Originally posted by: C3PX
I guess you didn't catch the part where the jungle people who were dressed in rags were actually the others trying to fool the survivors into thinking they were something they were not. Perhaps you should go back and watch the last few episodes of season two again. Remember Cindy the flight attendant that the silent, creepy people in the jungle kidnapped? Don't you remember the episode in season 3 where Jack sees her at the others' camp seemingly brainwashed and with several of the tail sections kids with her? Is that not enough evidence to say that those creepy silent people were really the others?
I guess you didn't catch the part where the jungle people who were dressed in rags were actually the others trying to fool the survivors into thinking they were something they were not. Perhaps you should go back and watch the last few episodes of season two again. Remember Cindy the flight attendant that the silent, creepy people in the jungle kidnapped? Don't you remember the episode in season 3 where Jack sees her at the others' camp seemingly brainwashed and with several of the tail sections kids with her? Is that not enough evidence to say that those creepy silent people were really the others?
Nah, I caught those parts. I just really hope that what was implied during those scenes is not going to be the real explanation for those events. They're so mundane and boring that they don't work with what came before. The others seem so pathetically pedestrian that I don't want to believe that they were the creepy silent people or the sources of the otherworldly whispers. No average pedestrian bum can be that creepy and silent!
I've been hoping since that "rags" episode that there is instead another group of people that are dressed in rags but live on the island is some primitive, violent form. I want to see some real "others" that are intense bad guys and not merely some pathetic leftovers of a corporate-picnic-gone-bad. How else can you train a baby boy, still carrying his teddy bear, to silently walk around a jungle bare footed and creepy unless that boy has somehow become a feral beast like the feral human beings that have captured him?!
Seriously, I just want the show to end well and I can't currently respect those explanations as good. Perhaps I'm simply missing information that the writers haven't revealed yet and I should just be patient enough to see why the logically-inadequate, clumsy, and boringly-pedestrian explanations are actually something I should like, but, until then, the dramatic scenes were too impossibly mystical and paranormal in the way they were portrayed on the screen. My mind can't accept "the others" as a good explanation for those events. Maybe the portrayal was meant to convey what Sayid and Jin were experiencing in their minds, as apposed to something objectively mundane, but there is nothing in the style of the show to make me think that.
Oh well, I suppose, by this point, I'll probably like the show no matter what. The ride has been too fun for the stop to disappoint me too much. Thanks for the other information you posted. I found it interesting and didn't know that stuff about what the authors have been saying.