# Lost 2.23:  "Live Together, Die Alone" \[Season Finale\] Open Spoilers

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**Created:** [May 24, 2006, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-2-23-live-together-die-alone-season-finale-open-spoilers/358024 "2006-05-24T13:20:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![The\_Chao\_Goes\_Mu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_chao_goes_mu/32/3191_2.png) [@The\_Chao\_Goes\_Mu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Chao_Goes_Mu)\
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I’m going to assume, for now, that they were Brazilian. Reason? Brazilian researchers occupy Antarctica (if that is, in fact, where they were) while there are currently no Portuguese researcher on the continent, IRL.

See [here](http://www.worldstatesmen.org/Antarctica.html) and [here](http://vpr.tamu.edu/antarctic/workshop/files/WP_Weber.doc) (this is a WORD document)

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**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2006, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-2-23-live-together-die-alone-season-finale-open-spoilers/358024/322 "2006-05-26T13:03:31Z")

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> [@Omniscient](#):
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> Here’s a nifty little WAG for you. They built the hatches into preexisting caves. The eliminated the need to excavate, all they had to do was fortify them and install facilities, and it provided for a more durable, secure and climate controled environment than traditional construction.

The hatches also seem to be there for concealment - particularly from the air.

-Joe

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**Post date:** [May 26, 2006, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-2-23-live-together-die-alone-season-finale-open-spoilers/358024/323 "2006-05-26T13:15:06Z")

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> [@Cat Jones](#):
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> Beacuse he was waiting for a replacement … “Are you him?” his first question to Desmond, a replacement who never came, Dharma wern’t keeping their side of the bargain/honouring their side of the contract so why should he ?

Yeah, I just figured Kelvin had decided to give up on waiting for his long-overdue replacements. But that does raise a question I’ve been thinking about for a while: obviously the Dharma initiative is still operating in some capacity, what with the food drops. So why did they never send in more people to man the Swan station, or pick up the ones who were there? How can they even be sure those they’re dropping food to are still alive?

> [@Sam Stone](#):
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> Anyway… Are we assuming the hatch was destroyed? I don’t think so. There was no explosion. Just that blinding light _from the sky_, and the hatch door falling from the sky after everything stopped.

I agree. I don’t know how to explain the hatch door, but there’s no way they killed off Locke, Eko, and Desmond all in the same episode. Plus, as I pointed out earlier, it looked like Charlie was still down there with them when whatever happened happened.

This is just a hunch, but I think those who are saying it was the failure to push the button, and not Desmond’s turning of the key, that caused the phenomenon we saw are barking up the wrong tree. As Desmond turned the key, the screen went white–and _then_ we cut to outside, and the sky lit up and that loud noise was heard. Yes, there could have been a time shift back a few seconds in that cutaway, but it just seems to me like the light/noise was intended to be the “system termination” itself.

> [@](#):
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> As for the plane crash, maybe when you enter the numbers after a system failure everything returns to normal slowly. So the airplane was caught in whateer the anomaly was, and torn apart, but when Desmond shut it down properly (instead of aborting), the plane’s parts were simply lowered to the ground slowly. Thus the survivors.

It’s possible, but we’d be moving into the territory of some real pseudoscience (force fields or something.) If whatever was in the Swan station was generating a plain 'ol magnetic field, that’s going to pull the plane to the ground faster than gravity alone would, whether it’s decreasing with time or not.

> [@](#):
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> And it seems to me that Desmond’s girlfriend knows all about this. She knows what will happen if you don’t enter the numbers. She’s hired people to scan for anomalies for years, waiting for an ‘incident’ so she could pinpoint the location of the island. And why would she do that? Because _her dad_ arranged to have Desmond stranded on the island. She figured that out, and wanted to find him. Libby worked for girlfriend’s dad, and made sure that Desmond would have a sailboat for this ‘race’ - and that he would be grabbed and dragged to the island.

