Call me pinnerman, I migrated here to take a look based on the suggestions of some of those at LOST-TV.com. I'm a major THEORIST over there.

Q 1) Here's a quote from yourself regarding the nature of the island: "We'll try to root it in real science or real pseudo-science. There will be no mystical reason or an island of monsters."

Here's a more recent quote from JJ Abrams on NPR: "The Twilight Zone aspects to me are going to always be present, but the show is in no way a straight forward Sci Fi show. The fact is I've had a lot of discussions about what straight Sci Fi is, what does that mean exactly. Whether it's, you know, something that is more obviously Science Fiction like, you know, Alien, or comedically Science Fiction like Back to the Future, or more subtly Science Fiction like the stuff David Cronenberg might do. To me, the use of extraordinary circumstances sort of colliding with ordinary people is the most interesting story telling."

To me, these statements are somewhat contradictory. Is this damage control from JJ to keep all the possible theories on the table for us theorists who read your comment and believed that the explanations would not be mystical or supernatural in nature? Is this planned mis-direction or mis-information? Or is this simply unintentional?

Q 2) Have you read any of the theories over at LOST-TV.com?

Thanks.

Call me Ishmael, pinnerman --

Okay... You may notice I said "try" -- "We'll TRY to root it in real... pseudo-science..." What does that mean? Well...

I dunno.

Kidding. It means we're approaching the strange elements of this show from the Scully perspective as oppossed to Mulder. (Please don't run with this X-Files analogy -- it's just to illustrate my point.).

In other words, we come from the "there must be some rational, scientific explanation for these things" as opposed to "no, look, Scully, there be monsters here. Accept it." Part of what I said can be attributed to the network's aversion to "genre television." Ironically, the things that sold the show, scared them. So we assurred them that we'll have the simple explanation to go along with everything as we start out.

But I make no promises after that.

And, in answer to your second question, I have not visited that site. I and others on the show try to only frequent this one.

Notice how I said "try" again.