feeling insulted, and quite amused actually
I'm a Jater.
I think The Look was NOT a pre-established plan being put into action. This does not make me a squeeing idiot. Kthnx. I also am not running around screaming about how it was an affirmation of love but it intrigues the shit out of me...
The set-up is far more mysterious than a secret plan or a love pact and maybe has something to do with what The Others WANT with them.
What they wanted with Aaron still isn't clear, and while it seems they've "given up" on him, maybe they haven't -- but are just waiting for the best time to go back for him. Maybe after testing him in-utero, they discovered he didn't have what they wanted and that's why they've allowed Claire to remain with the Fusies and raise him.
What they wanted with Walt seems a little more clear. They seemed particularly interested in his ability to "appear where he shouldn't be". A lot of people speculated last year that he'd conjured the polar bears (and that bird, and that time the rain just stopped), and while the map clearly establishes the existence of polar bears on the island, we have no indication as to just when those notations were made -- by Desmond? Inman? Whoever came before. So let's say Walt CAN conjure things with his mind. Let's say he can make things happen with his mind.
The Others seemed interested in whether this could be genetic -- testing Michael's blood -- and the fact that the let Michael go off with Walt means that A) Michael doesn't have the same abilities/genetic anomoly and B) Walt's use to them is no longer as important as someone else.
Someone else who's bound and gagged on that dock.
Which brings us back to that damned list. When Klugh handed Michael the list, everyone was banging their heads against the wall trying to figure out what the four had in common. I theorized that the four had seen things on the island that weren't supposed to be on the island. Like Walt had seen the Polar Bear. But while everyone talked about Walt conjuring a Polar Bear, people seemed less inclined to think that the adults conjured their dead fathers, a boar, a horse, or an old imaginary friend.
Hurley seemed the odd man out. But he wasn't. He was needed. They needed Hurley to deliver the message back to the Fusies that Jack, Kate and Sawyer have been captured and that the Fusies are NOT to come trying to their rescue or else.
The last time there seemed to be a "don't come looking for them" challenge, the ultimatum was death. So I'm guessing at least ONE of the trio that's left is there ONLY as a death threat. When Walt turns the boat around; when Michael realizes his mistake; when Sayid gets gun happy, there is going to be a rescue mission planned. And when they come, one of the trio is going to be brought to the front and their life is going to be threatened, possibly ended.
Jack and Kate CLEARLY seem to be communicating, what no one can seem to agree upon is WHAT. What if neither group is right. What if Jack isn't putting a PREVIOUS plan into action? What if he's NOT comforting Kate? What if they're not gesturing love?
Jack is distraught by Michael's betrayal, but when Kate gets man-handled by Alex, she's already watching Jack, waiting for him. Sawyer's watching The Others. Kate gives Jack a look (it's almost a 'hey' -- you might dismiss it because you want Jack to instigate The Look and maybe he does, I'm just pointing out maybe he doesn't), Jack's face DOES change, he's Grr, but then shifts, almost smiles just before he nods, and then she blinks, nods and swallows, and then Sawyer is shown COMPLETELY OUT OF THE LOOP. He's not jealous (that's insulting Sawyer), he's confused and then angry.
Jack and Kate, one or the other, or both, are the goal.
And here's the cracked theory -- What if one is telling the other, telepathically, why they're wanted. And the other is finally accepting that that's why they want them too.
This is where *I* didn't get why Hurley AND Sawyer were on that list. I'd thought of this before, that the foursome have some latent psychic abilities they've ignored because it's just beyond reason, as an adult, to believe in that kind of stuff. The other two, I can think of something for each -- something MAJOR -- that would explain parts of their stories.
Jack's had a special "gift" about healing people. It might be related to some kind of psychic energy he dismisses as just being a really good doctor, but Sarah? He really wanted her to be fixed. Kate was nothing special, but she managed to blow up a whole house while maintaining she did nothing. What if she didn't, physically, do anything. She really wanted to obliterate her past.
There's still that nagging question of why they didn't take them when they had them. But who knows what they were waiting for. Timing? A sign (people on this island like signs)? Or someone to tell them they DID have these abilities -- a boy who could maybe sense it once his own true abilities were triggered by testing.
And if both have the ability, you know, they could REALLY want Jate babies. It wouldn't be us squeeing, it'd just be genetic testing -- which has nothing to do with who you ship, but all to do with plot and one of the things Degroot was studying.
Side Theory - What if being on that island, in that magnetic energy, was cracking into the shell they've kept their abilities in (which is HOW they made their dead father/horse) and what if that magnetic blast, somehow freed their abilities entirely.