This makes me wonder about the nature of the race–weren’t there other competitors? And if they were following the same route, they’d be dragged to the island too.

> [@John Mace](#):
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> If we assume that The Others are at least peripherally involved with Dharma, then “each one of us was brought here for a reason”, as the official “Lost” website has been telling us all season.

True, I just tend to chalk that quote up to some vague idea of “fate”, rather than some actual live person or organization planning the passenger list and flight crash. It is Locke speaking, after all. 😉

Besides, if Kelvin was trying to cause the plane crash, that was certainly an inefficient way to go about it. Why wouldn’t he just let Desmond go outside like he wanted to, and Kelvin could just stay in and not push the button?

And I know this was a couple of pages back, but would dental fillings really have been ripped out of people’s heads? I know Desmond said at the beginning of the season that when he walked past that wall his fillings hurt, but in real life aren’t dental fillings made out of non-magnetic materials?

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**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2006, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-2-23-live-together-die-alone-season-finale-open-spoilers/358024/324 "2006-05-26T13:52:24Z")

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> [@Stereo Isomer](#):
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> Yeah, I just figured Kelvin had decided to give up on waiting for his long-overdue replacements. But that does raise a question I’ve been thinking about for a while: obviously the Dharma initiative is still operating in some capacity, what with the food drops. So why did they never send in more people to man the Swan station, or pick up the ones who were there? How can they even be sure those they’re dropping food to are still alive?

4 8 15 16 23 42 [execute]

-Joe

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**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2006, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-2-23-live-together-die-alone-season-finale-open-spoilers/358024/325 "2006-05-26T14:01:31Z")

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> [@Stereo Isomer](#):
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> And I know this was a couple of pages back, but would dental fillings really have been ripped out of people’s heads? I know Desmond said at the beginning of the season that when he walked past that wall his fillings hurt, but in real life aren’t dental fillings made out of non-magnetic materials?

It was kind of a joke but kind of not. My point was that a magnet that can pull apart a plane that’s 8+ miles away would be so insanely powerful close to the source that I’m pretty sure anything metal on the island would be nothing but a flattened disc pressed up against the outside of the hatch.

As for the fillings…I think Desmond is probably too young, but didn’t old-fashioned “silver” fillings have mercury in them? As a kid I seem to remember pulling a blob of mercury around with a magnet.

So…mostly a joke, but the power of an electromagnet is immense at short ranges. Your typical maglock runs off of about 300ma of current at 12VDC. So, like, 4 Watts.

Oh, and I know that **silenus** was joking before, but if it’s a bigass magnet that can be turned on and off…I’m calling it an electromagnet until someone can prove me wrong.

-Joe

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**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2006, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-2-23-live-together-die-alone-season-finale-open-spoilers/358024/326 "2006-05-26T14:05:27Z")

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> [@Stereo Isomer](#):
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> It’s possible, but we’d be moving into the territory of some real pseudoscience (force fields or something.) If whatever was in the Swan station was generating a plain 'ol magnetic field, that’s going to pull the plane to the ground faster than gravity alone would, whether it’s decreasing with time or not.

Well, _something_ pulled that hatch lid into the sky. If the hatch didn’t explode, then some kind of force did it.

We’re assuming that the sole source of the magnetic field is in the hatch. Maybe the magnetic field in the hatch is just a way of connecting to or activating a much bigger force from outside. Like tuning a radio, or signalling with a beacon. So the airplane wouldn’t have to have been pulled down towards the hatch, it simply got caught in whatever force was activated when the hatch started up its magnetic field.

That would also explain the inverse square law problem.

