Watching last nights episode again I’ve got a lot of theories answers to post. I was going to get really detailed but I’m just going to outline them now.
- I’m with Jared in thinking there is time travel involved here, he hasn’t posted about it but it makes sense with the smoke monster seeing the past and Desmond’s journey that was not a flashback.
- I called that Locke was doing all those stupid things because he didn’t want to get off the island but he doesn’t know everything about the island, like Ben states.
- Locke’s “dad” is Sawyer.
- I’m thinking Ben says a lot of truth but you need to extrapolate the manipulations.
- He really did want Locke to blow-up the submarine and he really has lived on the island his whole life.
- He’s lying about the “box” and is only manipulating Locke into believe there is a mystical aspect of the island. The basis, when Locke was in the closet Ben said, “Get me the man from Tallahassee” meaning in my mind Locke’s dad. So imagining him isn’t the case.
The “box” does make sense though. With the polar bear appearing in season one could have been a manifestation from Walt reading the comic. And Walt was “special” maybe Locke is too.
My guess about the smoke monsters: they are controlled by the others and used as time travel machines or maybe just security devices for outside the bericks. I argued with Jared about multiple smoke monsters but there are clearly two in the first episode of the series (they blow up the plane) however those two could be a fraction of one.
How did Locke’s dad get there? Well he clearly was beaten up a little so him just manifesting by someone other then Locke doesn’t make sense. I think he was either captured by the recruiter through traveling or controlling the smoke monster but my guess would have to be they either went back in time or traveled into the near future to get him. I really don’t see any other answer for Locke’s dad to be there so quickly assuming he wasn’t already on the island.
If he was already on the island then he has to be an other beat up to make it look like he isn’t.
I still don’t think it’s the real guy (Locke’s dad on the island), but we’ll see. I think he’s the same as Jack’s dad and Eko’s brother, who were not really there either. Well, at least Eko’s brother wasn’t really there; there are all sorts of theories about Jack’s dad, most of which I hope are untrue, just like I hope that Locke’s dad isn’t actually involved with the “others” group - it would be too cheesy.
I’ll tackle the time travel thing in a seperate post.
Locke’s dad is the Original Sawyer, the guy who taught Sawyer how to con. Didn’t Sawyer say he took the name from someone else?
Yeah Sawyer took his name from Locke’s dad. They guy who conned his mum! Were you even watching the last show russs?
Yeah, that was a great episode! It was cool to call it and be right about a lost theory for once, hahaha.