Yeah, I was kinda wondering the same thing, but I just chalk it up to other unanswered questions on “Lost”.
Yep, I wondered about this, too. Maybe “he” has rules about how The Others can interact with the Lostaways, but that doesn’t seem likely. They had no problems sneaking into the Tailies’ camp and making off with 9 of them. And Ethan kidnapped Claire, almost killed Charlie, and did kill either Scott or Steve (I honestly don’t rememeber which).
I wonder if this is just part of the game they are playing or experiment they are performing.
Well, we know that the Dharma Initiative is “following in the footsteps of visionaries such as B.F. Skinner.” It seems pretty clear that the hatches and whatnot are all elaborate sets for operant conditioning. How many levels of twisted behaviorist experiments are there?
We know that danger stressors are a huge part of the “research,” as far as the button-pushing is concerned; since Bluebeard and his crew seem to be indulging in a certain amount of mummery when it comes to their threatening actions, part of me suspects that the whole thing is an elaborate, ridiculously radical exercise in behavior modification.
Most of the Lostaways have a heaping share of crippling neuroses and antisocial behaviours.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the final reveal is that it’s all a totally Philip K. Dick constructed reality designed for them to work through their shit in some sort of high-tech psychopharmaceutical VR group therapy program. (I can well imagine the howls of outrage should that turn out to be the case, though. Heh.)
Of course, if it is a constructed reality, “dying” might be subjectively experienced as waking up in an isolation chamber with an IV drip and a nasty case of cotton-mouth.
…and hearing quasi-hallucinatory howls of indignation from beyond the other side of the fourth wall.
The list of names includes details which (as far as I know) no one on the island knows. Sawyer’s real name. Kate’s last name. Hugo’s first name. This couldn’t have happened through an interrogation of Walt, or through any kind of investigation on the island I can think of. They know these guys’ names by some independent means.
Ahem…Hurley had the passenger manifest. You have to show ID at the airport check-in, so the names on the manifest have to match up with the passengers’ real names. Therefore - anyone who saw the manifest coughEthancough would know the real names, and could match them up by process of elimination if nothing else.
It was a manifest that gave Ethan away, after all, and I think Hurley had shown it around when he was first checking it off, unless I’m confused/mistaken.
I just happened to think… All this talk about the Hanso Foundations research into “Remote Viewing” comes down to a few video camera’s and monitors in a single room…
Let’s just hope the rest of the projects are a little more “cutting edge”.
Possible numbers spot - were there 12 doses of vaccine ? To be taken every nine days ? 9x12 = 108, does this mean there is an air drop every 108 days ?
Ponster had a theory this was a reconcilation episode, Claire and Charlie joining hands, the look between Charlie and Locke, Sawyer giving Sayid (his torturer) a gun, Sawyer confiding in Jack …
I don’t think Ethan got a good enough look at the manifest to tell anything from it. I still think it’s Cindy-the-flight-attendant who helped them build that list. She did disappear awfully quietly.
Yeah, sure… but you have to enjoy the irony of those that promote “Remote Viewing” with the purchase of video tapes for those unable to attend in person.
Also, in S1 she set up the “black smoke” in order to kidnap Aaron in hopes The Others would do a trade. So, no wonder Michael is following suit, as that worked out so well for her. :rolleyes:
You didn’t forget “The Artist Formerly Known as Henry Gale,” did you? That was last week, but my favorite to date.