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**Post date:** [May 26, 2006, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-2-23-live-together-die-alone-season-finale-open-spoilers/358024/327 "2006-05-26T14:10:16Z")

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Yes, the numbers are still being pressed, although no longer by a team of two people. (And weren’t they supposed to be relieved after six months? Maybe that’s why Kelvin was so eager to leave when Desmond showed up. No one had relieved him in so long that he was sick of it.) But the Pearl station was abandoned. And the station that Sayid found near the yurts was just a stone wall (perhaps a cave collapsed?). So something happened on the island that caused the Hanso Foundation to evacuate. My guess is that we’re going to learn more in the next season about the foundation’s activities elsewhere and why they aren’t on the island.

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**Post date:** [May 26, 2006, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-2-23-live-together-die-alone-season-finale-open-spoilers/358024/328 "2006-05-26T14:23:54Z")

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> [@Antonius Block](#):
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> The fact that it’s daylight and mountainous in the snowy final scene (which should be taking place during December according to the “September 22nd crash” schedule), but nighttime at Penelope’s home (presumably in the UK), suggests that our Portuguese-speaking friends are most likely in Antarctica, IMHO.

Locke said they had been there around 65-66 days, which would make it around November 26-27.

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**Post date:** [May 26, 2006, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-2-23-live-together-die-alone-season-finale-open-spoilers/358024/329 "2006-05-26T14:26:04Z")

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As for why Ms. Desmond had a team looking for her lover, if she knew he was in the race and one night he disappeared. With her money she could have hired a team of people to investigate the days he went missing looking for anything that might explain it - earthquake, tsunami etc. And they would turn up an odd electromagnetic anomaly that occurred around the time he disappeared.

And if that is the only thing they could find, then she would be crazy enough in love to pay 2 guys to sit in some arctic-like region and watch for similar events.

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**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2006, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-2-23-live-together-die-alone-season-finale-open-spoilers/358024/330 "2006-05-26T14:26:59Z")

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> [@Dewey Finn](#):
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> Yes, the numbers are still being pressed, although no longer by a team of two people. (And weren’t they supposed to be relieved after six months? Maybe that’s why Kelvin was so eager to leave when Desmond showed up. No one had relieved him in so long that he was sick of it.) But the Pearl station was abandoned. And the station that Sayid found near the yurts was just a stone wall (perhaps a cave collapsed?). So something happened on the island that caused the Hanso Foundation to evacuate. My guess is that we’re going to learn more in the next season about the foundation’s activities elsewhere and why they aren’t on the island.

I’m pretty sure that the Others’ Hatch was strictly a ruse.

Keep in mind that that hatch was guarded by the only two guys with guns at their camp.

Total BS.

-Joe

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**Author:** ![Stereo\_Isomer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Stereo\_Isomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stereo_Isomer)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2006, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-2-23-live-together-die-alone-season-finale-open-spoilers/358024/331 "2006-05-26T14:30:36Z")

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> [@Merijeek](#):
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> 4 8 15 16 23 42 [execute]
> 
> -Joe

True, it’s possible that a record of the numbers being entered is being transmitted off the island. But if that’s how Dharma knows whether anyone is still there or not, that proves they don’t care whether the button gets pressed, since if they detected an interval of greater than 108 minutes where the button wasn’t pressed, they wouldn’t be able to do anything about it.

> [@Sam Stone](#):
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> Well, something pulled that hatch lid into the sky. If the hatch didn’t explode, then some kind of force did it.
> 
> We’re assuming that the sole source of the magnetic field is in the hatch. Maybe the magnetic field in the hatch is just a way of connecting to or activating a much bigger force from outside. Like tuning a radio, or signalling with a beacon. So the airplane wouldn’t have to have been pulled down towards the hatch, it simply got caught in whatever force was activated when the hatch started up its magnetic field.
> 
> That would also explain the inverse square law problem.

That’s an interesting thought. I hadn’t thought of the possibility that something other than an explosion forced the door into the air.

