4x06 "Event Horizon" - Discussion Thread

[hundredand8]

Originally Posted by Ki

And Event Horizon is the name of one of my all time favourite films, a sci-fi horror about a space ship called the Event Horizon that crosses into another dimension but comes back to ours as a sentient life form and eventually corrupts its designer, Dr. Weir, who tries to prevent all the crew from ever leaving it because he considers it to be their home now. Sort of like Locke obeying the wishes of the Island that he considers his new home and preventing anyone else from leaving it, but without the graphic killing! lol

How old is that film? Any chance they might still have it at Blockbusters to rent?

Originally Posted by Ki

The Man in Black is a great character to write I found! Very good introduction by Orson, and I just wanted to flesh out his physical description a bit as well as his manner, which was trying to be creepy/scary as I could reasonably get, lol. I didn't want to kill him off so soon, and thought that if he could appear in dreams as well as in the flesh, then what else could he do? And the answer was that he can survive deep knife wounds to the chest, lol.

That guy is a real gift to our Season 4. Is it the Black Smoke taking human form perhaps? And you even said there may be more than one of them.

And I forgot to say, I like the little detail about the powder in the orange juice. Reminds me of Mittelos

Oh, and glad to see you took the Robert cross over angle, its what I had hoped for when I had Widmore say "You do remember Robert, don't you" to Locke.

Room 168. The numbers 16, and 8, and 1+6+8=15. Is this where he lived in The Brigg when the detectives come and visit him, or did you make that up?

[Verix]

Originally Posted by The Wizard

Yeah the man in black scared me too, I kind of pictured him like that evil spiderman in Spider-Man 3.... whatever it was called... *racks brain*

Venom - the evil symbiote.

[Kiowa Warrior]

Originally Posted by hundredand8

How old is that film? Any chance they might still have it at Blockbusters to rent?

It came out in 1997, so I doubt that Blockbusters still have it but you can always try. But you can buy it for under a fiver from ebay if you really want to see it, which I would recommend!

Originally Posted by 108

That guy is a real gift to our Season 4. Is it the Black Smoke taking human form perhaps? And you even said there may be more than one of them.

And I forgot to say, I like the little detail about the powder in the orange juice. Reminds me of Mittelos

Oh, and glad to see you took the Robert cross over angle, its what I had hoped for when I had Widmore say "You do remember Robert, don't you" to Locke.

Room 168. The numbers 16, and 8, and 1+6+8=15. Is this where he lived in The Brigg when the detectives come and visit him, or did you make that up?

Yeah the Black Smoke's human form is a possibility for the Man in Black. I didn't give him any dialogue, so he can only make some noises and doesn't speak any actual words so that leaves open the possibility he isn't human. But of course future writers could have him speak. Or have his twin speak! lol

Thanks Locke had to be drugged somehow, so I thought if orange juice is good enough for Juliet it's good enough for him, lol.

Yeah I wanted Locke to actually have known Robert off-island, and figured that Locke never gave into his torture because he was fired up by anger at Robert's betrayal of him off-island.

Room 168 is the actual number of Locke's apartment in TMFT flashback. I got it from Lostpedia, who got it from the form the government worker was filling in at the start of that episode

[D-Roc]

Great episode Ki!

I really enjoyed reading that, it was so rich with description and really drew me into a proper sci-fi realm

I loved the line about Locke and the Neighborhood Watch

I also really appreciated this description:

Originally Posted by Event Horizon

Taking a few moments to compose himself he opened his mouth and breathed in deeply, drinking in the essence of the jungle and those that had passed through it.

Locke's backstory was really well crafted and it further strengthened the reasons why he is the way he is.

The Man in Black was also a most intriguing character!

[Kiowa Warrior]

Thanks Roco

Poor Locke always suffers one way or another in his flashbacks, so to stay true to canon I had to keep it up! And yeah, you can't beat a good bit of sci-fi; especially a good film like EH!

Yeah the Man in Black is a very good character...hopefully the next episode will be put up soon so we find out what's happening to him.

[D-Roc]

Yeah, there have been gripes about Locke's 'insufferable' backstory, but personally I think it only serves to strengthen his island story.

Quite, there's nothing wrong with good sci-fi!

Interesting..I shall read on with great interest.