My son came up with an interesting theory , He thinks the losties caught the illness/disease that Danielle Rouseau was referring to in her message about everyone else in her group being dead .... and if or when they leave they will surely die b/c the island has healing power . It really adds up to me , that may be why Jack was taking the pain meds ... the illness is affecting him already , plus the death of one or more of them already . I hate to admit it but Locke was probably right all along .

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That's a possibility. Jack does look miserable, but Kate looked perfect, defreckled and everything. There's some secret to the island, if they aren't on it anymore though, I wonder how they will discover what it is.

that is an excellent theory! tell your son he's a genuis!!

She WAS defreckled! I noticed that too.

I like your son's theory. It makes sense. My one question is, if the island has so many healing powers, how come Rousseau's team didn't survive the illness?

I don't think it was a sickness in the usual sense. I think maybe the Others used Room 23 to brainwash Danielle's team. Maybe it convinced them all to become violent (a la Jacob's Ladder, anyone see that movie about military brainwashing in Vietnam? Very thought-provoking) and Rousseau was the only one to actually survive it? Maybe only she was brainwashed to think that her team was infected, so she would "put them out of their misery"?

Rousseau was the only woman on the team, right, and certainly the only pregnant one. To me, she would have been the only one of the group the Others would be interested in. The rest were disposable.

Or, according to the Lost Experience, during the Worldwide Wellness and Prevention Development Program - what was really going on with the organ harvesting was they were looking to see who actually contracted the virus. [Mittlewerk scusses taking "radical action" and killing innocent villagers under the pretense that they are bringing a cure to a disease carried by macaques. In reality, they have engineered into the virus, and are purposefully testing it. A 30% mortality rate will help them solve the equation by altering one of the core values, extinction through over-population. They require all the bodies of the dead for full genetic research because they only want to kill off thirty percent of the world's population to save the remaining seventy percent. ] - The Lost Experience
Apparently some people are naturally immune to the virus (if you think the virus and the "sickness" are the same) which might explain why Rousseau survived and why Jack is terrible in his flashforward.

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I understood almost nothing of what you just wrote because I missed the Lost Experience. (Darn it!) Two questions I have for you:

1.) How much is a thorough understanding of the Lost Experience necessary to understand what's happening on Lost, to make connections, etc.? If it turns out that the climax of the whole series only makes sense to people who know the Lost Experience I'm gonna be one p.o.'d camper. Yessir, I am.

2.) You mentioned something about organ harvesting in the LE. Does Locke's kidney have something to do with that?

Curious,

CPPAH

During the game last year, the producers said over and over that the game had nothing to do with the show and held no insights into the story arc. There were a few things, such as some history of the Dharma Initiative, ancestors of a few of the lesser characters (the Widmores), and the saying "Namaste", which I have heard some of the Others say.

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i thought the virus was a cover for Ben gassing everyone...they told dharma that they were killed by this "virus"? maybe im wrong...i think jack is whacked out onj morphine/valium etc cos of feeling guilty...maybe the island was "invaded" after they left and he ruined there way oflife OR maybe they were saved people gotkilled all went t!ts up and Jack is feeling guilty....Kate is a little more hard skinned i think thats why she was so fresh faced....or carzy idea...the Flash forwards are desmonds visions and may not happen...his vision of a defreckled Kate? who the hell knows...

I" like your son's theory. It makes sense. My one question is, if the island has so many healing powers, how come Rousseau's team didn't survive the illness? "

cuz they or she first misdiagnosed the dis-ease

rather than letting it take its course

same as allowing the 2 thiefs to be buried alive ..
IF they had waited they would still be alive..

Dharma was up to no good..
MAYBE harvesting body parts cloning humans ..animals ect

MAYBE doing experiments to test bio weapons or even vaccines

to save the select few humans on the planet whom are chosen to live while MOST are getting the smokey date
and /or deep sixed

Dharma is JUST a test experiment to be redone on a global scale

look up the UN plan to control world population SCARY!