I should be working right now...
May. 19th, 2005 10:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
auntiemeeshI have two parent conferences this afternoon and I should really be preparing for them. The problem is, I can't concentrate on them. So, I made the mistake of popping over to my flist to see how the rest of you are doing. In an innocent moment, I read ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
dcdiva's Lost thoughts and she's triggered a new theory in my overtaxed little brain. (Cause it's so much more fun to think up new theories for Lost than it is to do my real work, you know.)
dcdiva quoted Hurley's comment to Arzt after the monster stomped by. "Dude!" he exclaimed, "I thought you were dead."
And there I was, suddenly impressed with a whole new idea of who the others are and what's going on with them. What if Arzt really is dead? Or at least, no longer himself. Danielle claims that there were six of them on her ship that got stranded on the island, but that she is the only one left. That the rest all got sick and I think she said that she had to kill them all.
What if the infection wasn't some little bacteria or virus, but more of a body-snatcher kind of illness. What if the Others are really her crew, or other people who've been stranded on the island at some time, who have been absorbed or taken over by some other influence, so that they are no longer themselves, but acting for the evil powers that be? Danielle may or may not have really killed her crewmates. Maybe Ethan was one of hers. She says she's never seen the Others, only heard them whispering to her in the jungle. So she wouldn't necessarily even realize that's what had happened to them.
This could mean that when Arzt ran away from the group, he encountered one or more of the Others and was killed and had his form borrowed, or was simply taken over. Arzt could be a mole now, leading the Others to the group, wherever they hide on the island.
The likelihood of this being anything close to the reality of the show is slim to none, I realize, but it is so fun to speculate. :D
Alright, back to work now. Those conference forms won't write themselves, more's the pity.
dcdiva's Lost thoughts and she's triggered a new theory in my overtaxed little brain. (Cause it's so much more fun to think up new theories for Lost than it is to do my real work, you know.)dcdiva quoted Hurley's comment to Arzt after the monster stomped by. "Dude!" he exclaimed, "I thought you were dead."And there I was, suddenly impressed with a whole new idea of who the others are and what's going on with them. What if Arzt really is dead? Or at least, no longer himself. Danielle claims that there were six of them on her ship that got stranded on the island, but that she is the only one left. That the rest all got sick and I think she said that she had to kill them all.
What if the infection wasn't some little bacteria or virus, but more of a body-snatcher kind of illness. What if the Others are really her crew, or other people who've been stranded on the island at some time, who have been absorbed or taken over by some other influence, so that they are no longer themselves, but acting for the evil powers that be? Danielle may or may not have really killed her crewmates. Maybe Ethan was one of hers. She says she's never seen the Others, only heard them whispering to her in the jungle. So she wouldn't necessarily even realize that's what had happened to them.
This could mean that when Arzt ran away from the group, he encountered one or more of the Others and was killed and had his form borrowed, or was simply taken over. Arzt could be a mole now, leading the Others to the group, wherever they hide on the island.
The likelihood of this being anything close to the reality of the show is slim to none, I realize, but it is so fun to speculate. :D
Alright, back to work now. Those conference forms won't write themselves, more's the pity.
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Date: 2005-05-19 11:02 am (UTC)I really hope it's some kind of virus or something, because I'd love to see some of the characters like Charlie go bad.
It was awfully odd of them to have Arzt come with them, the run off only to get chased. After all, nothing seems to be a coincidence on this show.
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Date: 2005-05-19 05:51 pm (UTC)I'm conflicted on this one. Part of me loves Charlie so much as he is that I would hate to see him turn to the dark side. The other half of me thinks, oh, Dom would so rock as evil!Charlie, and that would be great fun to watch. So torn.
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Date: 2005-05-19 06:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-05-19 04:08 pm (UTC)The more I think about your idea, the more I like it! It would make for a very cool explanation, but knowing the writers they probably have something else entirely planned :D
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Date: 2005-05-19 05:54 pm (UTC)LOL!
The great thing about shows like this is the freedom we have to come up with all kinds of theories on everything from why Charlie is so scruffy when Jack barely has fuzz on his face to who the Others are and what the significance of those numbers is. I know there are people who fear that when answers start getting revealed it will be the death of the show because the answers couldn't possibly be as interesting as the questions, but I have faith in J.J. Abrams and Damon Lindeloff that they will treat us right. :D