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I'm thinking Faraday is going to warn young Ben about the island and it's properties - probably something to do with warning him that should some things happen at the island (like a nuclear explosion) there would be a rip in the space/time continuum that would, as Hawking said, kill us all. Probably Jughead has something to do with the hatch, and probably Desmond hitting the failsafe kept it from going happening.
Maybe the island should normally be able to move through space/time (or normally just space?) using the wheel, but because the O6 had left, it now has some kind of constant problem that will hopefully be restored shortly after the return of the O6 to the island, although possibly the wheel has to be turned yet another time - maybe by Widmore?
Who knows? Because of the Locke/Bentham dichotomy we got last week, I have to think that both Ben and Widmore are both aiming at some greater good, and think that the good that they are trying to create justifies the means they are using, since Bentham is famous for inventing Utilitarianism. This approach has it's advantages, but often the people acting this way lose site of the good that they were aiming at, and take ever more drastic steps ever more removed from that goal, and eventually see keeping themselves in control as the most important thing. I have no idea what they're after - maybe Widmore wants to use the island-as-time-machine to try and improve the state of humanity, and Ben - as told by Faraday - understands that this would destroy the world? I really couldn't say. I do think, though, that they are clearly after something more than their own control of the island, something that justifies everything they've done.
Locke, OTOH, is named after John Locke, a natural law theorist - people who never see the ends as justifying the means. The advantage is that these people hardly ever become immoral in their means in their quest toward the greater good, but often sacrifice the chance to ever reach that end because of their inability or unwillingness to use whatever means necessary. Locke's just too much of a good person to understand who's playing him, and why, and what to do about it. He's very easily manipulated. I don't think it's a writing flaw, I think it must be intentional.
I have no idea where this is ultimately going, but it looks like they're setting up a big thematic paradox/moral dilemma for the next season, and I would guess that Locke is still the sacrifice. And that Ben and Widmore will destroy each other. And that the Island will get what it needs (that is, Jack, to be Jacob) in the end.
Also, I now think the cave people really might be Rose and Bernard.
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