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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Man in the Funny Hat" data-source="post: 4664324" data-attributes="member: 32740">If I had to name one element that was most unrealistic about this show it would be that anybody believes Ben for a second.  I wouldn't believe him if he said the sky was blue.  After his constant lies and manipulations they shouldn't trust him to do anything but be untrustworthy.It may be guarding the temple but unless they're retconning it a bit it's been seen plenty of other places on the island nowhere near the temple.  In fact, until it was mentioned by the others as a meeting place we never knew the temple existed yet the smoke monster had been encountered plenty. I also find it interesting that the temple is covered in heiroglyphics - or at least the same kind of symbols we saw on the timer in the hatch when it went critical.  It's just a wild guess but I think that set of symbols will be used inside the temple to control or fix the island.My understanding has been that it's just the Oceanic 6 (and Locke) that need to return.  They were brought to the island for specific reasons (not that we yet know what those reasons are) and it is the fulfillment of those reasons that they all need to be there.  Something is meant to happen that requires them particularly.Well it was BEN who said it - so don't believe it.  All turning the wheel did/does is shift the island in time/space.  Doing that apparantly tosses the turnee out into the world somewhere/somewhen.  In Bens case he went to Tunisia 10 months into the future.  The wheel, however, got screwed up and that caused the repeated flashes.  It needed to be seated properly for the island to stay in one time/place.  Bens ultimate motivation is still unknown but he continues to lie and manipulate as skillfully as ever.  Despite what he wanted Locke to think about the consequences of moving the island he knew that he could and even would return to the island.  It simply meant a one-way trip OFF the island and difficulties returning.  I believe it was the old lady in LA who told Ben that EVERYONE needed to go back to the island.No ideas really.  What I find curious is that Christian is actually Jacob, or at least that Jacob is appearing in the form of Christian.</blockquote>

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