Back Home, I was considred a Warrior...

[lost1]

Anyone have a clue what he meant by that? Now that we've see is Hurley's episode...I was wondering what that could mean - now knowing more about him?

any thoughts?

[Australopithecus]

Video games, probably.

[G-Man]

maybe he was just being facetious, for the benefit of young walt.

[gnussbaum]

Maybe Wizards and Warriors game? He was a player?

[Chance Gardener]

I would suspect it was something sedentary.

But not backgammon...



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[MeLikeyJack]

Chess? maybe he's smarter than he lets on. It could be one of those shot-glass chess games...I bet that big boy could hold his liquor till check mate.

[chaos28]

Those games are fucking fun.

Anyway, I had completely forgot about this quote while watching the episode. So I'm still gonna stick with my theory that Hurley was a professional wrestler.

We'll go to an episode in the future. It'll show Hurley alone in a small locker room. Someone will come in, ask him if it's time for him to work, he'll say "yes," very meloncholy. "Gotta do my job." You'll see him putting his chicken outfit on, and we're supposed to assume that he's about to go work at fast food. We'll then have the camera follow him out into the hallway, then through a double door. The double doors open and reveal a big arena, taking pictures, and a voice going, "And now, the amazing... HURLEY!"

His special moves will have something to do with chickens. Maybe he "hurl"s rubber chickens at them. It'll be goofy, WWE-style, and that'll be the point. He'll get injured, wish he was still doing it, and end up in a hospital. Maybe he'll take a shot to the head and go temporarily a little crazy. Or just lose his temper.

Either way, that's half of what I pictured his back story to always be. Maybe not a WWE-caliber league, otherwise he woulda been rich before the lottery, but a smaller league maybe.

[u s christmas]

I read in an interview with Jorge Garcia that he was scripted to smile like he was joking after that line but they edited it out. He said he didn't think much about it until people started talking about it. After reading that I'm inclined to think that its not really relevant, but who knows.

[Hugo Reyes]

I read in an interview with Jorge Garcia that he was scripted to smile like he was joking after that line but they edited it out. He said he didn't think much about it until people started talking about it. After reading that I'm inclined to think that its not really relevant, but who knows

Post a link please

[rknorton91]

I read in an interview with Jorge Garcia that he was scripted to smile like he was joking after that line but they edited it out. He said he didn't think much about it until people started talking about it. After reading that I'm inclined to think that its not really relevant, but who knows

I hope that is not true. I really enjoy the mystery aspect of this series but I assume the mysteries are real. Not made up purposely in order to play with the shows fans.

In other words I expect that the characters in the show to act like they should. So if a line is supposed to be a joke then an appropriate bit of body language should follow not a cover up of the body language for the sake of increasing mystery.

[MagiclBlingBling]

well, I really would like to see the article myself. And they may not have been editing out the 'smile' to add fake mystery, but it just may not have fitted in the scene, or they needed that mystery there for future...stuff. I don't think that the 'smile' is relevant, because we don't know whether it was actually there. Besides, why have a 'fake' mysterious line when the island's overflowing with enigmatic stuff already?

[anarane saralonde]

I'm not sure if this is the article U S Christmas is talking about but here is some of it.


www.losttheshow.info/inde...3&Itemid=2 (http://www.losttheshow.info/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=63&Itemid=2)

Burly Hurley of 'Lost' Gets Cryptic
Wednesday, 05 January 2005
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LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) The plucky survivors of ABC's "Lost" could serve as a casebook for how most people would respond to being stranded on a deserted (and mysterious) island.....

On the Internet, wags have been speculating for weeks over a perplexing line of dialogue where Hurley refers to his normal life by saying, "I'm known as something of a warrior myself," a statement that has prompted buzz that Hurley could be everything from an extremely large undercover spy to an extremely dedicated Dungeons and Dragons player.

"There are certain things where you never realize what exactly the audience is going to jump on and really wonder about and catch," Garcia says of his "warrior" comment. "I didn't give that one too much attention and then I realized the attention it got on the Internet. So it made me wonder, 'Yeah, actually I wonder what that is.'"

He adds that in the script, the character smiles after making the statement, but the camera never cut back to his face.

More than just an actor on "Lost," Garcia is a fan, prone to making his own wild guesses about different parts of the complicated plot. For instance, this week he's convinced that the unseen and murderous creature in the jungle is actually something mechanical, but he still doesn't know for sure. He's also wary about some of the more convoluted and mystical theories posited in cyberspace.

"I'm just hoping that we're not in Purgatory, the 'We're All Dead' one," he says. "It writes off a lot too easily. I'd like us to still be on Earth, just because as it continues to unravel and we discover where we are, I want a semblance that you have to work a bit to figure it out."

Courtesy of Zap2it.com

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[Zambini Stardust]

In other words I expect that the characters in the show to act like they should. So if a line is supposed to be a joke then an appropriate bit of body language should follow not a cover up of the body language for the sake of increasing mystery.

I disagree. Don't you know people who you can't tell if they're joking or not? They say whatever they say with a perfectly straight face and no body language or vocal tone to suggest a joke, then you find out later it was all a big joke. It's sort of the key to being a good practical joker, isn't it? So Hurley might very well have been joking but without any outward clue.

Or maybe he just made an off-the-cuff remark that had no meaning whatsoever. He didn't mean it seriously, he didn't mean it as a joke, he just said it. People say spontaneous things like that all the time, just to be saying something.

Until we have more info on Hurley's life, I don't think we can interpret the meaning or lack thereof of the warrior comment.

[thereaintnostinkingmonster]

i suggest that it was a tongue-in-cheek comment possibly referencing hs purported exploits in the competitive backgammon arena (as mentioned to walt). i noted an un-hurley like moment when he was playing walt. he seemed truly upset about losing.

another theory: given his size, he must have been a football player in high school. maybe he was pretty tough/competitive on the gridiron ... or, maybe, "warriors" was the name of his team.

[igator210]

It could also have been just an exageration too.

How many people here have never lied to someone to make yourself look more important?

Not saying it's the case, just a thought.

[MagiclBlingBling]

Maybe he was just remebering being a 'warrior'? I think that it'd be something like a nostalgic, I-remember-when-I-was-a-warrior smile, but I don't know!

[Lilyani Isthuggin]

He's most likely refering to one of the many mass online role playing games IE. World of Warcraft, Everquest, Ashtons Calling etc.