On May 9, 2:00=EF=BF=BDpm, "Steven L." <sdlit...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> rwgibson13 wrote:
> > On May 9, 10:35=EF=BF=BD am, Darren Delgado
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> >> On May 9, 8:14 am, rwgibson13 <rwgibso...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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> >>> On May 9, 3:46=EF=BF=BDam, "cop...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >>>> 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
chil=
d Locke?
> >>>>> Or, was it a test to see which path Locke wanted/would to take in
th=
e
> >>>>> future?
> >>>> For now, this makes the most sense. I think it was a test to see
whic=
h
> >>>> path Locke would (eventually) take.
> >>> Though really close, I don't think that's exactly what the producers
> >>> were going for. =EF=BF=BD If you combine it with the next flashback
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ene, 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."
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He
> >>> chooses the knife (hunter), wants to "like s****ts and cars," but
that
> >>> isn't really "who he is." =EF=BF=BD Or who Alpert was looking for at
t=
hat
> >>> 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.-
>
> > That's certainly possible, of course, but I think we need to step back
> > and take another look at what role Abbadon is playing in all this.
> > It's all good to think he's setting things up for Widmore and company,
> > given the obvious evidence, but going back to that scene with Naomi
> > where he emphasizes getting the team in and out with no one hurt, his
> > motives seem a bit different from what Keamy seems to be doing for
> > Widmore...
>
> I agree.
> Since the helicopter pilot is vital to trans****ting Keamy's men to and
> from the island, it makes sense that they would have chosen a military
> pilot who would be perfectly willing to assist Keamy's attack on the
> island without having to be coerced into it. =EF=BF=BDAnd Faraday tried
to=
shut
> off the gas at Tempest Station--if the island was going to be torched
> anyway, why would Abbadon bother?
Maybe I'm misremembering that scene, but I think they were shutting
off the gas so BEN wouldn't use it against them as he did during the
"purge."
> Abbadon and his research team (with helicopter pilot) seems to have been
> tasked by Widmore with the job of learning as much as possible about the
> island's mysteries--before Keamy torches it on Widmore's orders.
> Widmore probably kept his instructions to Keamy a secret even from
> Abbadon, since he didn't need to know about them.
You might just as well posit the other - Keamy didn't know anything
about why Abbadon chose the people he did, people who would seemingly
work AGAINST any plan to "torch the island."
RWG (well, aside from Naomi - we really don't know enough about her to
make much of a judgement)
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