Re: Lost--"Just go ahead and do i-"<Bang!> ("The Shape of Things

cloud dreamer sent the following on 4/25/2008 2:41 PM:
> PV wrote:
>> rwgibson13 <rwgibson13@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
>>> I dunno about the "justifies some of his evilness" part.  Remember,
>>> instead of giving himself up, he CHOSE to disown Alex by daring the
>>> guy to go ahead and kill her because "she's not really my daughter."
>>>
>>> RWG (I mean, really, what did he THINK was gonna happen?)
>>
>> Obviously, he expected Widmore's men to follow the rules of the
stylized
>> conflict that he's having with Ben. Apparently up until now, whatever
the
>> fight is, loved ones were considered out of bounds. *
> 
> But he told them she wasn't his daughter...and still complained the 
> rules were broken. Has to be one or the other. Doesn't work with both.

I'm guessing some people are on a "Do not kill" list, and Alex was one 
of them.  The disowning of Alex was a futile attempt to convince Keamy 
that she didn't mean anything special to Ben, whose response to Alex's 
death showed that it was all a bluff on his part.

-- 
Jim Gysin
Waukesha, WI