Others' Justice?













Stranger in a Strange Land bothers me on so many levels, but the main problem I have with it is how inconsistent The Others' justice system and leadership structure seems to be in this episode. Why would they have a trial without Ben? Why wouldn't The Sheriff have questioned Ben? Why wouldn't Juliet had said to Isabel, "I was following Ben's orders." Why was Juliet present when Isabel questioned Jack?

Was Isabel acting outside her authority? Was she the Vice President stepping in during Ben's incapacitation or was she pulling an Al Haig? I'm still not a 100% convinced that the trial was real and not just a continuation of the Jack con.













And what the heck have they done to Cindy and The Children of the Corn? Room 23? Do they have a Room 23 equivalent back in Othersville?

If I hear "it's complicated" or some similar phrase again from these people, I, like Jack, am liable to lose it.

Cindy Theories













Following up yesterday's post, it's time for your theories
about Cindy. I think its very clear from Abandoned
that Cindy is fearful of the people who've taken the rest
of the Tailies. Here's her dialogue:

Cindy: Ana, it's got to be over an hour. Shouldn't we
start moving again?
Cindy: Yeah, but what if they come?
Cindy: What?
Cindy: How many were there?
Cindy: Shhhh.
Cindy: Ana's right, maybe we should just push on.

Other than "What?" all of those lines indicate she
doesn't want the Others to find them and she's willing
to sacrifice Sawyer for herself.

But by the time we see her in Season 3 (I will avoid the
name of that dread episode) Cindy is "one of them."
I know, I know it's complicated. So what happened
with Cindy?

I'm assuming her name wasn't on the list that Ana
will recover in the next episode or they would have
mentioned it. So why take her a mile from the Fusies
beach when the only other people they've taken from
that camp were Claire and Charlie?

My guess is that once they got Zach and Emma they
figured out they needed Cindy much like they figured
out they needed Michael after leaving him to be
eaten by sharks. Oh how my ideas about the mighty
Others have changed from the silent, all-powerful people
to those who have to keep changing the plan because
they hadn't given it enough forethought.

Was Flight 815 Really Off Course?

Were the pilot and Cindy involved in a plot to find or prevent
the finding of the Island? Crazy question, I know, but . . .

When Jack, Kate and Charlie find the cockpit, the body of
the co-pilot falls out the cockpit door, but the pilot and
passengers are strapped in. Why is the co-pilot not strapped
in, yet dead? Did the pilot take him out before he took out
the radio? Was he in league with someone to bring these
people to the Island as some think or was he even employed
by the same people employing Naomi in an attempt to locate
the Island? Was the pilot killed by Smokey because of this?

And Cindy, Cindy knew the radio was out and that they were
off course, she seemed genuinely frightened of the people stealing
passengers from the Tailie beach, but now she's very integrated
into the Others and her disappearance was very suspicious.
Why take Cindy so close to the Fusies and from a group unless
she's "One of You?"