> [@Dewey Finn](#):
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> ```
> Yes, the numbers are still being pressed, although no longer by a team of two people. (And weren't they supposed to be relieved after six months? Maybe that's why Kelvin was so eager to leave when Desmond showed up. No one had relieved him in so long that he was sick of it.) But the Pearl station was abandoned. And the station that Sayid found near the yurts was just a stone wall (perhaps a cave collapsed?). So something happened on the island that caused the Hanso Foundation to evacuate. My guess is that we're going to learn more in the next season about the foundation's activities elsewhere and why they aren't on the island.
> 
> ```

According to the Swan station orientation film, their stint was supposed to last 540 days (108 x 5), a little under a year and a half.

When Sayid opened the door and we saw the stone wall, I got the impression it was part of the hoax, just like the beard and the huts.

On preview, what Merijeek said.

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> [@Stereo Isomer](#):
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> That’s an interesting thought. I hadn’t thought of the possibility that something other than an explosion forced the door into the air.

Since we’re talking about a large/powerful EM force, is it possible that the built-up energy + whatever happens when you turn the key = [something like this?](http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8403771809815192897&q=magnet+gun) (Google video) Think of the the disjointed hatch door as the last ball bearing.

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**Post date:** [May 26, 2006, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-2-23-live-together-die-alone-season-finale-open-spoilers/358024/333 "2006-05-26T14:46:34Z")

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> [@Sam Stone](#):
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> Libby worked for girlfriend’s dad, and made sure that Desmond would have a sailboat for this ‘race’ - and that he would be grabbed and dragged to the island.

Girlfriend? You mean Penny (Penelope) the fiance who patiently waits for Desmond while he undertakes a long voyage? Man, you can make an epic poem about such a situation, no? 🙂 Throw in an obscure reference to the Collossus of Rhodes for good measure, and you have either an interesting revelation about the mystery, or just another curve-ball to throw off the audience.

Anyway, I’m certain Libby is working for someone, and it could well be Daddy Widmore Bucks. But it might be something even bigger, with Widmore being part of the Hanso Group. She stalked Desmond and then she stalked Hurley.

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**Post date:** [May 26, 2006, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-2-23-live-together-die-alone-season-finale-open-spoilers/358024/334 "2006-05-26T15:07:01Z")

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> [@Cervaise](#):
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> As far as we know, Desmond turned the key expecting to die, but in episode one we’ll cut to him in the crawlspace, slowly unsquinching his eyes and looking around, and then saying, “Aw, bollocks.”

Aw, bollocks, yerself. What show have _you_ been watching? They won’t show us that until at least episode three. Or later.

> [@Stereo Isomer](#):
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> Why does everyone assume the Others knew who was on the plane, or somehow planned who would be on the plane, and wanted to bring it down?

Because otherwise, the multiple overlapping coincidences of how they’ve all had contact with each other are staggeringly unlikely and weird. People want there to be _some_ logical connection holding everything together, and a Plot of Evil is the simplest McGuffin to provide that.

> [@Omniscient](#):
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> I’m pretty sure that was an old school computer which had the monitor and CPU built into the same cabinet.

No, it was an Apple II, which has a separate monitor. I think they might even be able to use a TV as a monitor…

dibs on that idea for next year, since nobody’s called it yet.

> [@ronincyberpunk](#):
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> As for why Ms. Desmond had a team looking for her lover, if she knew he was in the race and one night he disappeared. With her money she could have hired a team of people to investigate the days he went missing looking for anything that might explain it - earthquake, tsunami etc. And they would turn up an odd electromagnetic anomaly that occurred around the time he disappeared.

No, Kelvin was a good button-pushing Dharmite. No EMP incidents for Desmond; he just crashed in a storm.

> [@Merijeek](#):
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> I’m pretty sure that the Others’ Hatch was strictly a ruse.
> 
> Keep in mind that that hatch was guarded by the only two guys with guns at their camp.
> 
> Total BS.

That, and the fact that there was nothing behind it but hillside when Sayid opened the door.

> [@Stereo Isomer](#):
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> True, it’s possible that a record of the numbers being entered is being transmitted off the island.

