Comments on: The Package

By: HollyP

HollyP — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 01:59:36 +0000

[quote comment="372925"]So if the plane can take off why didn’t they do that right after they landed? My assumption was that the plane was damaged to the point that it could not take off. Anyone know what Lapidus said about the planes status after they landed?[/quote]

Lapidus said in no unequivocal terms that the plane cannot fly off the island. The windshield is broken and the landing strip is too short for takeoff. I think there is also insufficient fuel.

By: Belle

Belle — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 20:45:28 +0000

[quote comment="373213"]Is she single?[/quote]

On the island they are married but not in the FSW.

By: B. Laesch

B. Laesch — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 06:40:58 +0000

Is she single?

By: Belle

Belle — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 23:35:48 +0000

[quote comment="372951"][quote comment="372942"]
The guy next to Richard on the boat said the island is protected by the devil when he saw the statue. [/quote]

I think we need to keep in mind that the character speaking was a delirious prisoner, probably half dead from starvation and dehydration, looking through a small slat, in a raging storm, with a near pitch black sky, with little more than flashes of lightning to light the sky, at a stature of Tawaret (the Egyptian Goddess of Fertility – confirmed as such by D&C). I think MAYBE, we don’t have to take this minor character’s word for it.

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I would also add that the man was very superstitious.

I’m wondering if the name “Kwon” only refers to Jin. In traditional Korean, when a woman marries she keeps her last name. Sun’s last name should still be Paik. Perhaps the writers used the same last name so people wouldn’t be confused. Just a thought.

By: wally p

wally p — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 14:14:18 +0000

I’ve been on that idea for a while…

When Faraday was in time and he talkd to Desmond, he did it SO that Desmond in 2007 would remember it… knowing that off island it was now 2007 (or some such, whatever year it was then…)
The Desmond that Faraday was talking to was essentially a shadow of the past, but since it is Desmonds past, Desmond in 2007 will remember this conversation instantly because it is happening.

MIB has mastered this ability, and therefore could have been a million other places, dimensions, or times, all along. In order to mesh into the current time line in the way he needed to… I think the Flash Sideways we are seeing is the timeline that he’s after.

By: wally p

wally p — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 13:36:22 +0000

I dont see why there cant be more than one Christian,,, theres more than one Walt, and he’s not even DEAD!

By: londonboy

londonboy — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 09:40:21 +0000

Hi Flordia, didn’t mean that there is only one Christian, but that the four instances referred to – taking Claire/Aaron, appearing to Michael on the freighter, appearing to Locke with Claire in the cabin and to Locke in the well – are either all MIB or all something other than MIB. There may be more than one Christian, but those appearances are all the same ‘guy’.

By: Hammer

Hammer — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 00:41:39 +0000

[quote comment="373023"]I think Jacob off island is more than a apperation because he touches people..

Christian on island is an apperation, at least most of the times we see him. That is why he can’t help Locke to the wheele with the broken leg. The christian that lures Claire away and meets Sun may be different as he holds Aaron and the picture.[/quote]
Or maybe he couldn’t help locke because it would break the rules…gotta do it yourself?

By: Florida in July

Florida in July — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 22:53:54 +0000

[quote comment="373015"][quote comment="372991"]something I didn’t catch until after doing some reading online (or atleast did not see the connection) was that MIB cannot cross bodies of water. He needs a boat to do so. SO Christian who appeared to Walt’s dad on Witmores ship could not have been smokey. Neither could he/it be Christian when he appeared to Jack in the hospital lobby. This gives creedence to the theory that there are definitly two Christians (MIB version and “good/original” Christian)… I wonder if this also applies to Claire (the one who appeared to Kate in Aarons room) and wierd/crazy Claire…[/quote]
My current take is that MIB’s ‘being’ can’t travel across water. Apparitions, spirits, illusions, telepathy maybe can. I think what we are to assume is the MIB is trapped on the island. If he ‘appears’ off island…his essence is still trapped. Think of it as as a visual phone call. You can see him, but he’s not there.[/quote]
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Interesting hammer I had not thought of that. I just find it hard to believe that if the MIB could appear (virtually) in “the real world” what would prevent him “infecting” or “tempting” off-island random/non-candidate people into achieving his own ends (destroying the island/recruiting junior MIB’s to the island to help free him). Of course as in much of L O S T we only get a peek at the whole picture so this could go either way.

Londonboy, I still think there can be 2 (or 3 for that matter) “Christians.” I would not agree that it has to be one or the other…

By: londonboy

londonboy — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 22:15:08 +0000

I’m even more confused about the Christian appearances now. I’d go with Flordia in July’s thought process: if he says he can’t travel across water, then that wasn’t MIB that appeared to Michael on the freighter. If he can simply project himself, then why didn’t he do that with Widmore?

But the Christian that appears to Michael is dressed exactly the same as the Christian that appears to Clare and to Locke both in the cabin with Clare and down the well. They changed how he dressed when he appeared to Clare – he’d been dressed differently when see by Hurley in Jacob’s cabin, when that other unidentified face appeared. It seems likely that those similarly dressed Christian’s are the same entity. And if one of them can’t be the smoke monster…

Or I’m wrong about the projection, and they are all MIB. But it seems to me, they are one or the other.