Benry’s actions, and the actions of The Others, make sense – or as much sense as they can – if you realize they are operating like some kind of cult. On the face of it they are not being logical. However, logic is not an issue for them. Ideological obedience is important to them. Benry’s the one with the tumor, the one who is dying. Yet it was so important to him that Jack do the surgery because Benry had broken Jack, they he had people killed, kidnapped and put his own life in jeopardy.
I’m not convinced the Jabberwocky (i.e. smoke monster) and who or what creates the visions are identical. After Yemi vanished for the last time, it took several beats before the Jabberwocky showed up, and then it was off to the side behind some bushes. Yemi did not dissolve into smoke and attack Eko.
A lot of the shows integrity will depend on how they writers and producers handle resolving the Jabberwocky and Benry.
Who gets the flash backs next week?
And, who else is going to die?
P.S. It was a pity to see Eko go. Of all his actions, I had the least trouble with his killing the smugglers in the church and thought the closing of the church was an overreaction on part of the villagers – and the writers for that matter. However, his sudden lack of repentance, compared to his season long repentance last year, felt inconsistent.
If we assume the characters are on the island for punishment and repentance, and they are punished with death for failure to repent, then what about Libby, Boone, Shannon, Scott, the woman who downed, the man sucked into the jet engine, and the 100+ people killed in the crash itself?
This theory assumes they were all evil and deserving of punishment and death. But where is the evidence? What did Shannon and Boone do that warranted their fates? Being a kept woman and gullible – those then are damning sins?
The alternative is that they are all being ground into so much rotting meat just so things are cool for a few people.
Sun’s shooting of the Other woman in the boat was perfectly justified – she was facing capture and defended herself, but only after she ask to be let go and was told that was not going to happen. Yet she is condemned as a murder for it.
In a somewhat similar fashion, Jack is endlessly told to stop, give up and let go. He’s a doctor and his refuse to do that helps save lives, including Charlie’s and Sawyer’s - and helping his ex-wife walk again.
This seems to equate morality with acting like a sheep – you are only moral if you meekly let the world act upon you, beat and abuse you and generally use you up.
(Spits)
So, I wonder what next weeks episode is going to be like?
P.P.S. The show does seem to be getting rid of the minority characters; Hispanic Ana, Black Michael, Black Walt, Black Eko. I wonder when Sayid is gonna die?
