Not sure I'm following you on that last paragraph, Pyro. (??)
I knew it was going to blow up (and you'll like this) when yes, they found the C4, BUT when they were looking at those white boxed Dharma things, and the logo was a flame. (You know they have the Hydro hatch and the other hatches have names. I knew there was a Flame hatch coming, but I didn't know how we'd see it.)
What confuses me about the black woman telling Patchy to shoot her is this: Whoever these people are, are they REALLY that committed to the cause to martyr themselves to gain a SINGLE small advantage in a single skirmish? Or is there even more going on with Patchy and this station? What was she protecting in that house/hut/hatch (that is now gone)?
I can't wait till the Losties stumble on the little bungalows of sweetness. Ought to be more than a little interesting.
I think I knew the Others weren't necessarily Dharma, but I'm still fuzzy on where the overlap is. I guess I figured if Ben was telling the truth when he said he'd lived on the island all his life, that meant he wasn't a Dharma-in-charge person. He had to be a descendant of one. If he was born there, his parents might be/have been Dharma. And since Patchy's revealed now NOT to be Dharma, are any of the originals left? Ben's middle-aged, so the Dharma people would have to be older (assuming they were a single group of people at a single point in time and not being replenished by a new generation).
It is confusing ... but in a GOOD "Lost" sort of way!!