crazy idea that I just thought of, not too well thought out but it just came to me.
What if Walt signaled the others when he burned the first raft. The others could have seen it and thought that it was their cue. Any thoughts?

crazy idea that I just thought of, not too well thought out but it just came to me.
What if Walt signaled the others when he burned the first raft. The others could have seen it and thought that it was their cue. Any thoughts?

I'll bite. How many days between the burning of the first raft, and the launching of the 2nd?

If the black smoke is the signal for them, I think you might have something here.

Great catch!!!

Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful :biggrin:

Very interesting. Maybe Walt didn't know he was signaling them, you know? Maybe they somehow...I don't know if this is the right word, but told him to. Remember, he's 'special.'

Whoa!! That makes my head hurt.:43:

Yeah,
I don't think he did it on purpose, but maybe he originally had a bad feeling about leaving on the raft then when he and his father were getting closer he did not pay much attention to his "Special " feelings.
BUt I don't think he signaled them on purpose

If Walt did have premonitions about the raft, he may have changed his mind after the premonition he had about Locke opening the hatch. That scared him more than leaving on the raft, he opted for the lesser of the two evils?

That's what I think. I also think he has developed some real empathy for his dad. I think he saw his dad's pain and regretted causing it.

I think Walt could of unkowingly attracted The Others to their spot on the island, what if they never knew where they were before the fire? I think it is safe to say that The Others have been spying on the survivors since they knew there was a boy that they needed, and where he went (on the raft).

Most of you will probably ignore what I am saying after I say it, because it wouldn't be original material, but I am reading the last book in The Dark Tower by Stephen King. There are a few threads around here that talk about correlations to his other book, The Stand, but I find that there are more correlations to The Dark Tower. For example, there is a lot of psychic activity in the Dark Tower, and I am reading this one part where these "low men" (basically like the "others") spied on this man and wanted to recruit him beacuse he was a psychic or "facilitator". They told this man they wanted him in the Pacific, spying on countries for the Cold War, but what they really wanted him for was to bring him to another universe to help end the world. That really isn't the point, but the point was that these people knew this guy was one of the most powerful psychics ever, and needed him for their purposes. These men also need children because there is something in their brain that they take out of them as a power source, then they return the children back to their towns as "roont" or retarded. What if these "others" knew Walt was a psychic, and they need him for those purposes, or what if they just need him for some sort of physical purpose (not necessarily to drain fluids from his brain, but something else) and we could see Walt come back physically different? And unkowningly Walt attracted them to himself. Just like in the Dark Tower, the psychic these low men ended up taking actually found the low men through an ad in the paper for a job. He unkowingly sent himself to them, just like Walt may have.