For story reasons, I think Kate and Locke are essentially unkillable at this point. For meta reasons, I think Charlie, Jack, and Sun are likewise untouchable—the fans love Monaghan, the fans AND network execs love Fox, and the producers were wowed enough by Yunjin Kim to write a whole story arc around the character they created for her.
Zoe: Next time we smuggle stock, let's make it something smaller. Wash: Yeah, we should start dealing in those black-market beagles.
'Safe'
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Matt the Bruins fan - Nov 08, 2004 5:15:31 pm PST #219 of 3486
"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
le nubian - Nov 08, 2004 5:48:06 pm PST #220 of 3486
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Actually, I could really see Locke getting killed.
candyb - Nov 09, 2004 12:52:51 am PST #221 of 3486
le nubian - Nov 09, 2004 1:18:37 am PST #222 of 3486
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Check out this Dark Horizons article - interview with Paul Dini. It is spoilerrific and actually cogent. :-)
le nubian - Nov 09, 2004 1:22:45 am PST #223 of 3486
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
There are two things that bug me about the DH article:
1) the persistent misspelling of "boar"
2) are the boars CGI or not?
Anne W. - Nov 09, 2004 1:23:15 am PST #224 of 3486
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
I was about to post much the same thing, le n.
Jessica - Nov 09, 2004 4:58:18 am PST #225 of 3486
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
2) are the boars CGI or not?
They were in Walkabout. The pre-effects version of the scene when the boars are running around camp after getting into the fuselage was funny as hell. (Intercutting between the cast looking scared and empty shots of the forest with "FX MISSING: WILD BOAR RUNS PAST CAMERA" lower thirds.)
le nubian - Nov 09, 2004 5:38:15 am PST #226 of 3486
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
So the boar in "The Moth" was not CGI. That part of the article is definitely confusing.
DavidS - Nov 09, 2004 7:53:02 am PST #227 of 3486
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
So...
It was also said that the monster is sort of a reflection of yourself. The pilot saw it in horror and he was killed because he feared the monster. Locke saw the monster with true awe, therefore, he was able to survive his encounter.
The monster itself may not be revealed totally at any point in the series. It may be, as Paul described it, "a Loch Ness Monster kind of thing". Bits and pieces of the beast will be shown throughout the series but a full reveal could prove to be anti-climatic. Still the monster will be explained at some point in future seasons.
I think people will get pissed off as they did on Twin Peaks if this story is drawn out too long, or if it doesn't have some kind of satisfactory resolution. Not that Ze Monster needs to be killed or nullified, but they'll need something better than hand-wavey to justify it.
Matt the Bruins fan - Nov 09, 2004 8:03:21 am PST #228 of 3486
"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
They wouldn't be ballsy enough to actually use "the island was a Krell outpost" as their backstory, would they?