Wait a minute...Isn't Locke really a Special Forces guy?

[AVRILFANTOO]

Didn't someone call Locke and Locke verified it was a clear line?

Would a Special Ops guy have a standard military record that could be viewed by personnel?

[commandobrando]

i completely agree, hes too weapon and wilderness savvy to be a regular guy who hunted with his pops. he has a special op's background, delta, seals, green berets, rangers, somethin along that line, and this prick randy would never be handed such files, he became paralyzed so he had to get regular job to not blow his former profession, and his records are pretty tight sealed.

[LostInWilderness]

Nope.

[Brian]

Nope.
You summed that up rather well, LIW. BTW - I agree with your summary.

[Jesuskrishna]

Hello.

This is my first post on this site as I am a complete newcomer to LOST. Literally, I had not seen a single episode until this last Sunday morning. A coworker lent my wife and I his DVD box set on Saturday and until then I'd only read and heard bits and pieces of what the show was, but I will say I had the completely wrong idea. I thought it was more a standard human drama/soap opera and while that element is there I did NOT know that it was also a show of mystery, spirituality and perhaps even the supernatural.
My wife and I began to watch the show Sunday morning(brings the dawn in) and we had completed it by late Monday night. Yes, all 24 episodes. No, we do not normally watch TV like that. It was our weekend and we just got hooked. My wife has taken to calling it TV crack.
She may be right.

So far my favorite character on the show is John Locke.
But it is specifically BECAUSE of his transformation and growth that this is so. He was not Special-Ops, Green Beret, CIA, FBI or any such thing. He was, essentially, a shadow. A shadow of a man that barely existed. His life was almost entirely in his mind. He had friends that he 'role played'* with, he had imaginary relationships with women that he'd never actually met but just spoken to, he had delusions of grandeur(a walkabout? In a wheel chair?), but he never actually would have been good at ANYTHING, until the island.
The episode entitled "The Moth" is seemingly about Charlie, but it's as much about Locke as it is Charlie. Locke was the first to bust his cuckoon open and fly with new but unfamiliar wings. Now he is an entirely different man than who he once was. What he represents, to me at least, is interesting as well.
As I see it, Locke is THE spirit guide.
The shaman/philosopher/lunatic.
As shaman, he represents the native american that mythologist/religious historian Joseph Campbell referred to when he talked of a member of a tribe undergoing a transformation, both physical and spiritual, that would lead the tribe in a new direction even if it meant that that member was still a part of that tribe but also separate due to the change in the psyche. The use of psychoactive drugs in shamanism is also used when Locke gives Boone the head ointment that causes his hallucination of Shannon's death.
As philosopher, well......
His name IS John Locke.
If you are an American, or citizen of any other island on this round ocean and don't know who John Locke is you might wan't to do yourselves a favour and read something by him.
I'm sure you can find plenty on the internet. I'm not telling you where to go, just that you should.
Last but not least, lunatic.
He's bald, he's been referred to as a Colonel and he's apparently not all there(which is a statement I disagree with).
In one episode there is a reference to Colonel Kurtz who is the character Marlon Brando played in Apocolypse Now, the Francis Ford Coppola film based on the book by Joseph Conrad, Heart Of Darkness.
'nuff said.
Shaman. Philosopher. Lunatic.

But which is the strongest aspect of Locke?
Hard to say yet.
Not to mention that maybe his mother isn't really crazy and that his 'dad' isn't really his dad.
Immaculate conception? Hmmm.....

Well, that's my first post regarding my new curiosity about this new show(new to me at least) but I'm pretty sure that it won't be my last.

Jesuskrishna

*No offense to any of y'all who play RPG's. %^)

[LostInWilderness]

Welcome Jesuskrishna. Please read the welcome forum and the posting guidelines. You'll find that a lot of us are intrigued by Locke, and he is discussed here and factors heavily in discussions all over the board. You might like my Spirit Guide (http://p073.ezboard.com/flosttheunofficalforumfortheabcseriesfrm25.showMes sage?topicID=90.topic) thread.