Of course the whole theory is sort of undermined by the fact we've seen no hint Walt knows Locke was in the wheelchair. (Have we?)
Locke told Walt a secret when he was teaching him backgammon. I don't think we know exactly what it was
Funny thing about black and white. You mix it together and you get gray. And it doesn't matter how much white you try and put back in, you're never gonna get anything but gray.
Lilah ,'Destiny'
Lost: OMGWTF POLAR BEAR
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-t - Jan 21, 2005 9:24:00 am PST #5300 of 10000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Calli - Jan 21, 2005 9:28:55 am PST #5301 of 10000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Plus there's the whole trauma of being on a plane that got torn in half, dealing with polar bears, etc. This may have distracted people a bit from playing, "What's different about that guy?" Locke's walking around without saying how odd that is, doing all this super-wilderness thing, so odds are anyone who might be thinking they saw him in a wheelchair pre-flight would immediately think, "Nah, couldn't be Locke." At least until the rest of the weirdness came to the fore. And by then they're probably focusing on the specific weirdness that's capturing or eating people.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 21, 2005 9:32:14 am PST #5302 of 10000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Also, Locke himself isn't exactly unusual in appearance for someone one might see on a flight. Sure his personality is riveting, but he looks like any of a few dozen businessmen who would have been on that plane.
I'd say that people who are visually distinctive, like Claire or Sayid, would be more likely to stay in someone's memory.
le nubian - Jan 21, 2005 9:35:38 am PST #5303 of 10000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
-t...
Walt told Michael what the secret was in the following ep:
I believe it was something like "we are on this island for a reason."
lisah - Jan 21, 2005 9:35:41 am PST #5304 of 10000
Punishingly Intricate
Kim, yay for the sunny and warm!!! I'm not jealous at all...hmmph. as for us having a cd yet... We will next week!!!! They are sitting at a box at the place that made them waiting for my bandmate to come pick them up after she gets back from vacation. We're having a CD release party at the Ottobar Feb. 4. I can send you one if you'd like. Email me your address. Or we'll have a website soonish for real and you will be able to order one through there. (If we get our act together.)
Kate P. - Jan 21, 2005 9:38:27 am PST #5305 of 10000
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Walt told Michael what the secret was in the following ep:
It was "a miracle happened here".
le nubian - Jan 21, 2005 9:40:34 am PST #5306 of 10000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
thanks Kate. Yes, that was it.
Jessica - Jan 21, 2005 9:42:17 am PST #5307 of 10000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
It was "a miracle happened here".
Does this phrase scream "dreidel!" to anyone else?
Kate P. - Jan 21, 2005 9:43:03 am PST #5308 of 10000
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Ha!
Edit: Actually, I keep mentally revising it to "A great battle happened here!" complete with Prince Humperdinck mincing around in the dust.
-t - Jan 21, 2005 9:44:32 am PST #5309 of 10000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Jessica, I was just thinking that.