The Theory Behind Abc’s ‘Lost’
This is one of the best theories I’ve ever seen about ABC’s Lost. It’s a long read but well worth it.
here is a quick summarization for the lazy, but i encourage you to read it all:
The Island is the plan for the end of the world and the plane crash never actually happened. Instead the plan was captured by this magnetic field, brought to the island and everyone was cryogenically frozen (cue austin powers) and the crash was staged..
Meet Hans Oersted:
Hans O. discovered electromagnetism in 1820.
In 1999 the ‘Oersted’ satellite was launched with the purpose of charting Earth’s magnetic field. The findings led scientists to believe that there might be a polar reversal imminent, the effects of which could be cataclysmic: if Earth were to lose its magnetosphere, it would be vulnerable to massive radiation from the space/sun. The satellite also revealed an anomaly in the magnetic field under South Africa; it is pointing the opposite direction from the rest of the Earth’s field and has been growing for hundreds of years. Please Google this info. A similar idea was also used in the film ‘The Core’.
Meet Hannes Alfvén:
His contribution to science - mainly in the field of electromagnetism - revolutionized how scientists view the universe, winning a Nobel Prize on the way. He spoke English, German, French, Russian, and some Spanish and Chinese; and studied oriental philosophy and religion. He spent time in the Fiji Islands. He was fascinated by the “green flash” - a phenomenon that sometimes occurs at sunset. By no coincidence (Green Lantern and Flash comic): 
He also wrote fiction: The Great Computer: A Vision (1968) telling the story of computers taking over the world. Google “Hannes Alfvén”.
Alfvén plus Hans O. equals Alvar Hanso.
The above outlines the reason for - and a means to control - the island…
Scientists, fearing the cataclysmic events of a polar reversal, prepared an environment for the survival of the human race. They either directly or indirectly engineered the kind of people who would make up a community fit for survival and propagation of a new world. In the main, this means characters without father/mother figures; and/or characters with skills for survival: a doctor, an engineer, a survivalist, a mercenary; and characters of sufficiently varied genetic background: african, caucasian, asian, etc. to ensure a healthy gene pool for generations.
Then on an island which already had a massive natural source of electromagnetism, they constructed an artificial magnetosphere, alluded to in Walt’s/Hurley’s comic:
to repel the deadly cosmic rays that Earth’s magnetosphere used to repel. The hope was that the community could thrive, grow and, eventually, repopulate/recover the world.
The Dharma Initiative under Alvar Hanso (if both of these thing exist in the Lost reality - much of the Orientation film is red herrings for the ’survivors’) used a technology based on remote viewing and electromagnetism to power this magnetosphere and to influence the lives of the future island candidates. As stated in another of my posts: every strange (and a lot of mundane) occurrences in Lost can be attributed to electromagnetism as wielded by the collective consciousness on the island (see “Enlightenment Theory”). When all the candidates were in place, i.e. on the plane, the collective consciousness knocked everyone out, brought it down, cryogenically preserved them, dismantled the plane (placing enough debris in the ocean to ensure an “everybody dead” verdict); years later, some plane debris was placed on the beach with the passengers and the scene was set to give the illusion that they had JUST crashed. Then the collective consciousness woke them up.
The joke/password about the snowmen is an allusion to being cryogenically frozen.
The collective consciousness is that group of scientists that became so totally absorbed into remote viewing and electromagnetism that they now operate on frequencies of electromagnetism (covering everything from light to sound) only. They can read minds as well as manipulate iron and other conductive material. Claire wondered why there was not one comb or hairbrush on the entire plane; the reason: the slight electrostatic charges that hair brushing creates is interference for the collective consciousness.
Much of the Orientation film and what Desmond says is false and purely to ensure that our heroes press those bloody buttons every 108 minutes. The purpose is threefold: to provide a focus for the community - a reason to go on and something ‘meaningful’ that goes beyond rational decision-making; secondly, to protect the hatch/power-supply/scientists behind the concrete; and, thirdly, to download the information from the Oersted satellite as it orbits the Earth every 108 minutes (please Google this) to get the latest on the magnetic poles.
The collective consciousness messed with this bird’s navigation (based on magnetism - birds have magnetite in their beaks).
Sayid tells Jack that either the compass is wrong or North has moved. In fact, North has moved.
Walt seems to become a knife-throwing expert. He isn’t. The metal knife was guided by the collective consciousness in an attempt to bring him closer to Locke, who is the island’s most faithful servant.
The presence of this ship is an indication that this island has always been known as a source of great magnetic power (the word “magnet” comes from “Magnesia” the land where the first black rock with powers of attraction was found). The location of this ship is an indication of the island’s volcanic past - pushing the island higher - the ship is now inland. (Lava cools to form basalt; at the point basalt solidifies it takes on the same magnetic field as the surrounding location, thus providing information of the magnetic field’s past.)
BF Skinner’s dubious theories form the basis for the methods used by collective consciousness to socially engineer this ‘utopia’. They are the voices in the trees, they are the visions, they are the black fog (metal in a magnetic field), the monster (mechanical, but designed to embody each survivor’s personal fear). They use every psychological trick in his books to manipulate the survivors into forming a stable long-lasting community ON the island; and their means to this end are extensive.
The two images above are an explicit example of how the influence of the Dharma’s collective consciousness has pervaded in the survivors’ lives: notice the octagonal ceiling in both shots; and the metal balls in the second scene.
The opening shot of most episodes - the eye - establishes that this episode’s main character will perceive what the collective consciousness wishes to show them. In this episode, Boone has an epiphanies vision courtesy of the collective consciousness and is later murdered with a falling plane!
Locke can walk now. Locke has no feeling in his legs. Locke’s ability to walk is based on the collective consciousness’ will. It makes him obedient. This level of obedience may be required of all the survivors eventually. His legs move because the collective consciousness allows those tiny electronic impulses from his brain via the spine to get through to muscles in his legs.
To summarize: our heroes never actually crashed; they are the future of mankind - the survivors of a cataclysmic polar event of which they are unaware; they are on the island to survive, procreate and repopulate the Earth. They are unaware of this plan which is sustained by a sophisticated collective consciousness and a group of scientists using electromagnetic power, and psychological techniques of reward and punishment.
More Notes
Some attempts at answers:
The polar bears are on the island because they think it’s the North Pole. And so does Sayid’s compass. Their appearance in the Orientation film is to throw the ’survivors’ off the scent - as though the bears have been deliberately placed there and have simply escaped - no. But the collective consciousness can still use them - like it used boars.
Other occurrences of the polar bear - comic, cuddly toy - leads me to: we don’t know yet to what extent the ’survivors’ have been socially engineered. It is possible that Hurley was so influenced by the scientists that he subconsciously sought out a comic with a polar bear and those other themes in it. Michael could have been told that Walt likes polar bears by his mum - or it could just be a coincidence/writer’s joke.
