LOST is forever enshrined
So, here's my jig on that show that gives me wondeful shivers and makes me want to whoop everytime Terri O'Quinn says something and its always so Zenny.
I think that everyone on the island is about to face peril unbeknownest.
For those who follow it - Rousseau (that mad french woman) says in "Solitary" (with mad lovely Andrews) - her team shipwrecked, dugout that place and for 2 months they were safe - and then IT killed her mates.
What was IT? Revealed to us - painfully slowly - IT was an affliction. A sickness ("Solitary" and "Numbers")
Several Questions beg to be asked at this point -
a) Was she the only woman on the island in the expedition?
b) What was "it" that required euthanasia to be stirred to action?
c) How did they catch "it"?
d) Do the numbers have anything to do with the island being a blind spot?
e) Was Desmond part of the shipwrecked party or the crashed drug-dealer plane?
Now then, dealing with what i deduced - the survivors are close to 40 days in. Time for something new to hit the ballot cards. Something with a little more shall we say LOST "oomph". Something massacre-istic in proportions. The writers and producers sure are going to deliver. Payload.
2 months = 60 days.
40 days = 20 days short of doomsday.
Now based on several concurrent themes in the show - I believe that pretty soon people are going to start hacking up a pluera and keeling over surprisingly rigid (said with a Sawyer Twang).
Shocker rocker for the docteur.
I think the timer ie the thing that beeps - may serve an hitherto unexplored function.
It may be the reason the exploratory team fell sick. It may be the timer that not only controls dispersion, but also measures it. Thus, permeating the atmosphere of the island with the invasive agent, such that it's saturated at all times. And the counter could be the saturation count on the island of disease agent X thus with every minute that passes a percentage of the island and perhaps its surrounding waters (would explain overkill with the # 108) loses its infective potential.
Thus, the button needs to be pushed every 108 minutes to keep the saturation level of the island constant in all places.
I know it sounds far fetched, and I'm using my training as a microbiologist to rationalize this, but it makes sense dammit. This would also explain why Walt - though speaking backwards - says "[Don't] press the button...[the button is bad]". Atleast it explains it if the consensus on this backwards conversation is to be believed. What Walt really sez is "Dab snottub on, nottub eht sserp" - if we just turn it backwards - it's really "press the button, no buttons bad" or "bad Buttons no, button the press". Since there is dispute about this, we'll leave it be.
How poignant though - people continue to push the button. The button holds the key to survival, thus, by its usage the characters kill themselves. Get it?? Get it??! Character assassination!
You get 2 months to beat evolution - then its spring cleaning time.
Are the others really mutants who are immune to the sickness or did they figure out how to beat the sickness? Is that why they travel at certain times? Or are they from another dimension? Judging by the overall grunginess of the few ringers we've been exposed to ie Ethan and Goodwin, and their feindish looks, it would seem they are of the same realm with super-survival skills.
There you have it - Mass homi/suicide. An homage to the island?
I think that everyone on the island is about to face peril unbeknownest.
For those who follow it - Rousseau (that mad french woman) says in "Solitary" (with mad lovely Andrews) - her team shipwrecked, dugout that place and for 2 months they were safe - and then IT killed her mates.
What was IT? Revealed to us - painfully slowly - IT was an affliction. A sickness ("Solitary" and "Numbers")
Several Questions beg to be asked at this point -
a) Was she the only woman on the island in the expedition?
b) What was "it" that required euthanasia to be stirred to action?
c) How did they catch "it"?
d) Do the numbers have anything to do with the island being a blind spot?
e) Was Desmond part of the shipwrecked party or the crashed drug-dealer plane?
Now then, dealing with what i deduced - the survivors are close to 40 days in. Time for something new to hit the ballot cards. Something with a little more shall we say LOST "oomph". Something massacre-istic in proportions. The writers and producers sure are going to deliver. Payload.
2 months = 60 days.
40 days = 20 days short of doomsday.
Now based on several concurrent themes in the show - I believe that pretty soon people are going to start hacking up a pluera and keeling over surprisingly rigid (said with a Sawyer Twang).
Shocker rocker for the docteur.
I think the timer ie the thing that beeps - may serve an hitherto unexplored function.
It may be the reason the exploratory team fell sick. It may be the timer that not only controls dispersion, but also measures it. Thus, permeating the atmosphere of the island with the invasive agent, such that it's saturated at all times. And the counter could be the saturation count on the island of disease agent X thus with every minute that passes a percentage of the island and perhaps its surrounding waters (would explain overkill with the # 108) loses its infective potential.
Thus, the button needs to be pushed every 108 minutes to keep the saturation level of the island constant in all places.
I know it sounds far fetched, and I'm using my training as a microbiologist to rationalize this, but it makes sense dammit. This would also explain why Walt - though speaking backwards - says "[Don't] press the button...[the button is bad]". Atleast it explains it if the consensus on this backwards conversation is to be believed. What Walt really sez is "Dab snottub on, nottub eht sserp" - if we just turn it backwards - it's really "press the button, no buttons bad" or "bad Buttons no, button the press". Since there is dispute about this, we'll leave it be.
How poignant though - people continue to push the button. The button holds the key to survival, thus, by its usage the characters kill themselves. Get it?? Get it??! Character assassination!
You get 2 months to beat evolution - then its spring cleaning time.
Are the others really mutants who are immune to the sickness or did they figure out how to beat the sickness? Is that why they travel at certain times? Or are they from another dimension? Judging by the overall grunginess of the few ringers we've been exposed to ie Ethan and Goodwin, and their feindish looks, it would seem they are of the same realm with super-survival skills.
There you have it - Mass homi/suicide. An homage to the island?