When I first saw the arrow attack I was thinking about natives (who build the temple and the statue) might have been the attackers. Maybe the army men are expecting them when they stumble into Juliett and Sawyer?

On the other hand, when Marvin Candle did his video shoot he referred for "the arrow!" as a station developing techniques to defend the initiative against the "hostiles". Does this mean our Dharma-men are learning to shoot the arrows?

I am looking forward to the explanation of the fire arrows.

good observation. "the Arrow" ...arrow attacks ...kinda makes sense.
(maybe it was an early way for the DI to defend against the Hostiles)

What I do not get is the time of this attack..is it the past ( army guys from WWII maybe), sorta present (from 70s to 2000), or FUTURE. Did anyone notice anything that might be a marker?
(I need to rewatch)

I just remembered that after Locke was injured and Richard pulled the bullet from his leg the next flash appeared to lead to a certain point where the smuggler's plane was back on the hill. If between ep1 and ep2 wasn't another flash then it must have been shortly after Jemi's plane crashed and pre-815-crash.

So these guys were "the others" or another party of which we haven't heard yet.

I'm pretty sure I know the answer (cuz it looked cool on tv), but why light the arrows on fire? If your desired result is to wipe these people out, wouldn't a bunch of undetectable arrows coming from out of nowhere do the trick a lot quicker than ones lighting up the sky?

I'm pretty sure I know the answer (cuz it looked cool on tv), but why light the arrows on fire? If your desired result is to wipe these people out, wouldn't a bunch of undetectable arrows coming from out of nowhere do the trick a lot quicker than ones lighting up the sky?

I was thinking the same thing. Also, I don't think they are Dharma people because why shoot arrows (flaming or otherwise) when you have automatic weapons? Perhaps the Arrow Station was named after an earlier indigenous people that used arrows. Perhaps it was this group that built the statue to the 4-toed god/goddess.

I just have one comment about the arrows, I'm glad one of them hit that frogurt guy!! He was quite annoying.

It seemed to me that the flaming arrows had a "primal" or "primitive" feel to them. I (maybe wrongly) assumed the arrows were our "time indicators".... meaning "pre-Dharma"....

thoughts?

Yeah, I was pretty happy to see Fro-freakin'-gourt get one in the chest too!

It seemed to me that the flaming arrows had a "primal" or "primitive" feel to them. I (maybe wrongly) assumed the arrows were our "time indicators".... meaning "pre-Dharma"....

thoughts?

Agreed 100% The only thing the time skips were missing was having the losties chased by a T-Rex! Kind of a cliché moment.

I think the Island timeskips keep going back between the same two time periods. One period in which the DI is just getting underway, the orchid station is still half excavated, and there is a just starting conflict between the hostiles and the DI. (In which the losties are caught in the middle). That is the flaming arrows were shot by the hostiles at the losties-because the hostiles thought the losties were DI, and the DI army-security types were gonna hack off juliets arm because they thought Juliet and Sawyer were "hostiles". The other period is just after Yemi's plane crash, when Desmond is still pushing the button.

Yeah first time I saw Frogert the red shirt I knew it was sooner then later for him.

In Medieval seige tactics, flaming arrows had a few different purposes.

The obvious purpose (and least likely in this case) was to start fires inside a keep or stronghold. The other two common purposes (which are much more likely) are to terrify and shock the enemy during a seige and to drive them in a desired direction. Arrows raining down from a dark sky will cause the enemy to scatter in all directions; however, arrows from an obvious direction will push the enemy in a chosen direction.

Now, whether or not this has any bearing on what the writers were thinking about is a crapshoot... I just wanted to share some info.

It may not mean anything but in the Bible, Benjamin is the son of Jacob and Rachel (who dies in childbirth.) Benjamin's tribe is noted throughout the bible as archers and slingers.