I'm going with Locke being pragmatic. He's using what they have to do what he wants. He may have even thanked the island for the shoe, and paused to silently thank the owner, and wish him well on his journey to the afterlife. Then he would use the shoe, because it was there and he might as well use it.

I wish someone would think of all the electronics and wiring and so on that could be salvaged from the cockpit.

Also? Even underwater for 40+ days, there might be more to be salvaged from the wreckage of the tail section.

I'm going with Locke being pragmatic. He's using what they have to do what he wants. He may have even thanked the island for the shoe, and paused to silently thank the owner, and wish him well on his journey to the afterlife. Then he would use the shoe, because it was there and he might as well use it.

I think it's more interesting if he's kept slightly creepy while being grateful to the island, etc., etc.

I wish someone would think of all the electronics and wiring and so on that could be salvaged from the cockpit.

You know what would have been very very creepifying? If they'd gone back just for that reason... and found that the cockpit section wasn't there any more. Just gone or at least unfindable. So much so that some would wonder if Kate et al were making up finding it, and what happened there....

Ah, lost opportunities.

You know what would have been very very creepifying?

As well as doublepostifying?

Huh. Don't know how that happened!

He dies in Season 1. Locke has Boone do something dangerous -- cliimb a tree to look at a small plane that crashed there -- and Boone gets fatally hurt when the plane falls. Locke doesn't climb the tree himself because all of the sudden his legs seem to fail him. So, basically, Locke ignores the island warning him not to go up the tree (there were dreams earlier too) and gets Boone killed.

It was all very dramatic. Or boring. Or both.

I finally saw this, last night. I can totally understand how Locke misinterpreted the warnings, thanks to the way they wove the backstory with his bio parents into the episode.

Boone is now dead. I still like Shannon. The bit with Sawyer's glasses cracked me up (that might have been a previous episode, they all run together when I watch them on DVD).

I feel badly for Jin and Sun.

Claire's baby is finally here.

And? Now there's a whole planeload of heroin, just waiting for Charlie to happen on it. Too bad Jack didn't have some to ease Boone's passing.

This is a cool Lost site:

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new episode tonight?