LOST Notes...

It's funny going back and looking what I wrote when LOST was still on the air. Before I knew how it ended anyway...


Little Gods ~ The Shape of Things to Come

With LOST starting in a few hours I have been cramming lots of factoids into my brain so I am not lost in the time warp any more then I should be....

I was watching the episode, "The Shape of Things to Come" and it got me to thinking how much Ben and his adversary, Charles Widmore, remind me of Little Gods.

Bratty, war-minded, siblings, who are also little gods who have been given an odd set of rules by their All Seeing God Dad, and are currently "Locked," in a time shifting tug-o-war, with the Island.
(Yes, I had to use the pun, it seemed apt )



Several lines of script also lend credence to my theory:

Widmore asks Ben if he came to kill him and Ben replies, "you know I can't do that."

Widmore: "I know that everything you have, you took from me. So, once again I ask you, why are you here?"

Ben: "I'm here, Charles, to tell you that I'm going to kill yourdaughter. Penelope is it? And once she's gone, once she's dead, thenyou'll understand how I feel and you'll wish you hadn't changed therules."

Ben turns to walk away and Charles says, "That island's mine, Benjamin, it always was. It will be again."

"But you'll never find it."

"Then I suppose the hunt is on for both of us."

Ben and Widmore both claim ownership of the island and Widmore says it was his first and will be again. They both say the other stole it and it was never theirs to begin with.

At the moment both of them are off the island and from what we know already, it takes a lot of care to get there without splinching your mind and getting lost forever.

They are playing by some mysterious rules... so, who made the rules. Ben and Widmore remind me of siblings and Little Gods, much like Enki and Enlil or two minor Gods from Odin's pantheon. They have money, power and the ability to do more then seems humanly possible to find and keep an island out in the middle of nowhere. Or is that "no time?"



I guess the last two season will answer that - I hope it does. And I hope Ben wins


QotD:
If you had crashed landed on that Island along with the rest of Oceanic 815, would you have stayed on the Island, or would you have fought to return home?


Another thing I was musing about:
One question to ponder... If the Dharma people were able to have babies (Dr. Marvin Candle and wife have a newborn,) what did they know if anything about childbirth that the Other's didn't. OR - did Ben screw something up when he gassed the Dharma folk and cause all of their mom's to be, to die? Things that make me go hmmmmm