Sept10 Contest – Seth wouldn’t help get home
Smokie killed the pilot because Seth was of no use to MIB.
This conclusion is based upon examination of the two characters and their relationships.
Smokie. Who did he kill and why? In retrospect, he didn’t seem to kill out of rage – he seemed quite methodical and quite calm when he apologized that Ben had to see him like that.
Those killed seem to be grouped into two major groups: those that attacked him; those that couldn’t be used by him (e.g. the temple) – kind of a ‘if you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem’. [I believe all of the people killed could fall into these groups except Mother – who was directly preventing MIB from leaving.
Seth. Not a candidate, never was. He was a ‘good guy’ (long time married, and I think Lapedeus said something like that). MIB likely scanned him and decided he wasn’t ‘controllable’ – he ‘wouldn’t go along’ (If this is why Eco was killed, MIB’s scanning wasn’t to judge good/bad but judge their character and malleability … and usefulness in the one thing MIB wants … to get off the island and ‘go home’.) Indeed, some of the information about how they got ‘Lost’ (or perhaps help them get found w/o MIB) just might have messed up his loophole.
Though Seth was a pilot, the plane itself wasn’t pilotable. Not useful.
Good guys can’t/won’t kill candidates. Not useful.
It was either that … or his breath.
I like what you said “he seemed quite methodical and quite calm when he apologized that Ben had to see him like that”…
After rewatching that scene though, I just think it’s a stretch that Smokie scanned the pilot… So I think the pilot is more in the category of “attacking him”, even though attacking him was simply standing up to him..
I posted my theory just a minute ago and then read yours. I think we share the same idea, although maybe it doesn’t look like it in the writing, but I think that Smokey could have easily killed Seth way before he actually did. He WAITED to kill Seth until someone else arrived at the cockpit, in order to scare the hell out of them, who Smokey would leave to escape. Seth’s usefulness was in his death to incite fear into the remaining survivors.
That makes sense.
Thanx Penelopedean.
I like it Inquisitor.
And, you may be right there, bobt.
Ahhhh …. so nice to be home.
Hi Waycurious…good thoughts here!
This line I think sums up the whole thing…
“‘if you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem’”
That was exactly it…whether it was because he was not Frank, or simply because he was there…Im sure putting some fear into Jack, Kate, and Charlie along the way didnt hurt his plan either.
Great thinking and glad to see you here again!