ProdigalHorn
10,000+ Posts
Anyone remember him teaching Walt how to play backgammon on the beach? Here's essentially what he said:
"This game's a better game than checkers... This is the oldest game in the world, it's more than 5,000 years old - that's older than Jesus Christ. Two players, two sides. One's light, the other's dark. Their dice weren't made of plastic, theirs were made of bones."
Kind of lends credence to the idea that even in the first season, they knew where they were going with things and were dropping hints even back then. At the time, not understanding how the writers worked, that just seemed like a throwaway bonding bit to establish Locke as the know-it-all of the group. Now it seems downright eerie.
So the question is, how reliable do you think the Season 1 episodes are in terms of story continuity? How much of the details about, say, the smoke monster, have evolved since that first few episodes? Is the early stuff just to build it up as a monster rather than to be able to gain clues into what it really is?
"This game's a better game than checkers... This is the oldest game in the world, it's more than 5,000 years old - that's older than Jesus Christ. Two players, two sides. One's light, the other's dark. Their dice weren't made of plastic, theirs were made of bones."
Kind of lends credence to the idea that even in the first season, they knew where they were going with things and were dropping hints even back then. At the time, not understanding how the writers worked, that just seemed like a throwaway bonding bit to establish Locke as the know-it-all of the group. Now it seems downright eerie.
So the question is, how reliable do you think the Season 1 episodes are in terms of story continuity? How much of the details about, say, the smoke monster, have evolved since that first few episodes? Is the early stuff just to build it up as a monster rather than to be able to gain clues into what it really is?
