We Have Three Weeks to Think This Over
I want to talk about Lost, and make a clear, concise path of logic that, in theory, any extra on the island would be able to develop for himself.
I've been on this island for like six weeks now (thinks the extra) and so far we haven't seen an airplane in the sky or a boat in the water. I guess we're pretty far from everywhere.
But yesterday a whole heap of food was dumped onto the island. That means that somebody knows that somebody else is here. Either that or the food dump is automatic, regardless of who's on the island, but we never found any before now, and you'd think it would pile up if no one was taking it.
If someone knows that someone else is here, why haven't we been rescued yet?
But we do know that there are Others living on the island. They killed Scott and tried to kill Charlie, and kidnapped Claire. They also kidnapped Walt; Michael went out looking for him and hasn't been back yet. Oh yeah, and there's some guy tied up in the hatch, who is probably an Other too.
(What the average extra probably doesn't know is: the Others had a medical hatch, the Others wear fake beards and groady clothing, the Others told Jack not to cross a particular line. They wouldn't have been told how many Others there were either.)
So the food drop was probably for them. And the someones who dropped the food probably know they're here. And they're dropping food rather than rescuing the Others, which means that either the Others don't want to leave, or the Others are not allowed to leave.
I wonder who's dropping the food. All the packages say Dharma, and I've never heard of that brand. My new beach buddies from England, Australia, Korea, Iraq, and the U.S.A have never heard of it either. *checks the box to see whether the units are metric or English*
Back to the drop. Someone (let's say the Dharma corporation, for simplicity) is dropping food for the Others. Therefore they know that the Others are here and the Others know that Dharma knows they're here. The Others know that we're here. I wonder if they told Dharma and the drop was really for us.
Again. If they know we (the survivors of flight 815) are here, why haven't we been rescued?
Either the Others haven't told Dharma that we're here, and Dharma hasn't found out another way, or Dharma is intentionally not rescuing us.
If the first case is true, we have got to get into contact with Dharma to let them know we're here. The Others might know how to get hold of them. The guy in the hatch, according to Sayid, holds up well against torture, so he might not be a good way to find out. We'll have to go find the Others where they live. I bet Rousseau could tell us that. We have forty people and at least eight guns, what are we waiting for?
If the second case is true, we have to somehow "escape from Dharma." Either the Others are in cahoots with Dharma, and staying here intentionally, or they are being held captive like us. If the first, "defeating" the Others might be leverage to convince Dharma to let us go (in exchange for, say, the Others' lives). If the latter, they might be willing to join with us to escape together.
Hold your horses, Extra. We don't know enough about the Others' agenda to know whether they would join us in escaping. So far, they're our enemies. We don't know enough about their organization to know whether we stand a chance of defeating them.
(In a perfect world, the extra would now trot off to ask Claire if she ever remembered anything about having been kidnapped. The extra would then get to hear all her flashbacks, and then about their excursion to the now-empty med hatch. But since not even the main characters would do something that patently intelligent, we will assume that the extra won't either.)
So what do I do now? I guess maybe I should go run my theories past Jack. I'm pretty sure, though, that the Others are either preventing us from rescue or our only hope of getting out. We have got to find out more about the Others. It's been six weeks; maybe it's time to send out half a dozen big, strong guys out into the jungle to track them down. The Others are the only way out. We have got to find them.
Five bucks says that nobody comes up with this train of reasoning until next season.
I've been on this island for like six weeks now (thinks the extra) and so far we haven't seen an airplane in the sky or a boat in the water. I guess we're pretty far from everywhere.
But yesterday a whole heap of food was dumped onto the island. That means that somebody knows that somebody else is here. Either that or the food dump is automatic, regardless of who's on the island, but we never found any before now, and you'd think it would pile up if no one was taking it.
If someone knows that someone else is here, why haven't we been rescued yet?
But we do know that there are Others living on the island. They killed Scott and tried to kill Charlie, and kidnapped Claire. They also kidnapped Walt; Michael went out looking for him and hasn't been back yet. Oh yeah, and there's some guy tied up in the hatch, who is probably an Other too.
(What the average extra probably doesn't know is: the Others had a medical hatch, the Others wear fake beards and groady clothing, the Others told Jack not to cross a particular line. They wouldn't have been told how many Others there were either.)
So the food drop was probably for them. And the someones who dropped the food probably know they're here. And they're dropping food rather than rescuing the Others, which means that either the Others don't want to leave, or the Others are not allowed to leave.
I wonder who's dropping the food. All the packages say Dharma, and I've never heard of that brand. My new beach buddies from England, Australia, Korea, Iraq, and the U.S.A have never heard of it either. *checks the box to see whether the units are metric or English*
Back to the drop. Someone (let's say the Dharma corporation, for simplicity) is dropping food for the Others. Therefore they know that the Others are here and the Others know that Dharma knows they're here. The Others know that we're here. I wonder if they told Dharma and the drop was really for us.
Again. If they know we (the survivors of flight 815) are here, why haven't we been rescued?
Either the Others haven't told Dharma that we're here, and Dharma hasn't found out another way, or Dharma is intentionally not rescuing us.
If the first case is true, we have got to get into contact with Dharma to let them know we're here. The Others might know how to get hold of them. The guy in the hatch, according to Sayid, holds up well against torture, so he might not be a good way to find out. We'll have to go find the Others where they live. I bet Rousseau could tell us that. We have forty people and at least eight guns, what are we waiting for?
If the second case is true, we have to somehow "escape from Dharma." Either the Others are in cahoots with Dharma, and staying here intentionally, or they are being held captive like us. If the first, "defeating" the Others might be leverage to convince Dharma to let us go (in exchange for, say, the Others' lives). If the latter, they might be willing to join with us to escape together.
Hold your horses, Extra. We don't know enough about the Others' agenda to know whether they would join us in escaping. So far, they're our enemies. We don't know enough about their organization to know whether we stand a chance of defeating them.
(In a perfect world, the extra would now trot off to ask Claire if she ever remembered anything about having been kidnapped. The extra would then get to hear all her flashbacks, and then about their excursion to the now-empty med hatch. But since not even the main characters would do something that patently intelligent, we will assume that the extra won't either.)
So what do I do now? I guess maybe I should go run my theories past Jack. I'm pretty sure, though, that the Others are either preventing us from rescue or our only hope of getting out. We have got to find out more about the Others. It's been six weeks; maybe it's time to send out half a dozen big, strong guys out into the jungle to track them down. The Others are the only way out. We have got to find them.
Five bucks says that nobody comes up with this train of reasoning until next season.