For this week’s LDG, let’s go back to the first season and a character who promised to be very, very significant in Lost’s future: Walt. In the first season, we got a glimpse of Walt’s apparent psychic abilities, which made him a kindred spirit to Locke. (Walt, after all, was the one character who wanted to stay on the Island as much as Locke, and set fire to the raft long before Locke blew up the submarine.) In season 2, he was held captive, and apparently tested, by the Others (for a non-pregnant-woman, he seemed awfully important to them). Then he sailed off with Michael, appearing in season 3 only as a manifestation of Jacob, or the Island, or Locke’s subconscious, or whatever he was manifesting.
The producers have dropped hints along the way, though, that Walt and Michael could have a role in the show’s future, and with the flash-forwards to life off the Island, that’s looking more and more likely. (Not least because a flash-forward could explain his rapid aging over three years.) So, the question(s) of the week:
What did the Others want with Walt? And what’s his (and Michael’s) role in the future?