Would it really shock anyone if he was alive? How many frickin people have been shot and lived on this damn show… like a hundred!??!

Young Ben… Locke…Mikhail… Keamy (that guy got killed at least 3 times)… the list goes on and on.

Is it just me or is it a little too abrupt (even more abrupt than masterfully killing off the awful paulo and nikki) killing this guy. Why introduce him at all…

He has been this confident. Man From Tallahassee is a great example. Most of Season 2 is a better one.

And he has had his confidence shattered. We have seen it happen a few times now, but his character is growing, changing.

BTW, another episode this season was titled “Whatever Happened, Happened” Is that a set in stone RULE because it was an episode TITLE?? I think we all know that that rule will be broken…. (faraday already broke it himself in his interaction with Desmond)

Remember we have seen Christian do things like taking the picture off the wall that a simple imaginary figure could not do, so I would propose that there is much more to it then just imagination. Whatever Smokey is, I believe it can take physical forms of the deceased. Perhaps it uses the imagination of the people on the island and connects them to the bodies that have rested somewhere on the island. Everyone we have seen that is physically dead (Christian, Yemi, Alex, Libby, Ana Lucia, Locke) or most probably dead (Claire) that has manifested one way or another have died or has had their dead body on the island.

Your theory would actually work with mine (Smokey=Locke) or Zombie’s (Smokey=Richard). That is, perhaps all other manifestations were just manifestations that seem as real as you are me. There are theories to why this is as well, but let’s not venture that for now. Perhaps Richard and Locke are different. Perhaps they are actually resurrections (you would think at least Locke is). If this is the case, then perhaps he is resurrected with the soul of Smokey or perhaps he was resurrected by Smokey or the island (which Smokey could very well be a manifestation or agent of). Any way you slice it, all interesting stuff…

I write the thoughts and ideas that I get while watching the show. Sometimes there is evidence, sometimes there isn’t. If we stick to talking about only the things that are supported by firm evidence, discussion will get very stale very quickly.

What you do not do is do a completely different thing with it. You don’t place the puzzle pieces forming a giant flower just because it looks nice on your mantlepiece because, eventually, you’re going to have to put it apart and keep on with the puzzle in the correct order.

When you say “pondering about them” you must mean “pondring if they’re accurate. If the theories were wrong, it was a missed shot. But if they were right, great. That’s what we should aim for.

BTW, where is that evidence of Smokey taking the form of dead people? Smokey. Forget what the writers have said before, they have been deliberately misleading from time to time. The only thing that is canon is what can be seen in the show. Only that.

Don’t feel bad about. I’m just stating my opinion. Theorizing without limits (not narrow limits, but limits anyway) makes up for some esterile theories. And esterile theories are definetely not that fun. In fact, they’re a downer.

Btw, there is 100% factual evidence that Smokey has taken the form of the deceased. We’re just taking the ball and running with it. What evidence do you have that these theories are wrong? You’re contradicting yourself again. It IS speculation and not fanfiction until proven to be. When that happens we will move on to some more speculation that will crack your monocle and clog your wooden pipe yet again…

We don’t know why Richard told Locke he had to die. Mayb a Locke from the future, knowing how thing would turn out, told him that. No one know if Richard is aware of resurrection. He wasn’t aware of time travel, after all. See what I mean?

I haven’t contradicted anything. If we take what has been provided to us… Locke resurrected, doesn’t remember the inmediate moments after he got out of the casket, and has been acting exactly like ever before after that… something that sets him apart from all the other supposedly resurrected people in the island: Christian, Yemi, Alex. Hell, we don’t know if those people are resurrected… just that their bodies were gone. But are they alive again? Alex is not.

We saw Claire acting weird… probably after her death… along with her dead father… and she was suddenly and probably all-knowing. But that is not what has happened to Locke.

The theory I posit is: Christian, Claire, Yemi and Alex ar all semi-material manifestations that are made from the memories of the castaways. That’s why Jack keeps seeing his father in one outfit, but the other guys see him in another (except Hurley). And Christian is the one with more prominence because he was the one that had met most of the castaways before dying… Jack, Ana Lucía and Sawyer. That’s all.

Nothing of that has anything to do with Locke. He isn’t changing outfits, communicating directly with Jacob, suddely dissappearing or teleporting to places far from the island. He can’t do any of those things… because, like Ben says, he’s walking again among the living. Period.

And Nothing of that has anything to do with Richard. When you say Richard could be “possibly dead” you may mean “possibly resurrected”, but then Ben wouldn’t be so surprised with Locke, since Ben must be familiar with the reason of why Richard doesn’t age anymore.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1402314/

That’s what separates Speculation from FanFiction.

We should not aim, at any case, for what sounds like the most spectacular idea, but for what makes the most sense within what we have alrady seen in the show. LOST is already quite spectacular already and, in many ocassions, less is more, and subtlety is rewarded. If there is no firm evidence that Richard is Smokey, or that Naomi is Ilana’s sister (not that I’m suggesting you say that) why even bother to theorize?

ONe thing is to theorize, and another to make a fanfic.

By definition, speculation is speculation because there is no firm evidence. That was my entire point in writing this – speculation is fun! The more far-fetched, the better. And you never know what might just happen to be right.

Locke was supposed to die, according to Richard and Christian. His death wasn’t necessary to bring back the 06, Jack had already bought a ticket before Locke was killed (if Ben is to be believed.) So why did he have to die? It could be that his death was necessary to bring about some sort of change. He could just have easily been sitting on Ajira 316 with the rest and ended up with Sun and Lapidus. If he’s just the same old Locke, the results would have been the same.

Henry Ian Cusick, and Daniel Dae Kim are listed as “credit only”. So, they won’t appear in the finally? At least not the first part?

Caesar may not be dead. If we’re to believe IMBD’s accuracy, the actor is in part 1 of “The Incident”. It might be a flashback, a dead body on the beach, but he’s listed as an actor in that episode.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0846548/

We know for a fact that Smokey has been Yemi and Alex. Of course it’s speculation without any indisputable evidence that he is using the dead to walk the physical world, but I’m not sure why I need that in our discussions. The problem with uncontrolled criticism of what other people think is that you disallow the possibility that you’re wrong. When this happens you become the pompous guy who nobody wants to get in conversations with. I know I (or Gusteaux and Zombie) could be completely wrong, but that does not negate the possibility that we could be somewhat right. Like I said before, VIVA SPECULACION!!!