On May 14, 1:47 am, Kevin Reilly <use...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On Tue, 13 May 2008 yng...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
>
> >could be right--but I still don't understand how, in that case,
> >Sawyer, Hurley and Locke interacted with her later on. There's been no
> >indication yet that everyone can see the same ghosts.
>
> I think 'ghosts' is too broad a description for explaining everything
> that may be going on.
>
> On one hand, whatever it is that Miles apparently communicates with is
> invisible and unable to interact with anyone but him, which is pretty
> close to the classic description of a ghost (or at least a 'spirit' as
> supposedly contacted by mediums).
>
> On the other hand Christian Shepard is something else. Not only can he
> interact with the world at large (Aaron, Vincent) but his body is
> apparently not where it's supposed to be, which is not traditional ghost
> behaviour. It's more akin to reanimation or, at the risk of offending
> Christians(!), resurrection.
>
> I see no reason why Claire may not be in the same situation. Unless "the
> island" prevented her death as it's supposed to have done with Michael
> and the guns, there's no way she should have survived that house
> explosion. There's definitely something odd going on.
>
> Of course if we've been misled and for whatever reason Christian never
> died in the first place, all bets are off.
>
> --
> Kev
That is possible, since a lot of Lost is about misdirection.
We have already seen a number of manifestations on the island, whether
done by Smokey or Jacob or the island itself--that part we don't know.
Even Ben as a child saw a manifestation of his mother. So there have
already been examples of a number of people seeing dead relatives on
the island. My guess is that Christian is another manifestation,
created by whatever entity has caused all of the other "ghosts" to
appear to various Losties (and Ben). Probably Jacob is a manifestation
as well, and is really dead, but has been acting as the voice of the
island for Ben.
Something was funny with Claire, but I'm not convinced yet that she is
dead. Christian said that Aaron is where he is supposed to be and he
wasn't supposed to be here--which I assume meant he wasn't supposed to
be in the cabin. But it might mean he isn't even supposed to be on the
island. It might just be that Claire has been convinced that Aaron
needs to be taken off the island, although you'd still think she'd be
more upset about it.
-yngver
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