You can poke my squishy brain now.
I think The Look was NOT a pre-established plan being put into action. This does not make me a squeeing idiot. Kthnx. I also am not running around screaming about how it was an affirmation of love but it intrigues the shit out of me...
The set-up is far more mysterious than a secret plan or a love pact and maybe has something to do with what The Others WANT with them.
What they wanted with Aaron still isn't clear, and while it seems they've "given up" on him, maybe they haven't -- but are just waiting for the best time to go back for him. Maybe after testing him in-utero, they discovered he didn't have what they wanted and that's why they've allowed Claire to remain with the Fusies and raise him.
What they wanted with Walt seems a little more clear. They seemed particularly interested in his ability to "appear where he shouldn't be". A lot of people speculated last year that he'd conjured the polar bears (and that bird, and that time the rain just stopped), and while the map clearly establishes the existence of polar bears on the island, we have no indication as to just when those notations were made -- by Desmond? Inman? Whoever came before. So let's say Walt CAN conjure things with his mind. Let's say he can make things happen with his mind.
The Others seemed interested in whether this could be genetic -- testing Michael's blood -- and the fact that the let Michael go off with Walt means that A) Michael doesn't have the same abilities/genetic anomoly and B) Walt's use to them is no longer as important as someone else.
Someone else who's bound and gagged on that dock.
Which brings us back to that damned list. When Klugh handed Michael the list, everyone was banging their heads against the wall trying to figure out what the four had in common. I theorized that the four had seen things on the island that weren't supposed to be on the island. Like Walt had seen the Polar Bear. But while everyone talked about Walt conjuring a Polar Bear, people seemed less inclined to think that the adults conjured their dead fathers, a boar, a horse, or an old imaginary friend.
Hurley seemed the odd man out. But he wasn't. He was needed. They needed Hurley to deliver the message back to the Fusies that Jack, Kate and Sawyer have been captured and that the Fusies are NOT to come trying to their rescue or else.
The last time there seemed to be a "don't come looking for them" challenge, the ultimatum was death. So I'm guessing at least ONE of the trio that's left is there ONLY as a death threat. When Walt turns the boat around; when Michael realizes his mistake; when Sayid gets gun happy, there is going to be a rescue mission planned. And when they come, one of the trio is going to be brought to the front and their life is going to be threatened, possibly ended.
Jack and Kate CLEARLY seem to be communicating, what no one can seem to agree upon is WHAT. What if neither group is right. What if Jack isn't putting a PREVIOUS plan into action? What if he's NOT comforting Kate? What if they're not gesturing love?
Jack is distraught by Michael's betrayal, but when Kate gets man-handled by Alex, she's already watching Jack, waiting for him. Sawyer's watching The Others. Kate gives Jack a look (it's almost a 'hey' -- you might dismiss it because you want Jack to instigate The Look and maybe he does, I'm just pointing out maybe he doesn't), Jack's face DOES change, he's Grr, but then shifts, almost smiles just before he nods, and then she blinks, nods and swallows, and then Sawyer is shown COMPLETELY OUT OF THE LOOP. He's not jealous (that's insulting Sawyer), he's confused and then angry.
Jack and Kate, one or the other, or both, are the goal.
And here's the cracked theory -- What if one is telling the other, telepathically, why they're wanted. And the other is finally accepting that that's why they want them too.
This is where *I* didn't get why Hurley AND Sawyer were on that list. I'd thought of this before, that the foursome have some latent psychic abilities they've ignored because it's just beyond reason, as an adult, to believe in that kind of stuff. The other two, I can think of something for each -- something MAJOR -- that would explain parts of their stories.
Jack's had a special "gift" about healing people. It might be related to some kind of psychic energy he dismisses as just being a really good doctor, but Sarah? He really wanted her to be fixed. Kate was nothing special, but she managed to blow up a whole house while maintaining she did nothing. What if she didn't, physically, do anything. She really wanted to obliterate her past.
There's still that nagging question of why they didn't take them when they had them. But who knows what they were waiting for. Timing? A sign (people on this island like signs)? Or someone to tell them they DID have these abilities -- a boy who could maybe sense it once his own true abilities were triggered by testing.
And if both have the ability, you know, they could REALLY want Jate babies. It wouldn't be us squeeing, it'd just be genetic testing -- which has nothing to do with who you ship, but all to do with plot and one of the things Degroot was studying.
Side Theory - What if being on that island, in that magnetic energy, was cracking into the shell they've kept their abilities in (which is HOW they made their dead father/horse) and what if that magnetic blast, somehow freed their abilities entirely.
You can poke my squishy brain now.