i just realized i was two episodes behind you guys... the last one i saw was the jack's appendix removal

anyway, the way i see lost is
- lots of REFERENCES to stuff, lots of stuff, but not necessarily anything more than nods
- lots of POTENTIALLY WACK explanations for plot happenings, which hopefully are red herrings

the whole Dharma thing - you could say Dharma were this all powerful organization capable of creating amazing monsters just to watch their backyard and conducting fascinating experiments... but, i mean, what the fuck happened to them. Dharma is obviously a sham to me... they're not the real force behind the island, they're just some people who happened upon it before Ben dispensed with them. all 'mysticism' and 'fate' explanations also smack of wackness - the explanation needs to be a decent science fiction idea.

now, in the Forbidden Planet, the loan survivor (except for his wife and daughter) wiped out his colleagues (fellow explorers) by accessing ancient alien technology that interfaced with his mind. one device boosted his IQ enormously, another device allowed him to fabricate things with his mind (though it was only his subconscious mind that was strong enough to create anything drastic). this sounds like Ben to me - not an a supervillain or anything, but very smart, knows many languages somehow, and has the overbearing confidence of everyone who knows him ("these people are going to war with Ben... and Ben's going to win").

and another thing that just occurred to me, y'all know how the 'subconscious' thing all started with Sigmund Freud, right? and Freud's big thing was infant sexuality and the oepidus complex, that was his first conjecture about what the subconscious contains. well, i was thinking how all the mothers were dying (p.s. was it only baby girls who were a problem? cause that would fit perfectly with the electra complex) - i suspect it's due to the minds of the unconscious babies. that's why everyone thinks claire's baby is so special... like he's born without any evil in his subconscious... maybe he's some sort of potential jesus

>was the person ben claimed to be in the beginning, and that
>his hot air ballon from Minnesota was swept to the island ala
>the actual wizard in oz
>
>ben has the book in his library
>
>and a couple of the episode titles reference pulling back the
>'curtain' to see who is really behind it all...both locke and
>ben reference it
>
>all the survivors are akin to dorothy, they ain't in kansas
>any more
>
>zardoz is a play on wiZARDofOZ
>
>ben obviously has access to lots of materials, i mean the
>nigga speaks arabic and has like thirty passports he didnt
>know all that stuff when he came to the island as an 8yr old
>child
>
>i don't doubt that the heiros are old but they were on the
>door been opened....and he obviously summoned the smoke
>monster, he ran away while addressing keamy, 'hit the switch'
>(or whatever he did) and told everybody to stay on the
>treeline so as to not get bit by his attack dog -- the smoke
>monster
>
>in addition, if i recall juliette knew how to avoid being
>attacked by the smoke monster too
>
>when have u seen one of the others get attacked by the
>monster?
>
>the black rock pirate ship, where they got the dynamite from
>
>rousseau was a scientist/rescuer who came to the island
>pregnant, her lover and crew went crazy from the affects of
>the island and ben stole the baby from her
>
>ben has a fascination with babies and pregnancy, his mother
>died giving birth to him
>
>but like richard alpert said the others ain't on that shit,
>they have other work to do
>
>that whole ancient thing is getting dudes off track, there are
>only acient ruins on the island almost everything is fairly
>modern
>i'll check into the forbidden planet reference
>
>but the dharma experiments explain damn near all the odd shit
>goin on, alperts agelessness, the polar bears, magnetic waves
>
>and u cant discount the time travel piece cuz thats central to
>the whole show
>
>desmond and ben were mos def time travellin and i suspect that
>is why people cant be killed, thats why hugo and jack were
>sayin they have to go back....they realized they fucked things
>up by leaving, they may not even be in their own reality
>
>also suspect that michael is the one in the coffin that jack
>went to see...he's neither friend nor family, he was from ny
>and died in la in a black part of town....jack realized that
>if michael died then he can now die too so he was about to
>commit suicide when the car crash happened
>
>and u can rarely believe anything ben says....he has been
>bullshitting the others for years
>
>
>>i haven't seen the latest episode yet it's on tonight.
>>but the reason not everyone is being healed is because
>>everyone's subconscious is different. and you can't control
>>your subconscious like that.
>
>i dont buy that explanation on healing cuz locke didnt do
>anything special nor did rosa, no one else got healed
>
>how can whidmore and ben be brothers?
>if they are it has to do with reincarnation, cuz that's
>basically what richard tested locke for, just like they do
>with the dhali llamas, if the kid picks the items owned by the
>recently deceased llama he becomes the incarnate
>
>which brings me to the spirits flying around and why everyone
>is fighting over this damn island
>
>looking for hosts: this could explain christian shepherd's
>appearance, cuz if jacob is so powerful why does he need
>help?
>
>some have said that ben has confined jacob to the cabin with
>some kind of circle of sand, the same sand locke found when he
>went there and the sand that was in the vial that alpert
>showed to young locke
>
>whidmore is rich already what does he want from the island, i
>suspect he wants longevity
>
>ben probably wants his mom resurrected or saved before she
>dies in childbirth
>
>the polar bears are a part of the dharma experiment...we
>havent seen any in a minute
>
>all ancient civilizations disappear that's why they're
>ancient, there's no mystery here
>
>the coincidences are the real question, everyone is connected
>in so many ways...the woman jack saved in the flash forward
>has the same last name as rosa's husband
>
>i equate the four-toed statue with colossus, one of the
>original seven wonders, i think it was built on some
>island...was supposed to have been ginormous but disappeared
>without a trace
>
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>
>
>Never come between a black man and his hustle in a room full
>of white people