As for Walt’s knife throwing - yes he could have special powers - we don’t yet know how socially engineered these people are… Desmond does call Jack “brother”! But I don’t think Locke has special powers:
[Locke predicts the weather to a minute]
Neither does he need a compass anymore. These are electromagnetic phenomena - the conductivity of the air increases just before precipitation - you can smell rain. His power is a gift from the island…but can be taken back at any time.
Which leads us to: why did the island kill Boone? After freeing him from love of his step sister and making him loyal, the island murders him - why? Possible answer: because Locke, at that time, is the main prize for the island; in his dream he was shown Boone dead - but he still proceeded with the excursion to the plane! The island was testing him and setting him apart from everyone else. By the time they got to the plane, Locke was unable to walk, thus preventing him from climbing to the plane - thus forcing Boone to do it. This was all the collective consciousness’ plan.
…it was Locke that ultimately convinced the group to press the buttons - even Jack.
We haven’t met all the survivors yet - even in the main group. Maybe if there are any missing genetic groups, they are in there. Naveen Andrews is English! [ALERT: politically dangerous ground mixing nationality with ethnic origin - I'm stopping here!!!]
Did Kate remember the crash? Did Boone see his sister dead? Did Jack see his dead father? These people are like those lotto balls bouncing around - but the order of the numbers has already been determined… (apologies for metaphor).
My guess is that there are two groups of Others: one of scientists still on board with the project (boat), and another of scientists who have gone native (those in rags and no metal or sound). The gone-native group (including Ethan) steals babies; they see the project as insidious and rebel against it; they take babies so that the babies can grow up free - without the collective consciousness in their minds. The other group (boat) took Walt in order to keep people on the island - Michael won’t be building a raft again.
Google: B.F. Skinner’s novel “Walden Two” in which he describes a group of friends visiting a Skinner-type ‘utopian’ community. The friends react in different ways to the community’s ideology; these reactions outline the viewpoints of the two groups of Others.
Some other points which back up Andrew’s theory:
- the significance of the Dharma Initiative shark: according to Wikipedia ‘The shark has the greatest electricity sensitivity known in all animals.’
- one of the early workers on cryopreservation was Sir James Lovelock, who proposed the Gaia theory. Again, quote Wikipedia: Gaia theory is a class of scientific models of the geo-biosphere in which life as a whole fosters and maintains suitable conditions for itself by helping to create an environment on Earth suitable for its continuity. That tallies nicely with your ideas above - also as a nice ‘coincidence’ it was named Gaia theory following a suggestion by his chum William Golding, of ‘Lord of the Flies’ fame!
- I’m guessing the polar bears were brought there for monitoring i.e. to compare this artificially generated pole to their usual habitat
Andrew Smith’s post http://www.4815162342.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3377 the site is down so i copied the post
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124 Responses to “The Theory Behind Abc’s ‘Lost’”
interesting
One of the best theories iv heard so far, it explains almost everything, will be interesting to see whether you’re right.
The point you made about the computer and the numbers just being something to give the suvivors a focus is sort of backed up by the novel behind which the orientation film was found- Turn of the Screw by Henry James. Its a ghost story about a Governess who believes the children in her care are in danger from a man whom she discovers is dead, but whether there really is a danger or whether the ghost s just her imagination is very simillar to the computer/numbers situation.
Another book that may or may not be a significant insight into LOST is one Desmond is reading in bed at 1 point- The Third Policeman, a story about murder, a botched robbery and atomic theory.
Why would the survivor candidates be chosen on the basis of father/mother figures? What is the benefit? Frankly, it seems like a bad choice for rebuilding society to me.
Nicely explained theory, I’m sure Lost lends itself to a lot here.
Doubtful there are 2 groups of others, Boat & Raggged scientists. Walts kidnappers(boat) are the ragged scientists. The one nicknamed Zeek by Sawyer took walt, took Michael to Walt and was also at the other ‘medical hatch’ when Claire was kidnapped, without a beard, we know this is a fake beard and outfit. So this would mean he was in both groups of others. Just one group…..
yea i think at this point there is one group of others and some of them pretend to be primitive.
What do you guys think is the deal with the four-toed statue? And is it just me, or did Jack give Kate a really creepy look near the end of the episode? (When the others put the bags over their heads again). And what about Desmond’s old girlfriend being called about the ‘magnetic anamoly’? I think that can almost surely rule out the theory that the island is the only thing left in the world.
I can get behind the Polar Shift theory (mainly because it actually is based in science and HAS happened before) I can get behind the plane being brought down by electromagnetism but a collective concious? Come on now! Cryo freezing bodies??? Are you Serious? I would bet that there is another place that has to press a button every 108 min to fire off energy. But then the theory gets crazy and dumb so ill leave it there.
The Kate look was really wierd it was almos tlike jake and kate know they can get out of here.
desmond’s girlfriend is named after penelope, i would guess, wife of odysseus. after all desmond is on a journey back home, (getting his honour back or whatever…) and is lost in the sea. yet i do not get the connection to david hume.
the whole theory doesnt sound so bad. the crygonetics and all-thats-left-in-the-world part is clearly cancelled by Desmond’s girlfriend reacting to the magnetic anamoly. I still think there are 2 groups of scientists since in the end henry said “we’re the good guys”, leading us to believe that theres bad guys, and also because they resisted shooting/hurting them many times. The whole magnetic theory makes sense since in the end henry says that even if Michael wanted to come back he wouldnt find the island. My own theory is that they are sitting on a peak point in the Bermuda Triangle (google it) where scientists are conducting some sort of tests. My only question in all this is why would the authors link all the characters the way they did? they seem to all have bumped into each other in the past, and I can’t really explain that coincidence.
There is an aspect of the fakery surrounding the ‘others’ which does lend weight to this theory. If the survivors of the plane crash hadn’t arrived there who were the deceptions intended for? This suggests a period of time and forward planning to set up this ’stage’ which I guess supports the theory that the survivors where somehow brought there. A fake hatch, huts and costumes, wouldn’t these things take quite some time to create? If they were intended to fool unexpected visitors to the island into believing they were survivors themselves, why create a fake hatch? I do hope there aren’t too many far-fetched ‘magical’ explanations for the happenings on Lost. This would really kill the marvel of a well crafted intelligent story. The number of, perhaps, coincidental crossed paths also adds further weight to the theory that someone had a hand in their fate preceding the plane crash and I do believe we are being guided to a significant plot element and ever so gently nudged over the edge a la oblivion at Alton Towers (I hope!)
I think the most significant thing about the season finale was Desmond and Penelope. Penelope makes a comment about being able to find anyone if you have enough money. I think it’s possible that Penelope’s Father provides funding for the Initiative and (running along the lines of the original theory that this is a controlled experiment) submitted Desmond to the program to get him away from his daughter. Penelope found out about the initiative and her father’s part in it and pays for the research station to look for the magnetic anomaly as it is the only clue she would have as to Desmond’s whereabouts.
