Aaron a child of incest?

Here's an off-the-wall idea: Jack is Aaron's father. Claire is Aaron's mother. Jack and Claire share a father, but they don't know it. Before they got to the island, Jack and Claire met and had sex. Aaron is a child of incest, and that's why he looks kinda retarded when Kate cares for him in the "future". That, or Jack's dad spent some time in Chinatown with Claire. Jack doesn't want to see Aaron because.... I don't know.

Lame stuff has happened on this show before.

i imagine they would have recognized each other on the island.

I thought Thomas was the baby daddy.

My off-the wall idea is that Claire is the mother and Corey Haim is the father. That might explain the looks you're referring to.

i don't think the boy looks retarded. that's kinda mean...

He looked like a cute 2 year old boy who had just woke up from a nap. All thsi talk about his "looks" must be from people who are not around kids much.

It's not like it didn't occur to me that Claire and Jack would have recognized each other on the island. But one of the reasons the writing on Lost can get so bad is that they are always revisiting old events and changing what happened, or showing what happened just out of the frame, or right after the scene cut when we first saw it (or worst of all, they'll add elements to original shots, such as Nikki and Paolo at the crash site).

If the writers suddenly want to show us flashbacks where Jack and Claire were having private discussions on the island, they will. Lost characters hardly ever act rationally; they act in a way that is convenient to where the writers want the story to go. They have claimed that they had the story mapped out from the very beginning, but it seems pretty obvious to me that things have been added along the way. Things don't always fit, but these guys work under the "make it fit" philosophy, so it doesn't really matter. Force it into the story. Bend logic, change the past, it's all part of the show and what it's become. In exchange for making things interesting, they've made things complicated. Every time a character dies, the writers feel the need to introduce two new characters. For every old question answered, there are five new ones asked. Some mysteries fade into the background because they never had a purpose other than to thrill the audience for a brief moment.

Do I seriously think Jack or Christian may be baby Aaron's father? Probably not, but I'm just saying the baby looked like it had a touch of downs, and Claire wanted to give it up for adoption before it was born. Just a thought that I haven't heard anybody mention yet. And the writers obviously don't work under any rules. That's the beauty of their island. Anything goes.

I know what you mean about the kid looking likes he had 'a touch of downs'. I thought that as soon as I saw him. But then again, we didn't get that good of a look at him so I'm not sure...

The child was asleep. I'm sure we all look a little funny if a camera caught those moments right before waking.

I'm pretty sure if the baby's face is the only basis for this theory that it isn't true. They showed Claire's relationship with the baby's father in the earlier seasons and the reason she wanted to get rid of the baby was because the father left her. I'm also pretty sure that in one of the early episodes Jack said to someone in Sydney that it was his first time in Australia.

I hope you are joking, because the idea, that with everything else going on Lost, they are going to spring a incest story line is nuts. There is no time line that puts Jack in Sydney eight months before flight 815.

Unless it was the continental drift.