After viewing my be all end all favorite episode this season "Dead is Dead" (and if uve read my other posts u won't have to guess why lol), I really started to realize that Richard Alpert has to be dead just like Locke (or at least the same type of principle is applied). When you think about it, the only other character on the show we have seen pull a Locke is Christian, and there is still much confusion over that since the producers have said he's both been at times the monster and then at other times undead. Now this strikes me strange because clearly the "Monster" Christian's has been wearing the suite he was buried in (maybe like Locke and how he still is in his suite) versus one who sublets Jacob's Cabin, who kind of looks like a hobo Indiana Jones wannabe. That said I wonder if there is a two part process to "resurrection" with characters who die on the island.
Firstly, their body has to disappear (Yemi for example, who's corpse notably went missing the second Eko was scanned by the monster). This is done because the island needs a "host" body to encompass the memories of the person it wants to take the form of (ie a tangible person, since we don't know if the people who attacked Eko from his past were just illusions or not). Though the monster can summon illusions and all, at the same time something like the horse Kate saw could easily have been used from the horse Widmore was seen riding on (yeah I caught that one :P).
Secondly, you have to give "something" over to the island. I say this because clearly to become "at one" with the island you have to strip yourself of everything (including your soul probably) and allow yourself to be a surrogate for it's purposes. Think of this like the Agents from the Matrix in how when your "Jacked in" they can take you over at anytime, but the moment you unstick yourself (the red pill) you are free to open up the unlimited boundaries of the Matrix (in this I mean someone like Hurley being able to will things to existence versus Neo being able to fly and dodge bullets...plus everyone heals in like five minutes as well from a bullet wound).
Thirdly, there is the Temple. My best guess is you go to the temple and are in some type of alter or sacrificial ceremony that will allow you to become an other. You gain powers like the others (Latin, faster healing factor, whispernet transportation lol, ext...and give up the ability to have kids, cause you either have sold the ability to carry on your existence in any shape or form other then as a hallucination or smoky incarnation). Plus someone like Richard obviously doesn't have kids, since he never ages, and I'm pretty sure if he's as old as he is, there have HAD to be a couple of cute OTHER concubines out there for him to enjoy when he was leader (cause just going to throw this out there, he probably has more charm then Ben when telling a girl that "your mine"). Widmore can have kids, but it's because it had to do with an outsider, we don't know though who Ellie had Faraday with (unless it was a guy named Faraday or Widmore while OFF the island).
Finally, you have to be judged. And this my friends is where I came up with my most out there revelation that has been nagging me since the episode 'The shape of things to Come". Did any of you ever wonder why Keamy and the whole gang didn't get killed when Ben summoned the most bad ass version of the monster ever seen on screen (it literally looked like a cross between a snake-dog, Freddy Kreuger, and a whirlwind of death) and yet only Mayhew died...of injuries much later. The dude wasn't even killed on the spot by the monster...he freaking died way later (like a day or two) when they brought him back to the freighter, and he would have lived if they had been able to operate sooner (and not slit let Omar slit the throat of Doc Ray). Does anyone else find that strange (besides the fact that Widmore sent like what, five whole mercenaries to carry out a massive extermination and extraction mission after fully knowing what the Other's could use against them, I mean come on ther! e are easily over thirty plus others and the monster/jacob, healing, and the element of home turf advantage, but of course I chalk this up to the shows budget and not being able to have a 16 man black-ops unit or so take on the island). I mean from the sounds of it if you saw a flashback from Keamy they faced what I'd like to call Dharmageddon (cause it did happen in Dharmaville/New Otherton), but what if they, like Ben, where being judged...and the island let them live, because they actually where doing it a favor by trying to capture ben. Let's face it, if the monster wanted them dead they would have been dead, and albeit a foiler I read before THAT episode aired, it appeared that Keamy was supposed to have used some sound device to weaken the monster, but since that was a foiler, it obviously didn't happen. The only reason I think Mayhew got it as bad as he did was because he either ran like a baby (was he the one who got dragged by the 'hand' of the cloud?) or...your go! ing to like this...what if HE was the one who's bullets killed! Karl (k illing Danielle didn't matter cause she was an outsider). What if the island was punishing him for killing an Other (I doubt it cared about Danielle, but even though Alex and Karl where in the process of defecting, they were still heading to the Temple for protection). Alex doesn't count either cause even though she technically is an Other, we don't know her backstory enough to know if she was a Latin speaking fully knowledgeable member. In fact a lot of the members didn't know what the hell the Temple was apparently, because it almost seems like the old school other's have kind of lost it to the new freshman class of Otherness 101.
