What are you thinking and rethinking?

[Fiver]

Originally Posted by Dezdmona

There is a scene where Locke is trying to convince Jack that it is his destiny to be on the Island....he just doesn't know it yet.
(Can't remember the episode it's from)

I commented on this in the "watching live thread" last week and I've been wondering why TPTB inserted this particular scene in The Answers ever since....

Spoiler:

I have a sneaky suspicion that the scene was put in the show to foreshadow that Jack may re-consider the path he thinks he wants, (i.e., "science/technology") and takes a leap of faith.
In what way? I'm not sure, but I sense some eventual meeting of the minds between Jack & Locke.
(I'm assuming that Locke survives Ben's murder attempt...I just can't see that his character arc is done.)

I think the very fact that Jack is flying around looking for a way back to the island suggests that in the flash forward, he's no longer a man of science - he's become a man of faith. I wonder if he will have to truly lose everything to find his faith, or whether he can find it in time to not become druggie, pathetic Jack.

[dtisme]

Originally Posted by producergirl

I have thought that Rousseau was on the Black Rock and that the Black Rock was a "research vessel" - maybe for a Queen or something .... and it crashed there.... She is the first person to introduce us to the Black Rock....

I love this idea. There was something about that line that bugged me - research "vessel" is odd I think. Off topic, but I've been bugged about those empty leg-irons on that thing since we saw them. Where'd the slaves go?