Great post kimberly! Thanks for the shout-out as well.
I think what is interesting is we are now branching out and seeing more of the outside influences involved with ‘the island’.
You’re right about ‘the manipulators’ which I touched on in my post, briefly pertaining to Ben & Juliette.
One other character we know little about is Abbaddon! I will be anxious to see where he fits in, with the triangle of power.
What I came away with last night, is, it would appear the DI were overthrown, by some of the ‘key players’ within the DI, who are now attempting to control and manipulate things on the outside world.
The bottom line, is I think you’re right about some of the ’06’ being well groomed. Either by their own fathers, or surrogate fathers.
If Christian has played a role on the island before, that could be possilby how he knows Jack has such an important task at hand. If he knows Jack gets to the island or is going to, he knows what the island is, and what it can do to a “weak souled” person…it breaks them. They dont understand and become afraid. They shy away from challenges and heroics, for fear of death and injury. How does a military, any military, develope a soldier, they beat the sh*t out of them. They take them to the point of pain and and torture where you feel you cannot take it, then they let you breathe. Over and over until you either break, or become something better. If it doesnt kill you…
Christian seems to do this to a certain point with Jack. Knows his son, and knows he, much like another seemingly chosen one, doesnt like to be told what he cant do. He hates his Father for what he did and it would be almost poetic, to find out he was doing it for the greater good. Thats still the problem in my mind, what is Christians motives? Whether on island Christian/Jacob/Smokie, whatever he is, or off island father of the year, im doing this for your own good Christian. Is it all a ploy to set Jack up to believe, much like Ben makes people beieve, that he is doing something heroic, only to reveal that it as sinister at heart? Or is Dad setting his apprentice or “Little Prince” up for greatness in the end?
Cappayne…Yes, I was specifically thinking of all the games (Risk, chess, backgammon) we have seen on the show, even in choosing the title of “players”.
On this random side note, I couldn’t help but think about chess the other day, and the “rules” of the island and the rules of the game itself.
– Each playing piece has specific rules to which direction(s) it can move.
– Pawns are the least powerful pieces but have the ability to become equal to the most powerful, if played strategically.
– The concept of “castling” which defensively brings a powerful ‘rook’ into play that might otherwise have been limited by where it was.
Obviously, these are more “thematic” ideas, not “theories” or anything. Just interesting to draw connections to some of the relationships and maneuvers that we are getting to see this season.
Games in general, backgammon, risk, poker, even connect friggin four! They all seemed to show how a character thinks, being very popular strategy games, competition of wits. Hell, even Hurley beat the pants off Sawyer in pingpong! I loved it, cant wait to see Ben and widmore, on island before their feud, playing battleship ;] Bet ya 50 bucks Ben would win that game!!!
Yeah, I was making a joke, using what was almost the final scene of the finale last season, in which Ben…well…sunk Widmores battleship, or freighter, but you get the..nevermind ;]
On the note of “pawns”, being a relation to chess, (old) board games have been a re-occurance in LOST.
Great post kimberly! Thanks for the shout-out as well.
I think what is interesting is we are now branching out and seeing more of the outside influences involved with ‘the island’.
You’re right about ‘the manipulators’ which I touched on in my post, briefly pertaining to Ben & Juliette.
One other character we know little about is Abbaddon! I will be anxious to see where he fits in, with the triangle of power.
What I came away with last night, is, it would appear the DI were overthrown, by some of the ‘key players’ within the DI, who are now attempting to control and manipulate things on the outside world.
The bottom line, is I think you’re right about some of the ’06’ being well groomed. Either by their own fathers, or surrogate fathers.
If Christian has played a role on the island before, that could be possilby how he knows Jack has such an important task at hand. If he knows Jack gets to the island or is going to, he knows what the island is, and what it can do to a “weak souled” person…it breaks them. They dont understand and become afraid. They shy away from challenges and heroics, for fear of death and injury. How does a military, any military, develope a soldier, they beat the sh*t out of them. They take them to the point of pain and and torture where you feel you cannot take it, then they let you breathe. Over and over until you either break, or become something better. If it doesnt kill you…
Christian seems to do this to a certain point with Jack. Knows his son, and knows he, much like another seemingly chosen one, doesnt like to be told what he cant do. He hates his Father for what he did and it would be almost poetic, to find out he was doing it for the greater good. Thats still the problem in my mind, what is Christians motives? Whether on island Christian/Jacob/Smokie, whatever he is, or off island father of the year, im doing this for your own good Christian. Is it all a ploy to set Jack up to believe, much like Ben makes people beieve, that he is doing something heroic, only to reveal that it as sinister at heart? Or is Dad setting his apprentice or “Little Prince” up for greatness in the end?
Brilliant play on words, AES!
The Little Prince, indeed!
new theory for on that
Cappayne…Yes, I was specifically thinking of all the games (Risk, chess, backgammon) we have seen on the show, even in choosing the title of “players”.
On this random side note, I couldn’t help but think about chess the other day, and the “rules” of the island and the rules of the game itself.
– Each playing piece has specific rules to which direction(s) it can move.
– Pawns are the least powerful pieces but have the ability to become equal to the most powerful, if played strategically.
– The concept of “castling” which defensively brings a powerful ‘rook’ into play that might otherwise have been limited by where it was.
Obviously, these are more “thematic” ideas, not “theories” or anything. Just interesting to draw connections to some of the relationships and maneuvers that we are getting to see this season.
Games in general, backgammon, risk, poker, even connect friggin four! They all seemed to show how a character thinks, being very popular strategy games, competition of wits. Hell, even Hurley beat the pants off Sawyer in pingpong! I loved it, cant wait to see Ben and widmore, on island before their feud, playing battleship ;] Bet ya 50 bucks Ben would win that game!!!
I’ll take that bet. Widmore seems to know quite a bit about naval lore (Admiral MacCutcheon et. al.) I would not be surprised if he beat ol’ Ben!
Yeah, I was making a joke, using what was almost the final scene of the finale last season, in which Ben…well…sunk Widmores battleship, or freighter, but you get the..nevermind ;]