).

CH>that is why he's using Locke.

Locke was getting too close to figuring out the secrets of the island.
Ben knew it, and could not take the chance of letting Locke remain free,
else everybody on the island would know the secrets.  Juliet knows more
than she is telling, but is not able to figure out everything, as Locke
can.  Also, there is the wheelchair thing.  Although it is not known
if Locke would remain free of using a wheel chair if ever he were to
leave the island, it is assumed that Ben needs Locke's help to
understand how the island "cured" Locke.  Even if that is not Ben's
real reason.  :)

CH>Anyway what IS that black cloud thing?

It was explained in the first season, by the French woman, as a security
device.  Although seemingly random, there have been instances where
intelligence is shown.  For example, Echo stared it down, living to see
another day.  Unfortunately, the black cloud did not fall for Echo's
trick a second time.

--Lee


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