Would this mean that Libby who played a part in Desmonds fate was working for the initiative? Was her role at the mental institute one of inmate or facilitator for Hurley’s fate also?
thats how i took it
good theory but unfortunately its all wrong as in the season finale shows people that are not on the island.
Season finale supports certain aspects of this thoery. There is an electromagnetic element without doubt - perhaps they are in the development stage - perhaps it failed? there was an ‘incident’ yes? There is the point or perhaps (flaw in the plot) that why would the fate of the world be left so willingly to any passer by? Certainly that’s the question I would have asked myself in that situation and just not pushed any button, and as time has gone by it’s clear that this isn’t a forgotten task by people with the with means to make sure the button is continued to be pushed. I do think this is the closest theory disscusion however there’s a way to go yet….
Good theory…exactly what i was thinking..(snigger).
wel….it all seemed to work out until this last episode….. the last one in season 2.
if we go by what was said above, they are the last survivors of earth ect, and all the times we see life outside of the island are in the past…hence we can stil asume they may all have died years ago. however, in the closing minutes of this last episode, we see life outside the island at the present time. (the guys in the artic with the scientific equipment) hence, although this theory goes to answere many of the questions, the main idea behind it all must be fundimentaly flawed.
was stil a good idea tho
This is a great theory, the elctromagnetism gave good explaination of why the compass was acting strange, why the plane crashed, and other strange occurances. But I believe there is a big flaw in this theory.(The same reason “The Core” was an horrible movie.) The earth’s magnetic poles have shifted many times before in the Earth’s history, causing the magnetic field to be inactive. Almost all scienctist believe when that happened the earth was not turned into a fireball (”The Core”). But what occurs on Earth at that time is nothing much different from what happens when the electromagnetic is working. The only little bit of difference on Earth is that that cancer rate might go up a little bit. But nothing else will happen much. Although the cancer rate on Earth will go up even more due to the bad treatment of the enviroment.
Link: http://www.wsws.org/articles/2003/apr2003/canc-a26.shtml
If this theory is the answer to the questions for Lost, then I must add that the scientist on Lost are very ignorant.
Plus another compass theory: You should all know that the Earth has two Norths, one is the North Pole the area where the axis of the Earth is. The second is the Magnetic North, that is where your compass points.
Michael is told to follow a compass bearing of 325 and he’d be rescued, could The Others be sending him towards the ship that is recording the electromagnetic anomalies? Also could Pen’s father be one of the Dharma Initiative founders and she has an idea of what is happening but hasn’t a clue where the project is taking place so uses her wealth to find it.
its the matrix people,,,it has you all,,,wake up for god sake!!!!!!!!! wake up
Man! i have to agree with tyler, even i feel the story is goin the same way as matrix..
wow brilliant imagination, sadly it seems this has been dissproved in the season 2 finale whereby we see people still alive OFF the island
I just think that the first two seasons of Lost resemble NBC’s Earth 2 television series from 1994-1995. Afterall, they revolve around the same basic plot and you can see similarities almost everywhere. In addition, Terry O’Quinn was in both series (he played the role of Reilly in Earth 2) as well as Clancy Brown (That played a military type character named “John Danziger”).
just an observation…
pen tells desmond : -
“I am rich, you can find anyone if you have enough money”
or something along those lines.
Then it seems she may be about to find him again as it appears she has commisioned the scintists on the boat.
Does anyone have a rational explanation of my following finding:
The numbers they have to enter are 4 8 15 16 23 42, if you simply ad them together the total comes to 108…??!!??! Bizarre…
Good Luck!
You know what’s even more bizarre!? if you ad up the numbers 3, 2 and 5 (that Michael has to follow) you get the number 10!!!!
How weird is that right?!
It’s a nice theory, but there are still some things I don’t understand… like why did almost all the characters meet before the plane crash? How did the people from the Dharma initiative get them to go on the exact same plane? Also why are the numbers 4,8,15,16,23,42 chosen? and why did they bring Hurley bad luck while he was still at home? And where did Rousseau, the French woman, go?
I found out that John Locke and Rousseau were both important influences during the Enlightenment (age of reason) it might have something to do with why the others are taking away the children to let them grow up without the collective conciousness…
Also: What about the virus that comes up sometimes, Rousseau told about it…?!
Theory, theory, theory, but can some one please tell me what the hell that was at the begining of the first series that broke down all the trees as the survivors watched on, it hasn’t been mentioned since!!
A lot of things come down to Hurleys numbers, is Lost something as simple as Hurley being experimenting on in the institute , and dreaming the whole thing?
108 is supposedly a holy number in many religions and the numbers also have significance in many religions. Dharma and kharma has something to do with all of this also. One of my coworkers printed out a long explanation of what all this meant last season and I forget most of it, but the numbers have a huge significance. Anyone talk about that yet?
108 is supposedly a holy number in many religions and the numbers also have significance in many religions. Dharma and kharma has something to do with all of this also. One of my coworkers printed out a long explanation of what all this meant last season and I forget most of it, but the numbers have a huge significance. Anyone talk about that yet?
The thing that broke down the trees was the islands “defense mechanism”, the black smoke (since you hear the loud horn-like noise that accompagnies it).
And one HUGE detail that no one has yet mentioned is the fact that we see Jack as one of the two Portuguese scientists in the research station!!! Take a look for yourself:
http://abc.go.com/primetime/lost/gallery/223.html?photo=89
It’s clearly Jack! Is there some kind of alternate dimension that exists??
Am I right in thinking that when Des was talking to Libby in that cafe that Des said he was doing the race because it was ‘his’ race? ‘Him’ being Penelope’s father? This could explain how Penelope knows Des could still be alive after three long years. Maybe, and this is a big maybe Penelope’s father did the same sailing thing (hence why its ‘his’ race) and was marooned on the island due to its magnetic pull in the same way Des and his boat could have some way ended up there (Same magnetic pull thing could be applied to why Michael, Jin and Sayer all just miraculously drifted back to the island). Widmore escapes joins/co-creates DHARMA with the Hanso and Belgian hippies, the DeGroots I think. Penelope knows story cos her dad tells as one of those pain in the arse stories every time a family gets together, ‘Did I ever tell you about the time I was…’ ‘For the love of God, yes you did!’, so she thinks the same thing could have happened to Des.
With the whole compass thing, the compasses must all be badly effected by the electromagnetic anomaly on the island. If north isn’t north maybe when Des was sailing west by compass rather than setting sun or whatever he was just going in one big circle.
One last thing, in the Pearl Orientation video Mark Wickman/Marvin Candle (What’s up with that? And his prosthetic arm?) says something about ‘at the end of your shift you will get a boat back to the barracks’ or something along those lines. Now I wonder where the Others keep pissing off to by boat? They have to be left over DHARMA people from when the project went sour.
Pleh, what do I know? At least it gets you thinking which is more than can be said for most TV.
Season 1: When they find the cockpit, what attacked the pilot?
if the black smoke is just ‘metal in a magnetic field’
Why does the Shark have the Dharma logo on it?
Who drops the supplies to the island?
