The Answer
Just a very quick one from me. Like many have commented on before, we have been told that the answer to the main point of the whole show is right there in the first episode. I have watched and re watched the pilot episodes but still have really drawn a blank mainly but would like to put this forward. Remember when the losties first heard the smoke monster? Someone said (may have been Shannon?) that the noise it made “sounded familiar”. This has bothered me ever since i heard her say that line. I’ve tried to replay that sound but can’t put my finger on what it is. I do however think that perhaps this may have something to do with the claim that the answers have been there from the start. I do think however that old smokie can cross over in between the possible alternate reality’s and will end up proving to be that something “familiar” that answers the biggest Lost questions.
Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse laughed about that rumor and said that when they did the pilot they didn’t even know if the show would be aired on network television.
As for “that sounded farmiliar” it was Rose (who is from NY, like myself) who said it, and she was referring to a noise that the producers have confirmed is a taxi cab printing a receipt.
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Shouldn’t the show somehow give an answer to why Smokey sounds like a New York taxi receipt printer, especially since the producers have confirmed it and Rose was there commenting on it?
What I find interesting about smokie is now that we know it is from an “ancient” island time – why does its sound contain mechanical elements?
I’m going with that it used to be one thing, more animal like in nature, and became (transformed, mutated) into something else due to human influence (mechanical/technological).
Well in the pilot Locke gave walt the whole backgammon .. Light and dark speech… And held up the white and black stones…. Going back and watching that there’s just something weird about it…Maybe that’s it