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I took it as another form of pennance. He was silent for 40 days after killing the two men. He then braided the bottom portion of his beard into two, presumably signifying the two men he killed, until he could confess what he had done to someone. To me, it seems that Eko has assumed that Gail is one of the Others and is thus seeking forgiveness from one of them for his actions.
I don't disagree with Locke's past. Your assessment of his character is spot-on, but on the island so far he has been much, much different. I guess, my point is that this guy was so freaking headstrong with the hatch, teaching boone the lesson about shannon, beating charlie down about the baby, etc. And all of a sudden in the past couple of episodes, we have what seems to me at least quite a different Locke. And by now, wouldn't those guys realize that they need people like Ecko and Sayid on the leadership team? Besides Sayid's beating of Gale, the guy has been crucial to their survival on the island yet Jack and Locke act as though both he and Ecko are not important. again, i am grossly overanalyzing, but how do they expect to stand up against anyone or anything with such a ridiculous lack of organization.
Good call. I think Desmond is probably a dupe here. And that the button is total bogus. If it had any power/signifigance, these Others who are pretty clearly linked to Dharma would know about it and they wouldn't leave it in the hands of those who might let it run down, if not running down was actually critical.Therefore, I am firmly convinced that the timer running out causes nothing.
I'm not saying answer every question and close every story - that's the end of the show. But right now, except for us knowing that pretty much every survivor had some kind of contact with another survivor or their family before the plane crash, what do we really have to work with?Each mystery opens three more. All I'm saying is that at some point they are going to have so many tangents going at once that it will be impossible to tie them all together in any satisfactory way.
I'm definitely very intrigued by this idea. In response to why would they leave the beard and disguises in the lockers....what if they have clothing/disguises like this at several different locations? So if they are at any location on the island, they can quickly get their disguises and move.
That was my take on it as well. I also think he was sending a message as well that the survivors aren't as powerless or weak as The Others may assume.
Except for when Jack finshed off the US Marshall after Sawyer botched the first attempt at mercy killing. While Danielle seems to have moments of lucidity, she also doesn't seem to be the most balanced individual. If you had your child stolen from you, you'd probably go a little loopy too and the presence of firearms on a weird freaking island can lead you to do things normally out of character.
So, which one of the Zekes wore the fake beard? The original, or the clone?All the posts about him being a clone, were from during the show. Any post, after the point when Kate was going through the lockers puts that theory to rest.Uhh Zeke all cleaned up and shaven and then less than 2 weeks later with a long beard. Its either a twin, clone, or a fake beard.But what is the theory based on, dude.
Ecko was chopping down the tree with an axe, and they showed him having some difficulty bringing it down. Because of this, he went to the hatch and asked Locke for a saw. This is why he was in the hatch and how he figured out that they were holding someone prisoner.The first impression that I had of the Ethan/Claire/Baby/injection scene, was that there really is an illness but there's not enough serum for everyone (like Ethan said), so they are collecting kids to repopulate their ranks b/c there is no way off the island so that's how they are getting fresh recruits.
Even infants? Rousseau told Claire that if the baby was truly infected, she hoped Claire would do what she had to do -- which I took to mean Claire would have to kill the baby.
This bothered me at the time too. You don't just jam the needle in willy-nilly. If they really wanted us to believe he injected the baby, they could have panned to the ultrasound screen and shown the needle sticking the baby in the leg or something. My guess it that it was sloppy production.
This has some interesting possiblities:The "why didn't you make the list" line suggests a couple of tangents:
Um, I think you're taking that statement from the wrong angle. He claims he couldn't make a list because they found out he wasn't on the manifest. I'm pretty sure "making a list" refers to something similar to the list the tailies found, and it was a list of people they intended to kidnap.
Nice call
My first guess was that the "He" Zeke was referring to was Mr. DeGroot.
A small prop plane took off from Africa and crash landed on this island out in the Pacific. That is physically impossible. Therefore, there is no rational explanation for what is going on. This has to all be a dream, an experiment, or this is supernatural (i.e. the Roman Gods are doing it).
Those numbers again. Signifigance to the numbers tied in to the medicine/drugs? Probably just the opposite, but intriguing.
i cant imagine they have left it. i would guess they have several places that they stay at, and when they are not at certain places they make it appear like it is deserted. we know they are all very cautious about covering their tracks.
...and the booty that Claire made for Aaron, and the flashlights. They took the operating table, but why did they leave and knock over that heavy ### medical refrigerator??Desmond - Major Other
I think you are correct, there are probably multiple disguises. I do think that they scrapped/left that medical hatch because Claire escaped. I am sure that they are also aware of the french lady, so they probably also don't want her to find them.Also, one interesting thing in terms of the fake beard timeline is that Zeke had his beard and hat on when he kidnapped Walt, but he did not have the same hat on (which Kate found) when they kidnapped Kate and told Locke/Jack/Sawyer to not bother them again.
If that's the case, they would've/should've booby-trapped it or posted a guard.
I think I agree, but I do not think Danielle is an Other. I think she is the last living member of her expedition, which 16 years ago was in the same position as the flight 815 survivors. Based on her reactions when she didn't find the Others after taking Aaron and other times, I don't think she is a plant. We even saw evidence of that when she brought Claire back to the survivors.
Not necessarily. I meant that they didn't want to leave evidence of what the Others are "really" doing on the island. I don't think they care that they find the hatch itself, versus being able to go through the medical hatch with everything in tact.They haven't killed all of the flight 815 folks, so they don't just want them dead, but they definitely don't want the flight 815 folks going into their "territory" and finding out more about what the Others are actually doing, i.e. the Dharma experiments.
I thought that was interesting....
The episode that followed the Tailies exclusively didn't have flashbacks to pre-island life.
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