[QUOTE=Red Barchetta]
This just occurred to me: Don’t the “other’s” flashbacks essentially disprove the **“Lost Time” ** theory? It seems pretty evident the events shown in the other’s flashbacks correspond with with the amount of time they’ve spent on the island, which suggests that the island’s time has to be running concurrently to the rest of the world’s.
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It’s interesting that Ben said “look at the date, that’s today’s date” about the newspaper.
I guess it’s possible that the video footage was from the real world, and they used a paper from years earlier - but they’d have to know to save the paper from the particular corresponding day in island time after Juliet started getting suspicious about her sister.
But practically it heavily suggests that Island Time = real time.
[QUOTE=Algernon]
Though it continues to avoid the meta-question about why the Others don’t simply leave the island. What is it that is so compelling that they remain?
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It’s looking like something related to the regenerative properties. Juliet said something like “I thought you said you people didn’t get cancer” - the way she said it suggests that the people were there, perhaps, had terminal medical conditions that were healed by the island… and that those people had to stay there, but they couldn’t have children.
[QUOTE=audit1]
I must say that is the fakest looking submarine ever.
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Yeah, my immediate thought was “how the hell does that thing match what was saw of the interior?”… the sub from the outside looked like a tiny sub that might hold a few people in one cramped room, rather than what was shown. Unless it’s very heavily ballasted, with only a small portion of the hull showing at the surface.
[QUOTE=storyteller0910]
Fair enough. Then how could the Others have predicted that Sayid would fold like wet cardboard when Juliet brought up his past occupation? Seems to me he could have easily said, “You know what, you are right. Claire’s health should be the chief consideration here. This case appears to contain an injection kit, something that our own doctor can probably use without your assistance. Mr. Sawyer, would you kindly return this case to Dr. Shepard, while the woman who put you in a cage and tasered you has a little discussion with me?”
Note that I’m not saying this is what Sayid should have done, merely that he could have. The Others’ plans hinge on the idea that he would not, which seems to be either precognitive or awfully risky.
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I don’t necesarily think this is anything specific to lost or has to be answered within the story.
Fiction always uses this device - the way things typically happen in any story requires a thousand coincidences that we don’t really stop to consider.
