1.26.2010

Where Walt Grew Up

What is The Island? Bit of Jeopardy humor.

The story: Walt's mother -- out of the blue -- is offered a job in Amsterdam. She takes Walt and marries her boss Brian, who by all accounts seems to be a great guy and a loving father to Walt. Walt's mother -- I hate her so hard I refuse to type her name/I forgot it because I hate her so hard -- and Brian return from Amsterdam, and they go for full custody of Walt. They get it and go to Italy, then to Australia. Walt's mother dies very suddenly, Brian doesn't want him anymore, and Walt is making birds fly into windows.

Replace Amsterdam with "The Island."

Now consider the following:

The people on the island, who seem to have supernatural powers, are Miles, Walt and Desmond. Miles talks to dead people, Desmond can see the future and is uniquely affected by the island's movement through the fourth dimension, and Walt appears randomly, dead birds in his wake. Both Miles -- who grew from infancy on the island -- and Desmond -- our three year dedicated hatch worker and demolisher -- have powers. Whether these abilities are due to duration of time spent on the island, close proximity to the electromagnetic leak (Miles's father oversaw construction of The Swan, and Desmond was enveloped in its force when he turned the failsafe), or both is still unclear.

Now isn't it possible that:

Walt spent time on the island as a child, developed these incredible telekinetic/neuroinhibiting powers, and became to much for the Others to handle? (NB: When the Others capture Walt, they seem to already know who he is, however Ben readily admits that Walt was more than they bargained for.) This would've led to expulsion from the island (though not from the company). So, they all leave the island, though Brian and Walt's mom most likely make trips back; Brian and Walt's mom want full custody -- they never want Michael to know about what his son can now do, and more importantly the Others, to whom Brian is loyal, want to keep him to themselves. Then Walt's mother dies -- maybe she got pregnant on the island -- and again Walt is too much to handle, so Brian blows his assignment of taking care of Walt, giving him over to Michael, who has no idea (nor does Walt, he was so young) that his son had previously lived on the island -- as well as Vincent, who seems to know the island fairly well!

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