You didn’t see the horse? It was right there in front of Eko. Only this time it looked more like an amorphous black cloud than a horse, but a horse nonetheless.
No pics but I did review the episode this afternoon. The working plane has it’s number very promenintly displayed in two-foot letters on the fuselage behind the cargo door. On the island, you can see the same side of the aircarft when Eko is approaching the same door and a different number is seen there in much smaller lettering. A continuity screw-up for sure. They didn’t even try to get close.
I got the impression that Eko was quite religious as a boy, and even thought he may have been heading toward the priesthood before the incident with the war lords. It was Eko’s cross, after all, that the priest was wearing. It seemed to me that his brother was only holding his cross and his vocation while mistereko took care of more Earthly matters.
He’s clearly a man who understands the shades of gray that exist between righteousness and sin, and I believe his understanding comes from spending most of his adulthood living there. He’s a pragmatist. That’s why he took his brother’s place, (he knew his brother’s soul wouldn’t survive that life, while his would) why he engineered a plan to benefit the church by smuggling heroin out of his country, (a wrong with a good end, so good in fact that he was willing to let the church burn down to achieve it) why he went into the water to pull the bodies out of the surf (something no one else was going to be able to stomach, but which had to be done) and why he risked AL’s itchy trigger finger to carry Sawyer to a doctor (I’m not doing it for him, I’m doing it for me).
I don’t think his story is of a fallen man coming back to his god. As I understand it, he was always a servant to his god, he simply allowed his brother to play divine front man for him during those middle years.
About the smoke. My first guess is that’s it’s masking something else; something easier to explain than a sentient black fog.
The funny thing is, those weren’t the numbers. The first number is 29 then a 25, neither one of which is one of ‘the’ numbers. Now the writers are just screwing with us.
But he was “setting the numbers”, right? Why would he pick any of “the numbers” for a combination lock since lots of people know them? They’d be the first numbers I’d try if I were on the island trying to open a lock (or a Locke).
It’s interesting to note that Ecko said that drugs wasn’t his “main line of business.” I wonder what was? Sending out emails offering to move money out of the country?
Explosives? Remember that in The Greater Good, Sayid was called in to help track down a bunch of C4. Might explain why we heard his name last night in Nigeria.
At physical therapy today, I hijacked the whole department for a discussion of the show, and before I could even get to that, one of the therapists said that she was listening to a radio show about it this morning and one of the DJs said that, and a woman who speaks Arabic called in and said that what we thought we heard was actually part of another, longer word that means “prophet.” I have no way of verifying this, obviously, but perhaps someone who speaks Arabic could help us out?
Someone chimed in on this subject over at TWOP. The gist of it was that, ‘sayid’, even though it sounds suspiciously like the name of Naveen Andrews character, means something like ‘Mister’ or ‘Sir’. An honorific that is very common in a conversation. I don’t speak Arabic, I have no idea if this is an actual fact.
I can easily explain away the different numbers on the plane: When moving around, they had to change license plates to avoid detection.
In reality, it was a continuity error, but I’ve decided to ignore that.
This is jsut speculation, so I quoted it without the spoiler box. We have bounced around the idea that not only is it a logistics issue with working with a child actor, but also that Waaaaallllt would somehow be aged.
But wouldn’t it be weird if the Life-Extension Project was some kind of energy “vampire” process that takes years off the kids and gives them to older people?
That would explain why they are obsessed with kids (the tailies, Walt ,Alex, and possibly Aaron).
But there is still the question of whether they ever wanted Aaron.
I’m not Catholic, but shouldn’t it be the 22nd (or is it 24th) Psalm? Then again, they are quoting a Bible in which it is Psalm 23, so maybe it’s okay.
Assuming Humbaba to be the same thing that’s been noising about in the forest before, it should be a ‘defense mechanism’ according to Rousseau. I wonder if it’s something generated by the island itself (or by the spirit of the island) or controlled by the Dharma Bums. My feeling is that the primary explanation for the island’s mysteries are that it is a psychic amplifier, which can either control world events or cause to come together people who are connected but don’t know it.
I went back and listened to the Arabic several times. There was something like “saya/sayim/sayid” It sounded like it flowed as part of a word rather than as a distinct entity that you’d expect a name to be, though. Probably just normal Arabic not related to Sayid.
