On May 8, 11:43=EF=BF=BDam, Darren Delgado <darrendelg...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On May 8, 12:23 pm, Fred Ellis <fkel...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > On May 7, 2:04 pm, robg...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > > > So I guess Aaron got a virus because he was not a baby of faith?
> > > > > This is just a bunch of hand-waving to cover up shoddy writing.
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> > > > How is it shoddy writing if a viewer makes certain assumptions
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> > > > aren't borne out later?
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> > > Because its being presented as fact that no one ever gets sick on
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> > > Island. =EF=BF=BDNone of the other characters say "No, you are
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> > > Aaron got a fever and Shannon got an asthma attack?". =EF=BF=BDIf
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> > > feel it im****tant enough to write a line about no one ever getting
> > > sick and DON'T feel it im****tant to point out that this is not true,
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> > > attribute to shoddy writing. They don't want us to remember people
> > > getting sick because they are trying to retcon the Island's powers,
> > > IMO. =EF=BF=BD This is a minor point, granted, but it just goes into
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> > > growing pile of retcons and continuity problems.
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> > Rose was implying that the island has the power to cure someone if
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> > become sick, ill or injured. =EF=BF=BDNot that it has the power to
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> > a thing from occurring. =EF=BF=BDWe have seen certain instances where
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> > character has been 'miraculously' cured of their injury. =EF=BF=BDAnd
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> > has not happen. =EF=BF=BDRose was telling Bernard that the island
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> > cured Jack of his appendicitis. =EF=BF=BDRose believes that if you get
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> > or injured the island should cure you.
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> Also, having seen Jack get appendicitis, she appears to be adding this
> to her mental file, and questioning why Jack was not cured. =EF=BF=BDSo,
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> first she assumed (as we did) that the Island cures all sickness, but
> now with the new information about Jack, she is figuring things out
> along with the audience.
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> This is not a contradiction
It does, however, kind of beg the question about exactly how the whole
"healing" thing works. If it's only "good" people who get healed (or
people with "faith,") that doesn't seem to cover how quickly Naomi
healed from the punctured lung. Considering how "taller ghost Walt"
seemed to really not want her to contact the freighter, it seems
counter-intuitive that she'd heal so damned quickly so as to make that
more likely...
Now, at the bottom of it all is most certainly the fact that "rapid
healing" makes for a convenient plot device in the condensed timeline
(a day or so per episode) of Craphole Island - it wouldn't do, for
example, to have a character "heal" from a life-threatening illness
the way it works in the real world, 'cause it's no fun to watch
several characters hobbling around for whole seasons and/or glimpsing
them every other episode from the recovery tent :-)
RWG (but I do hope they at least try and expand on the whole "healing"
thing before the end of the series)
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