Lost: What's The Important Question?

Last night's episode was the first in a while that made me think that Season Two could get back to being as good as Season One at some point. There is a great contrast between Hurley's possible imagining of Dave in the past, and his possible imagining of Dave in the future. Even as you become relatively certain that Dave is part of Hurley's psychosis while in the asylum, you aren't real sure of Dave's origins on the island. Currently Sawyer, Kate, Jack, and Charlie have all clearly had very realistic illusions/hallucinations/manifestations appear to them ... not to mention Boone (his sister) and Shannon and Sayid (Walt).

So what was throwing coconuts at Hurley? Was it completely imagined like Dave slapping him in the asylum? We should be able to assume Dave was originally imaginary from Libbey's perspective at the end. But on the island ... since so many people have had these manifestations, why can't Hurley?

And if it is some kind of manifestation ... what kind of phenomena willingly throws itself off a cliff in an effort to test someone?

As much as the producers have denied the "nanobot" theory, or a smartcloud which can take any shape, I think it's getting hard to deny that something on the island can take the shape of things based on people's thoughts.

Unless, of course, something out there is just stealthily dropping fascimile off. How does a supply drop go without anyone noticing a plane, anyway? Have the losties gotten that lax about being shipwrecked? And why didn't the supply plane crash? Was the klaxon drill related to the drop, as some random character suggested?

But most importantly, I think ... is what the truth is about Henry Gale. From previous episodes, I think we can accept that there is "Him" and it's probably not Zeke, The Bearded Guy. In fact, his response concerning Zeke makes me think even more that Zeke is somehow separate from the "Others". So perhaps "Gale" started to tell the truth towards the end.

So did he push the button? This makes for another odd contradiction. If he did push the button last week, why lie about this week? Why try and trick Locke into not pushing it? If the button really is important, it seems like an odd bluff. If the button isn't important, why push it? Perhaps Gale pushed the button in the first place to get Locke's trust, knowing full well it doesn't really do anything.

But I guess I'm just suspicious that the button does nothing.

Most importantly, though, I think is Gale's question - What would make him go through all this? What is out there that Gale prefers being locked up and tortured rather than betraying?







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