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"Lost" theory by Hubby
My hubby has a theory about the television show, "Lost." He asked if he could post it here, so without further ado...here's my hubby.
Ahem. Cough cough. This thing on? Right. My name is Gregory "Darling Hubby" Lannom. I have a theory about Lost. It is mine. It is my theory. I thought of it, so...it is mine. Ahem. Cough cough. AHEM. This is my theory, which is mine about the teevee show Lost. Ahem. My theory:
The castaways are clones.
The island is owned by the Hanso Corporation, an arms manufacturer who also claims to be out to better humanity. The clones are being tested on the island along with other cloned creations, like the polar bear and other "artificially created" items. The idea of clones, or at least, constructed/artificial people came to me with the teevee show's liberal use of flashbacks. The viewer is able to see small snippits of background information on the characters, which helps explain how they are operating on the island.
In the short story, "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K Dick, which is the basis for the movie Blade Runner, people are constructed using memories from other people.
Those "replicants" cannot be readily distinguished from regular folk. They themselves, if they do not know they are replicants, believe themselves to be human. The Blade Runner, Decker, may himself be a replicant constructed to hunt down and kill other replicants, thereby removing the moral question of humans killing their creations. If the creature kills one of it's own, and the creatures aren't human anyway...where is the sin? Another angle on this subject is in the story "Demon with a Glass Hand," by Harlan Ellison. In it, a human is used to protect a woman from people from the future who are out to get her, but the man learns in the story that he's actually a robot, an android.
The flashbacks we're able to see in Lost are planted, either artificial or already existing, memories that are given to the clones to give them the understanding that they are human. I think the majority of the memories are contrived and this is the explanation for the common thread throughout the memories, the repetition of the "numbers" and the appearance of characters in other character's flashbacks when they really shouldn't be there. The commonalities in the flashbacks can either be seen as clues embedded by the scientists to perhaps give the castaways clues to their true origins, or could be a flaw in the programming of these memories. I believe the "red herrings" in the flashbacks are subtle clues to the clones that there couldn't possibly be something like definite number sequences in their past that are also present on the island. The prospect of memory implants then presents itself, and who would need memory implants better than "people" who have been created in a lab and may only have been activated on the beach?
That's right. There was actually no plane crash, but wreckage and what not are there as props. The flashbacks that are events happening right before the first shot in the pilot are all memory implants. Then what happens is the scientists watch their experiment and see what happens. Could cloning work? Could you use clones as spies and human targets (used to impersonate important people who are under assassination threat) and soldiers? Would they believe themselves to be human if you had memories that told them they were? If you have either a purposeful common thread in the memory implants in the "unit" or have a flaw in the memory programming...would they discover the truth? What would happen then?
Are the "Others" clones? Are they actual humans who are being used to test how human the clones are? Do the Others know the castaways are clones?
This theory, of advanced cloning, is also helped along by the physical presence on the island of a highly-technological machine composed of "nano-machines." I speak of The Monster. There's a quote by Arthur C. Clarke which goes: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." The monster is seen as a floating body of dark, black smoke, but which can also manifest into objects, like the rope that is used to drag Locke. It can touch a person's nervous system and brain, which are themselves only advanced electric impulses and project those images in and on its body. It might also be able to: like a virus, infiltrate a person's body and take over that person's nervous system...manipulate its shape to impersonate someone or something...and, more insidious, be sentient and self-aware enough to be playing with the castaways, like a cat with a mouse. Nano machines are microscopic and have been in development to be used in surgery and other uses. They're made of proteins and whatnot, but are also machines in that context. I think the "Monster" needs to feed, but not much, to sustain its integrity.
I think it's purpose is to be a weapon and also a remote communications/manipulation device...a highly advanced concept on robots that disable bombs or fly around warzones and pick off the enemy. We already have those...why can't there be advanced development of these principles? The reason why very mechanical, steam-engine-like sounds come from the monster is that the nano-machines are able to construct simple, larger, powerful machines than a cloud of smoke. Steam power only requires water and heat and fairly simple mechanisms. Why did the cloud of smoke only make a rope to drag Locke? Because if it "melded" into a more complex machine, the jig would be up. Locke wasn't alone, remember. The monster is designed to maintain the "monstrous/magical" aspect, while also doing it's job. If you can't read the serial number on it, you can't prove such and such a country sent it to do whathaveyou.
It is also programmed to attack threats and reacts differently when it confronts different people. Some people, it drags off and eats, some it uses psychological warfare on, or "reads" people and leaves them if there is no threat perceived. Such a weapon could be put in a warzone and be able to "read" who the enemy are. No friendly fire here. How can it fly? Nano-machines individually too small to be seen could have the ability to fly from several techniques, like motorized wings, intake jets, even advanced technology like...say what keeps Luke Skywalker's landspeeder up.
