“Picture a box, and you know something about boxes, don’t you John? Well, what if I tell you that there is a box on this island, and whatever you imagined, whatever you wanted, when you opened the box, there it would be.”
Probably one of the most powerful piece of dialogue in the whole series, and there it was in this past week’s episode. The conversation between John and the cold calculating Benjamin was nothing short of awesome, and It certainly cleared a lot of stuff, like all the moments before in the season were amounting to this moment. First, we learned that, just as many of us figured out, if John leaves the island, he’s back in that chair he dreads so much. That there is something, some sort of power that allows John to be walking again, and Rose to be cured of her fatal tumor. Apparently, this power is sort of summoned by that person’s will, and this certainly adds to the theory going around that the events on the island are summoned by those that inhabit it. Take John, the center stage of this episode, the guy spends most of his life moping in sadness for everything that has happened to him, and how his father ruined his life. Since his father, a con man, plays with him and makes him donate him one of his kidneys and then disappears, John becomes a very weak and angry person. In this state he meets Helen, who loves him for who he is and implores him to forget about his father, but he cant, and as much as he tries, his father is always back to screw his life. First by stealing his kidney, then by breaking his relationship with Helen, and then, as revealed in this episode, being the one responsible for John being in a wheelchair. John is a destroyed person, but he is born again in the island. His will for wanting to walk again and being a hunter and one with nature allows him to regain the feel of his legs and get up from day one. Since then, he is more or less the island’s spiritual guru, one with nature, hunting boars and throwing knives with intense accuracy, but the question remains, did he knew all this by reading about hunting while being in his wheelchair? Or were his abilities also summoned from the “box” in the island as well? It seems now that thanks to the island John is an expert at everything, since he also knew where to strategically place the C4 so it would bring down the whole structure of the Submarine, or maybe he willed it to happen that way, just like maybe he willed himself to win that Chess game against the computer because he wanted to win so bad. Reaching? Maybe, but I think the nurse in this episode put it best when he told John “You fell 8 stories and survived, I don’t want you to tell me what you cannot do”
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