Entertainment Weekly's Doc Jensen recaps Cabin Fever with a Locke heavy piece drawing a comparison to Locke's story with Watchmen creator Alan Moore's From Hell series. Jensen also has an interesting examination of the unusual synchronicity of the John Locke/Ben Linus timeline, a theory for the reason behind Horace Goodspeed being on a "loop", and he still thinks that Claire is dead.
Some more highlights:
- Locke may be on the road to becoming a maniac.
- The repercussions of moving the Island could be the actual crash of 815.
- The book Richard Alpert showed young Locke was The Book of the Law, written in 1904 by
occult legend Aleister Crowley.
- Ben may be the Island's course correction for failing to seduce John Locke.
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Hey Doc, I have a favor to ask of you.
I have a burning question I want to submit for the podcasts, but for some reason, ABC.com absolutely hates me. I registered for the forums, but signing in for me always just gives me errors or brings me back to the forum, still not signed in. I tried to reregister, but it always just asks for my birthday and brings me back to the forums. It's the most dysfunctional website I've ever seen.
So would you, or some other reader, be willing to submit this question for me?
In "Cabin Fever", Horace reveals that the Ben's flashback to the purge happened 12 years prior to present island time. We also know that Alex was taken from Rousseau 16 years ago. So where was 4-year-old Alex during the purge? Was she with Ben and the Dharma Initiative? The Others? Major continuity error?
I got the book right! Even a stopped clock is right twice a day!
I think the dogs sniffing at Aleister Crowley are hunting the wrong trail. His was "The Book of The Law" and THE law was "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law." Our book is BOOK of LAWS not the LAW.
What about the Bahai Book of Laws or Most Holy Book? It seems to be more in tune with the ambiguous faith that Locke has.
Baha'i doesnt match up with the symbology on the cover (fleur-des-lilys and coptic crosses). Those are popular gnostic and occult symbols, and dont have any relation to Islam (in fact such a book would be abhorred as idol worship).
I suspect they intentionally altered the Crowley title slightly to keep it open ended.
Books of Laws could also be a book containing the first five books of the Bible.
Devin, thats a really greAT question!!!