OK, so I just started to re-watch LOST all the way through and I have a few observations.
It goes without question that Locke has been strange from the beginning. He even goes on to discuss with Walt the "Light vs. Dark" while explaining Backgammon. He always seems to "know" things, as if the Island is guiding him and he knows what paths certain characters should take (and in many instances guides them in the case of Boone, Shannon, Charlie). There was one scene in particular from "Raised by Another" where it starts with Claire waking up without her baby (in a dream) following the sound of a crying baby when she encounters Locke in the forest (who has one white eye, one black eye) and Locke says something along the lines of "You know what you did Claire. You should have never given up the baby. Now everyone's going to have to pay!"
So we know that "Smokey" could take the forms of dead people (with fake-Locke and Christian Shepard as examples), but what if Locke's disability was sort of like Locke being "half dead". When he crashes on the island, the Smoke Monster essentially takes control of his legs, metaphorically and probably literally in many cases guiding him. It's why Locke has that "feeling" because half of him knows, but his brain for the most part is still true-Locke.
Think about it. Why else would Locke completely sabotage any attempts of getting off the island (and many times inadvertently ie. Enter 77). It's as if the Smoke Monster in him is guiding him without his knowledge. It could explain his obsession with entering the numbers in season 2 (as long as the numbers are entered, the Losties are invisible). He also tells Jack that he's "making a huge mistake" by calling the freighter, possibly because Dark-Locke is trying to tell true-Locke that it's a bad idea because having the Losties leave the island would further Jacob's plan.
Maybe I'm just crazy, but I think we've seen Dark Locke for a lot longer than we've been led to believe.
It goes without question that Locke has been strange from the beginning. He even goes on to discuss with Walt the "Light vs. Dark" while explaining Backgammon. He always seems to "know" things, as if the Island is guiding him and he knows what paths certain characters should take (and in many instances guides them in the case of Boone, Shannon, Charlie). There was one scene in particular from "Raised by Another" where it starts with Claire waking up without her baby (in a dream) following the sound of a crying baby when she encounters Locke in the forest (who has one white eye, one black eye) and Locke says something along the lines of "You know what you did Claire. You should have never given up the baby. Now everyone's going to have to pay!"
So we know that "Smokey" could take the forms of dead people (with fake-Locke and Christian Shepard as examples), but what if Locke's disability was sort of like Locke being "half dead". When he crashes on the island, the Smoke Monster essentially takes control of his legs, metaphorically and probably literally in many cases guiding him. It's why Locke has that "feeling" because half of him knows, but his brain for the most part is still true-Locke.
Think about it. Why else would Locke completely sabotage any attempts of getting off the island (and many times inadvertently ie. Enter 77). It's as if the Smoke Monster in him is guiding him without his knowledge. It could explain his obsession with entering the numbers in season 2 (as long as the numbers are entered, the Losties are invisible). He also tells Jack that he's "making a huge mistake" by calling the freighter, possibly because Dark-Locke is trying to tell true-Locke that it's a bad idea because having the Losties leave the island would further Jacob's plan.
Maybe I'm just crazy, but I think we've seen Dark Locke for a lot longer than we've been led to believe.
