A very quick thought on one element of "Lost"

[tzikeh]

Several people on my flist have been saying that they like that Locke's compass is broken, or that it being off-kilter is a metaphor for Locke being off-kilter. I've yet to see anyone say what I immediately took for granted - the island isn't in normal space. The compass *is* pointing north; the *island* is off-kilter. Doesn't this make more sense than the compass is broken or the compass is a metaphor for Locke's sanity?

And when I say "make more sense", I mean in Lost-think, not in actual reality.