Re: how we know Locke's past is phony

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robgood@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Our clue is that Richard Alpert appears to be the same age in all the
> flashbacks.  So he's our timer, our "constant".  It means the scenes
> took place fairly recently, which means they were acting out a phony
> past for Locke using different actors.
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To what end? I don't recall any flashback being not true.

I think it is a case of either Time Travel or immortality. Considering
that we have a 
island that is in its own time bubble and that can heal people rapidly
when it wants 
to either are viable hypothesis.
> 
> Another possible clue is the disagreement between the ear, which said
> the music on the record was Buddy Holly's version of "Every Day", and
> the closed caption, which said it was Don Mclean's.  That could also
> be Damon's shout-out to the feud between Mclean and Andy Breckman.
> 
> Robert
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No that is a simple mistake either by the close caption transcriber or
more likely a 
last minute change by the producers and director after the script was
transcribed for 
CC. It is one of the reasons I always have CC on even if I can hear
perfectly well. 
It is fun to catch last minute changes like that. 
-- 
----->Hunter

"No man in the wrong can stand up against 
 a fellow that's in the right and keeps on acomin'."

               -----William J. McDonald
           Captain, Texas Rangers from 1891 to 1907