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Originally Posted by maleficent
Interesting - in the first episode he was reading Richard Adams' Watership Down... the trite explanation of the book is a "tale of a hardy band of adventurers forced to flee the destruction of their fragile community...and their trials and triumphs in the face of extraordinary adversity as they pursue a glorious dream called "home.""
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Heh. That's an excellent description of
Mrs. Frisby and thre Rats of NIMH also, which has some interesting parallels to the situation of the people on the island.
I read on a tv board some time ago where there was some speculation regarding the comic book the kid was reading, and the writers said, rather cryptically, that it was carefully chosen.
I think part of Locke's encyclopeadic knowledge of wilderness survival is due to his preparation for the Walkabout he signed up for, and the latest flashback seems to indicate that he's got a great aptitutde for such things--downing a bird the first time he fires a shot while hunting--but I think a big part of it comes from the island itself. It's giving his natural aptitudes and abilities a boost, just like it's done with his legs.
Oh, and my official prediction for what the hatch in the jungle floor is (not taken from a spoiler site or anything, just my WAG): It's the hatch to an alien spacecraft, a huge one buried under the island, and the aliens have been trying to lure someone vulnerable to the island--through the numbers, and other means--for decades, and finally found the right person in Locke.