How did Danielle get on the Island?
If you could tell me what episode we find this out in that'd be great.:)

I think in the episode "Solitary" (not sure what number in season 1 it was) we get to hear Danielle's story of how she ended up on the island.

Thank you for your help:cool:

She was on a scientific expedition and was drawn to the island by hearing the numbers broadcast over and over..they hit a reef and were stranded. They all went to the black rock where she said everyone got infected and they went mad and she had to kill them all one by one. She also was pregnant when she crashed and the others took her baby. She then changed the broadcast of the numbers to her distress call that went on a loop for 16 years before our lostaways picked it up...

Hmm I've just watched that, so was Danielle on the Black Rock ship that crashed?
I thought that was a slave ship and had been there for 100+ years?

No...that has been there forever. They found that ship and then all got sick and died...well she killed them all so she could be scooters...but the black rock and her ship are two different things...

It was in Solitary, and she got on the Island from a boat. She came with a team to study stuff on the Island, But her team got sick and she killed them all. Because they were all "Sick"
--Katie--

If Danielle changed the transmitter message to be the distress call, and she speaks English to Sayid and Hurley, why isn't the distress call in both English and French? It would maximize her chances of someone understanding it and saving her.

I think if someone heard a radio transmission from an "uninhabited" island in the middle of the pacific, they'd check it out, no matter what language it was in. I agree though, the closest places (if the island is in the mid-pacific) are Hawaii/Fiji/Australia, depending on where exactly, so it does seem like English would have been the logical choice... lol

Perhaps because they were 3 days out of Tahiti, or possibly because the company that funded her research team might have been French she may have thought that if anyone was looking for her, they would be French speaking. I get the feeling that her message may not have been as much a distress call, as it was an advisory to those who might have been looking for her team.

Perhaps also, she didn't want the "others" to know what her message said, she might know that they spoke English because she'd heard them whispering, but she might think for some reason that they didn't speak or understand French.

I'm sure she had her reasons.

Hopefully TPTB will explain this all to us in future episodes.

Perhaps because they were 3 days out of Tahiti, or possibly because the company that funded her research team might have been French she may have thought that if anyone was looking for her, they would be French speaking. I get the feeling that her message may not have been as much a distress call, as it was an advisory to those who might have been looking for her team.

Perhaps also, she didn't want the "others" to know what her message said, she might know that they spoke English because she'd heard them whispering, but she might think for some reason that they didn't speak or understand French.

I'm sure she had her reasons.

Hopefully TPTB will explain this all to us in future episodes.

This has been discussed in other threads as to why she was speaking French. But I like your idea that she was speaking French so the Others couldn't understand her. I agree with that her transmission was for a specific someone or some group.

I went back and rewatched her scenes again. When Sayid first wakes up, she is saying "Donde esta Alex", in addition to French and English, she also knows Spainish.

And also German (Wo ist Alex?) and Serbo-Croatian (Gdje je Alex?).

Mira's native language is Serbo-Croatian and she speaks German, French, and English, and also a little Italian, and now that she lives in LA she's learning Spansih.

And also German (Wo ist Alex?) and Serbo-Croatian (Gdje je Alex?).

Mira's native language is Serbo-Croatian and she speaks German, French, and English, and also a little Italian, and now that she lives in LA she's learning Spansih.

I wonder if the writers will use this in the show. If she already spoke Spanish, did she think Sayid was Spanish and why would she think that Sayid would know where Alex is? Maybe she thought he was an Other.

She did initially think Sayid was an "other" - that's quite clear from what she says to him when she first has him strapped to the bed. From his responses to her questions she eventually accepts that he's not an "other".

IMO the force that drives this woman is the obssession with getting her daughter back, there's nothing strange about that most mothers would be the same way, but she's had many, many years of solitude without much in the way of distractions to dwell on this obsession. IT's what makes her world go around. She says "Where is Alex" in at least 5 different languages, she's hoping that this "other" that she has finally caught understands at least one of those languages. She's trying to increase her chances of communication.

She says "Where is Alex" in at least 5 different languages, she's hoping that this "other" that she has finally caught understands at least one of those languages. She's trying to increase her chances of communication.

Yes, as we have seen, communication is essential to survival and Danielle knew that the only possible way that she could learn about Alex was to question Sayid in different languages. It is impressive that she knows that many languages.

I think that French was the best language choice for a distress message from an "uninhabited" island in the middle of the Pacific because most people passing by would stop for any language, but the French would only stop for French. ;)

Don't forget she should also know how to speak Mimbari, lol. :biggrin:

psssssst *cough* that's MiNbari....

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Perhaps Desmond is waiting for Valen (i.e. "the one" that Locke wasn't). Danielle, of course, must know this already.

