On May 9, 8:14 am, rwgibson13 <rwgibso...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On May 9, 3:46=EF=BF=BDam, "cop...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
" <cop...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> > On May 9, 1:25 am, "caveat" <caveat-lec...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> > > I think that each one was his and each one was not.
> > > Should we assume that the test was for the present Locke or the
child =
Locke?
> > > Or, was it a test to see which path Locke wanted/would to take in
the
> > > future?
>
> > For now, this makes the most sense. I think it was a test to see which
> > path Locke would (eventually) take.
>
> Though really close, I don't think that's exactly what the producers
> were going for. If you combine it with the next flashback scene, it
> fits in nicely with the farmer/hunter character arc we were introduced
> to last season (in an episode also co-written by the same producer).
>
> Locke is a "farmer," who desperately WANTS to be a "hunter." He
> chooses the knife (hunter), wants to "like s****ts and cars," but that
> isn't really "who he is." Or who Alpert was looking for at that
> particular time, apparently...
It also fits with the next scene, with Abbadon the Creepy Orderly
trying to convince him to go on the walkabout and become Locke the
Hunter, which is what Richard didn't apparently want him to be.
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