I'm pulling this out of the Walt thread, so as not to thread-drift in there and because Bess asked.*
I think that genetics is important somehow but I don't know how.* Genetic tampering, engineering, something -- there's a string of things that seem related to genetics but I can't tie them together in any way that makes sense.* The missing hair brushes, Claire's special baby, polar bears that are comfortable in a hot climate, Alex, all the emphasis on fathers... there's something in there.*
One of my own pet theories is that Claire's pregnancy was deliberate -- not on her part, on someone else's.* She was taking birth control pills, but they can be tampered with.* Maybe there is something about Claire's particular genetic makeup that would make any child of hers special.* (As opposed to the baby being special for some paranormal reason.)
Yes, I think there may be something about the island which alters the genome.
I've mentioned in other threads that French nuclear testing was carried out in Polynesia, and how that may explain the "hatch" and the cables.
Radioactivity in the soil would get into the food supply.* That would be bad for everyone, but particularly a developing baby.* Accepting certain Hollywood cliches about radiation, it's also possible that something the islanders are eating is not entirely benign.* So there may be mutant fruit as well.* E.g. the coconut milk now includes small doses of a mild hallucinogen.
I think there is an intoxicant somewhere in the food chain.* The creators have said everything that happens is based on fact.* But we already know the islanders hallucinate.* It's also possible that Danielle's team was either investigating mutations, or creating them! So they may know something about the native plant and animal life we don't.
All valid points and great theories, but I was also wondering if genetics is what got them on that island in the first place.Suppose it isn't as random as it seems -- suppose someone just yanked the right chain to get them on that plane and therefore that island.* That person would have to know their complete background and what chain to yank, which means they'd have to have followed their life since they were children.* There would be no reason to follow such a diverse group of people from childhood on, unless there was something "different" about them as children.* Or does that sound raving mad?* *
(We need a different title for this forum so that I can blame it on the forum title.* "Well this IS the raving-lunatic forum after all!")
Maybe the person they think is their father isn't really, or something in their genetic makeup makes them the right people for whatever's going on there, or... ah rats it's all blurry, like the psychic's vision.*
One thing that popped into my head for no reason that I can remember, was that news story some years back about a doctor who ran a fertility clinic, and who claimed to be using donor sperm.* But as it turned out he was doing all the donating.*
I think you may be on to something, Kato. At the very least there is probably some experimentation with genetics happening on the island, as evidenced by the lack of hair brushes.
Plus, it does seem that all the survivors were somehow hand picked, but I can't figure out how this would work. Do you think the Others have a link to the outside, and are working with people in the various countries where the castaways come from? It seems like a bit of a stretch that some organization has been watching all these individuals from childhood and then managed to get them all on a plane together. But hey anything's possible this is the...oh wait it's not the "wild theories" board anymore! I too miss the name.
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I think there is an intoxicant somewhere in the food chain. The creators have said everything that happens is based on fact. But we already know the islanders hallucinate. It's also possible that Danielle's team was either investigating mutations, or creating them! So they may know something about the native plant and animal life we don't.
I agree there is probably something strange about the island food, perhaps caused by radiation or some other kind-of scientific experimentation. Remember Claire's baby didn't move until she ate island food.
The hand-picked part is hard to work, even if someone had a reason to keep tabs on these people from birth onwards, because it would take a huge amount of time and money.* What on earth would the payoff be for that?* Unless they were somehow microchipped or something as children. * (That's the 24 influence there.)
But I do think the Others have a link to the outside, and probably even come and go as they please.* I don't think the plane randomly happened to fly over their airspace and get snared in a trap, I think they chose that plane before it took off.*
And I think Ethan managed to blend in too well with the Lostaways for someone who was raised without any contact with the civilized world -- or, at least without contact with people who had contact.
And they have an awful lot of supplies for people who just happened to end up there -- metal to make a hatch and something to forge the hatch, (and whatever it leads to, the tools necessary to create it), a power source, that cable in the water...
The hand-picked part is hard to work, even if someone had a reason to keep tabs on these people from birth onward, because it would take a huge amount of time and money.* What on earth would the payoff be for that?* Unless they were somehow microchipped or something as children. * (That's the 24 influence there.)
But I do think the Others have a link to the outside, and probably even come and go as they please.* I don't think the plane randomly happened to fly over their airspace and get snared in a trap, I think they chose that plane before it took off.*
Of course the survivors really don't have to be from the outside world at all. There is already evidence of some type of mind erase technology. Claire and Charlie have been subjected to that treatment (maybe). That type of ability perhaps also gives the ability to program the mind to believe whatever its controller wants. Oh I don't know like a plane crash or the fact that your mother was killed while you hid under a bed type of thing.
Here is a longshot for you but say that they were all more or less created on the island genetically or even cloned from the original people on the island If they were raised in lab conditions there entire lives could have been programmed as memories. ala the matrix....Who knows if the flashbacks we have been seeing are real or memorex...?
Perhaps they are being tested in social and adaptive skills before the project can be called a success. So the entire island becomes a testing facility to release them into our society so that pinky and the brain can finally take over the world. :-\
I know how crazy that sounds and how many holes there are in the theory but it is a "link" genetically.
There is already evidence of some type of mind erase technology.
That type of ability perhaps also gives the ability to program the mind to believe whatever its controller wants.
Here is a longshot for you but say that they were all more or less created on the island genetically or even cloned from the original people on the island If they were raised in lab conditions there entire lives could have been programmed as memories. ala the matrix....
The creators have said there is a rational explanation for everything that happens. This is not intended as a sci-fi show.
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