I have just finished rewatching season 1 and 2, as I had missed out on the first episodes of season 1. I can tell you I really enjoyed rewatching both seasons. That is the old time when they were all together! I hate the fact that the group is now divided.
The first two seasons focused on each character’s history and I could not help but notice a few things that bothered me:
1. Locke and his hunting abilities
2. the number 16
3. Rousseau and the distress call
4. Good and bad theme of the show
1. I thought Locke was especially very enigmatic in season 1. He appears to be a very strong person with a lot of faith on the island, which seems to give him many insights on its mysteries.
But what bothered me was the fact that he arrived on the island with 400 knives. I know Hurley joked about it and the number might have come out of nowhere.
Anyway, the fact is that Locke packed a significant number of knives in his suitcase and we might wonder why he did so.
Well, he was booked on a walkabout tour departing from Darwin, Australia. But what is a walkabout tour exactly? As I have lived in Australia for many years and worked in the tourism industry I can answer this question. This is a tour where you walk in the bush discovering the sceneries, aboriginal lands or just national parks. You might meet some aborigines who will teach you all about bush medicine and how they used to hunt and gather food. So as you see this is far from being a hunting tour for which you need hundreds of knives.
What is more, when we get to know Locke better, we realize he is not a hunter and has never hunt before meeting his father, Cooper.
So where did he get his hunting and tracking skills from? Why is he called the hunter and what did he need his knives for?
2. I know, you are going to tell me that the number 16 is part of the numbers, thus being important. But there is something more to it.
It seems that 16 years before Hugo won the lottery with the numbers, a first guy used the numbers and “opened the box”.
This is also when Rousseau’s team arrived on the island and when Alex was born. Something went wrong and someone (Rousseau?) killed the whole crew.
16 years later, Hugo wins the lottery with the numbers. The whole plane gets on the island, Aaron is born and something goes wrong once again!
Is that a coincidence? It looks like the ‘box’ opens up every 16 years asking for a newborn!
3. Rousseau is a very strange woman and there are many inconsistencies so far about who she pretends to be and who she really is.
Ben called her insane in season 4 (when Alex died). But so far, all I can tell is that she has been very affected by the loss of her daughter.
She has helped many times the losties and brought them wherever they wanted to go. What she said has been so far very consistent (the others and the whispers), but not necessarily true:
For a start, when Sayid met her for the first time, she claimed to be Danielle Rousseau, who was part of a French expedition from the Pacific. Most of the names of her crew are French: Montand, Rousseau and Robert.
There is only one problem, she is not French and her accent is nothing like French.
We know now that the actress is Croatian and so far I cannot explain the choice of the producers for choosing a Croatian actress to play the role of a French person (considering the fact there are many French actresses out there as good as Mira Furlan) , except for one reason: Danielle is not the French girl who left the message. She is not French and Danielle might not even be her real name.
I had never listened to the distress call before. So rewatching the first episodes enabled me to listen to it very carefully.
Being French myself, I can tell you without hesitation that the person who left the message is a native French person without any accent whatsoever. And that person is not Mira Furlan.
Mira speaks French with a very strong Croatian accent, and does not hide it. When she pronounces the name of her daughter (alexandra) in ‘maternity leave’, she does it with a strong Croatian accent.
Danielle, or whoever she is, has assumed the identity of the French girl for a reason. And that reason is not that she is insane, but probably because she is hiding something.
Now we might wonder if she lies when she claims that she killed her crew because they were sick. Whatever it is, it is certainly different from the French girl’s story; in her distress call, she said ‘He killed them all’ (the French message says He and not It). So we might assume that someone, a man killed her crew.
But I believe she told the truth when she said the radio tower was near the Black Rock.
I know, the Black Rock is in the Dark Territory, but think a minute:
The French chick says she will return to the Black Rock, implying it is a safe place for her to go after “he” killed them all.
However, the Black Rock, the ship, is anything but safe considering that it is full of explosives and that it is located in the Dark Territory. Why would anyone hide there?
My point is that there are two Black Rocks. One is the ship we have known so far, the other one could be a Dharma Station.
Why a Dharma Station you will ask me? Because the French girl who left the message might be part of the Dharma Initiative and therefore might have worked in the station.
And the reason I believe she is part of the DI is because the message she left was sent to specific people on the island. If we listen carefully, the distress call has no information about the girl’s location which would help any person outside the island to locate her. The only information we have is that “he killed them all, Brennan got the keys and that she is going back to the Black Rock”. So the person who was supposed to get the message was also supposed to know what she was talking about: “he” as the killer of the crew, the crew and the Black Rock. And since the French girl was part of a scientific expedition (if what Rousseau said is true), then I can only see her being part of the DI.
