I think that has to do with how the actor’s contracts are written. I think if an actor is considered a regular for the season then their names must appear in the credits.
I also seem to remember than an actor can agree to have their name left off the credits to allow for a surprise appearance or something, but that may be something that Harold Perrineau didn’t agree to.
Maybe Widmore has Hitler’s brain in a jar and he’s hoping to bring him back to life.
The idea if “exploiting the island as a tourist trap” is so fantastically stupid that it’s got to be total BS. Seeing a man who used to be in a wheelchair? Ooh, where can I buy my ticket?!?!!
If anything, Widmore might want to “exploit” the island in that he can sell genuine magical healing and maybe immortality to those who pony up. Hell, he can sell fertility to couples who have trouble conceiving.
THAT kind of thing is where the money is - and if Widmore is trying to go through all this to exploit the island, it’s sure as shit not going to be a tourist trap.
Of course, in the end it will probably be that Penny is slowly dying of a family disease and he just wants to protect his daughter.
-Joe
We were operating off the information we had - Eko, superhuman killing machine (woken up from a dead sleep and kills two attempted - and probably armed - abductors with his bare hands) hiding in terror from a bunch of barefoot raggedly-dressed teddy bear dragging children.
Quite different from the suburban cult we now have.
-Joe
Yeah I liked that one. Also: Ben, deadpan, “I taped over the game.” heh
Actually, I feel just the opposite. I was a bit let down with last week’s episode. By bringing out the Let’sDoTheTimeWarpAgain deus ex machina, they can explain anything away by just saying “it’s advanced physics, so it’s complicated”. Seriously, if you’re unstuck in time, a simple phone call will make it all go away?
Whereas this episode brought back the personal conflicts, hidden agendas, and conflicted emotions that have propelled this along for so long. Not that these are any more understandable, or any less “complicated” than the time discrepancy, but at least they are things with which we can identify.
I am strongly tending to think that the time warp thing was dreamed up so that the writers can explain how Walt got so tall in 90 days. If Michael turns up with grey hair, then I’m convinced of it.
A Red Sox game. Proof (if proof be needed) just how evil Ben can be…
I was thinking he taped over game four of the 2004 WS, a truly horrible act. :eek:
So how did Ben get to watch the 2004 World Series? Did Mikhail grab it with the big Dharma satellite dish that seemingly can watch anything?
Or did Ben spring for something like DirecTV.
A couple of posters have mentioned how out of character it seemed for Ben to do the whole “you’re mine” thing with Juliette. He (master manipulator that he is) can’t really think that that would be a likely way to win her favor.
I’m wondering if it wasn’t one of his manipulations–if he wasn’t pretending to be that kind of obsessed-stalker-type guy in order to put her in the right frame of mind to be his puppet or something. I can’t yet see what he has to gain by giving her that particular false impression, but then, I’m not a megalomaniac like he is.
Or maybe he just likes her ass.
Bittorrent. 
I’ll take a stab. Most of the people that Ben can rely on for a hit job have been killed off. Any others might be too far away to get to the station in time or have lost faith in Ben (e.g., Richard?). We know that Juliet can kill from when she helped Sawyer/Kate escape. Some Others that are still faithful to Ben are used the same process they used to contact Juliet in the jungle to contact Ben in the basement.
I think Ben’s one weakness is his “mommy issues” - and he definitely has them. Any kid who loses a mom is going to have them. Lose a mom during childbirth, even more. Lose a mom during childbirth AND have your dad get drunk every year on your birthday and say “happy day you killed your mom, shithead” is going to give you a mommy complex to write home about.
So here comes this skinny blonde lady who sort of looks like Mommy and her purpose in life is to keep mommies from dying…it makes sense to me that Ben could easily lose his cool over her.
He needs a mommy, he needs a little sum’n-sum’n AND he needs someone to help him keep his little cult able to propagate. He doesn’t want to lose the perfect woman to any old Goodwin or Jack.
What is Locke going to blow up this time?
Miles?
-Joe
Hampshire, could you elaborate on your retraction? I liked your theory. And it seems to me that the conversation with the psych lady happened pretty early in her stay on the island. Couldn’t Juliet have learned about Ben’s “power” later on?
re what will Locke blow up next: The Freighter?
Someone we’d never expect to see again… Boone?
I was terribly confused about Juliet and Jack’s reaction to Harper, and the way she literally disappeared in front of their eyes. Do they already know about the Smoke Monster’s powers and manipulative qualities? Why wasn’t there a big fuss made over it?
I wonder if the Lost writers will ever learn that people blindly doing stupid things when an explanation to other people would work much, much better… is only fun the first thousand times you do it. Seriously, what the fuck?
More time travel! Arzt didn’t blow up, he poofed into the future, on the freighter!
I think you’re on to something, there.
Hurley: You got some… Arzt… on you
Arzt became unstuck in space, not time. 
As long as we are playing around with the time paradox here, why couldn’t Ben’s man on the freighter be… Ben?
I like that idea. Of course, it makes a little too much sense, so it’s probably wrong.
I believe the philosophy of the writers is that nothing has to make sense until the last episode, when all will be explained by someone saying, “Well, it’s complicated.” Fade to black.