interplanetjanet
03-23-07, 02:05 AM
This idea came about following some posts by Khan and Philosopher. We've known about the healing for a long time, and assumed that it was normal on the island--most people are healed, or everyone who matches the magnetic energy (Isaac).
What if it isn't normal? The others do their background checks, and they discover son of a gun, Locke was in a wheelchair. A broken back. And he walks now. He must be really, really special to the island.
(The island has also cured Rose, but there's no reason for them to know that. She discussed it on the beach. It may have cured Jin. Whether their research included the covered up version of Jin and Sun's infertility, the pregnancy, knowing Sun didn't have an affair with anyone else in the right timeframe...I don't think they have all those pieces.)
So the piece they have is that Locke is very special to the island. They cannot mess with him directly--not without pissing the island off very badly.
Why not take JKS in Hunting Party? Locke was there.
Locke kept saying Mikhail would have already killed him if he was going to--he was right.
This explains Cooper. Not a last-minute plan. But as soon as the others realized they were going to have a Locke-problem, they studied that file to find a weakness that would neuter Locke without constituting a direct attack. And they found Cooper. And ordered someone in the outside world to get Cooper and bring him to the island, where they've been waiting for the right moment to put him into play.
By this reasoning, "Bring me the man from Tallahassee" really was a code for "Locke's arrived, and we'll need that leverage soon. But not right this minute." And Alpert followed Ben's lead.
ETA: I think his destiny is to climb the cliff behind the Pearl, per Bob Sacamono's thread. The island has never told him to blow up all the other/dharma stuff. But C-4 and Cooper ought to divert him a couple of seasons, until he can get back on the right path in the final one.
ETAA: A vision came over me while cleaning the litter box: the island doesn't cure the others' infertility. It cured Jin's. We'll find out the baby is Jin's, conceived on-island; Sun's affair a red herring.
What if it isn't normal? The others do their background checks, and they discover son of a gun, Locke was in a wheelchair. A broken back. And he walks now. He must be really, really special to the island.
(The island has also cured Rose, but there's no reason for them to know that. She discussed it on the beach. It may have cured Jin. Whether their research included the covered up version of Jin and Sun's infertility, the pregnancy, knowing Sun didn't have an affair with anyone else in the right timeframe...I don't think they have all those pieces.)
So the piece they have is that Locke is very special to the island. They cannot mess with him directly--not without pissing the island off very badly.
Why not take JKS in Hunting Party? Locke was there.
Locke kept saying Mikhail would have already killed him if he was going to--he was right.
This explains Cooper. Not a last-minute plan. But as soon as the others realized they were going to have a Locke-problem, they studied that file to find a weakness that would neuter Locke without constituting a direct attack. And they found Cooper. And ordered someone in the outside world to get Cooper and bring him to the island, where they've been waiting for the right moment to put him into play.
By this reasoning, "Bring me the man from Tallahassee" really was a code for "Locke's arrived, and we'll need that leverage soon. But not right this minute." And Alpert followed Ben's lead.
ETA: I think his destiny is to climb the cliff behind the Pearl, per Bob Sacamono's thread. The island has never told him to blow up all the other/dharma stuff. But C-4 and Cooper ought to divert him a couple of seasons, until he can get back on the right path in the final one.
ETAA: A vision came over me while cleaning the litter box: the island doesn't cure the others' infertility. It cured Jin's. We'll find out the baby is Jin's, conceived on-island; Sun's affair a red herring.