My Serious, Logical Thoughts on The Candidate

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Has a double meaning with Locke being a candidate for surgery in the AT and he was also a candidate on the island along with others. The candiate may also refer to Jack alone in the regular timeline. Recall just before Sayid blew up he told Jack that it was going to be him.

QUIZ QUESTION: Of the original passengers who survived the crash of Oceanic flight 815 and who were not in the tail section, how many have been seen dying by drowning and what were their names?

QUIZ QUESTION: How many survivors of the tail section of Oceanic flight 815 are still alive as of the episode The Candidate that we know for sure?

QUIZ QUESTION: What is the maiden name of Sun Kwon?

REQUIUM FOR SAYID, SUN AND JIN
It was sad to see Sun and Jin die, but we also see a great love story here and Jin is unwilling to depart his love for the chance of survival. Note that Lepidus also dies so now they have no one to fly the Agira plane. I also grieve for Sayid. But in the AT we also see Jin who has come to the hospital to visit his wife. It is in the scene where Locke is wheeling himself in a hallway in the hospital right before Jack comes to speak with him. After seeing them die we then see Jin in the hospital and he is ok, and we assume that Sun is ok too. Recall Sun had earlier been hit at the shootout at the restaurant. The deaths of these three beloved characters was difficult to accept and was a sad end to their stories. Sayid does not get the girl and gets killed. The only real conclusion about Sun and Jin is that they did find each other again before they died though their reunion was short lived. They will never see their daughter again.

IRONY
In the AT Locke was in a plane crash with the father whom he loved. The plane crash made Locke crippled. In the regular timeline Locke was in a plane crash and he was able to walk again after being crippled. In the regular timeline Locke hated his father and had him killed. In the AT the father of Locke is practically dead already as Jack hints to when he says that he is gone. So in effect in both timelines the father of Locke is dead. In the regular timeline Locke is dead. In the AT Locke is alive yet still crippled as through it was his destiny to be crippled. But some things in the AT are very different like Jack having a son. Also we know that Daniel Faraday is a musician in the AT. So it was not his destiny to be a physicist.

CLEVER
The Locke-ness monster was beyond clever in getting all the LOSTaways together on that sub. First he had to act like he cared about them and save them to show he was on their side while at the same time still being deliberately sneaky and devious enough to want to get Sawyer and the rest to turn on him, as he knew they would. I believe that Jack was right on the sub. That Locke cannot kill the LOSTaways. If they had just let the clock tick down nothing would have happened. Recall the scene between Jack and Alpert on the Black Rock. Jack knew he would not die even though a stick of dynamite had been lit in front of him. The same reasoning can be used here. The question is why are their rules about who Locke can kill and not kill? I think the rule to not kill applies only to Candidates and also to Alpert from some reason. I believe this because when Locke was with Alpert in the jungle the young blonde-haired boy appeared and said you know the rules you cannot kill him.
My theory is that Locke-ness being a demigod is bad son to one of the gods and spreads spiritual impurity wherever he goes. If he gets off the island he will contaminate the rest of the world and cause all humans to become like zombies losing feelings of love and hate. To prevent this from happening the gods imprisoned Locke-ness on the island with Jacob until such time as Locke-ness had learned how to control himself and not spread his evil. Jacob was there to try to teach him this but failed. The two had been on the island together for centuries, but Locke-ness did not learn anything or change. Occasionally a new Jacob would be appointed so there have been many Jacobs but only one Locke-ness. The gods themselves made the rules about not killing candidates. You may have seen that the Others had lists of people every once in a while for example when the others raided the camp of the tailies and stole 9 people they had a list of names. These people were also originally candidates. We know Locke-ness killed Eko a tailie so he was not a candidate at the time of his death. But yet they seemed to be interested in taking Eko when their camp was attacked. There is some evidence that your name can be crossed off the candidate’s list. For example, the name of Kate was crossed out in the cave. So she was a candidate at one time but not anymore. Perhaps Kate did something that the gods did not like so they crossed her name off. The same could have happened to Eko. When the smoke monster first appeared to Eko and did not kill him, it could have been analyzing him to see if he was a candidate.

MY GUESS FOR THE FINALE
I see Jack becoming the new Jacob and in the final scene the frustrated and again trapped Locke-ness has to deal with Jack now. Another plane crash happens on the island and the series ends with Jack introducing himself to the survivors. And so we begin again … SCENE!
Look for the real name of the Locke-ness monster to be revealed. My guess is that he is a demigod, the son of the Greek god Apollo and a human female. Whoever this female was she went kind of nuts.
We will be told who that blonde-haired child is who keeps appearing to Locke-ness.

ANSWERS
4 people have been seen dying by drowning: Joanna, Charlie, Sun Kwon, Jin Kwon
There are 3 known survivors of the tail section left: Cindy the flight attendant and two children. They were not on the beach when Widmore fired on Locke and company and killed a few of them. We were told that the survivors fled into the jungle so we may assume Cindy and kids are on their own somewhere in the jungle.
The maiden name of Sun Kwon is Paik.

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