Lost!

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by bewitched

Christian and MIB are not one and the same. Claire said she was hanging with her father and a "friend"-- friend=NotLocke. So, who (or what) the hell is Christian?

But she was clearly aware that, while he looks like Locke, he's not Locke. So I don't think it rules out, and I think it remains by far most likely, that Christian is MIB/Smokey and she's just on board with the shape-shifting. Especially since MIB-as-Locke didn't exist for most of the 3 years she said she spent with "her friend".

Linus was 117. Forgot to add him to the alive-and-crossed out list.

And maybe I'm just contrary but I have to say that a big part of the fun of Lost (even in this last season) is continuing speculation on what it all means, including whether or not what we've been told (or led to believe) is the truth is, in fact, such. But that's me.

Surely, but at some point the "throw absolutely everything at the wall and see what sticks" becomes overkill. Sure, the CIA could be giving mind controlling drugs to the Loch Ness Monster who is actually a diplomatic emissary from the race of aliens that crashed in Roswell and that actually created the island to amuse their child-king, and that absolutely nothing we've been shown for the last 6 seasons ever actually happened in the character's universe. But that would seem to have made creating 6 seasons of show that showed something completely different a pointless exercise for the producers.

There are already plenty of mysteries on the table. For instance, what exactly are "candidates" and what does "replacing Jacob" mean? What are Jacob and MIB, why are they so interested in candidates. Why are these people we've been following candidates, and how do the concepts of free will vs. destiny come into play? That's a TON to think and speculate about without further assuming that the little we do no is simply wrong. Actually, I find it far more interesting to assume everything is true, just true in a way that we don't yet understand. So when they show the name "Shephard", associated with one of the #'s that Jack has been dealing with, and then immediately show Jack, speculating that somehow the name might refer to some other people that aren't even named Shepherd...just seems an unnecessary distraction.

Of course, then there's the whole MIB-out-of-nowhere crap. I still call b.s. on that, so maybe the Locke Ness monster isn't far behind, what do I know.

[bewitched]

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

But she was clearly aware that, while he looks like Locke, he's not Locke. So I don't think it rules out, and I think it remains by far most likely, that Christian is MIB/Smokey and she's just on board with the shape-shifting. Especially since MIB-as-Locke didn't exist for most of the 3 years she said she spent with "her friend".

But she made a distinction between her father and her "friend" and that she lived with both of them. She then specifically referred to NotLocke as her "friend" (i.e. not her father).