theory on the others

[losty765]

its just a theory...but i think that the others are kind of "preservers of good." Think about it, henry said that he didn't kill locke b/c he was one of the good ones, and ana lucia is obviously a contaminated soul, and the clip of ecko dying...we all know the kind of past he had...this would also explain why the others are so obsessed with confiscating the children b/c the children are still pure and innocent and haven't been adulterated by the "evil" of adulthood.

Remember Desmond? He ran away once the hatch was open b/c he was afraid of getting "contaminated" by the "disease"...its not an actual disease people, its a metaphor for the darkness of the human condition. Also, what about the name of the organization--the Dharma Intiative? Dharma is a Buddhist term that conotates happiness, truth, and purity...

Its kind of like william golding's Lord of the Flies idea--put a bunch of people on an island and it brings out their true nature...human nature...evil, selfish, etc...

I might be way off, but it seems to make sense in context...what do you all think?

[lostie2]

The 22 "others" Michael found living in tents are not the keepers of the mystery of the island. They're outcasts, they were unacceptable for use by the scientific community living in the hatches - those who are really running the island.
The outcasts are just a collection of stranded people, forced to live in the jungle like animals - but they provide a service for those in the hatches, they kidnap other stranded people, those who are determined to be "good" - good for the experiments, especially children. Every time the outcasts deliver a "good" person to the hatches, they're rewarded with food drops - but they never know where the food drops will be, which keeps them searching all over the island, for food, but also for lost people.

What determines "good" or "bad"? High IQ? Certain talents or abilities? Violent tendencies? Addiction problems?
The island appears to have some curative powers for the PHYSICALLY flawed - ie.: Rose, Locke, Sun.
So is Dharma looking for certain mental/intellectual abilities? Those without emotional/psychological flaws?

Claire sought out a psychic before her trip, Rose and Bernard went looking for a faith healer, Hurley went looking for the origin and power of the numbers, Walt in known to "make things happen".

Is the Dharma experiment about psychic/mental powers, powers more easily accessed in open-minded children? Maybe Dharma is trying to develop a race of physically and mentally perfect humans - to populate the earth or to send into space or to carry on the Dharma plan?

[Lost Eternal]

Excellent thoughts guys. Let me re-read.

[lostie2]

Michael appears to have been brainwashed by the Dharma people, the scientists living in the other hatches. Or maybe he only wants everyone to believe that. Anna Lucia was expendable, she was a "bad" subject anyway, (a good actress and character) but too violent, too headstrong to be of any use to Dharma. I think Michael was really on a mission to off Henry.

Henry had some plan that Dharma or the outcasts didn't like. Henry was one of the outcast people of the tents, maybe he'd been a little too long in the jungle. Whatever the plan was, I think Dharma promised Michael he'd get Walt back if he took care of Henry. Michael wounded himself and, of course, he's going to make it look like Henry did it all - he's setting Henry up to be killed by the Losties. The killing of an expendable person - Anna Lucia - would enrage the Losties enough to kill Henry.
If Michael had killed Henry himself, right away he's in big trouble with the gang. Michael would have had to explain himself and all about the deal with Dharma. And if he did that, the deal was off.
But Dharma's not going to give Walt up, not if they've discovered Walt's extra powers.

About Libby - I think Libby will survive. She has her own agenda. She was in the same mental hospital as Hurley when he was there - and he was there after sinking a dock that killed some people. I think one of those people was Libby's boyfriend/husband. She had a mental breakdown over the death and discovers she's ended up in the same hospital as Hurley.
She plots to get her revenge on Hurley after they're released and follows him to Australia. But before going, she learns of his big Lotto win and changes her plan. She wants to get very close to Hurley, make him fall in love, marry her. And once she has all his money - or the secret of the numbers - THEN she offs Hurley. She's obviously out of touch with her feelings. Libby's character is one to watch.

The "incident" that happened on the island - was this some nuclear accident that happened thirty or forty years ago when a button didn't get pushed - or something that gave off enough radiation to cause people on the island to get "sick"? Maybe because of radiation on the island, all hatches had to have "Quarantine" painted on the inside and the island was off limits to those inside.
When the French woman and her group came 17 years ago, there was still enough radiation around to be lethal to some people, which is why all of her group eventually died. The island's curative powers couldn't overcome that. And some people still get sick, even though the level has come down over the years. Both Rousseau and Desimond asked if anyone had gotten sick.
Whether they were "brought" to the island or whether by accident, people who found themselves stranded there from time to time either survived the radiation or didn't. Those who survived stayed together as outcasts, living on the food drops that came when they provided "suitable" subjects to the hatch people. The search for the food also keeps them too busy to plan an escape from the island.

Just my humble thoughts.

[Blinktwo8]

dude i dont even want to read it cuz its so long. So i dont