Could Desmond have been "for real"?

[Dr. Suds]

It doesn't seem possible for Desmond to have told the truth about having hit a reef in the Pacific (He did specify the ocean, didn't he?) and being found by a Calvin or Kelvin, especially because this island is Bioko (Fernando Poo) in the Atlantic. So it seems simplest for him to be among many shills the Losties have encountered, telling a phony story.

But there's a problem with that from his behavior in episode 1 of season 2. Why does he seem to be going thru the act of responding to the terminal, then injecting something, when the only audience is us? (It's cheating if he knows he's on a TV show and just acting for us.) Is it method acting? Is he using the terminal for some other purpose, such as responding to his boss's message, which might've been, "The Hatch is about to be blown; get ready."? Is he injecting something that has nothing to do with the whole ruse, but is just something he uses regularly (like insulin or anabolic steroid) and that they re-labeled?

Or are the "continuity errors" that've been widely pointed out in that scene significant? Could he actually have been made to crash in the Pacific, given a story by this guy Calvin/Kelvin whom he believed, and been a true believer for some time? And then removed while unconscious to an almost identical looking facility on Bioko to meet the Losties (who themselves were taken to their "crash site" unconscious, except for the insiders)?

Robert

[hypokinetic]

where do you get "bioko"

desmond looked pretty serious to me, he had been pressing that button for quite a while regardless of how he got there

[Simplist]

yeah very possible... i was also thinking desmond was "not real" but merely generated on the ISLAND from jacks memory...

as was the drug plane from ekco's memory
as was the black horse from kates memory
as are the numbers from hurleys memory
as was the Black Rock from someone elses memory..

[SQT]

Have I missed something major? What is Bioko?

SQT

[Dr. Suds]

Originally Posted by SQT

Have I missed something major? What is Bioko?

SQT

Fernando Poo, recently renamed. The Losties are confined to its southernmost portion.

After season 1 I took a stab as to where Craphole Island (Get the pun? I noticed only recently) would be. I didn't believe the crash was real, and knowing that the Losties had been rendered unconscious, I knew they could've been relocated to any tropical coast.

The radio distress call in French sounded like a plea from a disease-ridden French-speaking area, and I didn't believe it had anything to do with Danielle Rousseau. The Beechcraft referenced Nigeria. I thought those two items might've been out of the control of the makers of the illusion of the "crash", so that they could give geographic clues. They point to Nigeria and Cameroon.

I also figured Damon would work in an Illuminatus! allusion. (It goes with the 23s and the conspiratorial nature of the plot.) So Fernando Po(o) fit just fine. http://users.bestweb.net/~robgood/teach/GetLost.html for my analysis at the time including this. I figured Craphole was likely to be either on or near Fernando Poo on the Bight of Biafra.

With the recent confirmation of the Beechcraft's being from Nigeria, and more importantly the seeming unlikelihood Mr. Echo's shot-in-the-chest brother would've been transported far, I decided Fernando Poo/Bioko is exactly where they are. The southernmost part of the island seems to have appropriate features.

Robert