I cried, "Oh, Lady Midnight, I fear that you grow old, the stars eat your body and the wind makes you cold." "If we cry now," she said, "it will just be ignored."
It would seem a way that could happen. Think of it. She runs to the cab and leaves him at the hotel. Instead of thinking things through he jumps in his truck and starts chasing her down. Then as he's doing this they get into an accident that ends with her dying, and his legs being messed up.
IMO though I follow the thought that his legs were fine, and it was all in his mind. If they were useless he would have never had the strength to stand right away after the crash. The muscle atrophy(sp) would have limited his ability to use them for a good while.
Yea, but, how does that explain that a shard of glass inches long could be poking out of his leg and he not feel it? Or that he could burn his feet with fire?
Mind over matter type thing? I mean there are many amazing things people have done (firewalking?) by just getting there mind to shut down parts of the brain that feel pain and stuff like that.
It would also explain how his legs only bothered him in times when his mind and his concentration were strained. He otherwise could put all the pain out of his mind since his mind had allowed him to keep them from feeling or moving for how long? If it does happen the way i am talking about I'm interested in how that comes to pass that he falls into that? Could it be a wierd combo ot the accident killing Helen, and then in his greif and blaming himself his mind puts him into that state?
I hopre they don't forget to explain all those mysteries. Why'd he look at the tree, how'd he get that boar after the tree freaked out. and then he said at the hatch, I've done everything you asked me to? And Walt told him not to open it
It does seem that they explain the bigger mysteries (what kate did, why hurley was in the mental hospital, etc...) with a rather boring explanation, imo. So him losing use of his legs in a car accident would keep in line with those types of explanations.
I've read and seen on TV 'miracles' where people suddenly can see and hear and what not after years of not being able to. One man had been deaf (not since birth) and was hit on the head and then could hear. I learned when I worked at the chiropractor's office that all of our spinal nerves associate with all of our body functions, so a jolt to the body may correct an impingement in the spinal column. That's kind of how I thought Locke regained use of his legs: the accident was a trauma to his body that corrected whatever caused the problem in the first place.
Locke has been one of the more interesting characters to me. I think I identify with him since life has given him a raw deal! lol...
Locke has been one of the more interesting characters to me. I think I identify with him since life has given him a raw deal! lol...
I think I'm most like Locke . . . probably all of us identify most with him. While I joke about Sawyer being yummy (actually Josh Holloway), it's really Locke who's life parallells my own.
