My Serious, Logical Thoughts on Sundown

TITLE
Refers to the Ultimatum of Claire that the Others have until Sundown to leave the temple.

WHY?
Why does the Locke-ness monster hate the Others so much? Well, it must have something to do with the fact that the Others followed Jacob who is the arch enemy of Locke-ness. However now that Jacob is gone and Locke-ness being as powerful as he is are they really a threat? And why kill them if you are going to leave the island? One might speculate that he is not really going to leave or perhaps because when he does leave if he left the Others alive then another Jacob would rise up to give him trouble wherever he is. Remember it is Jacob that had Locke-ness imprisoned on the island in the first place. He can only leave now because Jacob is dead.

SAYID
Sayid it seems has been tricked into becoming a bad guy. As Turgo said, once the darkness reached his heart there would be nothing left of the friend of Jack. That would seem to have happened. Sayid has now turned to the dark side and there is no turning back. This is why when Ben tries to get Sayid telling him there is still time Sayid replies not for me. Did you ever think that Ben would seem like more of a good guy than Sayid? So what Turgo said would happen has happened.
Locke-ness woos Sayid to his side by promising him his one love, Nadia, if he helps. Ben has referred to a box on the island and whatever you wanted could appear in that box. Perhaps Locke wished that his father would arrive on the island so much that he actually did. If so then this is a sad end to a character that I would have liked to have seen redeem himself after having been a torturer. But we see in both timelines that he kills people. It is the destiny of Sayid to be who he is and not with Nadia. I am reminded what Nadia wrote on her photo: I will see you again in this life or the next. Notice Keamy makes an appearance in AT. He was the bad guy on the freighter who shot the daughter of Ben. Nice to see he dies in both timelines.
But will Locke-ness make good on his promises or is he all smoke? Pardon the pun there. Who is Locke-ness? How old is he and how does he turn into smoke? Questions that beg for an answer. Richard said that Locke-ness would kill everyone on the island. Well, that would include Sayid to whom he made the promise. We have no reason to doubt Richard. Recall Locke-ness is guilty of indiscriminant killing. Remember Mister Eko?

WHERE ARE THEY NOW?
Where was Jin in the normal timeline in this episode? I thought Jin was leading Claire to a back way into the temple? Where was Richard? Is he not a leading member of the Others? Was he not on his way back to the temple after he spoke to Sawyer trying to get him to come with him? Do you think Bernard and Rose are out there somewhere? Perhaps they also got transported through time.
We do see Jin in AT when he is tied up at the end. Recall why Jin was on that plane? He was delivering a watch to someone in L.A. That watch was most likely a message to someone whom the father of Sun was dealing with. No doubt a bad person. So perhaps it was Keamy. Jin seems to have been beat up. They may have been trying to get information out of him.

Is it a surprise that so many of the Others left to join Locke-ness. They do not seem concerned that many of their friends are now dead and the man(being) they are following killed them. Let us go back to when Ben talked to Locke about the submarine. Ben mentions that the submarine gave the illusion that his followers could still leave at any time. Ben states that not all his followers have made a full commitment. Based on this, we are not too surprised then to see so many abandon the cause to follow Locke-ness. Also Jacob is dead. With no one to follow now why stay on? I mean what would be the point really?

We learn how Turgo came to the island. Jacob promised him his son back. A very similar promise was made to Sayid to gain his loyalty. So it seems that the two sides use similar tactics to gain followers. It should also be noted that Jacob was instrumental in the death of Nadia by distracting Sayid. Jacob and Locke-ness use the desires of people to recruit them. One wonders though if they get what they want? Did Jacob bring back the son of Turgo? By the way we probably saw this son at the conservatory where the son of Jack was performing.

Another question to ask is will the new Claire kill Kate now that she knows that she took care of Aaron?

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