The Island - Jacob - have been trying to get john locke to lead for a long time. Alpert (freaky guy that he is) asks little john to pick the thing that's already his. I knew immediately that he was gonna go for the knife... but he was supposed to go for the sand. It was sand from the island, and he was supposed to know that the island was already his. Alpert tried again to recruit Locke, roughly 12 years later, but was then met by the Rebellious young high school Locke (and who wasn't pumped when he said it... "Don't tell me what I can't do!"). He isn't approached again for a long time, after his unfortunate pushed-out-a-building-by-my-con-man-father-who-also-stole-my-kidney-and-ruined-all-my-personal-relationships-and-my-emotional-stability incident, but it's not alpert this time... it's Abbadon, who... is Widmores man? Maybe? I don't like to make any assumptions anymore.
So here's the meat of the issue: Alpert, and the Others have been trying to recruit Locke all along. when they were deterred the first time, they began brushing up the understudy... Ben. After immense difficulty in trying still yet to get Locke, they put Ben through the rigors and give him the leaders seat.
But, there's a problem- he gets a tumor. My bet is it started growing the day john locke bought a plane ticket to Australia. People don't get sick on the island, they get better. Jack's appendix tries to blow to stop him from leaving. Ben gets cancer because the island is trying to clear the way for the prodigal son, and New King of WTFonia, John Locke.
Sound right to you?
Theory by PersagaX
So here's the meat of the issue: Alpert, and the Others have been trying to recruit Locke all along. when they were deterred the first time, they began brushing up the understudy... Ben. After immense difficulty in trying still yet to get Locke, they put Ben through the rigors and give him the leaders seat.
But, there's a problem- he gets a tumor. My bet is it started growing the day john locke bought a plane ticket to Australia. People don't get sick on the island, they get better. Jack's appendix tries to blow to stop him from leaving. Ben gets cancer because the island is trying to clear the way for the prodigal son, and New King of WTFonia, John Locke.
Sound right to you?
Theory by PersagaX
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7 Comments:
Sounds good to me.
I didn't catch the sand. I wasn't sure WHAT he was expected to pick.
Good call!
Sounds good to me, but I'd just like to point out a few things, the way I understood the scene.
He actually had to pick a few things, Richard asks which of these things belong to you.
Young Locke picks the sand, the compass and the knife. It is only after he picks the knife that Richard seems confused and unhappy, up until then he seemed content with young Locke's actions.
The way it is filmed seems to suggest that the third object should have been the book of laws.
This is why Richard encourages him to reconsider his choice of the knife.
Anyone else understand the scene this way?
If so, sounds good that the sand means the island, what do the compass and the book mean?
I thought he was supposed to pick the knife. He picked the right one.
I agree with Yuri. I believe he was supposed to pick up the book of laws as the third item. However, Locke even as a kid would see this as an item of conformity, and with his passion for being free and undestined, picking up the knife was his way of saying again; "Don't tell me what I can't do!".
good call on the sand...i immediately chose the knife because that's what i associate with Locke. Maybe this was the start of Locke's obsession with knives...didn't he have a whole case of them on the plane?
I was thinking that Abbadon is pushing Locke towards the island (at Widmore's request, of course) because Widmore knows that this will start the series of events that leads to Locke taking his rightful place as leader/protector of the island...and thinking that Locke will be easier to defeat than Ben.
Hi guys, well it looked obvious to me that Locke was the chosen one! The producers clearly revealed it in the episode. And Ben looks quite depressed about it. I think that is what he tried to prevent since the beginning, and this is the reason why he shot Locke. Jacob could be the island (help me = save the island), and the sand that little Locke picked could be the island's. But the biggest clues was that the producers have given us here are that the cabin was built by a mathematician and that the island can be moved (obviously in space or time or both). Anybody wonders why a mathematician would built such a cabin? Did Dharma know about it at the time? or did Horace keep it a secret? Was it an experiment which went wrong (the incident)?
I think that is the real debate
I think Ben was never second best but his time is now up as he states. He doesnt have to die to lose his privilige as the chosen one. Ben replaced Widmore i strongly believe and this is why Widmore calls him boy as he remembers him as such when he was in charge and has never accepted that ben replaced him which is why he thinks the island is his.
On horace, he mentions his wife. Anyone like me think it is an cover for the fact he is one half of the degroots