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> On May 8, 11:43=EF=BF?am, Darren Delgado <darrendelg...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > On May 8, 12:23 pm, Fred Ellis <fkel...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > ejt789...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > > On May 7, 2:04 pm, robg...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
> > > > > On May 7, 6:37 am, ejt789...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > > > > So I guess Aaron got a virus because he was not a baby of
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?
> > > > > > This is just a bunch of hand-waving to cover up shoddy
writing.
> >
> > > > > How is it shoddy writing if a viewer makes certain assumptions
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at
> > > > > 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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he
> > > > Island. =EF=BF?None of the other characters say "No, you are
wrong,=
remember
> > > > Aaron got a fever and Shannon got an asthma attack?". =EF=BF?If
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writers
> > > > 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
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, I
> > > > 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? This is a minor point, granted, but it just goes into
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the
> > > > growing pile of retcons and continuity problems.
> >
> > > Rose was implying that the island has the power to cure someone if
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ey
> > > become sick, ill or injured. =EF=BF?Not that it has the power to
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ent such
> > > a thing from occurring. =EF=BF?We have seen certain instances where
a
> > > character has been 'miraculously' cured of their injury. =EF=BF?And
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here this
> > > has not happen. =EF=BF?Rose was telling Bernard that the island
shoul=
d have
> > > cured Jack of his appendicitis. =EF=BF?Rose believes that if you get
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sick, ill
> > > or injured the island should cure you.
> >
> > 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?So,
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at
> > 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.
> >
> > This is not a contradiction
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> 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...
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Because the people that were recruited were good people. Frank the chopper
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pilot=20
wasn't in on the plot to kill off the island inhabitants given how he
tried=
to stand=20
up to Keamy, neither was Miles. I don't think. On that basis I believe
Naom=
i wasn't=20
in on the plot either, so the island showed her favor. I do believe that
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niel and=20
Charlotte knows something about it but is actively but covertly working
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Widmore. If Frank, Miles, Daniel or Charlotte get seriously injured how
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island=20
handles them will be a hint as to their intentions. That is of course the
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njury=20
isn't TOO serious. If so not even the island could help them. I think that
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is why=20
Naomi died the second time. She was still recovering from the trauma of
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and then she gets a knife in the back, probably hitting an even more vital
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creating even more damage than the branch did. =20
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> 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 :-)
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> 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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I think last night's explanation from Ben negates that. And long before
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t there=20
have been comments on how fast some people recover from illnesses and
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ies, so it=20
is a legitimate plot point and not a convenience. =20
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----->Hunter
"No man in the wrong can stand up against=20
a fellow that's in the right and keeps on acomin'."
-----William J. McDonald
Captain, Texas Rangers from 1891 to 1907
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