1x07 The Moth

[Headcase]

Originally Posted by bloomingdale

Locke's speech to Charlie about "choice" (i.e. 3 chances to ask for the drugs) is very reminiscent of Jacob's opinion re. free will.

Have started my rewatch and I noticed this, too. This episode is full of references to choices, mostly coming from Locke. When it was over, I thought "Dang, Locke brought up choices so many times it's like he was an agent of Jacob."

[pick the locke]

When Shannon is on the beach not paying attention to the time or the treeline when she should be (i hate her so much), is she talking to Danielle Rousseau?

I swear that's her.

Please tell me I'm wrong because that would just be insane. Like, Dharma shark insane. Or John Locke/Nemesis "Terminator logic" insane.

[hailey]

so...clearly its not going to have been rousseau. however...i just watched the scene to see if there was possibly a way to mistake the woman shannon is talking to for danielle....there isnt. haha they both have wavy dark hair....but otherwise...no...... if it had been...that would have been ridiculous.

[faragay4faraday]

don't hate, she did fine ...
also she's smoking hot ... so, don't hate (or the King of the Dead will be after you!)

and WHY would she be talking to Rousseau???
Rousseau hasn't even been introduced until episode 9 'Solitary'

and they look NOTHING alike, sorry

[CameraOne]

LOL, I doubt Danielle would bother to talk to Shannon.

[gr8scott]

Originally Posted by BADavid

Also, if anyone has the DVDs, I'd recommend watching this episode's commentary - Dominic Monaghan is one of the hosts, and it's very funny...

The commentary was hilarious. Just watched it today. My favorite was the following interaction during a scene with Charlie wearing a scarf:

Producer (forgot which): I like that scarf, Dominic
Dominic: Yeah, thanks.
Producer: Did you guys beat Hufflepuff that day?

[RedemptionSong]

Originally Posted by Captain Bunny Killer

I'm pulling from my memory here so I might be wrong but it looked like Sayid was on The Mesa when he was finding the signal by trilateration (not triangulation). If that is correct, I do believe The Mesa isn't far from the camp as it is where they had the golf tournament, so it wouldn't have been hard for Locke to find Sayid, knock him out and return to camp unnoticed.

I agree, he definitely had time to make it there and back unnoticed. Irregardless it seems to me, as with the others that have tried drilling this event in to this topic, that his motives were definitely beyond his excuse for knocking Sayid out. I think we're meant to believe that his true motives were his fear of losing his ability to walk. However it's also possible that he had been influenced to do this by the island, perhaps through his encounter with the smoke monster. Though I'm not sure why the island or anyone who knew anything about the island would want to prevent them from finding the tower. It's of no consequence if they find it.

[Jjade]

Originally Posted by blacxthorne

When Locke admits that he did this, he says that the reason was because he thought it wasn't wise to lead people to the source of a distress call that said "it killed them all" over and over again. Whether he was telling the truth or not, I wouldn't know.

I'm really curious about this: How did Locke know about the distress call? Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't remember anyone telling him about it. Does he have special knowledge, or does he just use it as an excuse after the fact?