Hah!

Well I started to think that Ben took Locke to the Bates Motel when he was chatting with the rocking chair.. I was like "Oh writers please dont let Ben put on a dress and try to stab Locke!"

Or maybe Locke was right and Ben is a kook and he rigged Jacob's place to appear haunted or whatever? These are the "others" who did disguise themselves (remember all the fake beards & dirty clothes) and Ben did ask some of them to pretend to be the plane survivors.. Ben could just be bonkers?

I mean during the flashbacks it is pretty much what the person experienced and maybe Ben just thought he saw his mom.. I mean its not that uncommon that traumatized children see things... have wishful thinking...

So what is it about Ben that makes the hostiles/natives not only accept him but let him run things? Why did Richard seem so interested and certain about Ben seeing his mom? Is Ben fulfilling some sort of prophesied role for the hostiles/natives? Are they humoring him to get what they want? Hmmmm

I'm sort of guessing that Ben was considered some sort of prophet, etc. But with the arrival of Locke, the so-called Hostiles are beginning to wonder if they got the wrong man the first time around, and maybe it's Locke. I'm also wondering if it's sort of a toss up between Ben, Locke and Jack. Jack, who has seen visions of his dead father.

And, seriously, what DADDY issues the writers must have, and some of the writers came from the Joss Whedon Buffy/Angel camp, shows also rife with serious Daddy issues. It KILLS me.

I was thinking this last night.

Kate kills her step-dad (do we know what happened to her bio dad?)
Jack and his dad
Locke's dad steals his kidney and tries to kill him
Sawyers dad is killed [by Locke's dad]
Sun and her mob-dad
Jinn and being ashamed of his dad
Claire and Aaron's dad
Ben and his dad

Who else?

Did they ever show Annie after Dharma-Town was gassed?

No. That was mentioned in the Lost-pedia, as well, as one of the questions left unanswered. Actually, if it's the Hostile's habit to kidnap kids, they may have taken them someplace safe to reprogram them. Hmmmm.

Ok,

So the kids in the school room could be part of the Others now.

If I remember, Annie was blond. Wasn't there a blond woman on the boat when they kidnapped Walt? I think the thew the maltov cocktail.

Was there a black girl? Maybe that is Mrs Qlue now?

Turns out that Craphole Island really is the Land of Bad Dads. (Do I see a Disneyland ride in the future?)

That's from Television Without Pity:
http://www.televisionwithoutpity.com...ontent/a13082/

I found an image of "Jacob" that was posted on another site.

Image of "Jacob"

It's the second or third post down the page.