When Sayid was found by Danielle and he talked about the plane crash, she seemed very surprised about that.

I mean... How could a (obviously very noisy) plane crash not to be heard in the island? Is it really THAT BIG so that you could be in a place that you couldn't hear it? Also, there had already been some days. She would have noticed that the were other people on the island...

I think that very much depends on just how big the island is.

I've been on at least one island that if a plane crashed at one end and I was at the other, I wouldn't know about it until it showed up on the news.

Sayid was the first of the castaways to wander up into the area near her "habitat". She wouldn't neccessarily have been wandering around down by the beach where they crashed.

I think that very much depends on just how big the island is.

I've been on at least one island that if a plane crashed at one end and I was at the other, I wouldn't know about it until it showed up on the news.

Sayid was the first of the castaways to wander up into the area near her "habitat". She wouldn't neccessarily have been wandering around down by the beach where they crashed.

Yes, you're right!

And I hope the island is really big. That way we will have more and more mysteries!!! :smile:

But there's another strange thing... Danielle had never seen the hatch because it was buried. But there are other Dharma hatches in the island. In 16 years she should have found at least one of them, don't you think? Unless she stays always in the same place... But Danielle is very brave and she would rather explode the island.

Maybe the transmission tower is conected to one of the Dharma Bunkers, and that's the one she's found.

She may simply have gotten herself into a survival routine. Foraging for food and game, and searching in places she thought the "others" may have taken Alex to.

Dang! This is why we *NEED* at least one Danielle flashback episode to cover her 16 years on the island, as well as one that covers her pre-shipwreck story.

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What is the name of Danielle's child?

Alex

Her daughter's name is Alex.

Alex

Her daughter's name is Alex.

That's me!!! :biggrin:

I'm getting very confused about Alex's gender (Danielle's child, not the Fuselage member :biggrin:); In "The Lost Chronicles", it says Alex is Danielle's son, but I'm sure Danielle said somewhere that Alex was her daughter.

Also, as the transmision was in French, I assumed she learnt English whilst she was on the Island (thanks to my weird brain), but now I've thought about it, it seems not very likely she would have any "Learn English" CDs handy; I thought I'd put these ideas out to give you some more sleepless nights :grin:.

I'm getting very confused about Alex's gender (Danielle's child, not the Fuselage member :biggrin:); In "The Lost Chronicles", it says Alex is Danielle's son, but I'm sure Danielle said somewhere that Alex was her daughter.

The book is wrong - probably just a case of sloppy fact checking.

As a matter of fact the point at which the author of the book incorrectly states "She delivered her baby boy, Alex, alone." is the point near the beginning of Exodus One where she clearly tells everyone that her child is a daughter.


Also, as the transmision was in French, I assumed she learnt English whilst she was on the Island (thanks to my weird brain), but now I've thought about it, it seems not very likely she would have any "Learn English" CDs handy; I thought I'd put these ideas out to give you some more sleepless nights :grin:.

I've always assumed that she, like many Europeans, was multi-lingual. When she first has Sayid tied to the bed in her habitat, she asks him "Where is Alex?" in at least 5 languages.

We still don't know what her scientific team was studying/researching, perhaps her speciallty was linguistics.

The book is wrong - probably just a case of sloppy fact checking.


Indeed, the book has many errors. I also noticed they named Charlie's brother Ian (although his name is Liam).

When will Danielle come back?
I can't wait to see her again... :frown:

Indeed, the book has many errors. I also noticed they named Charlie's brother Ian (although his name is Liam).

I haven't really read much of it - I really only bought it for the unaired Danielle scene on the DVD.


When will Danielle come back?
I can't wait to see her again... :frown:

Mira will be shooting Danielle's next episode sometime in January. I'm guessing it is either episode 14 or 15, and that it will air sometime during the February sweeps.If I get more information than that, and I'm allowed to pass it on, I will.

I haven't really read much of it - I really only bought it for the unaired Danielle scene on the DVD.


I loved her swalling that egg... :biggrin:

But did you notice that the sound and the brightness of this scene were quite bad? I had some difficulties on listening what they were saying... I think that's why the scene was cut.

I loved her swalling that egg... :biggrin:

But did you notice that the sound and the brightness of this scene were quite bad? I had some difficulties on listening what they were saying... I think that's why the scene was cut.

The unaired scene on the DVD that came with "The LOST Chronicles" wasn't the one of her swallowing the egg. But, heh, she's a better woman that I am :biggrin:

I suspect that the reason that the sound and picture were off on the DVD that came with "The LOST Chronicles" was that they hadn't put it all the way through post-production to clean all the problems up.