Dude, you're getting really annoying trying to get people to notice that you have "inside knowledge". Congrats, now shut the fuck up and stop talking about shit that's coming in future episodes.

how does DVD Josh have inside knowledge? Do you have sweet hook ups or what? I'm jealous.

MATT

What he said!! ^^ ::

I don't know if he really knows or not, but if so he should take that shit elsewhere. I like to enjoy the show as it is aired, not reading about it beforehand.

I guess this provides a possible explanation to the reason for the blast doors. Perhaps the person(s) in the control center need a way to lock the test subjects in while supplies are delivered. The blast doors keep them from getting out to see the delivery, and the people in charge come and collect.

Proving once again that there's a Simpsons quote for all occasions:

Judge: I sentence you to a lifetime of horror on Monster Island. Don't worry, it's just a name.
[Cut to Lisa and others being chased by fire-breathing monsters]
Lisa: He said it was just a name!
Man: What he meant is that Monster Island is actually a peninsula.

I'd say last night pretty well debunked that what's going on now is a big psychological experiment.

I suppose it still could be, but it would be pretty lame to have the videos talking about a psych experiment in 1980 just be a cover for the current experiment. Seems more like they ended up on an island that was host to an experiment went wrong 26 years ago (and much more interesting IMO).

It's all an experiment/game done Truman Show-style and people are watching episodes of it weekly, Wednesdays on ABC..... maybe they call it LOST.

Yep, cause an "experiment" wouldn't account for polar bears and clouds of black smoke that scan your memories.

The others are probably the last group of participants before the experiment went kablooie.

I think Libby's "death" is interesting as to how it pertains to Hurley's luck, or lack therefore of... He finds a hot chick he likes that likes him back, then she's shot "dead" before they can even have their date.

And I use quotes around dead, because I also find it interesting that she happens to "die" in an episodes where the flashback is about someone who comes back from the dead...

I was thinking the same thing. And even if it is an experiment, the 'observers' could be playing a role in it unknown even to themselves. i.e. Maybe not entering the numbers releases something into the air in the hatch that affects the people in it physically or mentally. Rather than justify the ethics of this to a couple low level guys responsible for recording the changes, just tell them nothing's really happening, it's a psychological experiment and they're recording how people respond to being given a mundane task.

Also, the whole 'psychological experiment' thing reinforces my sneaking suspicion that we're witnessing an entirely new phenomenon in television writing. Let's say these guys mine the internet message boards for promising theories to incorporate into the plot. Anymore, if you throw a crazy event or premise into a show like this, there are instantly tens, if not hundreds, of theories posted to the internet as possible explanations. These range from idiotic to really quite intelligent and interesting. What if the writers just throw out ideas and then pick their favorite fan-generated explanations to incorporate into the show? Kind of a choose-your-own-adventure, but on a huge scale.

If so, why are they still inputting the numbers? Why the blast doors? Why the food drop? Why is the power still running in the hatch? Shouldn't they have stopped that, or shut the station down? Why are there people on the island putting on costumes?

This counts as a spoiler. Please, don't give anything else away.

I don't think anyone who is high on heroin can fake their own death.

And yea, doesn't something horrible happen to everyone who likes Hugo?

Posting spoilers is a tried-and-true tradition of this forum. With the exception of the Libby comment, I have put everything spoilers. If you don't care to read them, don't bother highlighting the text.

Just for the record - the only "inside" knowledge I have is from reading other forums and bringing that info here. I don't claim to have anymorem and have NEVER claimed otherwise.

This is a discussion forum - I'm bringing info to the table to discuss. If you don't want to read it - don't. But I would never ruin this show for the members of this forum without spoilerizing it, and I will continue to bring over info from other sites (spoilerized), which you or anyone else here can take or leave.

It does say that on the blast door map. We were talking about that this morning at work.

http://www.lostlinks.net/images/blastdoor.jpg

I would agree with JoshHinkle that it's probably an "experiment gone wrong", and abandoned. As for power, there is the long power cable running into the ocean; perhaps it is powered by a underwater turbine.

What REALLY strange is that if the Others were part of the experiment, why wouldn't they be populating the hatches? They act as if they don't even know they are there.

Unless they know something we don't as to why they shouldn't live there.

Perhaps they were the former occupants of the hatches (the ones being observed).

can someone remind me why Mr. Eko was limping? I can't seem to remember him hurting his leg

The Hanso commercial had a tiny (c) Sprite in the corner of it for a few seconds. Obviously it's a Lost tie in, but it's also a Sprite commercial.


Be sure to drink you're ovaltine? It's a crummy commercial!

He was limping because it was John's dream. He was seeing himself in the dream as Eko. The limp was his.

I can only remember him limping in Locke's dream. Was he limping in the real world too?

I could of sworn I saw Mr Eko limping when they started hiking out in the jungle. I'll have to rewatch the episode