Plus, it's made me remember why I liked Locke so much in the first place.
Yes. All season, we just got glimpses, und ones where he was usually in an antagonist position at that, so it was a relief we finally got something that showed his sympathetic traits as well as the others.
And, heh. *points at icon* Looks like he's won the "Who's specialer?" contest, for sure.
Aw, but look what happens to other special people. Hurley ends up in a mental institution (unless Bearded!Jack breaks him out of there in the future), and Ben, as he points out, got a tumor and a dead daughter out of it. If I were Locke, I'd be worried.
Btw, I think he meant the "I'm sorry these things happened to you" to Ben. Am currently pondering whether or not Locke is a vengeful person. I mean, obviously he tried again and again getting affection from his father even after the kidney thing which would have put others off for life, but that was his father, which means it doesn't necessarily apply to other people. Still, he seems remarkably grudge-free about the whole getting shot in the gut and left in a mass grave thing towards Ben, not just here but throughout the season so far. Some instinctive understanding?
Which begs the questions: who is Locke supposed to be the reincarnation of?
You are awesome. I wouldn't have thought of the Dalai Lama parallel, but yes, that's really the same kind of test. Hmmm. Someone from that boat that crashed on the island a few centuries ago?
My feeling, after watching this episode, is that he was probably giving them a false negative on the test. That early-manifesting knife fetish must have thrown it off, or something. :)
Or something. I also was reminded of that flashback ep in s3 when the undercover cop told him he was a gardener, not a hunter. Knife = manifestation of the part in Locke that resists his destiny, whatever that is? Otoh, it has come in really useful on the island since season 1.
Best Hurley line ever. Not least because I suspect he's not wrong. :)
He. We all suspected that was the reason, didn't we? Also, note that neither Locke nor Ben disagree with his assessment.
The idea that she, too, might be dead didn't really cross my mind, but it does seem dreadfully plausible, all things considered.
The more I think about it, the more Dead Claire Walking makes sense. Because she really was right in the center of that explosion, and not a scratch on her? Also, it really would explain why Miles kept looking at her. (Miles doesn't strike me as a guy who'd automatically leer at any pretty young woman if he's in a life-threatening situation.) And yes, she wasn't on good terms with Christian Shephard when last they met, though she changed her mind about him later.
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Date: 2008-05-10 04:16 pm (UTC)Yes. All season, we just got glimpses, und ones where he was usually in an antagonist position at that, so it was a relief we finally got something that showed his sympathetic traits as well as the others.
And, heh. *points at icon* Looks like he's won the "Who's specialer?" contest, for sure.
Aw, but look what happens to other special people. Hurley ends up in a mental institution (unless Bearded!Jack breaks him out of there in the future), and Ben, as he points out, got a tumor and a dead daughter out of it. If I were Locke, I'd be worried.
Btw, I think he meant the "I'm sorry these things happened to you" to Ben. Am currently pondering whether or not Locke is a vengeful person. I mean, obviously he tried again and again getting affection from his father even after the kidney thing which would have put others off for life, but that was his father, which means it doesn't necessarily apply to other people. Still, he seems remarkably grudge-free about the whole getting shot in the gut and left in a mass grave thing towards Ben, not just here but throughout the season so far. Some instinctive understanding?
Which begs the questions: who is Locke supposed to be the reincarnation of?
You are awesome. I wouldn't have thought of the Dalai Lama parallel, but yes, that's really the same kind of test. Hmmm. Someone from that boat that crashed on the island a few centuries ago?
My feeling, after watching this episode, is that he was probably giving them a false negative on the test. That early-manifesting knife fetish must have thrown it off, or something. :)
Or something. I also was reminded of that flashback ep in s3 when the undercover cop told him he was a gardener, not a hunter. Knife = manifestation of the part in Locke that resists his destiny, whatever that is? Otoh, it has come in really useful on the island since season 1.
Best Hurley line ever. Not least because I suspect he's not wrong. :)
He. We all suspected that was the reason, didn't we? Also, note that neither Locke nor Ben disagree with his assessment.
The idea that she, too, might be dead didn't really cross my mind, but it does seem dreadfully plausible, all things considered.
The more I think about it, the more Dead Claire Walking makes sense. Because she really was right in the center of that explosion, and not a scratch on her? Also, it really would explain why Miles kept looking at her. (Miles doesn't strike me as a guy who'd automatically leer at any pretty young woman if he's in a life-threatening situation.) And yes, she wasn't on good terms with Christian Shephard when last they met, though she changed her mind about him later.