If Smokey had taken Locke in Season 1

[RoJoHen]

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I'm currently watching the finale of Season 1. After they leave the Black Rock with the dynamite, the Smoke Monster grabs Locke and tries to drag him underground. At the time, it's likely that we're supposed to think that it's just trying to kill him, but in light of things that have happened at the end of Season 5 and the beginning of the current season with the LockeMonster, what do you think was really going on there?

Danielle said that this was "where it all started," where the infection began and where her team member lost his arm (which we saw in a Season 5 flashback). It wasn't clear in the jungle in Season 1, but is this the weird underground entrance to the Temple? Was Smokey taking Locke to "be judged" like it did with Ben? Had Smokey already chosen Locke as his follower?

 

[Mallet]

Yah, Smokie was already interested in Locke back then.

Remember, even before that time Locke had had a run in with Smokie. He was out in the jungle and the smoke monster came right up on him. He looked at it, it looked at him, then we cut to a commercial. We never learned what happened after that, except Locke said that he "saw the heart(?) of the island, and it was beautiful". That is why at the end of the season when it came for him again he was willing/happy to let it take him. he told Jack to let him go. For some reason he thought he would be safe.

So that makes me wonder, did Smokie "Judge" Locke during that first encounter? If it did, then I assume Locke "passed" the judgment.

The questions then becomes, why did it try and take Locke later on? Why not take him then and there? Why take him at all? Does it take everyone who passes it's "judgment" at some point? So far, we've only seen Locke and Ben (and possibly Widmore's mercenaries) survive being judged.

Also, if there is only one smoke monster, and it is only controlled by The MIB, and the MIB is evil, did Locke only survive the judgment because the MIB knew he could manipulate and use Locke at some point in the future? Does Smokie only kill "good" people?

 

[RoJoHen]

There is a small part of me wondering if Locke has been "infected" since that first encounter with Smokey and that nobody managed to pick up on it...or maybe that's what Smokey was trying to do, trying to infect him.

Of course, I still have no idea what the infection is, so that could be completely wrong.

 

[Joe Washington]

Maybe that's why Jacob was touching Jack, Sawyer, Kate, Jin, Sun, Sayid, Locke, and Hurley. He was giving each of them some kind of resistance to the infection in case the Smoke Monster tried pull something like that on them but he had to give it to them in certain moments of their lives as a part of his plan aganist the Smoke Monster.

 

[Starbreaker]

Maybe it did take Locke at some point. Who knows...

 

[Stone_Cold_Sisko]

I don't read too much into what happened in Season 1 particularly early season 1, Locke seeing the "beautiful" monster, because they hadn't really planned out their story until later in the season.

 

[Starbreaker]

I don't read too much into what happened in Season 1 particularly early season 1, Locke seeing the "beautiful" monster, because they hadn't really planned out their story until later in the season.

Be careful what you say around here. Some people think they had the color of Hurley's shirt picked out for the fifth episode of season 6 before the pilot aired.

Kidding... kind of.

 

[sidious618]

I don't read too much into what happened in Season 1 particularly early season 1, Locke seeing the "beautiful" monster, because they hadn't really planned out their story until later in the season.

They've brought up that encounter again so I imagine it has some meaning.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

I don't read too much into what happened in Season 1 particularly early season 1, Locke seeing the "beautiful" monster, because they hadn't really planned out their story until later in the season.

Even if it wasn't planned, they could at least attempt to connect it to the current storyline in a coherent manner. Maybe that's what they are doing.

 

[Hermiod]

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I'm currently watching the finale of Season 1. After they leave the Black Rock with the dynamite, the Smoke Monster grabs Locke and tries to drag him underground. At the time, it's likely that we're supposed to think that it's just trying to kill him, but in light of things that have happened at the end of Season 5 and the beginning of the current season with the LockeMonster, what do you think was really going on there?

Danielle said that this was "where it all started," where the infection began and where her team member lost his arm (which we saw in a Season 5 flashback). It wasn't clear in the jungle in Season 1, but is this the weird underground entrance to the Temple? Was Smokey taking Locke to "be judged" like it did with Ben? Had Smokey already chosen Locke as his follower?

Last season, Danielle's group (plus Jin) had an encounter with Smokey in 1988.

We didn't see what happened, but we did see that Danielle felt her boyfriend Robert had been "changed" by his encounter with Smokey. Robert denies this but then tries to kill her, only to find that Danielle was one step ahead of him and had removed the firing pin on his gun, so she kills him first.

I'm going to interpret "changed" as "infected" the same way we're being led to believe that Sayid and possibly Claire (and maybe others like Christian and other supposedly dead people we've seen on the island) are.

 

[biotech]

MIB, Jacob.
Black stone, white stone.
Black smoke, white smoke?

 

[Mallet]

MIB, Jacob.
Black stone, white stone.
Black smoke, white smoke?

That could make sense, but we've never seen any "white smoke", the closest argument you could make for Jacob having a "smoke" version of himself was the first time Locke encountered the Smoke Monster. he described it as "beautiful" but I believe that it was Boone or Charlie who saw the monster heading towards Locke and they never mentioned that it seemed different then any other appearance of the creature. it made all the same noises, etc...

 

[biotech]

Theres more to being black and white than just colour though, and who do you think the boy was?

 

[Hober Mallow]

Maybe that's why Jacob was touching Jack, Sawyer, Kate, Jin, Sun, Sayid, Locke, and Hurley. He was giving each of them some kind of resistance to the infection in case the Smoke Monster tried pull something like that on them but he had to give it to them in certain moments of their lives as a part of his plan aganist the Smoke Monster.

Except that Sayid appears to be infected. At least the Others believe he is.