Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
The Tempest. Act ii. Sc. 2

Character Connections

This is really just a list. I need to think more about the possible import of these connections. But I thought I'd throw it out here so people could add or comment.


Hurley and Walt: Both fling open the curtains of their hotel rooms, perhaps indicating a desire to “throw light” on things. Hurley almost literally throws light on the hatch, though he lies when Kate asks him about the numbers. Walt ultimately is the one who gets Michael to light up the night sky; and he asks Michael about what happened with Michael and his mom. Aside from the luck/curse connection, and the comic book, Hurley and Walt both have a hard time getting people to listen to them/take them seriously.


Hurley and Arzt: Arzt complains about not fitting in/being able to be happy. Hurley tells him it’s all in his head (like maybe the curse is all in Hurley’s head). Arzt’s death seems to cause a break in Hurley. Soon after that he starts mumbling the numbers like Lenny. Of course Hurley feels responsible, but perhaps this sense of not fitting in/being able to be happy also could have triggered something.


Locke and Jack (the destiny twins):
- Jack says, “kate, no one owes anyone anything.” It seems like an odd thing for Jack to say. It sounds more like Locke, to me.
- “What's was what about?” – Jack and Locke both ask this when questioned about their actions.
- Jack and Locke also share a connection on the idea of luck: Jack says finding the caves was luck; Locke says finding the Nigerian place was luck. Jack tells Kate the dynamite carrying was the “luck” of the draw, although then he went against luck/fate, and made his own decision.
- Jack saved Locke from going down the hole, like Locke saves Jack from falling off the cliff.


Locke and Michael: Hope. Locke has the hatch and Michael has the raft; plus, a feeling that there is some kind of plan. Michael says that Walt wasn’t “part of the plan.” Locke’s mother tells him he’s part of some grand design. Both have to do with mothers.


Kate, the slaves on the ship, Sawyer, and Jin: They were all manacled/handcuffed at some point.


Claire/Danielle: Danielle: there’s no such thing as monsters. Claire: there’s no such thing as fate. Fate is conflated with the monster. Claire and Danielle are also connected by their determination, and hysteria

spooky

Re: Character Connections

"Locke and Jack (the destiny twins):"


Yeah, those two have always been compared/contrasted in a weird complicated way. That conversation they had in the finale about how Jack is a man of science and Locke is a man of Faith makes them seem like total opposites, but they have more in common that they think. I also noticed the Locke saving Jack from falling off that cliff, and Jack saving Locke from the monster, I'm not sure if it's a coincidence, but if it was intentional, it was really subtle because those two episodes are very far apart.


A couple more examples:


Locke repeatedly says "Don't tell me what I can't do", and Jack says this when he is trying to save Boone.

Both say "All due respect, but..." when Jack asks why Locke didn't tell anyone about the hatch.

Both were betrayed by their fathers, involving kidney surgery of some kind. (Jack's father severed the patient's hepatic artery, which leads to the kidney, and Locke's father used him to get his kidney.)


I also like the Hurley/Walt connection, that's why Hurley gave Walt the thumbs up while boarding the plane and Walt smiled even though he'd been looking all blank when Micheal tried to talk to him.   


runhideordie

Re: Character Connections

Those are great observations spooky, and I think there is a reason for some of them. It'll be interested to sort the wheat from the chaff.


I don't think Arzt has a connection to anybody. Sure, he was a trigger for Hurley to backslide toward Lenny, but I wouldn't call that a connection. I truly think the writers were sending us on the boards a message with Arzt - redshirts don't matter. They are simple tools for advancing the plot if anything.   


LostinWilderness

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I also noticed the Locke saving Jack from falling off that cliff, and Jack saving Locke from the monster, Reminds me of Teresa too.... falling up the stairs, falling down...
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Good connections Spooky. I've come back and read this a half a dozen times already.


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Still confused on the Hurley waving to Walt in the plane... The backwards/forwards dejavu thing and the repetition of people behind Hurley one minute, then ahead of him next - I'm confused on. Did I miss something?


sawyerhasbestlines

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Runhideordie wrote:


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(Jack's father severed the patient's hepatic artery, which leads to the kidney, and Locke's father used him to get his kidney.)
Oh, that’s interesting. I never even noticed that.


LIW wrote:


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Sure, he was a trigger for Hurley to backslide toward Lenny, but I wouldn't call that a connection.


Fair enough. I have to think more about the message we were being sent about the redshirts. It’s a pretty potent comment by the writers I think. If it’s just telling us about the redshirts, that’s one thing. But I don't know, I totally understood Hurley's guilt, after I was laughing myself when Arzt got blown up.


SHBL wrote:


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Still confused on the Hurley waving to Walt in the plane... The backwards/forwards dejavu thing and the repetition of people behind Hurley one minute, then ahead of him next - I'm confused on. Did I miss something?


Are you referring to Lace’s pictures of the lady in the shorts? I don’t remember any other people showing up. Were there other people? If it’s just her, it could be that it’s a continuity error.


I definitely think there’s something to the idea of repetition, though – both structurally in the narrative and psychologically for the characters. But that would be a post of its own. And I’m hoping drabauer will start it, cuz I’d really be going out on a limb


spooky