Why were not only children taken from the second group of people on the plane?
Fate or coincidence?
Why was the guy (cant remember name) who was in the hatch before desmond painting things on the walls?
Why are the ‘others’ letting Michael and Walt go? (yes he made the trade but why still)
If the people in the hatch have been monitored and every move written down, why havent the documents been read? who has been watching?
What do the red symbols when the clock counts down means?
How did michael talk to Walt on the computer but no one else?
SOO many unanswered questions!
every episode seems to make the viewer ask more questions without giving any answers, took half a season to find out what was in the hatch after Locke got in..
Personally i think if questions arent answers soon enough, views will lose interest in the show. Every episode seems to be getting abit boring until the very end, where you have to wait til next week and the topic just changes.
In the last episode, we all saw that weird bird that Hurley thinks screeches his name. In the episode in season 1 where Jack, Kate, Locke and Boone go racing off after Ethan, Charlie and Claire, Jack hears the same noise but thinks its Claire shouting for him (Just before Ethan roughs him up a bit). Weird?
Also, on the Swan orientation tape didn’t the guy say that the DHARMA iniative studied zoology, electromagnetics, psychology and parapsychology.
Zoology - Why are there sharks with the DHARMA logo on them? Because they were part of the study. I bet if they had a good look at the polar bear Sawyer shot there’d be a nice logo on that as well.
Electromagnetics - The Swan
Psychology - The Pearl
Parapsychology - This seems to be what the Others are interested in with their ‘we’re the good guys’ stuff and ‘Did Walt ever appear anywhere he shouldn’t have?’We all know he did because Shannon saw him and Walt’s foster father said weird stuff happens around him. Michael also looked a bit perplexed by this question as if he was thinking ‘Yeah, but I’m not telling them’ or ‘WOTF!?!’
Either way there is a definite connection between DHARMA and the Others with the whole ‘Namaste’ and ‘We’re the good guys’ stuff. Their whole credo seems to be same. Unless the the Other formerly known as Henry Gale was being ironic at the end of the last episode.
I don’t know if it has been said before cos i dont have time for all the theories, but i reckon that the electromagnetic field makes the island invisible to the outside wourld - ie cant be detected - which is why, as ‘henry gale’ says ‘no one knows we are here’ and explains why no one has been rescued. The others are more in the know than they let on. Desmonds girl says if you have enough money you can find anyone - her people on the boat are looking for desmond, and its only after the surge that the island is visible to the outside world as the electromagnetic ’shield’ is down. Electromagnetism messes up all the compasses, causes the wierd movement of the island trees they sometimes see (cos its all shaking underground) and explains why desmond’s boat and Jin’s raft failed - they cannot navigate away, they are merely being led in circles round the island. The others are the ex employees of the Dharma initiative, and are still on the island for a reason, dont know what. The whole thing sounds like a large government/fim coverup - the dharma was an experiment that went badly wrong, and now they need it to be covered up. Ive got ideas on a lot of the things but i keep forgetting them. damn.
The people on the boat looking for desmond presumably have somehow worked out hes on this island, and that it exists. Desmonds girlfriend or whatever she is put her money into finding him, and somehow found out about this government coverup of the island, and that it all exists. Her father is high up in the military or whatever, maybe hes involved in the coverup, making it easy for her to discover it, but more likely her position as his daughter means shes got the right contacts to find all this out. So she hired a couple of mercenaries, they go out with their electromagnetic surge detecting computer, and are looking for the island. Which explains why they call her at the end and say we ve found it.
i dnt get it? lol
that theory is amazing - just to clarify the man people think is JACK playing the scientist at the end of the season might want to check the credits for a certain Len Cordova - he LOOKS like matthew fox (jack) - check his profile http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0502653/
sorry no mystry there!
Well, what can I say? My theory surpasses all of which have been presented. I believe that the plane transcended into another dimension, which was caused by the collision of the plane and the magnetic field. The Philadelphia experiment (Google it) proves that electromagnetic fields can cause a shift from one place to the next, from one time to another, or from one dimension to an alternate one. Even the theory explained gave very useful insight, it didn’t answer even half of the questions and quite frankly, it is too complicated for normal average people watching the series from home to understand. Locke mentions ‘fate’ and ‘destiny’ I believe that all the characters bumped into each other to foreshadow them coming together on the island. I would like to believe a more insightful view but, I have to admit, the answer to lost has to be one of which the majority of people watching the programme will understand.
To the person above discounting the theory of electromagnetism, there is no way the earth has ever not had a magnetic field. The core of the earth (in fact the earth itself) is field with iron; it is the rotaion of this iron (i.e., the rotation of the earth) that produces the magnetic field. This field may have fluctuated and reversed polarity and even shifted axis, but it has always existed.
The electromagnetic effects portrayed in this show are surprisingly conceivable. I think this believability is one of the shows strongest points.
What about when Sawyer or was it jack that shot the pistol at “Zeek” when they had Kate? The bullet reflected off some kind of barrier…any ideas how that plays?
i think it will be extremelly hard for the lost creators of Lost to bring the whole show to an end AND get this theory (or any of the others) across to the viewers in a way they will be able to understand, the whole thing will be great to watch, but DAMN it makes my brain hurt tryin to figure it out!!! U never know, the ending might be really, really, stupidly simple, like a dream of something.
very interesting theory, but one thing, as one mentioned previously: if the Lost Island was the last place on earth, then what about that radar base in the icy place… and mroeover, “PEN’s” luxurious bed….
as for the look between kate and jack, well hear this: the aftermath between michael and the Possy when JAck revealed his dark plan wasnt very well depicted in the episode. and the fact that the Possy were acting so extravagantly afterwards is because they knew they were watched and wanted “the Others” to believe that they were falling for it. I bet Michael is in-line with the plan but i cant figure out what might the plan be.
ok we all get the fact that people are still alive outside the island lets leave it at that
but one thing i don’t get them buttons had to be pressed every 108 minutes or the world would end but there was a fail safe key which released everything a loud noise the sky went purple for a bit why didnt the people who made the place just do that instead of having people push the buttons for years
lost is a good show but it gets dragged along wey too much you could of made them two series about 8 episode each and still got all the relivant point across
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Two things come to me after reading this:
1) the 108 thing can’t be ignored with regards to the numbers, more on that later I hope.
2) The heading Zeek told Mike and Walt to take on leaving will just take them around the island. Compasses are heavily effected by magnetism, heading 235 will created an arc around which they will eventually die on the boat [parametric equation]. Assume instead of having a static north, that instead north is pinned to the island because of it’s EM field. The boat makes a slow winding spiral away from the island, almost one of the slowest possible while still making progress away from the island [only 10 degrees off that].
The suggestion that seeing the 2 sceintists in the station disproves the therory that they are the only people left on earth is slihjtly flawed. We see two people on the sceince station but we are given no information to suggest that this is taking place at the same time as the events on the island.
