On Wed, 14 May 2008 19:12:50 -0700 (PDT), tdciago <tdciago@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:
> On May 14, 6:30?pm, Jim Gysin <jimgy...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > Do you think that Claire has known this all along?
>
> She didn't seem to know it. Her reaction to Thomas leaving, and her
> remarks to Richard Malkin about the baby's father indicate that she
> believed Thomas was the father.
I agree. And if she knew that Thomas wasn't the father and she led him
to believe otherwise, then my opinion of her has sunk a notch or two or
ten. Mind you, I'm not ignoring the fact that Thomas acted like a
complete heel, too...
> I'm not so sure about Emily Locke. Her "immaculate conception" remark
> may have stemmed from mental instability, or she really may have known
> that something unusual happened.
Yet another Star Wars similarity. Perhaps it was the midi-chlorians
again!
For my money, it boils down to the fact that she was a mess mentally and
Cooper just played on that, just as he played on the weaknesses of
others. And because of this, Ben is very reminiscent of Cooper in terms
of *his* being able to manipulate people via head games, so it's no
surprise that Locke would fixate on Ben the same way he fixated on
Cooper earlier on.
> Like Hurley, Locke, and Ben, she
> could be crazy enough to see the truth.
But she's a certified schizophrenic. I don't see Hurley or Locke or Ben
being on the same level as that.
> The original plans for the show called for Claire to be a surrogate
> mother for her friend Ruth and Ruth's husband Stuart. On the Season
> One DVD set, you can listen to Emilie de Ravin's audition tape, which
> briefly describes the situation. Ruth could not carry the baby
> because of a medical condition. Claire was a little jealous because
> she and Ruth had met Stuart the same night, and Claire liked him,
> too. It seems significant to me that Aaron was originally going to be
> an implanted embryo. Perhaps the producers decided that this would
> have given away some plot secret too soon.
I didn't know any of that. My first guess is that they wanted to
eliminate a couple of characters up front, either for payroll cost
reasons or because they (correctly) realized that the ensemble cast was
already large enough.
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Jim Gysin
Waukesha, WI
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