How about the lack of a measureable EMP incident? Maybe the drops will stop now.

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**Post date:** [May 26, 2006, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-2-23-live-together-die-alone-season-finale-open-spoilers/358024/335 "2006-05-26T15:13:14Z")

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> [@Stereo Isomer](#):
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> This makes me wonder about the nature of the race–weren’t there other competitors? And if they were following the same route, they’d be dragged to the island too.

Ah, but Desmond’s boat was likely a ‘gift’ from the Hanso group, so who knows what jiggery was built into it? Just a small deviance in the compass reading once he was setting off across the Pacific could have brought him hundreds of miles away from the route all the other racers were following. They’d have to jigger with any GPS equipment, too, but that should be doable.

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> [@Ethilrist](#):
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> No, it was an Apple II, which has a separate monitor. I think they might even be able to use a TV as a monitor…

Not to mention that they (Sayid) already repaired it once earlier in Season 2. Aren’t there some spare parts lying around that they used?

Still, the counter was pretty much destroyed, so they’d have to set up a new timing system (unless the alarm mechanism is still working). But it’s going to a huge stretch of the imagination to believe that the Swan station is still operable after what happened in the Season Finale. Of coures, mayge all the Lostwaways will get hit with tranquilizer darts while a Dharma System Repair SWAT team is HALO’ed in to put the Swan Station back in working order. Who knows… anything seems possible in this show.

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**Post date:** [May 26, 2006, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-2-23-live-together-die-alone-season-finale-open-spoilers/358024/337 "2006-05-26T15:45:34Z")

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> [@Sam Stone](#):
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> My thinking was that the electromagnet was some kind of drive, and the hatch may actually have been a spaceship or something (exctraterrestrials are supposed to be part of the Dharma thing). What if pushing ‘the numbers’ is actually a form of deadman switch? As long as you enter them, on a periodic interval, you stay where you are, but if you stop, the hatch seals up, and heads back from whence it came. Maybe what we saw was a dimension being opened up, or some force from the sky pulling on the hatch. The blown hatch cover, being loose on top, was the first thing to go. But then Desmond managed to switch on the abort, and it all stopped - and the hatch cover came falling back out of the sky.

I like this theory a lot. I would just add that the portion of the hatch which is enclosed by the blast doors is the real ship. That’s the part with the geodesic walls, right? The others tunnels are just service entries to the actual vehicle. I wouldn’t be surprised to see a big ball flying up into the air and into a dimensional gateway in the sky at the beginning of next season. As far as we know only Locke was inside. But it would make for an interesting situation if Desmond and Ecko were with him. These three would be lost in the dimension where Spock has a beard and would be trying to get back to the other Losties all season. In the season finale, the sky would open up and they would return with quite a story to tell.  
Also, am I the only one who thinks the sign on the dock, “Pala Ferry” is interesting? I can’t remember any other location signage anywhere else on the island.

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**Post date:** [May 26, 2006, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-2-23-live-together-die-alone-season-finale-open-spoilers/358024/338 "2006-05-26T16:21:58Z")

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> [@Ethilrist](#):
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> Kelvin was a good button-pushing Dharmite.

Mmmmm… [_Dharmite_](http://img355.imageshack.us/img355/5584/dharmite8oe.jpg)…

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> [@Sam Stone](#):
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> My thinking was that the electromagnet was some kind of drive, and the hatch may actually have been a spaceship or something (exctraterrestrials are supposed to be part of the Dharma thing).

OK, I like your spaceship theory, but where was it suggested that extraterrestrials are involved?

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**Post date:** [May 26, 2006, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-2-23-live-together-die-alone-season-finale-open-spoilers/358024/340 "2006-05-26T16:43:33Z")

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Adding to my own post; Locke, Desmond and Ecko would return from another dimension with quite a story to tell. But in true “Lost” tradition, they wouldn’t breath a word of it to anyone. Nor would anyone even ask.

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