I believe that the scene we saw took place when Desmond first missed the button and the station locked down showing the hyroglyphics. When they miss the button is causes the an anomalie with the magnetic field an that is what the guys in the science station picked up.
So…… that happened on the 4th of september 2004?????? a little odd for a show airing in 2006 more support for the original theory if you ask me!
Has anyone else noticed that when you add 4,8,15,16,23, and 42 together, you get 108??
The fact remains that we still know ABSOLUTELY KNOTHING ABOUT ANYTHING. Nothing has been explained in any single way shape or form. You can speculate all you would like but the facts are simple:
1. We have no idea what the black fog is and what it is protecting (or for that matter why we havent seen it since season one)
2. We have no idea who the others are what they are doing or how many of them there are ect.
3. We know that Walt had some sort of psycic abilities but to what purpose or extent nada.
4. We ALL know that everyone is connected in some totally random way before they came on the island ie Sawyer and Jons father, Sayid in Iraq and Desmonds partner ect so that cleary indicates that fate is involved which equals this: NOTHING.
All I know is this: This is the GREATEST TV Show/Concept EVER. I am not about to even pretend that I have any idea what is going on so I will simply sit back and watch and know that some day the answers will come and it will be something crazier and even more hardcore than anyone could have imagined. So let us all rejoice for being given this gift that is LOST and count the days until October 4th.
I think you should study physics before you start talking about magnetism and electromagnetic waves. They are quite different things. And none of them causes collective consciousness (not proved yet at least). Also freezing people kills them according to my latest informations.
The writers said, that everything in the movie _is_happening_ (not in reality, but in the movie’s reality). So I think you worked a lot on this theory, but the basics are wrong. I hope at least, it would be a great disappointment if you were right
my theory, they’re extremely close to the magnetic north or near opposite of it. No idea how they got there, *shrug* That would explain the funky magnet stuff and prolly mess up your concept of north based on the sun.
as far as the numbers go, the computer may very well accept other numbers, nobody ever really tried. but 108 is interesting religiously. The whole 108 stars stuff where it takes 108 good people to achieve heaven on earth type stuff or whatever it is. or maybe it just is what it is.
Another possibility and I havn’t looked at this much but it popped in my head a few days ago… how many ppl are left… 42? maybe the final piece or something? How many ppl have been taken from the plane? How many Others are there? How many children do we know were missing? I think we should try to tie the numbers to other things.
If you add the numbers you get 108. Also if you multiply them you get 7418880. thats the number that appeared on the printout from the pearl after a system fail
Can someone please tell me if the black smoke and the thing at the start of season 1 that ripped up the trees are the same thing. I dont think they are bu i just want to be sure.
A few things: Firstly, the scientists who call Penelope at the end of the last episode refer to seeing the anomaly AGAIN - I’m sure some comment is made about not missing it THIS TIME - so I’m assuming that the first time was when Desmond forgot to press the button, and this time it’s actually happening in the present - ie, when the station is blown up or whatever happened to it.
Secondly, if anyone has seen the picture of “Alvar Hanso” (www.thehansofoundation.org - the website set up by ABC that goes along with LOST), I am pretty sure that the blurry picture of Alvar Hanso is exactly the same as “Henry Gale” - there’s also other imformation in the series which makes it seem like Henry Gale is actually Alvar Hanso. Also, according to the website’s hidden Easter Egg bits (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hanso_Foundation - the wikipedia site shows you how to get to them) - then it appears that Alvar Hanso hasn’t appeared in public for years - possibly because he is on the island?! hmm…
next thing, Thomas Widmore (Penelope’s Father) is on the board of directors for the Hanso Foundation, so that maybe ties in with what someone posted about “you can find anyone if you have enough money”.
Anyone tried to translate the hieroglyphics when the timer reaches 0?
There is 5 letters
I managed to figure out the first, second and Fourth the others I cant work out
So far I have C U ? A ?
no you haven’t.Try again!
So what’s up with Libby and Desmonds connection then?? they met at a restaurant inthe last episode(season2). its clearly libby with straight red hair(instead of curly blonde), who offers desmond her dead husbands’ boat, when he jokes about her potentially having 42,000 more, after she pays for his $4 meal. And this was before Desmond was on the island… The portuguese Jack definately messes with my mind a little too, but that was after the EM-flash when Des activates the “turn of the screw” (the emergency key). Did they shift the island to a parallel dimension from the flash? is this the ‘failsafe? or is it an overcompensating artificial Magnetosphere? Does Jack have a twin(who is portuguese?) i doubt it… So does any body have any on this? i guess we will see, in October when season 3 begins…
wait a sec… i just watched the last ep2-24 again, and noticed the scientist in the arctic is def NOT Jack !
But Libby was def the boat donor for Des; to get to the island via the botched race… more clues anyone?
I thought she was a clinical psychologist?? maybe she still is, just that she’s rich too, with some kind of agenda? i know, she died though… too bad Hugo *sniff-
I have read all the comment here and all the theorys are very good, the bermuda triangle idead seams to be the most apealing and belivable, can any one expland
good theory, i think on watching lost s2e24 that the hatch was indeed a lie but i think the whole thing was designed to scare u and kill u ready for the next experiement inless u had the courage to turn the key. i dont think locke, ecko or desmond are dead mainly because of the scientists and pen right at the end
ALSO JACK AND THE SCIENTIST ARE NOT THE SAME PERSON thank you
YOU ARE SICK DUDE! ALL YOU WROTE IS A BUNCH OF BOLLOCKS! yopu have no idea what is going on…the future?? procreate?? cryogenic?? wake up its a tvshow
Was it just me or did kelvin and the guy with the fake beard look incredibly similar??? am likein the bermuda triangle theory with bits from everyones leses all rolled into one but at the end of the day its a tv show and the writer will pan it out as a tv show and not a reality.
Not too bad a theory. Just some stuff i’d like to see if anyone has any theories on.
Who is that psychic guy in Australia, is he genuine, because he admits to Hurley he is a fake, but his show with claire seems very realistic, he even offers to give her money back.
Also about Jack’s dad, he was taking his corpse back to America with him on the plane, but when he opened the coffin his dad was gone.
Any explanations for these?
How the h3ll can a handfull of people procreate enough to populate an entire planet?!?
You need a few thousands people to have enough genetic diversity to do that (”inbreeding” rings any bells?).
In my opinion there is no explication to the entire show, until the show ends. It’s like in most of the american movies, there is no valid clue in the entire movie to even be half way getting the solution before the ending … the reason for this is simple: it’s hard to think; thinking it’s like working and nobody likes working; if the show had only a little bit of inteligence in it, would have very little viewers.
In my opinion we all shoud sit back and enjoy the show until the end to see the real plot because there is no way to get it before that.
