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Originally Posted by waves
I think it is excellent you put them on a spectrum. LOL.
I would agree. I have been developing the notion of the island as a sort of purgatory. So far, it also seems that The Monster might be seen differently by good v.s. bad people - and might also be more or less vested in destroying one or the other. Locke said he saw a beautiful white light looking at it. Eko says that's not what he saw.
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Yes, the idea of Purgatory works for a little while.
The monster is "seen" in the pilot show when it kills the pilot in the plane and sends him up the tree.
In Season 1 Episode 3 "White Rabbit" Locke sees the smoke monster --- sometimes it is smoke and sometimes it manifests other ways:
"I looked into the eye of this island, and what I saw was beautiful."
I think Eko's was different from other deaths (from the smoke monster or otherwise). I remain confused about him.
Often people like Shannon die after they work out what they came to take care of (I guess that is how this is a kind of purgatory.)
Mari