That description just dosn't fit Locke, for me. I don't see him as prone to flakage, nor do I see him as insightful (not the way I understand Fiver to be insightful). And, his prior handicap notwithstanding, he's not small or frail at all.
Charlie, once he's off the smack, will be Fiver. When Claire was complaining people were afraid to look at her, Charlie told her, "I see you." There's the intuitiveness. Also, he's one of the smallest, can't swim, and slightly flakey (look at the bandages on his fingers, dude.)
Fiver is the advisor to the hero, the power behind the throne, in a non-Wormtounge kind of way.
It remains to be seen if this is, in fact, the position Locke takes up on the island (I'd say it's a little early for that, one conversation does not an advisor to the throne make).
It still remains that, even if this is the position that Locke ends up in, it is (as I see it) the only way in which Locke maps onto the traits of Fiver provided here.
Locke=Fiver. Taking all cash bets.
As long as that equals symbol is the precise symbol you want to use, I'll take that bet. Now we just have to agree on an amount for you to put in that envelope to send over to me.
I think P-C's right,
That is probably a phrase in one of those languages I don't speak.
I know, I could barely believe I'd uttered the phrase myself.
Charlie, once he's off the smack, will be Fiver.
Oy! Charlie
sans smack,
will be Bluebell .
The funny thing about the WD parallels is that there are also a bunch of other rabbits with them who don't do much but follow the core group, just like the 31 nameless survivors on the island. (There aren't as many extra rabbits as there are extra survivors, and the extra rabbits did have names, but still, it's amusing.)
I can't see Kate as Hyzenthlay because I'm still holding out for Kate's crime to have been something truly horrific and punishment-worthy. I don't want her to be a political activist with a heart of gold, I want her to be a serial cannibal.
Charlie, once he's off the smack, will be Fiver.
Locke, Walt, Charlie, Sun, and Vincent will all be Fiver. They will be a Five-Man Band of Fiverosity.
Thanks beathen and T!C. Heading to spoilers, and down that long path...
the 31 nameless survivors on the island.
Shoutout to Baskin Robbins?
I'm going to have to look at that character sheed from WD some more.
Locke picked up on the strangeness of the island LONG before anyone else, in a way that seems to imply more than just practical know-how at play. Between that and his talk of destiny, sounds visionary to me.
Well, if I woke up after a plane crash and I could walk after 5 years of paralysis, I damn well bet I'd pick up some strangeness on the island.
But, point taken. :-)
Locke, Walt, Charlie, Sun, and Vincent will all be Fiver. They will be a Five-Man Band of Fiverosity.
Where do I buy this tee-shirt?
Keeping with the WD parallels a bit more, the initial crisis in WD was caused thanks to a rift between the rabbits who heeded Fiver's warnings about the upcoming disaster and those who wanted to keep the paranoid types from rocking the boat.
I could see a similar situation playing out as some of the survivors want to set up camp away from the beach while others hold out for rescue to come to the crash site and don't want to leave.