The reality in the show is meant to be based on same rules as the real world. So if this place had a magnetic anomaly that had to be realised every 108 seconds, why trouble with people when they could have built a automatic system to do it, with 10-20 back-ups just to be sure and a observation center somewhere remote. Easy. The compass thing has a logical explanation. The island is rich in iron which if magnetised can very easy disturbed the compass. There are places in this real world where compass do not work. Since the island is not mapped (and there are unmapped islands in the real world) this could very easy be a lost specie and Hurley just heard a sound that seemed like his name. There are lots of animals making noises that seam to be words in a language. The smoke is very good thought and I bet there is something really simple behind it. Because until now it appeared in front of two people and did nothing. Remember season one where i think Loke was the one that stood in front of it and nothing happened to him, just that the camera did not show the smoke, only Loke. The others wore grading a gate with Dharma sign on it, but when Said opened it he discovered it was just the mountain. Why? This is a good question. Now knowing that the island has a reversed polarity property, then why people are drown there but and no one else can find them? This two things go head to head. If the Island is drawing things to it then many ships and planes would have eventually got there. If the Island would be invisible it should reject things. But it couldn’t be that invisible, because it is very large. It’s not that small that a satellite could not see it. Does it move? I don’t think so. There are islands that float on water and shift position, but no volcanic ones do. So my theory is that everything is just a big misunderstanding. All will be revealed in the end. The plane did crash because of the magnetism and people just crashed and wore not frozen and stuff. They crashed and hoped to be rescued. In the mean time they stumbled over some peoples project who did not Wat to be found so they played tricks on them. All equipment they have is very old, so they are LOST (away from the rest of the world) there for some time. Don’t forget the other that is the daughter of Russeau. People that try to interpret everything are just burning their mind. The coincidence is not that huge. It happened to me to run into people that know people that I know. Basically 90% of the people I know from a place or another, know other people that I know. The world is not that big you know. We usually spin in a specific class of people and let’s not forget since they all got on the same plane they wore all in the same time for more or less, some even wore born there. It’s Australia. Who knows history must know they are not that Manny. Coincidence s happen a lot. If we think someone is guiding us, then it must mean we are not living our lives. And if they wore selected then why did half the passengers die? If I would select a bunch of people I would just get a private jet and send then free tickets for a trip. Not to many people would ask to many questions. Oh, about Loke. He can walk because he is not really sick any more. Lots oh people paralyzed got to walk again, but they needed a reason to do it, and being between the remaining of a plane in fire seeing people dieing next to you is a good reason. The mind is the biggest mystery. For instance why a lot of people have a hard time to get to work, but when they are there do a grate job. I for one don’t want to get on my ass and work, but when a customer calls for a stupid simple stuff to do, I get the reason to work and do even 20 hours of work after I start. So there’s no mystery there, and don’t even think to ask why he could not walk when he got near the plane, because after siting in a chair paralyzed for years your mussels have temporary “failures” until they regenerate. I think in the next season there will be a bunch of turn overs, but in the end all will come to light. The plot of the movie is very interesting, but it is not so SF like some people think of.
fyi, 7418880 is not the number on the system dail in the pearl hatch. u might wanna watch that again
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WOW thanks Marian for your input to us all. Reading it was very interesting and my view on the actuall island itself has changed.
Anyone got any ideas on whats going to happen to micheal and walt now that they are sailing away????? thanks
if they were frozen, why didnt they just take the children before hand? but then how does jack fall in hte middle of the woods unharmed? again back to the four toed staue….anyone?
A bit on why Desmond didn’t make it off the island and Walt and Michael may.
Basically the magnet field of the island is going to cause the compass to point along the magnetic field lines.
See the second pic in the link below for an example.
http://www.phy6.org/Education/wfldline.html
Or a cool little Java app to simluate what the compass would be doing.
http://www.walter-fendt.de/ph11e/mfbar.htm
Now looking at the first link and substituting the island for earth if Desmond left from the bottom right hand side and headed ‘due west’ (as he said) then he would be pointing the boat to the inside of the arc and thus do a big loop right back to the island (the magentic north side of the island).
However, if one was to start on the bottom left side and head 325 degrees (Michael and Walt), a little more than due West. They would be pointing the boat to the outside of the arc.
The boat would still follow the arc but do it in a direction away from the island. Once they get far enough away from the island the magnetic field from the island will be so weak that the compass will begin picking up the Earth’s magnetic field and they will begin following that. Or perhaps they will run into something else out there before the Earth’s magnetic field kick’s in; only the writers know.
A side note: if they did go around the island too far and ventured back on the right side, then they would be in a similiar position to Desmond and start pointing the boat inward.
In the Episode “Two for the Road” at exactly 1:51 minutes you pause it and then u see the police cars..the top of the police cars. u see a number written on it..the single car has the number 04 then if u see the order from further down ull notice .. 08 , 15, 16, 23 , and on the other side a car with number 42…
your coming up with these theories of they have been frozen when quite simply they have had a plane crash i think it would be stupid to say tehy have beebn frozen and put on the isalnd to repopulate the world. i think that the bearings that the “others” gave micheal are wrong as if he made it bak to land he could tell them where they are and at least help them into where abouts theyare
again.. anyone have theories about the four toed statue
4 toed statue? wellmy theory is that the man henry gale spoke about “who was a great man but an unforgiving one” i think the other made a statue of him to celebrate him and when they finished someone walked past and said “you missed a toe” so they smashed it all back down LOL. either that or the great man has freaky deaky toe syndrome.
AS IF IT ISNT OBVIOUS PEOPLES????
the pilot was taken by a giraffe, the giraffes also stampede through the trees making them move, and if you’ve ever seen a giraffe fart, poo fragments actually become airborne…… enter the black cloud!!! (you can google that one!)
the hatch was originally run by these killer giraffes who also told charlie to stop using smack because unless he had enough for everyone, it was rude not to share. Also the giraffes built the statue, but didn’t want to give their identity away, hence the four toes! (google it, its true!) There is a rumor floating around the hurly may be a giraffe studying the group from inside, im not sure about this one but I suppose the giraffes neck could be wrapped around himself, and THAT is why hurly is so fat and cant lose weight? Not sure tho…….. giraffes rule!!!!!!
OH YEAH! and the others maybe pigmies that stand on each others shoulders to like like real people!
Thanks a lot Rob you’ve ruined the series for me now… no point watching. I thought it could have been a giraffe……
nice theories, i read them all.
But did anyone think of Locke and eko?
They both saw the black smoke, and now they are probably dead?
and i think that the ‘magnetic shield’ is now opened,(’cos they didn’t push the button) and they can all go home!
haha
I for one believe the plane was brought down by more than just a large magnetic force as incase any of you were unaware modern aircraft are manufactured using only a small proportion of magnetic materials, certainly not enough to pull a plane out the sky in one piece.
I believe you may be onto something when you say the plane was placed on the island… Think about it!!!! the plane was at cruse altitude and cruse speed, it dropped 32,000 ft, from the debris spread across the island you would have to assume that the plane broke up at 10,000 ft or more, from that height the three plane sections would have an impact velocity exceeding mach .7 at least!!! THERE IS NO WAY THEY COULD HAVE SURVIVED… how is it that the nose section of the plane survived the impact with almost no sign of dammage?
