pinnerman
10-15-04, 01:58 PM
These are from a Detroit Free Press article, the whole story is here: www.lostfansite.com/news-oct14a.html (http://www.lostfansite.com/news-oct14a.html)
"It's wonderful to be playing a wild card," says O'Quinn. "It gives you a chance to stretch a little bit and take more chances."
"My sense of Locke is that he's fatalistic," adds O'Quinn. "He feels that he has a destiny, that there's a mission that we're sent here to fulfill. And his mission is being revealed. That may make him powerful; it may make him dangerous; it may make him wonderful."
Definition for FATALISM -
SYLLABICATION: fa·tal·ism
NOUN: 1. The doctrine that all events are predetermined by fate and are therefore unalterable. 2. Acceptance of the belief that all events are predetermined and inevitable.
OTHER FORMS: fatal·ist —NOUN
fatal·istic —ADJECTIVE
fatal·isti·cal·ly —ADVERB
This supports what I said in my earlier post "Immediate questions after walkabout" about his mental stability. Of course the writers chose Locke to be the one that sees the monster in the trees, he's probably the only one that would come back to camp and NOT immediately tell people what it was.
For all we know, the creature killed the boar after the boar attacked it, and Locke dragged the dead boar back to take credit for the kill and fill the role of hero/provider he believes he is destined to fulfill. It's probably not even dangerous unless its provoked, and that's why he lived, he didn't attack it, he froze. It's obviously not a carnivore, it didn't eat the pilot and it didn't eat the boar and it didn't eat Locke. But it's more valuable to Locke in his mind if the rest of the group is still fearful of whatever it is, because that builds him up in their eyes as someone who stood up to that thing and went face to face with it. Locke's not going to say what it was until someone else sees it and blows his story. He'll probably make up some mystical excuse that he saw "the soul of the island" and it was some weird vision of an animal god or something. Whatever, it won't matter, his explanation won't be believable because he's probably pathological and delusional. He definitely has some good qualities, but like O'Quinn says, he's a "wild card". He'll be as big of a mystery as the things in the trees.
"It's wonderful to be playing a wild card," says O'Quinn. "It gives you a chance to stretch a little bit and take more chances."
"My sense of Locke is that he's fatalistic," adds O'Quinn. "He feels that he has a destiny, that there's a mission that we're sent here to fulfill. And his mission is being revealed. That may make him powerful; it may make him dangerous; it may make him wonderful."
Definition for FATALISM -
SYLLABICATION: fa·tal·ism
NOUN: 1. The doctrine that all events are predetermined by fate and are therefore unalterable. 2. Acceptance of the belief that all events are predetermined and inevitable.
OTHER FORMS: fatal·ist —NOUN
fatal·istic —ADJECTIVE
fatal·isti·cal·ly —ADVERB
This supports what I said in my earlier post "Immediate questions after walkabout" about his mental stability. Of course the writers chose Locke to be the one that sees the monster in the trees, he's probably the only one that would come back to camp and NOT immediately tell people what it was.
For all we know, the creature killed the boar after the boar attacked it, and Locke dragged the dead boar back to take credit for the kill and fill the role of hero/provider he believes he is destined to fulfill. It's probably not even dangerous unless its provoked, and that's why he lived, he didn't attack it, he froze. It's obviously not a carnivore, it didn't eat the pilot and it didn't eat the boar and it didn't eat Locke. But it's more valuable to Locke in his mind if the rest of the group is still fearful of whatever it is, because that builds him up in their eyes as someone who stood up to that thing and went face to face with it. Locke's not going to say what it was until someone else sees it and blows his story. He'll probably make up some mystical excuse that he saw "the soul of the island" and it was some weird vision of an animal god or something. Whatever, it won't matter, his explanation won't be believable because he's probably pathological and delusional. He definitely has some good qualities, but like O'Quinn says, he's a "wild card". He'll be as big of a mystery as the things in the trees.