The Island is "Done With You" *Spoilers up to "Everybody Loves Hugo"*

[Mojochi]

Is Ben onto something? Is there something more to Ilana's death, than just stupidly swinging around a bag of dynamite? Why else would they have revisited that plot device, so exactly? I find it hard to accept that it was just to make her character nothing more than a big fat joke

I somehow get the feeling that her dying like that, has a point which is fundamental to what the island actually is, & this is why Jack can't kill himself with dynamite, Michael can't kill himself with a gun, & Desmond can't prevent Charlie's death indefinitely.

Is there some kind of predestination going on here, & is Ben correct in thinking it's the island itself, or is it something else?

 

[sidious618]

Re: The Island is "Done With You" *Spoilers up to "Everybody Loves Hug

I don't think the Island kills you per se. I think it just stops protecting you and therefore you have a higher chance of dying.

 

[Mojochi]

Re: The Island is "Done With You" *Spoilers up to "Everybody Loves Hug

I don't think the Island kills you per se. I think it just stops protecting you and therefore you have a higher chance of dying.

That is reasonable. Her real mistake then, was in haphazardly going about dangerous business, thinking she was important, when she really wasn't

It doesn't really explain why Charlie couldn't avoid death though, if the two are related

 

[Hober Mallow]

Re: The Island is "Done With You" *Spoilers up to "Everybody Loves Hug

The sense I got from Ben was that it seemed to him when the island was done with you it actually killed you, not that it simply stops protecting you. Ben mentioned how it was funny that Ilana came all that way to give just a certain amount of information and then bite it.

 

[Stone_Cold_Sisko]

Re: The Island is "Done With You" *Spoilers up to "Everybody Loves Hug

I think it was just a line by the writers to address their own sloppy writing with the Ilana character.

Either that, or they are going for a meta-type storyline with the show's writers being the hand that controls all the weird stuff on the island.