I'm wondering what Locke saw in his own vision quest.
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I called the Vision Quest but they dragged out the Shannon eating so long that I thought I was wrong.
he can be Locke's right hand man
Don't think so. I think Locke is just looking to open him up to a connection with the island versus a connection with a person, such as his sister. For whatever reason, Locke is a devotee, who is trying to convert others. But you have to let go of one obsession before you can assume another.
Locke apparently had enough control to direct it to its end, getting Boone to reject his squicky fixation on Shannon. I mean if he didn't have some way of setting a goal, Boone could have hallucinated that Lostzilla stomped him into the hatch and developed an aversion to hanging around it as a consequence...
So are they ever going to actually kill someone? You know, permanently?
Or, yeah, OK, I guess I should have said so he can be on Locke's side, the side of the devotee. But, also, I don't think Locke had any idea what the vision would be. I suppose he just had faith that the island whammy would have that effect no matter what.
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Locke apparently had enough control to direct it to its end, getting Boone to reject his squicky fixation on Shannon. I mean if he didn't have some way of setting a goal, Boone could have hallucinated that Lostzilla stomped him into the hatch and developed an aversion to hanging around it as a consequence...
Yeah, that's why I didn't so much like this ep. Because "boy needs vision quest" is fine, as long as you don't connect it to "boy needs to stop ogling his sister" and have the vision quest be a third party's doing. I have no trouble believing that Locke could tie Boone up and rub mud on his head, but I don't buy that he's magic enough to have mixed up a special IncestOff variety of hallucination goop. It's just one thing too many.
(I also don't think the actors playing Shannon and Boone were strong enough to make this ep work.)
This may be where the producers' comparison of Locke with Randall Flagg may come into play. Perhaps he's actually learning magic from the island or whatever it is that's stomping around on it?
On a tangent - at the Alias party when Jack and Sydney are outside and Nadia opens the door did anyone else notice that the song that was being played was "You All, Everybody" or am I hallucinating?