Here is a partial list of issues on which I'm pretty convinced Lost is going well beyond the limits of standard science and technology, in no particular order. Some may never be explained. But if they are, the explanation will not pass any kind of scientific or technical muster.

1. Paranormal/psychic phenomena: Locke's recent dream, the psychic in Claire's backstory, probably Walt's powers, maybe Claire's dream.

2. Locke's paralysis: His ability to walk comes and goes. The feeling in his legs comes and goes. It is hard to interpret what happened in Deus Ex Machina without saying that he walked without feeling in his legs, which doesn't seem plausible medically.

3. The survivability of the plane crash.

4. Radio signals, transponders, and related stuff.

5. What appears to be an African plane in what should be the Pacific.

6. The long yet lightweight cable leading to Danielle's area.

7. A big pilot-killing monster with little in the way of apparent food sources (unless it's a machine, and one that's human-operated rather than autonomous).


No doubt the investigation and/or explanation of the hatch will lead to a lengthening of this list.

CAM,

I think this is where they got us. By saying Science or Psuedoscience they have an opening to just about anything. I know we have discussed this in other threads. Psuedo meaning Fake. I think some things will have scientific basis and other's will
be based on theory and assumption. It is fiction and I think the writers will use whatever they need to make the story more compelling. I have to say the beginning of tonight's episode threw me a curve. I am more confused now thatn I was before the episode.

You would have to include Claire's dream just for the fact that she had written in her diary about the Black Rock before anyone knew there was a Black rock.

The being able to walk while not having any feeling in his legs is going to take a lot of explaining. Even though somewhere in the old brain of mine, I recall a disease wher the person had to be extremely careful because they could suffer a cut/puncture wound in the lower extremeties and not know that it had happened. I going to have to research that because this seems to be something I encountered many years ago with someone I knew.

The being able to walk while not having any feeling in his legs is going to take a lot of explaining. Even though somewhere in the old brain of mine, I recall a disease wher the person had to be extremely careful because they could suffer a cut/puncture wound in the lower extremeties and not know that it had happened. I going to have to research that because this seems to be something I encountered many years ago with someone I knew.


People with diabetic neuropathies lose sensation in their feet/legs (as far as I know, usually below the knees) but can still walk and function normally. So if Locke just lost the feeling in his lower legs, he could conceivably still walk. At least that's more believable to me than someone having dialysis and then immediately going hunting! Dialysis is typically exhausting.

People with diabetic neuropathies lose sensation in their feet/legs (as far as I know, usually below the knees) but can still walk and function normally.* So if Locke just lost the feeling in his lower legs, he could conceivably still walk.* At least that's more believable to me than someone having dialysis and then immediately going hunting!* Dialysis is typically exhausting.*


That was what I was thinking about (diabetic Neuropathies) but just didn't know the clinical terminology. Yes, Dialysis takes quite awhile to rebound from.

So the writers are probably claiming that Locke donating his kidney is what cost him the use of his legs?

I'm thinking that it will either have something to do with his leaving the hospital and causing complications or with the look in his eyes when he was in the car, possibly going back and ramming the gate. A rear engine bug would be no match for that gate and could do some serious damage to a person.

Dissasociative anesthetics depending on dose can leave you able to walk and move normally yet have no real sensation of pain.

Don't ask.