On Mar 23, 12:36 pm, "Dano" <janeandd...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Darren Delgado wrote:
> > On Mar 23, 3:53 am, "Caveat" <caveat-lec...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >> "Ed Stasiak" <estas...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>
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>>news:e2d66899-759d-45dd-a19b-876a4523f36d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >>>> Dano wrote
> >>>>> thinbluemime wrote
>
> >>>>> After 2 episode screenings and a thorough screen cap review, I
> >>>>> think Frank's errand was to trans****t some of the freighter sharp
> >>>>> shooters to the island for some Rousseau target practice.
>
> >>>> You call those guys *sharpshooters*? How many tries did it take
> >>>> them to hit the targets...using automatic weapons.
>
> >>> Try shooting some Skeet or Trap with a _shotgun_ and tell us
> >>> how many clays you manage to hit....
>
> >>>> Didn't seem very accurate to me.
>
> >>> If those hits weren't just pure luck, we're talking about an Annie
> >>> Oakley level of accuracy here.
>
> >>>> I think the writers intent was to make us *think* it was them. It
> >>>> isn't often
> >>>> that things are as they appear at first glance.
>
> >>> I have no doubt that the reason they were shown shooting on the
> >>> boat, is because they are the ones who shot Karl and Danielle.
>
> >> But, if the boat people had orders to kill everyone on the island,
> >> why would they worry about having a silencer?
> >> They do have gas masks so I would think that gas was the intended
> >> method of *cleaning* the island of unwanted people.
>
> > No, I think they have gas masks because they feared that Ben could use
> > gas as a retaliation.
>
> > The helicopter crew went to the power station with a specific mission
> > to shut off the gas.
>
> Why bother if their intent was to kill everyone on the island anyway?
We don't know that their intent was to kill everyone. And even if it
was, they still had the drop on everyone on the Island. The only
possible full-scale retaliation would be to release the gas, so why
not be proactive and use the first day of the mission to knock out
that option?
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