Ill leave you with that
i liked the theory, but it was refutated a bit by the second season finale..and there are holes in it.. Do ou remember the misterious illness that has been talked about since the begining, but has not yet been revealed anything about it except its simptoms? to me the so called incident is no more than a bio hazard threat..RESIDENT EVIL anyone? i think the Swann Hatch is one of the Spoils of the research station..an experiment that cannot be shut down peacefully, much like a nuclear reactor..and the Black smoke another spoil, or a defense mechanism to kill any intruder, and so avoid any further contamination of the outside world… the Others are to me a bunch of mercenaries to protect the rest of the Scientist personel left in the island, being Henry gale the Head of both the mercs and the Scientists…as for the black smoke i think it doesn’t attack lock and Ecko, because they are of all people in the island the guys with more faith, im destiny, and a higher power/purpose.. the others say that they are the good guys only to manipulate ppl, or because they are the more mentally stable ones, who knows whats happening, and so not dangerous, cuz when under stress the human being is quite a dangerous creature, and the losties are just that..hell they killed more ppl in the island than any of the Others….thats my view…
It’s unlikely that the plane crash was staged, considering they show the tail end of the plane crashing into the water on the other side of the island. It would be difficult to stage a plane crash split in two especially when the “subjects” of the tail end of the plane would have the risk of drowning.
Also, there is a lot of reference in the show about healing (Locke’s legs, Bernard’s Wife, Jack’s Ex-wife, etc). One that hasn’t been talked about much, and particularly interested me was the part about Eko investigating the death (and resurrection) of the psychic’s daughter after she drowned. She was dead for a day and came back with insight about Eko’s brother (which also delayed Eko’s trip to LA so that he would be on that Oceanic flight). Perhaps this will happen again with another character (Libby perhaps)? I think Libby’s character was a little too significant to have such a quick and cheap death like that.
Great theory…but the fact that we saw other people living outside of the island makes us wounder - could it be that after they were frozen - now is the time to wake up and see what world is left.
Desmonds g-friend might be the wake-up call for all.
Michael and Walt need to go in one direction only - 325…Could it be that they will see the dead world in next seson?
What ever it is - i`m sure that all answers will be answered.
What ive noticed is this “we are the good guys” thing he said. If you remember in particular the tail section crash on the otherside of the island where the children and also other adult survivers were taken by the others via a list. It seems that these people were taken because they were “good souls” (good people).
I mean in the case of Mr echo, he was taken but resisted and killed them. Then later on back on the normal beach he goes into the hatch to see the captured “other” asks for his forgiveness and to tell him he is back on the right track. I was thinking the tried to take him as they thought he was a good soul (i guess childeren automatically qualify as there young and innocnet).
Also back in the hatch with the captured survivor, Lock asks him why he came here and he says to get him (lock) because he was one of the good ones, which lock replies good what.
This ties in where at the end of season 2 he goes “were the good guys”.
Even in the episode “two for the road” when anna lousia and the captured “other” have that conversation before she holds the gun up to him. Where he says goodwin thought he could change her and that she was misunderstood (anna lousia).
And if you look at the flashblacks most of them havent been exactly saints. Dont know where this is going but just an idea. appologies for rabbling on, lol. too late now
Hey dudes. When is the third s. coming?
why the hell would they be cryogenically frozen??? if it was all staged…. then they probably faked the turbulance, gas masks fall from the roof of the plane, and they were knocked out by…. GAS!!!!!! (choose your type!)
THEY BETTER EXPLAIN EVERYTHING>.< and whats with libby being at mental place too >.< crazy mind games….
we definately need some answers! did he get his brother out of jail ??? is the prison blueprint tattoo on his back to scale ?? any ideas people?????
The magnetic energy theory would also help explain why rose isn’t sick… episode 219–> the magic healer in Australia told her that she just had to find her place, and he referred to the power being geographical/ magnetic
How about the fact that a lot of the people on the island have names of great philosophers? Locke (John Locke), Hume (David Hume) Sayid (Edward Said, different spelling, but pronounced the same)
What about the US Army Knife taken by Anna L when she killed that other?
i dont know did you notice that:every famous actor in the lost is playing 2 times.for example desmonds dharma partner,who found him,he was a intelligence officer.and the doctor of hurley,at the hospital,do you remember?:)i think we will see him again;what about that?
and i think the desmonds girlfriend is a scientist;she has been called from the guys from antartica(or s.w. cold) because she is working about worlds electromagnetism.i do not think that call includes any connections about desmond…..i’m sorry about my english:D
going back to the numbers, alot seems to come back to them. (4 8 15 16 23 42). the plane that crashed was flight 815 and 42 people survived. and i’m sure that the other numbers are relevant somehow i just haven’t worked out where yet.
4+8+15+16+23+42=108
flight 815 gate 23
8+15=23
hang with me
15+16+23-8-4=42
a stretch I know
perhaps these numbers also have relation to the 6 stations that are on the island
try to relate each number to a sign, (i.e. swan shark etc)
haven’t had the time to think more deeply but i will try to think over this matter
4+8-15+16-23+42= 42 hmmm
still just random adding and subtracting
but still just ideas to think about
perhaps other mathematical formulas and +-/* deducing other parallels in the series
I have been reading the past comments and was thinking about the ‘end of the world’ theory, that the survivors are on the island to re-populate the world……and someone said it can’t be true because we see desmond’s old bird alive and those other foren geezas…….well what if desmond’s girl is also on another ‘island’ or sumin similar…..and the men that phone her are flyin around the ruinned world, just like they can do in the matrix film……….
…….just a ramble though…….safe
sorry guys but i think dere is not one totally correct theory… ponit number 1, if the button pressing was just some thing for them to concentrate on, why when the button is not pressed those symbols appear, also were the scientists but something happened to make them the raggy type, before they were in that baby place but now they were in the forest, also the island is not the only thing left because the food came from the air from a plane from somwhere else…. to know the theory all you have to do is watch the series its all there, all you need to know!
Exellent blog ppl, and theories.
I just want to touch certain issues that I feel werent discussed enough or not at all. Let’s talk about the cable on the beach. Could there be an underwater hatch where some of the animald studies took place? And where does it lead to on the island? Saeed follow it to a point where he got trapped by Rousseau. When Hurley follows it, he’s stopped before reaching the end by Rousseau again, who confirms to him that he’s not crazy. But we dont see where it starts or ends. Is it a power supply line for the underwater hatch? Does it lead to the dharma island headquarters? In the first season, apart from the smoke monster and the hatch, the cable was the 3rd most intriguing item found on the island. And, if not for the smoke monster looming,It would have been the ONE thing I would have tried to follow to see if it lead to any type of help or shelter..Any thoughts?
The electromagnetic anomaly.
