On Fri, 9 May 2008 00:18:30 -0700 (PDT), rwgibson13
<rwgibson13@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On May 9, 2:14?am, Jim Gysin <jimgy...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > On Fri, 9 May 2008 00:04:48 -0700 (PDT), rwgibson13
> >
> > <rwgibso...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > > On May 9, 1:16?am, Jim Gysin <jimgy...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > > > Based on Emily's figure as she danced at the beginning of the
episode,
> > > > I'm guessing that Locke's birth weight was somewhere in the
neighborhood
> > > > of 8 oz. ?That hospital must have had one heck of a neonatal unit.
> >
> > > heh, I don't think the kid needed a lot of help :-)
> >
> > > RWG (immaculate conception and all that...)
> >
> > I wasn't here when the episode you're alluding to originally aired, so
> > I'm wondering what the general consensus was at that time. ?Did most
> > folks here think that Emily was simply off her meds, or did most
> > believe that she was correct when she said that?
>
> Considering "Walkabout," I think we were supposed to be torn between
> the science/faith thing. It was pretty much the same kind of
> tightrope the producers have been walking since the pilot episode.
I guess I should have known better than to expect any sort of general
consensus here!
> On the one hand, we know John Locke has some kind of bizarre "special"
> ability that allowed him to walk when he was once crippled.
I'm more inclined to believe that it's the island's ability, not his.
Recall that he began to lose his ability to walk early on (in the
Boone days) when he began to doubt the island. And the fact that he's
not inclined to leave the island suggests that Locke himself believes
the same thing.
> On the
> other hand, you don't normally get a kidney match with someone you're
> not related to.
True. Short of having access to Locke's medical records beforehand, I
would have to call this a *major* coincidence if it were to turn out
that Cooper is not Locke's father. And it would kill the whole
Luke-A****in thing, too, and we just can't have that!
--
Jim Gysin
Waukesha, WI
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