RosL
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Origin of the OthersI can't claim this as my own. I read it on one of the many, many Yahoo Lost discussion groups but thought it was an interesting theory about how the Others got there. There are some holes in it which I'm sure you'll all see, but there are possibilities....
| Quote: | Because of the unusual natural magnetic properties of the island.
I think that the original "Others" ( not the recruited scientist) are
descendants of previous people stranded on the island in the past.
Remember The Black Rock? It had chains in the hold of the ship and
the 815 survivors thought that it was a slave ship.
I don't think it was a slave ship. The ship had dynamite in the hold.
Dynamite was invented in 1867, and I don't believe that slaves were
being traded by shipping that recently.
I think it was a prison ship from the late 1800s, headed to an
Australian Penal Colony. They dynamite could have been headed to the
opal mines, and maybe the prisoners were too. The ship, like others
before it, was caught by the "Bermuda Triangle" like forces and ended
up in the trees in the island, as we saw. The prisioners were
ruthless and brutal and formed their own society, taking over anyone
who was already on the island. (Remember the giantic stone foot in
last year's cliff-hanger. There may have been remnants of an ancient
society left.)
Flash forward a few decades. Let's say to just before WWII. A well-
educated, familiar with more modern technology man and woman are
stranded on the island and become Ben's parents. When they pass, they
are left in the cave and the survivors of flight 815 find them and
call them "The Adam and Eve of the Island."
The 1970s bring the scientists and researchers of Dharma to the
island. The hostiles lie low and plan their take-over. They "purge"
the island (could be why no one ever came looking for Roger workman)
and use the resources of Dharma for their own purposes, knowing the
unusual properties of the island.
Either by a take over that extended to the resources of Dharma on the
mainland, or by trickery and duplicity, the mechanics of supplies,
transportation, and communication are left, more or less, in place.
Hence, this is why Locke hit "77" when the opportunity arose, so that
the outside would at last know that Dharma had been overcome by
hostiles.
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I have concerns about the writer's (Cheryl) take on Ethan. He was one of the people involved in recruiting Juliet. So did he work for the Others, in which case, why? and how did he get off the island (if the Bermuda Triangle effect was drawing ships etc in) and get modern clothes? and how is it all financed?
This theory raises a lot of its own questions, but it is interesting, isn't it?
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April_Rose
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It's interesting, but the modern clothes, familiarity with modern technology and even modern american way of speaking makes me think there's a few too many holes in it - if a soceity had been formed in 1500 years or so they would have started speaking very differently - even look at how people speak today in America or England and go back 20 years, it's very different. That would be a glaring hole in a plot that has been so carefulyl refined.
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iain1234
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very interesting, but maybe a bit far fetched?
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LoveLost33
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Yes interesting indeed, Thx for posting that.
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ayubi
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Its actually not bad theory i have heard a lot worse.
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