My apologies if I let too much reality leak out of my fingertips onto the keyboard. I think
I was able, flaneuse, to read between your lines without reading too much into them;
and given your number of posts, humbly beg your pardon.

I guess, from my own perspective, I see the island as a microcosm. We have an "us,"
being our favorite castaways, and an assortment of "thems." First there were the
"others" and then we discover the D.I., and now we have a new group of bad guys.
I'm not usually the clinical one. I have the creative gene. But I like a mystery, and
that's one of the reasons I love this show. To borrow G'Kar's words from B-5 : "No
one here is quite what they appear." We find this out through the use of flashback
almost every week. Everyone is as equally capable of creating works of stunning
beauty and unspeakable cruelty; and without getting into any more social commentary,
this is as true of the survivors as all the rest of us.

I just have one question: How do you move an island?