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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Negative Zero" data-source="post: 1813714" data-attributes="member: 3794">i think you're giving the average person a little too much credit. (as i've been known to do also.) in my experience, the average person is very much like a mindless sheep and actually needs someone to tell them what to do. you really ought not to judge the bulk of people by the standards of your gamer friends <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />. oh and, getting away from a plane crash site might be common sense, but common sense is certainly not "common" nor usually enough to overpower the morbid fascination that most people have for disasters/accidents.  i'm with Steve. i think that Jack's not really a doctor. perhaps he couldn't handle med school or residency (not an uncommon occurence). or maybe he he got caught operating "under the influence" like his father, as WizarDru suggests. (a suggestion that has a LOT of merit, i think.) as to why Sydney, it could have just been a conveinent way to get JAck on the plane or there might be a specific attachment to Sydney/Australia for his father. the coffin could be empty because Jack was never able to get the Sydney authroities to allow his father on the plane. his speech to the ticketing agent didn't seem likely to work. first of all, i doubt she really would have accepted his "i need it to be over" speech. and even if she was moved by it (though i would expect her to be more jaded towards passenger pleas, unless of course she was new) i doubt she would be able to do anything. i don't see how she could have circumvented the customs regulations of the country as an airline employee. he may have simply planned to take the empty coffin back to the US, bury it, and either hope no one exhumes it or try to covertly get the body into it at a later date. i think that it was "really his father" in the sense that he was who jack needed to make his peace with. but his father is clearly dead and so corporally, it could not be him. unless of course,the whole manifestation idea is true and that powerful to boot. i find it slightly odd that Locke has become so lucid so quickly. in the flashbacks we were shown that he was slightly off balance mentally. (he was self admittedly in psychotherapy and had a clearly unhealthy attachment to some chic at the pricey end of a 900 number.) then again, the mental healing and his lucidity could have been accelerated by his physical healing. as i've mentioned earlier, his mental imbalance might have even made it possible for his miracle to happen. it seems to be a widely held notion in psudoscience and fantasy that such people are more open to things out of the ordinary than the rest of us. what's most curious to me at this point is; what the deal is with Boone (God's Friggin Gift To Humanity as <a href="http://www.televisionwithoutpity.com/story.cgi?show=136&story=6992" target="_blank">televisionwithoutpity.com</a> puts it ... awesome site, btw <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> thanks Fast Learner!). first he tries to take the gun and ammo in Pilot Pt.2, and last night he steals the water. what's up with that? plus, his reaction to Jack for saving his life is a bit ... odd. though i suppose it could be attributed to guilt, it still felts like it was going against the character he's trying to portray. i didn't for a minute buy that sawyer stole the water. i knew we were meant to think that he had, but i was sure it was someone else. i agree that he's probably not the badass he's trying to portray. he's likely hiding behind the tough-guy image as a defense mechanism. i was very happy to see that the shot of Kate telling him "get off me" was not nearly as sinister as the preview clip made it seem. i missed that last few minutes or so of the show, i forgot to pad my TiVo season pass. con someone recap? oh and there was a broken crate of dolls, fett527. ~NegZ</blockquote>

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