LOST: Nemesis the Fallen Robot Angel

I'm sitting here thinking, and I just got a bad feeling. (apparently, I've got all day too)

I had forgotten about "Cerberus" and how Ben referred to the Monster as the Island's defense mechanism. So there's this big moment where Ben realizes that the Monster is not an "It," but a "Who." During his entire stay on the island (30 years or more), he's been convinced that the monster is some kind of "thing." I don't remember for sure, but I think he said he doesn't know and doesn't care what the monster is, but he seems to not think of it as a person. He doesn't act like it's intelligent. There's that whole rigamarole with Ben going down into his basement to "summon the monster." They keep it out of their compound with a sonic fence, as if it were some kind of beast. Cerberus is a dog, etc.

Then they did that thing last season where Locke would disappear and then the monster would show up (and vice versa), so all us clever folks would slowly figure out that Locke and the monster are the same entity. I don't know if they really showed us yet that Ben has worked out the whole thing in his head: If the monster is Locke, maybe the monster can be other people, and Alex was probably the monster as well. He doesn't seem freaked out enough yet.

So far, the big reveal is the confirmation of our suspicions that Locke is the monster when he says to Ben, "I'm sorry you had to see me like that." Everybody goes "Ahah! I knew it!," right? See where I'm going? It makes the most sense (which is what worries me), and gives an explanation for the various apparitions. Nemesis has been on the island since the beginning of time (or whatever) and he sometimes turns into a big flying smoke cloud filled with flashes of light that can pick people up and throw them around, read their thoughts, and make a slideshow appear inside the smoke.

But what if Nemesis/Locke is lying (about this too)? What if Locke and the monster aren't the same creature? What if Locke just wants Ben to think he's the monster (and the writers want us to think he's the monster), but he's really not? Why does Locke still have to run away before the monster appears -- why not just have him transform or whatever? (maybe because they don't have the budget, but they're already animating the smoke)

Here's the thing: I'm still bothered by the technological sounds that precede the monster's appearance. It's either some kind of machine or some kind of supernatural creature right? So, is Nemesis a space robot? or a fallen angel? Can't really be both (well, I hope not anyway). If the monster is a machine, then so is Nemesis. I don't think Nemesis is a machine. Of course, maybe the monster merely makes those noises because the writing staff thought it "sounded spooky," and they didn't work out an explanation for why the man-killing smoke amoeba ancient (?) island avenger sounds like a taxi-cab printer.

This is the kind of thing that makes me worry that the whole thing is a joke and people are overthinking it (guilty as hell), trying to assign logical explanations to stuff that won't/can't have an explanation because it's random non-sequitur (someone up there wrote Mad Lib) and the writers are just yanking our chains and have no intention of it all making sense in the end. That would suck. I dig the show, but I think I'm gonna get screwed.

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