So what could that Black Rock be? I did not manage to get a map with the radio tower on it. Therefore I cannot check the information, but my guess is that the Black Rock can be the Dharma Station which was guarded by the Others at the camp where Walt was being kept. A huge Black Rock with the form of a gate/door was located nearby and I suppose that why the station has got the door logo.
I have posted another theory about this rock, which has the shape of a chet, number 8. It is thought to be a gateway to other worlds. So I thought that the Dharma Initiative could have built a station near it to exploit the special properties of the place and travel between worlds and timelines.
So if the Black Rock is a station which enables people to get out of the island, I would understand why the French girl wanted to get back there when she saw there was danger on the island.
4. There is a recurrent theme in Lost: bad and good. Just to give you a few examples:
Sawyer calls himself a bad person
The psychic tells Claire she is a good person and must bring up her child alone.
Ben tells Locke he is one of the good ones
Yemi gives a message to his brother via Charlotte saying he is a good person.
Ethan says that they (the others) are good people.
I could not understand why it was significant in the storyline until I heard the following quote from Ben:
In season 2, Ben is held prisoner in the Swan station. Sayid is mad at him because he lied about his identity and is about to shoot him. That is when Ben says with great emphasis:
“You can’t do that I am not a bad person”!
So could that be “the rules” he was talking about when he said “he changed the rules” in season 4 ? Meaning, one cannot kill a good person.
Remember Juliet who killed one of the Others? She was almost sentenced to death, why? Because she killed a good person.
And I believe that Widmore also stands by those rules. That would explain why he was not supposed to kill Alex.
That sounds simplistic, but if they live according to the Book of Laws (in season two, Eko tells the story of Josaiah who rebuilt the temple with the book of Law, meaning the Old Testament), being a good or a bad person would matter to them. And such rules (among other) would represent the foundation of their society.
One last thing. I am not sure that it means anything, but when Hurley got on the plane (he was late remember, and got desperate to catch the plane), Walt looks at him. That is when Hurley smiles and thumbs up. Walt smiles back. Is that a coincidence or they did know each other ?
I hope you enjoy the reading!
Theory by Celine
The first two seasons focused on each character’s history and I could not help but notice a few things that bothered me:
1. Locke and his hunting abilities
2. the number 16
3. Rousseau and the distress call
4. Good and bad theme of the show
1. I thought Locke was especially very enigmatic in season 1. He appears to be a very strong person with a lot of faith on the island, which seems to give him many insights on its mysteries.
But what bothered me was the fact that he arrived on the island with 400 knives. I know Hurley joked about it and the number might have come out of nowhere.
Anyway, the fact is that Locke packed a significant number of knives in his suitcase and we might wonder why he did so.
Well, he was booked on a walkabout tour departing from Darwin, Australia. But what is a walkabout tour exactly? As I have lived in Australia for many years and worked in the tourism industry I can answer this question. This is a tour where you walk in the bush discovering the sceneries, aboriginal lands or just national parks. You might meet some aborigines who will teach you all about bush medicine and how they used to hunt and gather food. So as you see this is far from being a hunting tour for which you need hundreds of knives.
What is more, when we get to know Locke better, we realize he is not a hunter and has never hunt before meeting his father, Cooper.
So where did he get his hunting and tracking skills from? Why is he called the hunter and what did he need his knives for?
2. I know, you are going to tell me that the number 16 is part of the numbers, thus being important. But there is something more to it.
It seems that 16 years before Hugo won the lottery with the numbers, a first guy used the numbers and “opened the box”.
This is also when Rousseau’s team arrived on the island and when Alex was born. Something went wrong and someone (Rousseau?) killed the whole crew.
16 years later, Hugo wins the lottery with the numbers. The whole plane gets on the island, Aaron is born and something goes wrong once again!
Is that a coincidence? It looks like the ‘box’ opens up every 16 years asking for a newborn!
3. Rousseau is a very strange woman and there are many inconsistencies so far about who she pretends to be and who she really is.
Ben called her insane in season 4 (when Alex died). But so far, all I can tell is that she has been very affected by the loss of her daughter.
She has helped many times the losties and brought them wherever they wanted to go. What she said has been so far very consistent (the others and the whispers), but not necessarily true:
For a start, when Sayid met her for the first time, she claimed to be Danielle Rousseau, who was part of a French expedition from the Pacific. Most of the names of her crew are French: Montand, Rousseau and Robert.
