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Originally Posted by queenbeesteph
So benmer007, do you think everyone - Locke, Sayid, those two newbies were hallucinating, too. Didn't all those people see the smoke monster pick up Eko. The smoke is able to have substance/consistancy to grab Eko, right? And the Smoke Monster grabbed Locke and was pulling him down that vent. Did Jack and Kate not see the smoke monster?
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I think the islands electromagnetic fields ( or whetever the force is that heals and empowers some..) also probably affect the human mind. Perhaps they also intensify experienes... thoughts... flashbacks... hallucinations and maybe even awaken the regions of our brains that are unmapped...
point being is that i dont think smokey has been all the people we have unexplainedly seen in the forrest. I think it is mechanical. ( per the sounds it typically has associated with its behaviour) Someone posted visual ideas of smokey that are like doctor octopus mechanical arms from the spiderman 2 movie. and perhaps they create the smoke from within its coils or whatever... would explain it dragging locke into a hole. But we have seen it flying alone so its not attached to the ground.
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Originally Posted by katobe
I think benmer007 was saying that the losties see visions of past loved ones etc to bring them to the place where they need to be for whatever reason . Smokie is a seperate thing altogether . Maybe he is attracted by movement , strong emotion or something like that . Why he is violent and kills is the mystery . Maybe the 2 or connected maybe not .... I agree with benmer007 on this point ...
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Thanks Katobe... good thought on the smokey attraction to specific stimulus. ( ie movement, emotion, sweat, inner peace...?)
well put. It seems everone has things they need to get past in their old ways of life. They are now in a new life and cant move forward/leave the island/die/whatever, until they come to that place within themselves. Ecko was finally no longer torn by his guilt. he moved past it and owned it in his life, as opposed to letting it be a crutch or hinderance. I think if anything, smokey saw Ecko was now a whole person in his own eyes and sent him home... so to speak.