I am Smokie
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By fivestades
- I am Smokie
- Created: Jan 31, 2008
- Last updated: Aug 13, 2008
- After episode: 3.22: Through The Looking Glass
- Status: Current
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Part 1
The flashbacks open in one of a few different ways. Left eye Right eye Whoosh noise No whoosh, no eye
Is the manner of the opener a clue to how it should be viewed, for example, Left eye could represent a natural memory of an event. Right eye could dictate a creative contrived memory of an event. No whoosh noise, no eye ,fact, what really happened, a window to the past.
Are flashbacks to be trusted.
Pt2
There is no doubt in my mind of the Smoke Monsters function. It is one of many trial pieces of surveillance technology on the island.
Built to scan record and administer appropriate judgement on your memories. The long term goal of testing on the island is to find society a replacement for CCTV, police, judge and jury.
It will live under the cities pop up and scan random members of the public for law breaking. It has the right to judge on site.
Its frightening demeanor and familiar sounds such as the clicking receipt machine, the creaking and the horn are specifically designed to open the necessary areas of the brain for the scan.
If smokie can scan memory and download it, I believe people are watching to see if smokie can judge effectively. Did it kill the bad person, did it leave the good person? Someone is watching to see how well smokie is working. Are we seeing a number of smokies with programming variations, different test models.
I guess ‘extreme testing’ would be a good reason for an organisation to stage a crash. To truly test the machines effectiveness, unusual situations with scenarios of genuine heightened emotions would be necessary for the machine to get ‘approval’.
Linking to part 1, I think it’s possible someone on the island knows that exactly what smokie can do, and they have trained themselves to present false memories to infiltrate the island and evade detection by the watchers. Basically someone is not who we know them to be. I predict that we will see a flashback that contradicts a prior one. Desmond may be a strong contender for this. This may explain why his flashbacks have contradictions.
We have already seen lots of surveillance equipment on the island, In addition I suspect that the Hurley-Bird is also a trial piece of surveillance equipment. The Masters of science fiction, a recent ABC production has an episode called Watchbird. Watchbird is a short story by Sci-Fi writer Robert Robert Sheckley. It is basically about the development of bird like droids that observe and protect society from the skies. The major issue being “is it wise to sacrifice our liberty in the name of our security?” http://www.mastersofscifi.com/site/videos/watchbird1.html
So is the idea that…………organisations of the Lost world are experimenting and catching up with the sinister technology penned in the great science-fiction works. Life imitates Art.
(For the record I think that the series mentioned above, Masters of Science Fiction has something to do with Lost. Humour me, I link to a clip, it is from an episode released last year called “The Awakening”, Terry O’Quinn is the lead playing Albert Skynner, looking very Locke in his green T. http://blip.tv/file/638364/ Crazy connections! And this from an episode called “the Discarded”. Look at the lamp in the bottom right of the pic…Octagonal staff! http://smygo.co.uk/TheDiscarded.jpg Masters of Science Fiction is a great series, check it out)
Thanks and…..enjoy the Show Tonight in the US!!!!!!!!!!!
Key characters
| Short Name | Full Name | Episodes | Theories |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bryan | Bryan | 72 | |
| Desmond | Desmond David Hume | 2.23, 3.17, 4.5 | 851 |
| Eko | Mr. Eko | 2.21, 3.5, 2.7, 2.10 | 287 |
| Hurley | Hugo “Hurley” Reyes | 2.18, 2.4, 1.18, 4.1, 4.12 | 556 |
| John | John Locke | 3.3, 2.17, 1.4, 1.19, 3.13, 3.19, 4.11, & 3” href=”/episodes/theres-no-place-home-parts-2-3/”>4.13 | 1229 |
I think you just nailed smokey for me!
Five, I was in a bad mood and was not going to look at theories, but being a sucker for anything about Smokey, I peeked, and this has brightened my mood.
Your explanation about the purpose of Smokey seems so dead on, hard to imagine no one ever nailed it down like that. So many good theories about Smokey, but this just seems to click for me. The Hurleybird idea also another original and seems highly plausible.
Ozzig, lol, glad to have brightened your mood. : ) Why the bad mood anyway?
Oh this that and the other. Think I’ll bake some cookies, watch some Lost, and hope my dogs don’t con me out of half the cookies as usual.
Wish I could watch Lost 4……….enjoy.
Don’t let the dogs manipulate you!
I don’t like it just because I don’t think Eko was judged fairly.
First, he is the only character to face smokie with no consequence, and smokie leaves.
The next time Eko and smokie meet, Eko makes a very good case for himself. He had turned his life around. He had been a role model for others. He had faith. He was right: he had nothing to confess.
If this is smokie’s version of justice, I’ll take a pass.
Hi Quarantine, I guess the tolerance level of justice is the reason such a machine would be tested in such a secretive way.
You make a good point that Eko met the monster once and it read his memories, second meeting it killed him. This maybe suggests that his memories were assessed by other watchers and a decision was made on his past crimes. Also as you say, confession and faith in a religious sense is clearly irrelevant to the monster and it’s programmed laws.
Remorse plays into forgiveness, as it should, and if Smokey read the rest of it, then Smokey can read remorse as well.. A killer with genuine remorse who knows he has done wrong and regrets it, still has a chance of fully reforming and fitting in with society, often will spend their lives trying to make up for they did wrong. But once someone has made up their mind to rationalize their misdeeds, they will always do so and will thus always be a threat to society.
Eko started off in the right direction, guilt over his brother, that could have led to full remorse for the life he lived and his misdeeds, and Smokey let him live because there was still hope. But once Eko instead chose to rationalize his behavior, he became the same Eko who had previously done the deeds in the first place, and would always be a threat to others.
Another good theory that has gotten buried overnight, too bad we don’t have a LT-Smokey.
Thanks for the heads up on this theory ozzig.
Ozz your comment about judging based on remorse is interesting in regards to the fact that Kate seems to chased regularly by ole Smokey and she truly does seem remorseless about killing her dad, although after Left Behind , as she finally understands her mothers statement that you can’t help who you love she could be coming around.
Back to the theory though, I think its great and a great idea that someone maybe infiltrating by using false memories. +1
How cool if that someone is Des, or Juliet.
Wow this is just brilliant as soon as i read this I knew that this is exactly what smokie was planned to do. except i dont agree with the desmond bit but the bit where the monster scans kate and juilet now makes senses thanx fivestades +1 from me
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