Anyway to rap it up. The island can own you like the Matrix. Being an Other is like being an Agent, you have to follow the rules, but you can push the limits much more then the casual cohabiter. The monster kind of serves as the mainframe and stores your data into it to be able to manifest at anytime it may seem fit. And like the Matrix, the likes of Desmond and Hurley (and maybe Walt) are like Neo and have the ability to combat the island's powered up agents we lovingly call the Hostiles, with there special abilities of being unstuck in time, willful projection, and all not being natively an Island dweller. Judge this and let me know, hope you liked it :) Namaste people!!!Theory by Chase
Firstly, their body has to disappear (Yemi for example, who's corpse notably went missing the second Eko was scanned by the monster). This is done because the island needs a "host" body to encompass the memories of the person it wants to take the form of (ie a tangible person, since we don't know if the people who attacked Eko from his past were just illusions or not). Though the monster can summon illusions and all, at the same time something like the horse Kate saw could easily have been used from the horse Widmore was seen riding on (yeah I caught that one :P).
Secondly, you have to give "something" over to the island. I say this because clearly to become "at one" with the island you have to strip yourself of everything (including your soul probably) and allow yourself to be a surrogate for it's purposes. Think of this like the Agents from the Matrix in how when your "Jacked in" they can take you over at anytime, but the moment you unstick yourself (the red pill) you are free to open up the unlimited boundaries of the Matrix (in this I mean someone like Hurley being able to will things to existence versus Neo being able to fly and dodge bullets...plus everyone heals in like five minutes as well from a bullet wound).
Thirdly, there is the Temple. My best guess is you go to the temple and are in some type of alter or sacrificial ceremony that will allow you to become an other. You gain powers like the others (Latin, faster healing factor, whispernet transportation lol, ext...and give up the ability to have kids, cause you either have sold the ability to carry on your existence in any shape or form other then as a hallucination or smoky incarnation). Plus someone like Richard obviously doesn't have kids, since he never ages, and I'm pretty sure if he's as old as he is, there have HAD to be a couple of cute OTHER concubines out there for him to enjoy when he was leader (cause just going to throw this out there, he probably has more charm then Ben when telling a girl that "your mine"). Widmore can have kids, but it's because it had to do with an outsider, we don't know though who Ellie had Faraday with (unless it was a guy named Faraday or Widmore while OFF the island).
Finally, you have to be judged. And this my friends is where I came up with my most out there revelation that has been nagging me since the episode 'The shape of things to Come". Did any of you ever wonder why Keamy and the whole gang didn't get killed when Ben summoned the most bad ass version of the monster ever seen on screen (it literally looked like a cross between a snake-dog, Freddy Kreuger, and a whirlwind of death) and yet only Mayhew died...of injuries much later. The dude wasn't even killed on the spot by the monster...he freaking died way later (like a day or two) when they brought him back to the freighter, and he would have lived if they had been able to operate sooner (and not slit let Omar slit the throat of Doc Ray). Does anyone else find that strange (besides the fact that Widmore sent like what, five whole mercenaries to carry out a massive extermination and extraction mission after fully knowing what the Other's could use against them, I mean come on ther! e are easily over thirty plus others and the monster/jacob, healing, and the element of home turf advantage, but of course I chalk this up to the shows budget and not being able to have a 16 man black-ops unit or so take on the island). I mean from the sounds of it if you saw a flashback from Keamy they faced what I'd like to call Dharmageddon (cause it did happen in Dharmaville/New Otherton), but what if they, like Ben, where being judged...and the island let them live, because they actually where doing it a favor by trying to capture ben. Let's face it, if the monster wanted them dead they would have been dead, and albeit a foiler I read before THAT episode aired, it appeared that Keamy was supposed to have used some sound device to weaken the monster, but since that was a foiler, it obviously didn't happen. The only reason I think Mayhew got it as bad as he did was because he either ran like a baby (was he the one who got dragged by the 'hand' of the cloud?) or...your go! ing to like this...what if HE was the one who's bullets killed! Karl (k illing Danielle didn't matter cause she was an outsider). What if the island was punishing him for killing an Other (I doubt it cared about Danielle, but even though Alex and Karl where in the process of defecting, they were still heading to the Temple for protection). Alex doesn't count either cause even though she technically is an Other, we don't know her backstory enough to know if she was a Latin speaking fully knowledgeable member. In fact a lot of the members didn't know what the hell the Temple was apparently, because it almost seems like the old school other's have kind of lost it to the new freshman class of Otherness 101.
Anyway to rap it up. The island can own you like the Matrix. Being an Other is like being an Agent, you have to follow the rules, but you can push the limits much more then the casual cohabiter. The monster kind of serves as the mainframe and stores your data into it to be able to manifest at anytime it may seem fit. And like the Matrix, the likes of Desmond and Hurley (and maybe Walt) are like Neo and have the ability to combat the island's powered up agents we lovingly call the Hostiles, with there special abilities of being unstuck in time, willful projection, and all not being natively an Island dweller. Judge this and let me know, hope you liked it :) Namaste people!!!Theory by Chase
