I am probaby going to get a lot of grief from this post because I know there are a lot of Locke fans out there but I need to speak my mind.
How do you feel about Locke telling people what to do? I liked him a lot at first, but after this last episode he comes off a little annoying with the way he tells people what to do and how much he seems to be enjoying it.
Last week he told Jack that he had to enter numbers. I was thinking...umm...NO. Your game, Locke; you enter the stupid numbers. I was hoping Jack would grow a back bone and leave Locke to do his own project. But we saw how that ended.
And then he told Hurley that he had to be in charge of the food. He told him he couldn't quit. Hurley could've walked away...passed the duty on to Kate or Rose. Sure it ended well with the food. I just didn't like him ordering Hurley like that.
I know that Locke somehow has this skill of knowing what is best for the gang. He just seems to be enjoying his challenges a little too much for my taste. What is his secret anyway? How does he seem to know people's problems and how to help them...(Charlie and his heroin, Walt being treated as more than just a child, and Boone with his Shannon problem, Hurley and the food(like his lotto winning)).? I never did like Mr. Know It All's
And then he told Hurley that he had to be in charge of the food. He told him he couldn't quit. Hurley could've walked away...passed the duty on to Kate or Rose. Sure it ended well with the food. I just didn't like him ordering Hurley like that.
I'm a big fan of Locke so I don't have a problem with him being in charge, but I also found it quite strange that Hurley listened to Locke's demands. I mean, the way Locke was demanding that Hurley deal with the food was kinda strange. Like you said, Hurley could have just walked away. I'm just puzzled too, why since Hurley really didn't want to deal with food, it would have been so hard for Locke to find a replacement. It should have been easy considering that Locke's job was to convince people to press a button. Would it have been that much harder to convince someone to deal with the food?
I am probaby going to get a lot of grief from this post because I know there are a lot of Locke fans out there but I need to speak my mind.
First of all, I would never give you grief for having your opinion....we all have our opinions. (The only time I get mad at posts are when people make fun of the actors...like on some other forums they make fun of Jorge's weight..it drives me nuts!)
As you could tell from my screen-name I may be just a tad biased when it comes to the subject of Locke and/or Hurley. I don't mind Locke giving orders. The first season so many people listened to Jack. Kate always followed him around and now she broke out more on her own. I think that happened right around when Claire had her baby. Now with Locke, it is about him trying to let people believe and have faith in themselves. I think it was all a part of his therapy that he did pre-crash. And he sees their weaknesses and wants to help them. I don't think he means any harm in it, I just think he wants them to face their fears and know that they can do anything. He is a very smart man and I think that he just wants to spread to everyone what he learned. He may take it to the limit by "ordering" them around. I think it is just his way.
For Jack it was taking the leap of faith and for Hurley, I think he was trying to make him believe that he could be accepted even when he would be in charge of something and make him believe in himself that he is so likeable whether he was in charge of the food or not. ..... This is just my opinion, biased as it may be..LOL
How come you're not complaining about how much Jack bosses everyone around?? "CapeMom" Im not for Locke or Jack bossing people around, but it just seems a little bias to me that you post about Locke only, when Jack has been doing this since the pilot.
I agree with Mr. James.... Jack seems to be the one acting like he is in charge giving most of the orders. Locke left the hatch when they blew it open because Jack wanted him to. Later on he took it upon himself to return. Locke feels strong about what he believes in just like everyone else. I guess it just comes down to the fact that there are leaders and there are followers....
Locke has a way of talking to people that makes it seem like he is right and thus they don't realize he is telling them what to do. Take how he manipulated Hurley this week. First, he put himself on the same level as Hurley by saying he had a bunch of jobs he didn't want to do in his life, but still did them. Then he compared his job of finding button pushers to Hurley's job of guarding the food ("Yeah, we're guards, grrr." Name that reference and win a prize) to make it seem like he didn't want to do his current job either. It was at this point he had Hurley's sympathy (and Hurley's an emotional guy) and could thus tell him he couldn't quit. And Hurley didn't quit, not because Locke was commanding him not to quit, because he thought Locke was telling him an objective truth.
I was wondering why Hurley didn't just tell Locke to take his clip board and stuff it. Hurley is just not strong enough, not to mention Locke was playing with a rather large gun when he told him he couldn't quit.
I think people are less inclined to like Locke bossing others around because, unlike Jack, he acts like he knows what is best for everyone and is almost smug about it sometimes. Jack will make it sound more like a request even if it is an order.
You feel you can tell Jack to pound salt while telling Locke off could result in something bad happening.
I don't mind Locke giving orders. The first season so many people listened to Jack. Kate always followed him around and now she broke out more on her own. I think that happened right around when Claire had her baby. Now with Locke, it is about him trying to let people believe and have faith in themselves. I think it was all a part of his therapy that he did pre-crash. And he sees their weaknesses and wants to help them. I don't think he means any harm in it, I just think he wants them to face their fears and know that they can do anything. He is a very smart man and I think that he just wants to spread to everyone what he learned. He may take it to the limit by "ordering" them around. I think it is just his way.
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