Smokey and Sonic Fence

There has been some chatter in other threads about this and I thought it deserved its own thread.

Ok the big question:
Why couldn't it just go over the fence like K/S/L/ and Danielle did?

The best reason I could come up with was that the effects of the fence extend above it. But for this to be true then it would mean that the fence was off when K/S/L/D climbed over. But wait if the fence was off then what about Patchy, I mean with blood spewing out of his ears and the noise the fence made it sure looked like it was on to me.

So now I am just going in circles trying to answer the question.

any ideas?

Maybe it felt the initial force and just backed away instead of trying to go over it. Like a defense mechanism, it sensed danger and just disappeared?

that makes sense, but also seems kinda lame.

I would hope the writers could do better than that.

Or maybe it knew that it could go over it, but played a mind game itself. Made Kate and Juliet think they were safe if it went on, but next time it was just soar right through it.

It's a bubble like what was foreshadowed in Hurley's comicbook that Walt was looking at in Season one.

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Originally Posted by queenbeesteph

It's a bubble like what was foreshadowed in Hurley's comicbook that Walt was looking at in Season one.

Ok. But if it is a bubble how did Kate climb over it before?

Did someone turn it off after Pacthy was pushed through?
Things just don't add up or they get really complicated. But I guess no more complicated than anything else so far.

I think the Others know far more than they would ever tell (because then they would have to kill us, right Juliet?). I've heard the term "badder than we think they are" used to describe them. PLUS if Ben's lived there his whole life he surely knows quite abit about the happenings on creepy island. And there are moniters EVERYWHERE!!! I thought Ben's little station was the only one monitering the "bear" (or is that bare) activity at the hydra and Jack was the only one who saw Sawyer and Kate, but apparently lots of Others had seen it, or at least talked about it, so are there more moniters?
Was the fence off last night until Juliet pushed in the code? So the Ben-Others turned it off to move to where ever they are moving to and didn't want to waste electricity by turning it on to guard only Jack and Sayid? Maybe the Flame station was important to the operation of the fence, and now that Mikhail's dead and Flame's blown up, there's trouble with the fence. Or maybe the fence was never on and Mikhail bit down on the cyanide capsule embedded in his tooth (remnant of the cold war) to kill himself. It's probably more logical to think that it is a perimeter fence, but in order to keep smokey out I want it to be a bubble.

Technically Kate never climbed over the actual fence. They climbed over the pillars which generate the fence. So the fence only works from one pillar to another but not over the pillars. Its the only logical reason why nothing happened to them when they climbed over it.

I already mentioned this. Sonic fence being about 15 feet high and Smoky not being able to float over it + Lame!

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Originally Posted by dwaldron84

Technically Kate never climbed over the actual fence. They climbed over the pillars which generate the fence. So the fence only works from one pillar to another but not over the pillars. Its the only logical reason why nothing happened to them when they climbed over it.

I agree with your reasoning, but if this is the answer then I think that it is really lame. smokey could just do the same thing.

I actually hope that it was off when they climbed over.