One of the biggest myseries on the island since Season 1 has been the island "sacrifices", and why certain people HAD to die at certain times.
While watching the Lefleur episode, this theme again surfaced, first when Sawyer and company rescued Amy and then when Richard entered Othersville.
Notice Amy's reaction when Sawyer tells her that they have to go. She becomes distraught and says things like "we have to bury them (the others)" and "we have to bring him (Paul) back home". Yeah it was her husband, and yeah she was scared of the other others, but there was a deeper motivation for her fear...the RULES of the truce.
But what are the rules of the truce ?
Enter Richard( Ha, what fence? )into Othersville amidst blaring sirens and scattering Dharma initiates. "Two of my men are dead", he tells Horace and later Sawyer. Sawyer talks him into leaving, but not before Richard makes Paul's body a part of the deal...but WTF for ?
The answer is simple. Because every time an Other dies, their soul (or life force if you prefer) becomes suspended, and a new physical body must be found, and emptied, to restore it.
While I haven't gone back through every episode to back up a "one of yours to replace one of ours" theory, I do think that there is something to it. Namely, that the Others, upon death, require a new shell, host, reincarnite, or whatever for their LOST soul. I.e , they need a new body to exist again.
Locke has referred to it as an island sacrifice, Jacob and Christian may be the epitome of lost souls, and everyone who has died on the island (at the hands of the island) may have died for the soul purpose of carrying on the physical incarnite of the ancient islands' inhabitants. Maybe it's the whole reason ANY human is brought to the island in the first place. There Soul Food.
Whether or not this ties into things like Hurley and Miles ability to communicate with ghosts(lost souls), I'm not sure. Why they would want children, I'm not sure. Do they control Smokie and use him "as needed", I'm not sure.
Only Richard knows...
Thoughts? Theory by MsKlue
While watching the Lefleur episode, this theme again surfaced, first when Sawyer and company rescued Amy and then when Richard entered Othersville.
Notice Amy's reaction when Sawyer tells her that they have to go. She becomes distraught and says things like "we have to bury them (the others)" and "we have to bring him (Paul) back home". Yeah it was her husband, and yeah she was scared of the other others, but there was a deeper motivation for her fear...the RULES of the truce.
But what are the rules of the truce ?
Enter Richard( Ha, what fence? )into Othersville amidst blaring sirens and scattering Dharma initiates. "Two of my men are dead", he tells Horace and later Sawyer. Sawyer talks him into leaving, but not before Richard makes Paul's body a part of the deal...but WTF for ?
The answer is simple. Because every time an Other dies, their soul (or life force if you prefer) becomes suspended, and a new physical body must be found, and emptied, to restore it.
While I haven't gone back through every episode to back up a "one of yours to replace one of ours" theory, I do think that there is something to it. Namely, that the Others, upon death, require a new shell, host, reincarnite, or whatever for their LOST soul. I.e , they need a new body to exist again.
Locke has referred to it as an island sacrifice, Jacob and Christian may be the epitome of lost souls, and everyone who has died on the island (at the hands of the island) may have died for the soul purpose of carrying on the physical incarnite of the ancient islands' inhabitants. Maybe it's the whole reason ANY human is brought to the island in the first place. There Soul Food.
Whether or not this ties into things like Hurley and Miles ability to communicate with ghosts(lost souls), I'm not sure. Why they would want children, I'm not sure. Do they control Smokie and use him "as needed", I'm not sure.
Only Richard knows...
Thoughts? Theory by MsKlue
