Thursday, October 05, 2006
Lost Season 3: A Tale of Two Cities
The Others have a file about Jack's life. The obvious assumption is that the Others have contact with the outside world. Maybe the same people who gave the Others the file also dropped the supplies outside the original hatch in Season 2? Is the contact two ways?
We assume that the Others do know how to leave the island, because they gave Michael instructions on how to leave. Unless they lied to him. You should all know enough by now not to believe anything the Others say.
There are some alternative theories on how they got the dossier on Jack:
(1) Ben/Henry overheard it all while he was prisoner.
(2) They injected Jack with truth serum (notice the needle mark in his arm) and interrogated him, but Jack doesn't remember it.
(3) They have psychic powers and were able to compile the information from reading his mind.
People also have noticed that the Others have a nice middle class existence on the island when they are not doing mysterious Others stuff. Where does their electricity come from? Presumably the same source as the electricity in the hatch.
If the Others really know what's going on, why didn't they take control of the Button? Surely the wouldn't allow something so dangerous if unpressed to be watched over by mentally unstable people who might think that Button doesn't really do anything and therefore fail to press it.