The Hatch and the computer and all that stuff? That's like the box with the buttons and blinking lights they use to train animals. It's something to do that doesn't make sense, but allows one to study the "animals" interaction with it. Something to keep them busy so they can't think too much on how crazy it all is.
The clones are also from varied types, skills, races, etc. Each model of clone currently in development is being tested on the island. And you have to test these things on a private island owned by a corporation, since the whole clone issue is so controversial.
Dharma means "Protection." The Dharma Initiative, a division of the Hanso Corporation, develops technologies that seek to preserve and protect human life while also developing technologies that are offensive minded. Again we have the idea of, if not military, definitely Area 51-type experimentation along certain lines that seem very mysterious to the castaways. The "phantom monster" and the unreal situation, the flashbacks to the past and these odd places like the hatch have led many to think that the island is Purgatory, since it seems so dreamlike. But when you have advanced nano-technology that can create and mimic things, advanced/eccentric technology that has no parallels in the "real world" and contrived memories the whole thing would seem outside reality.
One last bit about the castaways being clones/replicants. Hurley hasn't lost any weight, really, none of the castaways look like someone who has only spent one week on Survivor does. Sure they eat and drink, but they also appear to be much hardier than regular humans. You've had instances of people being able to walk after not being able to and people who have been injured, but maybe not as seriously as they should have been. If the clones themselves are composed of nano-machines, that would explain these events. There has been death, but this could have been pre-programmed to happen, in order to see how the clones deal with death.
So that's my theory. There are broader concepts and sources for some of the goings on going on the island and a very broad number of red herrings thrown out by the creators of Lost. But next time you watch...think about it in this context: You're a scientist watching a monitor. You watch the memory implants before or after that same individual has a prominent role in what's going on that "episode." You're watching your clones try and figure it out and you're taking notes on how all your creations are doing during this test. You turn on your monitor once a week at a certain time and chart the results.
I'll finish with another quote from Clarke again: "As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self-destroying." The morality of creating clones and having them put on an island and basically be messed with requires a quantum leap in morality in the wrong direction and when superior science is not governed by morality...then a black cloud will come in through your air conditioner during the night and eat you and it will not. leave. one. crumb. behind.
I will now return this blog to it's regular programming...
Ahem. Cough cough. This thing on? Right. My name is Gregory "Darling Hubby" Lannom. I have a theory about Lost. It is mine. It is my theory. I thought of it, so...it is mine. Ahem. Cough cough. AHEM. This is my theory, which is mine about the teevee show Lost. Ahem. My theory:
The castaways are clones.
The island is owned by the Hanso Corporation, an arms manufacturer who also claims to be out to better humanity. The clones are being tested on the island along with other cloned creations, like the polar bear and other "artificially created" items. The idea of clones, or at least, constructed/artificial people came to me with the teevee show's liberal use of flashbacks. The viewer is able to see small snippits of background information on the characters, which helps explain how they are operating on the island.
In the short story, "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K Dick, which is the basis for the movie Blade Runner, people are constructed using memories from other people.
Those "replicants" cannot be readily distinguished from regular folk. They themselves, if they do not know they are replicants, believe themselves to be human. The Blade Runner, Decker, may himself be a replicant constructed to hunt down and kill other replicants, thereby removing the moral question of humans killing their creations. If the creature kills one of it's own, and the creatures aren't human anyway...where is the sin? Another angle on this subject is in the story "Demon with a Glass Hand," by Harlan Ellison. In it, a human is used to protect a woman from people from the future who are out to get her, but the man learns in the story that he's actually a robot, an android.
The flashbacks we're able to see in Lost are planted, either artificial or already existing, memories that are given to the clones to give them the understanding that they are human. I think the majority of the memories are contrived and this is the explanation for the common thread throughout the memories, the repetition of the "numbers" and the appearance of characters in other character's flashbacks when they really shouldn't be there. The commonalities in the flashbacks can either be seen as clues embedded by the scientists to perhaps give the castaways clues to their true origins, or could be a flaw in the programming of these memories. I believe the "red herrings" in the flashbacks are subtle clues to the clones that there couldn't possibly be something like definite number sequences in their past that are also present on the island. The prospect of memory implants then presents itself, and who would need memory implants better than "people" who have been created in a lab and may only have been activated on the beach?
