Invite to the wedding? you got to be joking
In Ep4 When Locke and Helen are discussing wedding plans she is getting tired of choosing seating back covers she asks “why dont’t we just invite my parents and YOUR father?” I’m assuming it’s Anthony Cooper she is refering to the person in the original timeline that pushed Locke out of the window and broke his back. My question is how does Locke end up in a wheel chair in the Alt timeline? Because sure as hell i wouldn’t invite anyone who pushed me 3 floors from a building to my wedding.
Maybe i’ve missed something anyone help me out here? Feel free to elaborate on any idea’s as to how he may have ended up in the wheel chair (serious idea’s though 😛 )
He wasn’t in a wheelchair when he and Helen met…there is a picture on his desk of he and her…and john is standing in the photo…I blame mommy somehow…
I’ll bet he’s in a wheelchair because he broke his back. Anything beyond that is pure speculation.
Ditto, highbrow.
Also, it must have not been life-threatening. Or at least I don’t think so. I don’t think Jacob was involved in their lives in the alternate timeline. Just my thought.
I may be way off here, but do we know for certain that Anthony Cooper is Locke’s father other than his (Cooper’s) word and Emily’s unreliable word? If Cooper is such a con man, as he keeps telling us, then he may accept money from a very rich person to assume the identity of someone’s father without questioning it? Just a thought – open to anyone proving me wrong as I haven’t got to Locke’s birth yet on the rewatch.
Eko73, I’ve been saying for a few years now that we really don’t know if Anthony Cooper is Locke’s father. You’re right, it’s never been proven, the word of his wacky Mom, and Cooper the con artist can’t be trusted. I think Cooper lied just to get Locke’s kidney (and no you don’t have to be a blood relation to donate a kidney).
Also, in the alt timeline, any number of accidents could have led to Locke’s being in the wheelchair. Wasn’t it interesting last night when Jack saw the scar from his appendectomy? He didn’t remember having his appendix out, and then his Mom said it was removed when he was 7 or 8. So it seems to me that even though the specifics of their lives may have changed, the outcomes are the same. I think we’ll find that although Kate is still a fugitive, maybe she is innocent. Claire is still pregnant with Aaron. Who knows–maybe Sawyer is about to meet Juliet for coffee? Just like Charlie dying, one way or the other, the universe course corrects to get the end result it demands.
imisscharlie, I’m glad I’m not the only one and I’m sorry if you’ve already said that on here – we’re in the UK so I don’t see new eps til Friday night so it takes all self-control to stay off here until Saturday again – we’re only up to The Substitute. There is a whole load of weirdness around Antony Cooper and I’m wondering if we questioned everything we took for granted on Lost then other things would reveal themselves. It reminds me of The Magus infact I wouldn’t be surprised if that book turns up somewhere!
Eko73, I don’t know The Magus, but you’re right–lots of great books turn up in this show!
Enjoy the new episode tonight–I’m sure you’ll have some good ideas after seeing it!
It’s the same issue I had with Hugo in the ATL. If the island “sunk” in 1977, then Leonard Simms would never have become obsessed with the number thus never repeating them to Hugo thus Hugo never plays them in the lottery thus never wins his millions to buy Locke’s box company. But it happened anyway, somehow. It’s the whole idea of the universe “course-correcting” itself. Even if Hugo didn’t stumble on those numbers at the psych ward, he was destined to win the lottery some other way.
The same goes for Locke, accordingly. He was destined to break his back, even if it wasn’t by Cooper pushing him out of a window.