Hello everyone! My first post here, and I’ve come bearing some spoilery-news! It looks like New York Magazine recently held a brief Q&A session with Michael Emerson. The article doesn’t contain anything groundbreaking, but there’s one nice piece of info.
“The Others stole away to a place called the Temple. Will we be seeing more of them and learning about the Temple?
Yes and yes. I think we’re going to find them to be less malevolent as time goes by.”
I guess we can only wonder if Ben will be around when we’re learning more about the Temple. My feeling here is that this is going to be one of Richard’s lessons to Locke. The question and answer here both seem somewhat vague. It’s not asked, or revealed, that we’ll see the Temple. Do you think we’ll see the Temple, or just learn about it? Discuss!
Source: http://nymag.com/arts/tv/features/53324/
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One of the things I’m interested in is whether the temple holds any spiritual significance for the others. So far the show has kept a fairly wide berth of religion, which is surprising with the religious themes all over the place. (Eko’s very Catholic demise the exception to the rule.)
I agree.
Interesting to note, however, is the weird viking funeral scene with The Others in Season 3’s Jack tattoo episode. In the DVD/Blu-ray commentary, Darlton talked about how the final scene was 1/4th shorter than originally conceived because of how creepy it turned out to be. So they just cut it down to the bare minimum (showing them put the body on the raft and send the raft out). It’s interesting to note a moment where they did try to explore the more religious aspect of The Others and then chose to not include it.
Maybe the Others send their dead out to sea on fire so that the Island or the Smoke Monster or Jacob or whoever can’t re-animate them? I watched that episode the other day, and it seems possible that the ceremony actually had a more functional purpose than a spiritual one.
That’s a very interesting idea, Levi…
On a side note…I haven’t been able to access the forums since this morning, are they down?
I think the temple is probably a relic from the time of the natives. I can’t imagine The Others being all that religious; they have too much scientific insight.
On the subject of the funeral, I thought it was quite beautiful. I’ve heard about secular funerals in some countries that are very similar (with the viking style ’send off’).
Well, from what we’ve seen so far, the others haven’t built anything, they just took over previous dharma places, (barracks, staff, flame) Whos to say that the temple isn’t the same thing. Also, we’ve also seen the dharma stations aren’t orignal either. (Swan on electro-magnetic source, baracks on the heiroglyph door, etc.) So my guess is that the temple is going to be the answer to many things like the 4 toed statue, the ruins and the smokey door.
I wonder if the Looking Glass station got moved with the island. Im assuming the island that the Hydra station was on got moved or else we would have seen it. I don’t think Ben would let the Others leave the island, not that many at once anyway, so I assume the Temple is on the island. I really wonder where the temple is, why only some of the Others knew about it, why it was safe according to Ben, and why the Temple “wasn’t for them” (the 815ers). Maybe the entire island is like a man made structure covered with land kind of like Halo. The heiroglyphics and statues seem ancient, but maybe the island has been to the future, in the past! Who are we to assume the future will be streamlined with flying cars and flashing lights. For all we know the future could seem more primitive, maybe people will be less reliant on technology, maybe rely on the earth more, possibly to save the environment. Makes me think of Jacob! What if Jacob is from the future but got sent back to the past to lead a group of people on the island to live a certain way to influence the events of the future, but the universe tries to course correct him, so he ends up invisible and can only communicate or appear to special people…crap I am rambling again, sorry dudes!