That's right. There was actually no plane crash, but wreckage and what not are there as props. The flashbacks that are events happening right before the first shot in the pilot are all memory implants. Then what happens is the scientists watch their experiment and see what happens. Could cloning work? Could you use clones as spies and human targets (used to impersonate important people who are under assassination threat) and soldiers? Would they believe themselves to be human if you had memories that told them they were? If you have either a purposeful common thread in the memory implants in the "unit" or have a flaw in the memory programming...would they discover the truth? What would happen then?
Are the "Others" clones? Are they actual humans who are being used to test how human the clones are? Do the Others know the castaways are clones?
This theory, of advanced cloning, is also helped along by the physical presence on the island of a highly-technological machine composed of "nano-machines." I speak of The Monster. There's a quote by Arthur C. Clarke which goes: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." The monster is seen as a floating body of dark, black smoke, but which can also manifest into objects, like the rope that is used to drag Locke. It can touch a person's nervous system and brain, which are themselves only advanced electric impulses and project those images in and on its body. It might also be able to: like a virus, infiltrate a person's body and take over that person's nervous system...manipulate its shape to impersonate someone or something...and, more insidious, be sentient and self-aware enough to be playing with the castaways, like a cat with a mouse. Nano machines are microscopic and have been in development to be used in surgery and other uses. They're made of proteins and whatnot, but are also machines in that context. I think the "Monster" needs to feed, but not much, to sustain its integrity.
I think it's purpose is to be a weapon and also a remote communications/manipulation device...a highly advanced concept on robots that disable bombs or fly around warzones and pick off the enemy. We already have those...why can't there be advanced development of these principles? The reason why very mechanical, steam-engine-like sounds come from the monster is that the nano-machines are able to construct simple, larger, powerful machines than a cloud of smoke. Steam power only requires water and heat and fairly simple mechanisms. Why did the cloud of smoke only make a rope to drag Locke? Because if it "melded" into a more complex machine, the jig would be up. Locke wasn't alone, remember. The monster is designed to maintain the "monstrous/magical" aspect, while also doing it's job. If you can't read the serial number on it, you can't prove such and such a country sent it to do whathaveyou.
It is also programmed to attack threats and reacts differently when it confronts different people. Some people, it drags off and eats, some it uses psychological warfare on, or "reads" people and leaves them if there is no threat perceived. Such a weapon could be put in a warzone and be able to "read" who the enemy are. No friendly fire here. How can it fly? Nano-machines individually too small to be seen could have the ability to fly from several techniques, like motorized wings, intake jets, even advanced technology like...say what keeps Luke Skywalker's landspeeder up.
The Hatch and the computer and all that stuff? That's like the box with the buttons and blinking lights they use to train animals. It's something to do that doesn't make sense, but allows one to study the "animals" interaction with it. Something to keep them busy so they can't think too much on how crazy it all is.
The clones are also from varied types, skills, races, etc. Each model of clone currently in development is being tested on the island. And you have to test these things on a private island owned by a corporation, since the whole clone issue is so controversial.
Dharma means "Protection." The Dharma Initiative, a division of the Hanso Corporation, develops technologies that seek to preserve and protect human life while also developing technologies that are offensive minded. Again we have the idea of, if not military, definitely Area 51-type experimentation along certain lines that seem very mysterious to the castaways. The "phantom monster" and the unreal situation, the flashbacks to the past and these odd places like the hatch have led many to think that the island is Purgatory, since it seems so dreamlike. But when you have advanced nano-technology that can create and mimic things, advanced/eccentric technology that has no parallels in the "real world" and contrived memories the whole thing would seem outside reality.
One last bit about the castaways being clones/replicants. Hurley hasn't lost any weight, really, none of the castaways look like someone who has only spent one week on Survivor does. Sure they eat and drink, but they also appear to be much hardier than regular humans. You've had instances of people being able to walk after not being able to and people who have been injured, but maybe not as seriously as they should have been. If the clones themselves are composed of nano-machines, that would explain these events. There has been death, but this could have been pre-programmed to happen, in order to see how the clones deal with death.
So that's my theory. There are broader concepts and sources for some of the goings on going on the island and a very broad number of red herrings thrown out by the creators of Lost. But next time you watch...think about it in this context: You're a scientist watching a monitor. You watch the memory implants before or after that same individual has a prominent role in what's going on that "episode." You're watching your clones try and figure it out and you're taking notes on how all your creations are doing during this test. You turn on your monitor once a week at a certain time and chart the results.
I'll finish with another quote from Clarke again: "As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self-destroying." The morality of creating clones and having them put on an island and basically be messed with requires a quantum leap in morality in the wrong direction and when superior science is not governed by morality...then a black cloud will come in through your air conditioner during the night and eat you and it will not. leave. one. crumb. behind.
I will now return this blog to it's regular programming...