Lost: Episode 6:13 The Last Recruit

@ Josh, my memory is a little blurry right now. Did he actually talk to his dad in his office? or did he simply see his father there? I could have been him seeing things and not really the smoke monster :)

@soforizo When Christian appeared to Jack in the hospital Jack was not drunk and was in a relatively good frame of mind.

I think Locke/Smoke monster lied and never actually appeared as Christian. I think Christian is someone else entirely, who may or may not work for/with Jacob, sort of like Richard.

I posted this at EM, but decided to repost here too, since everyone is just posting here...head over to EM to respond though.

Nice review! I was hoping someone would take it upon themselves to put an article up. I'll start by saying...I called it!! :) Strangely, my unpopular theory about Christian being Smokey was right, but like you guys said, we are definitely not getting the whole picture here, and there is no way LOST would "gloss over" something as big as that. No way. I believe him saying he was Christian in the Jack episode of season 1, but it's possible the other instances were something else entirely. Although, I think my theory still holds up of Smokey being the guardian to the underworld. Him appearing to Michael before trapping him on the island holds up with this. Anyway, other theories about smokey/christian I could insert here are ones I already discussed in the last article. In any case, I have no doubt that this revelation was only a small window into all that's going on. LOST has always been about shocking us by throwing everything out at once. Answers being spread out in each episode is not their style. There is still time to answer all of it. Like you said, we are just being set up.

I was thinking of another theory, too. Smokey said he was once an ordinary man, and alluded to Jacob being one too. Is it possible he is some kind of immortal evil, but has to take on the form of others that are living? Maybe he took over the body of the guy we see him as in his original form, similar to how now he is in Locke's form. It makes sense that he would pretend to be that person and say he used to be "real", even though that wasn't truly him. Just like he started adopting some of Locke's characteristics and expressions as his own....THere has to be some force at play here, bigger than either of them in charge of keeping the balance. The island itself? That blond kid? Oh well, in any case I better see some Eko soon or I'll be all sorts of pissed!

dellamorte....stop posting your dumb ass theories. You're not even close. Good job Ror.

I agree, really don't think he intended to kill Locke. If he did, why not just catch him alone and shoot him in the head? I think he is trying to "wake" everyone's consciousness up. My theory, is that they will wake up if some kind of big event happens again for them that had hapened on the island. That explains why, for most of them, love would be the most power ful thing, but Des knows that for Locke, it was crashing on the island and having a miracle happen.

no, you're not, Ror. you're right.