Wait, wait. Assuming the psychic was right in everything he said... first, he saw that the baby would be the Bad Seed if anyone but Claire raised him. He saw an Essence of Good in Claire. Then, he manipulated Claire to get her crashed on an island, and he must have known she would not die, so she must be the one to raise the baby, so she must not die, or Psychic would be wrong. If there were someone/something on the island that would bring out the Essence of Evil in the baby, then why would the psychic have sent her there? Gah.
Maybe Ethan is actually trying to protect the baby, not to hurt it. From what? Maybe not from the island, but from the other lost folks. Maybe he expects whatever happened to Danielle's crew to happen to them, and thus they won't be able to raise the baby. Ethan obviously has some social skills; it's hard for me to imagine that he was raised from childhood on a deserted island with no company except Crazy Danielle. I don't think Ethan is Alex, and I don't think the island is evil. I don't know what I do think.
I think I'm going to go watch my new Galaxy Rangers DVDs like I planned to half an hour ago.
I have one small point to make and then i must get off of this computer. my head is pounding.
if everyone's names were supposedly on that roster does that mean that Sawyer told Hurley his real name? and if not, i'd say that brings up an interesting quandary.
maybe the psychic went to the Wesley school of prophecy and how to interpret them.
THE MOTHER WILL RAISE THE SON.
if everyone's names were supposedly on that roster does that mean that Sawyer told Hurley his real name? and if not, i'd say that brings up an interesting quandary.
I thought about that too, but it's possible Sawyer's actually been
using
the name Sawyer for a while now.
Well, he's been going by Sawyer for a long time. Possible he's got it changed legally? Or just that he's got travel documents under it?
Possible he's got it changed legally? Or just that he's got travel documents under it?
If he's been running cons for that long, chances are he's got fake IDS, maybe more than one set.
we must either take him seriously and at his word, or not
I feel like we're supposed to take him at his word, because he didn't play the run-of-the-mill "only happy news" psychic. Also the point of view wasn't only Claire's in those scenes -- the camera very pointedly focused on him during the readings, not just on Claire's reaction to him.
A psychic just looking to read for money probably won't spend much time calling in the middle of the night, either.
if everyone's names were supposedly on that roster does that mean that Sawyer told Hurley his real name? and if not, i'd say that brings up an interesting quandary.
Ooh! Ooh! Maybe Hurley thinks that
Sawyer's
the odd man out! I mean, Ethan could have gotten the name of one of the dead passengers pretty easily, from papers in a pocket or a wallet or whatever, and then if Sawyer used his real name on the flight roster, but didn't tell it to Hurley, and then they'll all be even more suspicious of him... okay, so he probably used a fake ID (somehow, I can't see him going so far as to legally change his name to Sawyer), but I like my pet theory very much.
But Hurley would have to think that, if Sawyer's name wasn't on that flight roster, there's no way he would have handed it over so easily.
Aw crap, there goes my theory.
