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Originally Posted by Assani Fisher
The MAJOR THEME of season 2 was "the Others"...who were they, were they really good as they said, if so why did they act so strangely and do so many seemingly bad things? This isn't some minor theme I'm making up.
And it turns out that the Others were just a completely ordinary group of people. We are given no reason for why they are so ridiculously hostile towards the Losties. We are given no reason for why Ben went to all that trouble just to get Jack to operate on him.
Childbirth, the importance of children(remember when they kidnapped Zach and Emma and let them live but killed the others?), the importance of Walt/Aaron...this was a HUGE THEME throughout the first 3 seasons.
Ben vs Widamore.....at one point in time, we thought this was THE BIGGEST THEM ON THE ENTIRE SHOW.
If you say that I'm nitpicking with some of my list, then thats fine. But these 3 things above were huge themes that went absolutely nowhere.
Why the Others were hostile has already been explained by Phil and by myself. Ben was a bad leader, corrupted by power, selfish, sought to control the island but was upset by his perceived lack of communion with it, MiB was manipulating him, etc etc...
As for the children being kidnapped and Zach and Emma and WAAAAALLLLLTT, I consider this the nut low point of the show. The fact it went nowhere is fine by me, but even so, it can still be explained! They were people Jacob was interested in, perhaps on those "lists" that were given to Richard by Jacob. However, once under the supervision of Ben, things were handled very poorly.
Agree that Ben and Widmore deserved a more fulfilling arc.
But seriously, Room 23, WAAAALLLT (THAT'S MY SON!), Ben doing surgery on Jack...these were not the show's finest run of episodes. And not coincidently, they were the point in the show where the network kept telling the writers to spin their wheels and not set an end date.