Darren Delgado wrote:
> 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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>>>>>> 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?
Well that's purely conjecture too. That *force* from the
freighter...being
*very* limited in numbers (they can't take many at one time in the
chopper)
doesn't seem overwhelming at all.
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