I think there are other spots on earth similar to the island, but too remote to harvest and use its energy.(bermuda triangle, too deep. High up on the Himmalayas etc…)The Island was a fluke discovery by Hanso who was exploring the south pole and witnessed first hand the electromagnetic release (the glow could be mistaken for northern/southern lights) we saw at the end of season 2 and I believe Windmore may be financing the project with him. They hired scientists and found a way to harvest the electromagnetic energy of the island by keeping it at bay (in the concrete/steel hull of the hatch) in a dome-like fashion and keeping under control its impulsion by releasing its energy in a controlled fashion every 108 minutes, checked on by the orbiting satellite AND a hot air balloon!. That would make the island undetectable and unchartable and could explain why it aint mapped. I also think that if it can bring down a jumbo jet at 35 thousand feet, it can attract perhaps other “things”, maybe of the 4 toed kind?????????
My Lost theory
THe scientists there realized the potential for all kinds of physical, psychological,anatomical and parapsychological experimentation with animal, human and yes, physical matters that have electromagnetic fields. I believe the “incident” was a dispute that split the good scientists vs the bad ones, or ones that were studying more delicate subjects such as mind control and what not. Maybe the army had something to do with some of the projects. Something happened and the buttons werent pressed, and they were not ready for it. 4 THINGS HAPPENED.
1 Some scientists died, splitting the group in half definately
2 A hot air ballon crashed!
3 A cessna full of heroin crashed!
4 The 4 toed ppl came.
The real Others
By far the most far fetched, but why a statue with 4 toed feet the size of yankee stadium? Perhaps a humanoid like species that gave some technological advances (smoke monster security system etc)in exchange for 42 patients in a dharma mental institution? put them in a plane with regular ppl, crash the planes but leave only the 42 ppl needed alive. The flashbacks are just what the survivor’s were experiencing as mental illnesses in their pre crash life. (Jack’s god complex, Hurley’s fascination with numbers,Kate having the feeling of being chased and followed,Sawyers tragic witnessing of his fathers suicide etc….)They are slowly starting to remember things that will all link them up to the institution we saw libby, hurley ,HUrley’s imaginary buddy dave and the guy that greeted desmond on the island at. How this will unfold, well, ask JJ and Damon!
Wow I have to say there are some great theories here. Still watching series 2 here in ye olde England we are only ¼ the way through. WE ARE LIKE A YEAR BEHIND :(, but then i found the world of abc.com. Watched all of it on ABC.com from America
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Like many of you have said, SO many questions, so little answers. It seems to me that every episode we get more questions than answers, but I’m not complaining, love the show and this link has kept me occupied for hours, while re watching the episode for al the little subtle hints,
I just noticed on the episode where hurly is drinking milk in his dream there is a picture of Walt on the carton with the words missing, if I am correct.
Also how does this smoke move the trees, and why does it make all the animal and mechanical noises, is there a machine hidden within?
As mentioned before, where is there a darmha lab doors but when open reveals a mountain. hmmmm more concrete poring like in the other bunker ????
Why would a plane be affected by a magnetic field, are they not contructed from mostly aluminium, which (if my physics knowledge is correct) isn’t affect my magnetic fields.
What happened to the horse that Kate kept seeing, or have I missed something somewhere ??? >_<
Really cant wait for series three to come in the US, I’ll be watching it from the UK a day late on ABC.com, then hopefully download of Itunes later.
I read somewhere that the third series is going to concentrate more on the OTHERS, and their back grounds. Hopefully we might get some answers, cos if I don’t get some soon I might just burs. OH NO BANG
P.S. I love the giraffe theory, made me laugh, I’m hoping there will be some giraffes on the island, is would make lost such a nicer place.
Wow, Thanks Jeff 5/29/2006 2:09 AM for pointing out that one of the 2 scientists in the finale of season 2 was “Jack”. But not really… I don’t think it is the same person, maybe he just played him for fun, maybe not! could be a Jack from a different dimention, or a different time? Also, no one seems to have much to say about the 4 toed statue? Aliens, other dimension, other time? I wouldn’t mind reading some theories on that. Defenitely the whole magnetic poles thing seems right on, but then again, as mentionned by a fellow fan, these shifts tend to occur quite regularly, to no major effects, or “cataclysms”. Now, I think the Dharma innitiative has built the proper equipment and tools to harvest its power. I love how Desmond also mentions to Jack in part 1 of the season 2 finale that they are all stuck in a snow globe. As hard as they try, they cannot escape the island.
This island brought them together for a reason, and these characters particularly for a purpose. There is no Cryogenic freezing. Peneloppe and her father are obviously major players in this show, and am positive the developpments will be great regarding them.
I wish we would have gotten more questions answered by the end of season 2, but these writers love to keep us on the edge of our seats and in full suspense, and I don’t know why anyone would complain that season 2 was not as good as the first one.
Now, what will be of the hatch, of Locke, Ecko, and Desmond? I am dissapointed with John Locke’s change of heart on the whole pushing the button thing. So add up the numbers like some of you mentionned, and you get 108, the amount of minutes before the next push of the button, isn’t that also the amount in hundreds of million Hugo won? Libby’s involvement with Desmond, Michael’s betrayal, four toed statue, the other’s true intentions, Walt’s abilities?
There is so much unresolved, but they sure set us up for a great season 3. The 3rd season of a show is usually quite important. Since the first season sets all up, then the second one explains a bit, and its usually where a lot of new viewers jump in, season 3 pretty much decides the faith of the series. I defenitely think that we are in for quite a ride. I know this will be really interesting, and I cant wait till October comes… I’m a little worried about this whole 7 episodes, and then a break, to pick up again only in February or so.
Let me start off by saying that this is the first lost blog I’ve ever visited, so it has been interesting and fun reading everything. I’d also like to propose that people who can’t even grasp the complexities of 2nd grade english no longer be allowed to post.
Probably the best point I can contribute related to the big theory discussion…. is that people should realize it was written (or at least posted) in the middle of the 2nd season, so most of the show specifics come from the first season and beginning of 2nd season.
I definitely agree with the person who pointed out that since it is a TV show, there really cannot be a solution as complicated as this to explain. I’m not on board with the cryogenics, repopulaing the earth, or collective conciousness. There will, however, definitely be curveballs and questions continuously even through the series finale.
I think that the theory is still really cool though, and definitely contains some relevant information I probaly would’ve never known; the genesis of the name Alvar Hanzo, the satelite orbiting every 108 minutes, the details of the comic book. Among others, these are testments to the brilliance of the creators.
I’d also like to mention something I caought from the show that no one else has pointed out. HENRY GALE in the first season. He is in the ‘Numbers’ episode when Hurley is visting the mental institute to talk to the guy who repeats the numbers over and over. They were showing all the bad luck Hurley had been having, when he is at the reception desk there is a custodian on top of a ladder working on a light or something. Hurley says to him something like “Dude, could you not do that now”. The custodian is Henry.
Like I said, I haven’t looked at other sites, so I don’t know. Maybe everyone already knows this, or maybe this Henry spotting is already laughed at for not being true. Just give me some feedback, maybe someone has a screenshot of it to post.