S1: Special

WALT!

Poor Michael.  Another Lostie who's had it pretty bad pre-island.  Happily his pregnant girlfriend shop for a crib, then the baby is born, the girlfriend takes a job in Amsterdam, takes baby Walt with her, starts dating her boss, moves to Italy and then at some point Sydney, then dies.  And while all this is happening Michael has no power or influence to stop any of it and ends up with a son that doesn't even know him.  He's thrust into the role of father, a role he hasn't played save for maybe 1 year of his life.

Now, stranded on an island, Michael believes that nobody wants off the island more than him.  He believes that his son can't grow up there.  Determined, he starts construction on a boat.  Unfortunately he continues to fight with his son about this friendship with Locke, but in true lost fashion, the "enemy" becomes the hero and Locke comes to the rescue when Walt is being threatened by a polar bear.

The idea of Walt being special and being able to summon animals that he looks at, I believe, is coincidence. I don't think the show develops this idea further.  I guess we'll see.

The big close?  Claire just happens upon Locke and Boone.  Boom!  LOST.

The big LOL.  When Kate and Charlie are talking in the cave and Kate tells him how nice he is watching her stuff until she comes back.  Until she comes back?  She's not on vacation...she was freakin' kidnapped.  How many people in the real world come back after being kidnapped?  ...Not many to my knowledge.  Then Charlie goes to Jack about wanting to search for Claire and Jack responds how he's not going to get far in the dark, well LOL, what about during the day for the week that she's been missing?  Sheesh!  Oh well, it's all moot now.

Oh also a big LOL was how the "Black Rock" gets revisited to be a place of interest because it appeared in a dream Claire had which she happened to write about in her diary.  LOL, thanks for bringing that up Charlie, I've been looking at a map, says Sayid, and there's a huge triangle on it.  Maybe it's the "Black Rock".  Maybe.  Maybe Claire will come back.  Maybe they will find the Black Rock.  Maybe someone will fall out of the sky and move the story along to another assumption.  Haha.  Stay tuned.