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Okay, with a definite end-date the Lost Writers have been going nuts with revelations and story telling. Ben’s motivation. The reason Sayid and Ben are working together. The fact that yes, Ben knows about and controls the Monster.
What about these rules and the fact that Ben isn’t allowed (or incapable) of killing Penny-Dad?
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Maybe it has something to do with Jacob? Maybe Charles is the one Jacob originally spoke to before moving on to Ben, just as he seems to have moved on to Locke. Not that I know what ANY of that means of course, but DAMN that was sick when Ben sicced the freaking smoke monster on the mercs.
And almost-killing Claire is up there with Jim almost-proposing to Pam. It’s the writers getting down on one knee to tie their shoe.
Awesome episode though. And I half expected Ben to go through that secret passage and come out in the desert in 2005 at the beginning of the episode.
On that office aside: I couldn’t believe that my wife and I went completely anticipatory silent when Jim dropped to the knee and then the dude is playing one of his jokes because there’s no way he’s going to do a standard proposal.
But back to Lost: the Smoke Monster was probably the scariest in that scene than it has since Season 1. yeesh.