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04/13/09
"Floppy head" is Canadians on South Park.
Gave me an odd mental image, is all.
04/13/09
But since Halloween is my favorite holiday, I'm rather biased.
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Just sayin'
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It's been around a bit before The Black Rock. Why?
Because Richard Alpert is a pirate who arrived with The Black Rock. No going around it, the eye liner is a dead giveaway. Also the fact that anywhen the Oceanic survivors time-travelled, anywhere in time, Richard was already there for a long time. It's why he doesn't answer to anyone else from the others.
Now back to the Smoke Monster.
It's a defence mechanism. It resides within the temple. It takes people in, and it either kills them or turns them into others. At first The Others are savage as hell, but if they survive long enough they become more refined, enough to communicate and resolve matters through other means than violence.
What sort of defence mechanism? From a crashed U.F.O. residing within the temple. The civilisation that discovered it built the temple around it, and probably also built the freak big-ass Statue.
Something happened to that civilisation and they were wiped out.
Then Richard Alpert crashed with The Black Rock on the island.
What's probably also possible is that the smoke monster also takes the form of Jack's father when it suits its purposes.
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Not that I'd be opposed to seeing him in pirate garb, though... in fact, I'll be disappointed if that doesn't ever happen. woof.
But Richard might even be older than that. Egyptian, maybe. Or a Cylon.
04/06/09
Pirate, Egyptian, Cylon, nekkid statue man - I don't care what costume they put him in - I want more Richard!
04/06/09
He was also the voice of Senor Senior Jr on Kim Possible so you gotta love him for that!
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04/06/09
You never watched The Postman, did you?
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Jim Carrey - The Cable Guy