Originally posted by: Tiptup

I probably shouldn't be analyzing fictional characters this much but it's enjoyable for me. You never know where the actual writers are going to go and if they will contradict how I believe they've presented their characters in the past. I shouldn't want to set myself up for disappointment. Oh well.

Ah, I sometimes think that about over analysing to, but I also really enjoy doing it as well, so why not.

Hmm, for the Locke and the button thing, I think that was one of the greatest things of season two (the "button" that is). Locke has been a bit off since the beginning, from the first moment he ran into the smoke monster he has refered to the island as a living entity. It is true it would make more sense for him to have rationalized the button thing, but his character had been portrayed as an irrational "man of faith" from the very beginning. With the whole button thing may have been a little off on Jack's thinking the button was a fake since they are on a strange island with a strange underground hatch and strange smoke monsters and weird primitive people who abduct children, with parachutes of food dropping from the sky. I guess the end of the world for not pressing the button seems extreme, but it is foolish not to assume the thing might blow up and kill them all, or at least have some nuclear meltdown or something. But I felt Locke's insistence fit with the crazy "faith" thing he had going on. It is funny how different we preceive the characters. This has been a rough week and Lost is the only show I actually watch on TV, so I am looking forward in kicking back and watching the new episode on Thursday morning (I don't even waste time watching them when it airs on TV anymore, ABC.com posts the whole episode in pretty high quality with only four 30 second commercial break the day after it airs, so I just see it that way. Much more enjoyable without those disruptive, long 5 minute commercial breaks.)