It just occurred to me in light of recent theories / speculations on season 6 the reason behind the writers including the following conversation in Some Like It Hoth:
HURLEY: I don't know why you just won't admit it. You can trust me. I talk to lots of dead people.
MILES: [Incredulously] So, you have conversations with them, like they're your pals?
HURLEY: Sure, all the time. Sometimes we even play chess.
MILES: You actually see them?
HURLEY: Of course. Why wouldn't I?
MILES: Because that's not how it works.
HURLEY: Aha! You wouldn't know how it works unless you can do it.
MILES: What I can do has nothing to do with chatting with ghosts, you nitwit. It's a... feeling... a sense. When somebody's dead, their brain stops functioning, which means there's no more talking. There's just who they were and whatever they knew before they died.
HURLEY: [Turning back to his composition book] That's how it works for me.
This conversation always seemed odd to me - why are we hearing this? Is it to indicate that Hurley is crazy? That Miles is a liar?
Neither.
Miles talks to dead people.
Hurley does NOT.
Hurley talks to people from OTHER REALITIES.
Charlie: I'm Dead, but I'm also here.
Hurley has never been able to talk to dead people. He is a conduit between realities. The inclusion of this phenomena in the show I believe is an early indication from the writers that other realities exist and that this is where the show is, and always was heading. This could explain the whispers - Ghost Walt covered in water, etc.
Side note: Here is why this will be awesome and not lame as a story device:
The conflict will now be between who can see, change, and remember other realities. Perhaps this is how Desmond is special? In the Dark Tower, they have characters on the brink of death because their minds cannot cope with the fact that they are aware of two permutations of a given situation (character X dies, but also lives in another reality). I think this is the true explanation for "time" sickness.
I can't wait for season six. Don't bother with negative comments about how you don't want it to play out this way or that. The writers have taken us this far, let's trust that the story will be what it will be.
HURLEY: I don't know why you just won't admit it. You can trust me. I talk to lots of dead people.
MILES: [Incredulously] So, you have conversations with them, like they're your pals?
HURLEY: Sure, all the time. Sometimes we even play chess.
MILES: You actually see them?
HURLEY: Of course. Why wouldn't I?
MILES: Because that's not how it works.
HURLEY: Aha! You wouldn't know how it works unless you can do it.
MILES: What I can do has nothing to do with chatting with ghosts, you nitwit. It's a... feeling... a sense. When somebody's dead, their brain stops functioning, which means there's no more talking. There's just who they were and whatever they knew before they died.
HURLEY: [Turning back to his composition book] That's how it works for me.
This conversation always seemed odd to me - why are we hearing this? Is it to indicate that Hurley is crazy? That Miles is a liar?
Neither.
Miles talks to dead people.
Hurley does NOT.
Hurley talks to people from OTHER REALITIES.
Charlie: I'm Dead, but I'm also here.
Hurley has never been able to talk to dead people. He is a conduit between realities. The inclusion of this phenomena in the show I believe is an early indication from the writers that other realities exist and that this is where the show is, and always was heading. This could explain the whispers - Ghost Walt covered in water, etc.
Side note: Here is why this will be awesome and not lame as a story device:
The conflict will now be between who can see, change, and remember other realities. Perhaps this is how Desmond is special? In the Dark Tower, they have characters on the brink of death because their minds cannot cope with the fact that they are aware of two permutations of a given situation (character X dies, but also lives in another reality). I think this is the true explanation for "time" sickness.
I can't wait for season six. Don't bother with negative comments about how you don't want it to play out this way or that. The writers have taken us this far, let's trust that the story will be what it will be.
