Ben seems like the kind of guy to always be thinking ahead. If the sub is blown up I suspect Ben secretly has another one. If Ben gives Michael a boat I suspect Ben secretly has another one. Something is flying overhead and making food drops, maybe there's already a runway, but it's always good to have a backup plan.

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maybe the food drop was sent by ben to keep the losties alive, he seems to want that. i.e not killlin the 3 boys last night!!!!

i think they r building a runway

Why does all the food still being dropped still have Dharma logos printed on them? The Real World Dharma Initiative suspects nothing after Ben killed everyone?

I think maybe the others have been posing as dharma for along time so they can gather outside info, get food drops, and keep other dharma people from coming. I believe naomi was from dharma sent there to find out what had happened, there would be no other way to communicate because of the jamming equipment. maybe that is why locke killed naomi because he now knew the island needed protection from the outside world. (jacob/walt?) told him he had work to do.

Don't think the island is a very good place to land. Eko's brother's plane crashed, Oceanic 815 crashed and Naiomi's helicopter crashed. I'm not sure building a runway is going to help.

"Idle hands are the devils workshop" so the old saying goes. I believe Ben was keeping people busy so they would not question his judgement or have time to conspire against him.
The funny thing is, the Others who were overseeing Kate and Sawyer and the anonymous others doing the work, were looking at plans. Perhaps they were continuing the work of Dharma because they believed that what Dharma was striving for was noble, even if the people running Dharma were not.

I never understood exactly what Kate and Sawyer were doing with the rocks. Were they just moving the rocks from one place to another?

Sawyer never seemed to have to haul them very far.

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charlie98210
"Whoa!" she said. "Cry 'Havoc!' And let loose the dogs of war!"
And, like Banquo's ghost, they just won't go away.

when kate + swayer were working, there were other people working were these others that were bad, were they dharama people that were allowed to live but had to work or were they people that landed on the island.

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Hurley: What about the B-O-D-Y-S?
Michael: What are spelling, man? Bodies?
Walt: B-O-D-I-E-S.

Hurley: Dude, you've got some Artz on you.

Bernard: I'm a dentist, not Rambo.
Rose: And don't forget that!

Good question.

I thought that the rock thing was some sort of punishment program. Sort of like in the movie Cool Hand Luke, where they had Paul Newman move stuff from one side of the yard to the other.

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charlie98210
"Whoa!" she said. "Cry 'Havoc!' And let loose the dogs of war!"
And, like Banquo's ghost, they just won't go away.