Miles' "Charlie" Homage

[D-Roc]

Anyone else notice this - Miles with his hood up, very similar to Charlie during his drug rehabilitation days:

Miles in "Something Nice.." Season 4


Charlie in "The Moth" - Season 1


I think that the obvious 'constant' (if you will) here is Claire..anyone noticed how Miles has taken a sever interest in Claire and the baby over the past 2 episodes? Even going as far as to say "I wouldn't be so sure about that", when she said that she'd live in "Shape of Things.."

Has Miles been communicating with her dad, Christian? Surely he wouldn't want Claire dead - is that why he's (possibly) lured her out of harms way? And what about spirit-Charlie..surely he will protect Claire from any harm..warning her of impending danger via a whisper of something..

Anyway, I just thought this 'hood' parallel was interesting..

[TheDharmaShark]

Its so obvious that Miles knows something, they keep emphasising this fascination. A popular theory I read recently says that the only reason Miles is so taken by her is that Claire is already dead, ie. she died when her house got blown up. How the hell thats possible I dont know, considering other people have been talking to her. I think we're going to be seeing a lot more of Miles "abilities" or whatever you want to call it.

[D-Roc]

That's an interesting theory, although i'm not sure that it makes sense, as it would suggest that the creators are playing with us, and that what we've seen since that episode, isn't actually real.

I mean if she died in the explosion, then how would she still be 'here'? Although i guess the fact that the deceased Christian Shepherd can physically interact with living things (i.e. Aaron) may support this theory, in that if he can..perhaps Claire (who is dead under this premise) also can. I guess it could work on this level. Although I think it would be a bit of a forced entry, since it would seem a bit of a 'sudden' plot-line to force on us at this juncture.

I have always been facinated with the role of the 'dead' in Lost..but I think that the evidence points to them being able to exist on the 'other side' as 'spirits'..and not being able to be dead, yet also physically exist amongst the 'living'.

I also don't think that Ben, Locke (etc) would be able to interact with her for so long after the explosion without her 'phasing over' or disappearing, if she was already dead. Had the explosion been an electromagnetic one, then maybe, cos that stuff causing all kinds of crazy stuff to happen. but this was a standard explosion..

Still, an interesting theory.

Personally my understanding of the Miles thing, is that he can 'sense' Claire's 'impending' death.. I guess it's a fine line between psychic and medium.

[Kiowa Warrior]

Yes, I immediately thought of Charlie and his hoodie when Miles was wearing his! It's like when Charlie wore his he was trying to shield himself from something - to make himself out as not being associated with things - and I reckon that Miles knows something bad will happen to Claire but he's trying to hide himself from the others by using his hood: he's trying to make himself less approachable and threfore less able to talk about what he knows.

[Malion]

It's Offical, Miles is on Heroin.

[Lauren [is Lost]]

Wow, interesting stuff! I had actually never made that connection!
Great theory...i definately think this parallel is something to do with Claire. What with Miles' ability to communicate with the dead, there has to be something in it...it's possible that Miles has been communicating with Christian. Hence why he let Claire wander off into the jungle in the middle of the night. I mean, since when was he paying attention to Sawyer's 'restraining order'? It definately looks like he wanted her to go off into the jungle with Christian.
Cool thread!