I must admit that I am thouroughly disappointed that we will not get an answer to the outrigger scene from last season. I thought for sure that we'd get the answer to that. I thought maybe it would be Ben, Richard, and Miles following and them shooting warning shots at Locke and company to get them to stop and then Juliet pops a cap in Ben's ass. Or something like that. I would liked to have gotten an answer to the Hurley bird, who built the statue, what the hell happened to Annie (Ben's childhood sweetheart), who in the hell exactly was Henry Gale and how did he end up on the island, who was it exactly in the cabin (I mean we can speculate that it was the MIB but I would prefer a definitive answer), what the hell is up with Cindy's weird ass and why did they pick her to join The Others? And what about the kids? I mean were they candidates? Why were there still supply drops from Dharma and who was sending them? I would like these questions answered, especially the outrigger scene, but I guess we won't get them. I will still be happy with the finale either way. This has been the greatest show of my lifetime and nothing will ever come close!

Since they never had a plan and have just been making this all up as they went along, you probably won't get any answers to the older questions because they don't have them!

Is Ben Good or Evil? Seriously? Sure I guess I could give an nuanced answer about how he is both good and evil as this is the duality of man blah blah blah. Forget the fact that he manipulated Sayid into killing people. Forget the fact he shot Matthew Abaddon, stabbed Jacob or strangled Locke with a electrical cord.

HE USED POISON GAS TO WIPE OUT THE ENTIRE DHARMA INITIATIVE INCLUDING HIS OWN FATHER!

It's hard for me to believe that peoples moral compass' are that badly damaged. More likely they simply enjoy taking an indefensible position and argue it for sport as if there on the debate team. It might be useful to read a little about the law and learn terms like intent or premeditation.

I am glad we got to see what a good Linus would look like with the alternate universe. Hopefully this is the universe that becomes reality when Ben betrays the smoke monster...and you just know he will. It would be poetic as well giving him a measure of redemption by becoming who he could of been had he made different choices in life.

@chopsaki: Most of the characters in the show are morally grey! But are still considered either good or bad! Kate killed her step dad but is still considered good! Sawyer killed two men in cold blood but is still considered good! In earlier seasons some of the characters, like Sawyer, would flip back and forth between good and bad, but they don't do that much anymore! SO with that reasoning Ben could still turn out to be "good", or what passes for good on this show! Just my take on it, though!

 I think the answer to 11 has been addressed many many times.  He was just as "special" as all the other recruits that landed on the Island.  He was one of the chosen to take over the island.  I just think the actor outgrew the part, as well as Richardus, and they decided to let him go, the same way Kate could have been let go because she was a mother..

My big mystery is what the hell this outrigger scene is that everyone is so wrapped up in.  What are you guys talking about?  I don't remember this scene.

I love all these sites dedicated to questions that will not be answered.  I am just enjoying the last good series that will be on for awhile. 

Chopsaki, that's what I've been saying for months.  But SOME people still think Ben is good and just hiding it really well.

Let me point out that even the SLU Ben who wasn't contaminated by being brought back to life in the soul sucking out spring (look what happened to Sayid) resorted to blackmail when he wanted something.  He wasn't a very GOOD blackmailer, but SLU Ben hand't been working on his people manipulation skills his entire life.

Ben is a weak person, willing to do whatever it takes as opposed to, say, Jack, who right or wrong is, at least, a man of his convictions.

Makabriel, Episode 4 of Season 5, titled "The Little Prince", contains the outrigger scene in question. While Cuse and Lindelof have said they know who the shooters in the other outrigger are they are not going to explore their identities because they were already working towards the finale and it's not important to the overall narrative.

It's easy for us to judge what is right and what is wrong...or evil (Bush anyone???).

But, being in extreme circomstance, I don't think it's up to us to make such assumption in regards to Ben and his motives.

The Dharma initiative seemed like a bunch of scientific guys willing to sacrifice many human beings in order to change the course of the equation number (see lost experience for those details). Ben killed some of these scientist....he's killed but...sometimes if things are for the greater good, yes it's wrong to kill but if it saves 1000 times that many lives, we can't just ignore the circomstance of these actions.

Most of us would never kill to save people....but many have. How can we judge this?

I think ben is right in doing what he thinks he must do to protect the island but, obviously he's done very specific things he could've done in different way but now it's too late.

I kinda like this article but honestly.  By dewlling so much on questions you want answered you are setting yourself up for some major dissapointments.  They have two 50 min blocks of finale and the rest is commercial.  My guess is most if not all of those minuites will be spent concluding the show and telling that story.

The mysteries are very, VERY secondary to me.  If the show finished bad, then maybe I would have a beef about the questions.  But come on, Walt, Who was shooting in the outrigger,  The Hurley bird?  These are three that have very little impact on a show making me feel complete by getting an answer. 

And as for David's mother.  We are obviously going to see her as she will be at the concert.  So lets be a little patient. 

For all those non answers, maybe Darlton can collaborate and creat a book to sell all of us LOST junkies with some bunky answers.  And don't tell me nobody would but it.