Just to get some bearings I'm comparing the coffin sizes of the one at the funeral parlour with Christian's (Jack's dads):
Verdict:
Inconclusive, however Christian's looks bigger to me.
Although this brings me to another point - to my knowledge, we've only ever seen 3 coffins in the entire 3 seasons of this show - that's despite all of the deaths we've had along the way.
Those coffins are: The one in Jack's FF and the core subject of this thread, and the following two:
Jack's Dad's Coffin -
EMPTY!
Locke's dad's coffin -
EMPTY!
Notice a theme?
Both coffin's are the fathers of Jack and Locke - Lost's central two characters. Not only that, but both coffins are also EMPTY.
I have two thoughts concerning this - the first is one of my previous theories which point to the coffin in Jack's forward flash actually being EMPTY..just like the other two I have mentioned above (a ruse to lure Jack to the funeral home and test whether he still cares..whether he's still "invested"). My second thought is that an alternative to the coffin being empty is that is contains Locke - It can't contain Jack because we clearly see that Jack is still alive at this point, and Locke is the only abberation in this pattern. I guess i've come full circle.
Kate's reaction to Locke (the man in the coffin) can be summed up by what he said to her in the season 3 episode "left Behind". He turned his back on her..her next interaction with him was when he stuck a knife in Naomi's back. After that, we don't know but i'm sure the blanks will be filled in to further establish a division between the two characters.
Whilst the idea of Locke being in the coffin is
certainly nothing new, I'm still thinking that the 'double amputee' aspect could hold a grain of truth..and the idea of him (or Ben, if it's Ben inside the coffin) adopting Walt (explaining the 'teenaged son' in the newspaper clipping) is certainly plausible, imo.
Let's take another look at why it would make so much sense for the man inside the coffin to be Locke:
The Vitruvian Jock
The Vitruvian Man
I have long believed that Leonardo's Vitruvian Man was the inspiration for the image above of Jack and Locke..and perhaps the characters themselves. The Vitruvian man shows the perfect set of proportions for the human body..I believe that only TOGETHER are Jack and Locke whole. They need one another, hence Locke's unwillingness to kill Jack and thus preventing him from making 'that' call. This could also be the reason why Jack wasn't "supposed" to do what he did in calling the freighter people - by making that call he not only changed the course of his own future..but Locke's. Could this be what Locke was told by Walt/Jacob after he was ressurected from the pit of despair?
Which in turn brings me back around to my original point: Would this man fit inside this coffin?:
Hmm, not sure. Perhaps with no legs he might. Well he
would.
Jack and Locke..the scientist and the man of faith..only the "two sides"..one light, the other dark, can save us.
