DON'T READ ANY FURTHER IF YOU ARE NOT UP TO DATE WITH "LOST"...
Here is a go at a first draft at a list of points to be covered/explained that would be required of any unifying theory of ABC's "Lost" -
- Electromagnetism (North "moving", comments in the orientation movie)
- Black Rock
- The small plane (how did it end up there, if the island is in the Pacific)
- The numbers - 4 8 15 16 23 42 (lottery/hatch/computer/other occurences)
- The visions (wet/backwards Walt, Jack's dad, the horse?)
- The "monster"/s (Smokie, grabbie, Polar bear, clunky walking machine)
- The "others" (why they infiltrated the groups, how they were immediately ready to do so (even equipped with a list of names) and why they abduct...)
- Make sure it does not contradict official producer/writer statements that the setting is (a) DEFINITELY NOT "Purgatory" and the characters are 100% alive, and (b) they have been strongly influenced by Stephen King ("The Stand" and "The Langoliers" particularly spring to mind)
Did I forget/miss anything?
My initial thoughts on the island was that it was a dumping ground for failed genetic experiments, but we haven't had anything odd like the Polar Bear really since then...although the "others" could be modified humans (life extension/psychic ability extension experiments?)...
My 2nd theory (I've not heard anyone else mention this) is that the Dharma initiative/Hanzo were building machines (maybe with another goal in mind) that ended up interfering with probability, resulting in a minor, island-based version of the "Heart of Gold" where the extremely improbable has a habit of happening...doesn't explain everything, but it sits comfortably ontop of most of the above...
Another theory I like (although not one of my own making) is that the island is a man-made construct that can move, the numbers that are being typed in are to maintain the longitude and latitude, the current arrangement is an empty area in the Pacific ocean (but another arrangement, interestingly, is a spot of ocean off the coast of Nigeria which would help explain how the little plane made it onto the island (and odd things like the Polar Bear)…the EM field generators that were mentioned in the induction video support, and also explain the compass issues that were mentioned early on (Sayeed saying "North just moved"), it would also explain the French woman’s statement "This Island has a security system" (holograms and/or nanoparticles for the visions and monster/s)…however, it doesn't explain "Black Rock" nor the spooky stuff regarding the numbers…so not perfect...and no-one was talking about Nanoparticle swarms twenty years ago to my knowledge...
Perhaps a combination of the three?
4 comments:
Fink,
You forgetting the blatant Peter Pan riffs:
The 'clockwork monster'/the monster
The waterborn pirates/others
The Lost Boys/The (younger)others
I suspect Locke will go 'bad' at some point as well if the contrasts with Mr Echo keep on being laid on as thick it would appear.
I remember reading somewhere that the numbers equalled the dimensions of a tesseract (not sure about spelling).
Good theories about island moving though.
If it is SK orientated (nice pun don't you think) as well there will need to be a major baddy person or force somewhere down the line ala Randall Flagg. SK also likes his Cthulu mythos although a hint of that would be too much to hope for.
I do hope we don't get to the stage of having somebody forgetting to push the button in the last shot of the season and then the show ends. No more daft cockteases pleeZ JJ!
Oh the Peter Pan parallels I love, but I thought it was just a nod to the parent company... ;)
Clockwork monster, interesting, hadn't heard that before! :)
And don't tempt fate with the computer thing...it's gonna happen now!!! :(
So the question now is ... if the Walt Abducting Others didn't send Ethan who did, if beardy blokes momentary pause is anything to go?
Interestingly, I came away with the feeling that the Walt others are a bunch of misguided but well meaning nuttas. They could have killed the survivors at any time but didn't. Now nutty Jack is going to force the issue.
I do like the way Jack has progressively cracked up this season. :)
Also going back to unifying theories is there some sort of cosmic manichean game going on between light and dark on the Island involving communities and the individual?
Think back to Locke the backgammon table, the corpses with the mysterious stones in their pouches found early in season 1, the fact the show was sort of based on a game show... :O
It's definitely looking more and more like "The Stand"...I loved "Mr Friendly"'s "Interesting Theory" comment to the "Ethan" question...made me laugh out loud! ;)
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