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Well, I gotta say, at this point, it seems like the tailies were kind of a lame plot device and generally a waste. Every important, interesting one was killed off so freaking fast, and with so many unanswered questions. Libby makes her bizarre appearance in the asylum, Sawyer and Anna Lucia hook up and Ecko doesn't really get to do much of anything except for get killed by the black smoke. There was a lot of potential for future plots with all of these characters, and they've all been wiped out, so what was the point of it all?
Lots of time was spent with these characters. We got flashbacks for them, we spent time watching them and for what? AL and Libby's deaths provoked the assault on the Others, so I guess that was important, but in having them die there went a lot of the conflict that had been present in Season 2 between the Losties. Where did Ecko's death get us? How did that resolve the character? It all seemed a relatively unpolished attempt to get rid of a character, and I can't quite figure out why they did it.
Jack's in a pickle. That's about all there is to it. I'm inclined to agree that he won't kill Ben in a botched surgery. Jack isn't a killer, and it would fly in the face of literally everything that being a doctor stands for. At heart, Jack is still a doctor, and I have a very hard time believing he'd betray that core value.
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