There is only one problem, she is not French and her accent is nothing like French.
We know now that the actress is Croatian and so far I cannot explain the choice of the producers for choosing a Croatian actress to play the role of a French person (considering the fact there are many French actresses out there as good as Mira Furlan) , except for one reason: Danielle is not the French girl who left the message. She is not French and Danielle might not even be her real name.
I had never listened to the distress call before. So rewatching the first episodes enabled me to listen to it very carefully.
Being French myself, I can tell you without hesitation that the person who left the message is a native French person without any accent whatsoever. And that person is not Mira Furlan.
Mira speaks French with a very strong Croatian accent, and does not hide it. When she pronounces the name of her daughter (alexandra) in ‘maternity leave’, she does it with a strong Croatian accent.
Danielle, or whoever she is, has assumed the identity of the French girl for a reason. And that reason is not that she is insane, but probably because she is hiding something.
Now we might wonder if she lies when she claims that she killed her crew because they were sick. Whatever it is, it is certainly different from the French girl’s story; in her distress call, she said ‘He killed them all’ (the French message says He and not It). So we might assume that someone, a man killed her crew.
But I believe she told the truth when she said the radio tower was near the Black Rock.
I know, the Black Rock is in the Dark Territory, but think a minute:
The French chick says she will return to the Black Rock, implying it is a safe place for her to go after “he” killed them all.
However, the Black Rock, the ship, is anything but safe considering that it is full of explosives and that it is located in the Dark Territory. Why would anyone hide there?
My point is that there are two Black Rocks. One is the ship we have known so far, the other one could be a Dharma Station.
Why a Dharma Station you will ask me? Because the French girl who left the message might be part of the Dharma Initiative and therefore might have worked in the station.
And the reason I believe she is part of the DI is because the message she left was sent to specific people on the island. If we listen carefully, the distress call has no information about the girl’s location which would help any person outside the island to locate her. The only information we have is that “he killed them all, Brennan got the keys and that she is going back to the Black Rock”. So the person who was supposed to get the message was also supposed to know what she was talking about: “he” as the killer of the crew, the crew and the Black Rock. And since the French girl was part of a scientific expedition (if what Rousseau said is true), then I can only see her being part of the DI.
So what could that Black Rock be? I did not manage to get a map with the radio tower on it. Therefore I cannot check the information, but my guess is that the Black Rock can be the Dharma Station which was guarded by the Others at the camp where Walt was being kept. A huge Black Rock with the form of a gate/door was located nearby and I suppose that why the station has got the door logo.
I have posted another theory about this rock, which has the shape of a chet, number 8. It is thought to be a gateway to other worlds. So I thought that the Dharma Initiative could have built a station near it to exploit the special properties of the place and travel between worlds and timelines.
So if the Black Rock is a station which enables people to get out of the island, I would understand why the French girl wanted to get back there when she saw there was danger on the island.
4. There is a recurrent theme in Lost: bad and good. Just to give you a few examples:
Sawyer calls himself a bad person
The psychic tells Claire she is a good person and must bring up her child alone.
Ben tells Locke he is one of the good ones
Yemi gives a message to his brother via Charlotte saying he is a good person.
Ethan says that they (the others) are good people.
I could not understand why it was significant in the storyline until I heard the following quote from Ben:
In season 2, Ben is held prisoner in the Swan station. Sayid is mad at him because he lied about his identity and is about to shoot him. That is when Ben says with great emphasis:
“You can’t do that I am not a bad person”!
So could that be “the rules” he was talking about when he said “he changed the rules” in season 4 ? Meaning, one cannot kill a good person.
Remember Juliet who killed one of the Others? She was almost sentenced to death, why? Because she killed a good person.
And I believe that Widmore also stands by those rules. That would explain why he was not supposed to kill Alex.
That sounds simplistic, but if they live according to the Book of Laws (in season two, Eko tells the story of Josaiah who rebuilt the temple with the book of Law, meaning the Old Testament), being a good or a bad person would matter to them. And such rules (among other) would represent the foundation of their society.
One last thing. I am not sure that it means anything, but when Hurley got on the plane (he was late remember, and got desperate to catch the plane), Walt looks at him. That is when Hurley smiles and thumbs up. Walt smiles back. Is that a coincidence or they did know each other ?
I hope you enjoy the reading!
Theory by Celine
