Thoughts on Episode 2x19: S.O.S. – The Healings
This episode continues the recent trend of the show not directly answering mysteries, but rather toying with theories that may or may not explain them. In episode 2x11, Locke handled Ambrose Bierce’s book, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, which hinted that everything on the island was a fantasy happening in the moment before the plane crashed. In episode 2x18, Dave’s explanation for the strange events was that Hurley was dreaming of them while in a coma. In the most recent episode, we learn that Bernard took Rose to a faith healer named Isaac of Uluru who channeled the magnetic energy of Ayers Rock to cure people. After Isaac failed to cure Rose, he said that other places might have the power to heal her, which implied that the island was the right place for at least her, Locke, and possibly Jin.
Unlike the other theories that I mentioned above, this one is believable. If it’s true, it adds an interesting twist to the island mystery. Sick people couldn’t simply be healed by visiting Ayers Rock, Isaac had to channel the energy into them to cure their ailment. If a similar healing energy exists on the island, then simply being there wouldn’t have cured Locke and Rose. Someone would have to be channeling the healing energy into them.
If people did need someone channeling energy into them to enjoy the healing power of the island, then it would explain why only select people have been cured. Shannon’s asthma was never healed; Boone’s shattered leg was not healed, and Jack has never commented on an unusually rapid recover in Sawyer’s gunshot wound or “Henry Gale’s” crossbow wound even though he has monitored their progress. Perhaps the island is not the right place for these people to be healed (Isaac claimed that each healing location is not right for all people). Alternatively, all of the examples of people not receiving cures are because the person channeling the energy is not directing any of it towards them.
A person channeling the energy would also explain why Locke lost the use of legs after he and Boone discovered the Nigerian drug plane in episode 1x19. Whoever was sending Locke the energy he needed to walk didn’t want him to climb to the dangerously perched plane and risk his life so the energy flow was temporarily cut off. Boone was allowed to make the climb because he, for whatever reason, was viewed as expendable, as demonstrated by the lack of healing for his severe wounds, which resulted in his death.
The theory may also explain Jin’s newfound ability to produce children. (Assuming Sun is being truthful about not sleeping with another man.) Obviously, the Others want children—they keep kidnapping them—so if the Others are in control of channeling the healing powers of the islands, they may have directed some of that power to Jin’s reproductive problems to assure a greater supply of kids.
Unlike the other theories that I mentioned above, this one is believable. If it’s true, it adds an interesting twist to the island mystery. Sick people couldn’t simply be healed by visiting Ayers Rock, Isaac had to channel the energy into them to cure their ailment. If a similar healing energy exists on the island, then simply being there wouldn’t have cured Locke and Rose. Someone would have to be channeling the healing energy into them.
If people did need someone channeling energy into them to enjoy the healing power of the island, then it would explain why only select people have been cured. Shannon’s asthma was never healed; Boone’s shattered leg was not healed, and Jack has never commented on an unusually rapid recover in Sawyer’s gunshot wound or “Henry Gale’s” crossbow wound even though he has monitored their progress. Perhaps the island is not the right place for these people to be healed (Isaac claimed that each healing location is not right for all people). Alternatively, all of the examples of people not receiving cures are because the person channeling the energy is not directing any of it towards them.
A person channeling the energy would also explain why Locke lost the use of legs after he and Boone discovered the Nigerian drug plane in episode 1x19. Whoever was sending Locke the energy he needed to walk didn’t want him to climb to the dangerously perched plane and risk his life so the energy flow was temporarily cut off. Boone was allowed to make the climb because he, for whatever reason, was viewed as expendable, as demonstrated by the lack of healing for his severe wounds, which resulted in his death.
The theory may also explain Jin’s newfound ability to produce children. (Assuming Sun is being truthful about not sleeping with another man.) Obviously, the Others want children—they keep kidnapping them—so if the Others are in control of channeling the healing powers of the islands, they may have directed some of that power to Jin’s reproductive problems to assure a greater supply of kids.
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