Reflections on a second look.
Walt wasn’t upset when his mother first started to get sick. He started to get upset when they wouldn’t listen to him because she was sick. Then the bird did the kamakazee run.
Claire really doesn’t look pregnant, but like everyone else says, it’s too dark to know for sure.
Boone should have been hit by Walt’s flying knife just for being stupid enough to stand right by the target.
Am I the only one that doesn’t buy “The Cult of the Knife”?
Locke was handing those things out like candy when it was time to hunt. Including one to Kate who I don’t remember ever speaking to Locke beyond pleasantries and direction questions.
The knives are meaningless as symbolism.
So, can we agree that Rousseau is now officially to be known as CFL?
Concerning polar bears… Was Michael with the group that encountered the very first one? I’m wondering if Walt “summoned” the first one, too. Is there anything about that incident that would indicate Walt was involved?
Aslo, if he has this amazing ability to summon animals, why can’t he summon Vincent? Surely he’s been angry at other times, too.
I’m not totally in on that aspect of it, either.
However, if by TCotK, they mean the giving in to Locke’s power, then yeah.
So, his giving knives out is separate from his bringing you in to the inner circle.
Yeah, I got nothin…
He wasn’t standing anywhere near the target. He was leaning against a tree over to Walt’s right.
Another thought about Walt, and indirectly Locke:
It seems like a stretch to me that Walt is somehow causing things to manifest (it’s too Forbidden Planet monsters-of-the-id and will be unsatisfying to me if that’s how things turn out), but given that stepfather Brian previously referred to him as special, perhaps we should consider Walt, rather than an active but unconscious cause of the island’s weirdness, but as a conduit.
In other words, he brings to the island some quality we don’t quite understand yet. The island, by what means we also don’t yet understand (not to mention for what reason), capitalizes on Walt’s quality and uses it to bring things about. In this interpretation, the island is the actor, not Walt, and better yet, I think it fits much more tightly with how we’ve been seeing Locke develop. The island (or whatever force it represents) is obviously using Locke; seems to me we should be considering the Walt puzzle from the same angle.
(By the way, is there a more interesting character on television now than Locke? I can’t think of a single one. Tony Soprano, maybe, but given the absurdly long hiatuses that show takes, I’m discounting it for now.)
Possibly Al Sweringen from Deadwood.
I’ve watched it twice. He was standing only a few feet away from the tree Walt was using as a target for the knife.
I seem to remember that he was relitively close by, but I don’t know about mere feet… What was clear to me, tho, was that it was shot with a long focus (telephoto) lens, thus giving us that wonderful compressed distance look that hilights certain aspects of a scene or shot.
Everyone’s right.
I’ll see if I can find a screenshot. If it was a clock face, the target tree was at 12, Walt was at 6, Locke and Boone were at 8 and 4 respectively. It was particularly clear when they had the low camera shot from near the foot of the tree, with the tree in the extreme foreground and Walt “visualizing” the knot. Boone and Locke were also in the background on either side of Walt.
Considering he’d been missing all his other attempts, it’s not like Locke would’ve just let Boone stand there like a yutz.
Maybe he would. I can picture him saying with calm intensity:
“It took your finger. That means you didn’t need it. Let it go.”
May I just add that, as much as I am enjoying Lost, and I am, these threads intimidate the hell out of me. Reading them, it’s like I’m a pedestrian admiring all the beautiful cars whizzing by on the 8-lane highway right in front of me: I am just not equipped to join in with any hope of keeping up. :eek:
I love reading them, though. 
We’re just fans. Extremely passionate and observant fans, but still simply fans.
Join in at any point in the threads, none of us own them, nor would anyone look down on any other fan’s input. (If I may be so bold as to speak for the majority here.)
Based on past history, you wouldn’t go wrong picking some random character we haven’t talked about yet, and saying, “Okay, but I bet this person is gay.”
Nah, jump right in. Nobody bites. About the only thing that might get you snickered at is if you claim to be the very first person to have noticed something when it’s already been noticed several times, and discussed, on pages one through three.
How about when Michael was talking about building a raft with Sayidd, Jack et al. Everyone voiced their objections, then Shannon spoke up and said, “And I get seasick” All the group looked nonplussed. Funny moment.
(Oh on the raft…no poster thought…Michael Row the boat ashore…???)
As awful as Shannon is, she’s kind of great in her own way.
I love these threads. I may not comment a heck of a lot on them, but I come back and read them every chance I get. Everything’s so open to interpretation that every time I come back, there’s always some intriguing new idea. Or, if not a new idea, at least a good joke.
I disagree. That baby has been birthed, and is now being “Raised by Another.”
He was also called lucky by his father, which supports your theory.
But how was he acting as a conduit before landing on the island?