The name is Rom...Ethan Rom.

[spidermanfan]

I haven't seen anyone make the distinction to associate the name ROM (from Ethan Rom) with the Marvel comic book character, Rom the Space Knight. And I quote...

"Rom, the Space Knight a cyborg created by the people of Galador to protect them from their mortal enemies the Wraiths. His humanity held in storage until the threat to his homeworld was over, Rom hoped some day to reclaim it. Then came the being mere name brings dred to entire star systems...

...yadda, yadda, yadda...

For 200 years, Rom tracked Wraiths across the cosmos. He was eventually led to Earth. When Rom banished Dire Wraiths to Limbo, it appeared to humans that he was killing fellow humans, as the Wraiths had disguised themselves and been living among humanity for decades."

[check out home.hiwaay.net/~lkseitz/...index.shtm (http://home.hiwaay.net/~lkseitz/comics/Rom/comic/index.shtm) for more exciting reading]

We've already had a comic show up in a seemingly prominent scene. Maybe there is something to this too.

[drabauer]

Hmmmmm....your link was dead, but your post is intriguing. Maybe "Then a Rom!" equates to thinking certain people are infected/possessed (ala the Wraith people) and thus on a quest that appears homicidal to outsiders.

[spidermanfan]

home.hiwaay.net/~lkseitz/...ndex.shtml (http://home.hiwaay.net/~lkseitz/comics/Rom/comic/index.shtml)

[spidermanfan]

Ugh. It keeps shortening the link.

Anyway, you picked up on the same thing as I. The descriptions of the wraiths. Which seems to share some similarities to some of the ghostly things we've seen (or heard) on the island.

[tracygee]

Hmm .. somebody over at "The Fuselage" website quite brilliantly came up with the fact the "Ethan Rom" is an anagram for "Another" .. i.e. "Raised by Another". I think that's pretty significant, especially since "Rom" is not a very common name. Something to chew on, anyway.

Me, I could have stared at that name all day and not come up with that ... my brain just doesn't work that way. :\

[tracygee]

^ Ok, crap, ignore me... now that I stare at that anagram, I realize that lady at The Fuselage has to be wrong -- there's no "m" in "another".

Another theory blown to crap .. feeling sheepish ;)

[bgtees]

Ethan Rom = Other Man

[drabauer]

Please check out the many threads on Puns and Anagrams of Ethan Rom:

Ethan Rom (http://p073.ezboard.com/flosttheunofficalforumfortheabcseriesfrm29.showMes sageRange?topicID=465.topic&start=1&stop=20)
Figured out Ethan! (http://p073.ezboard.com/flosttheunofficalforumfortheabcseriesfrm29.showMes sage?topicID=470.topic)
More Ethan Rom (http://p073.ezboard.com/flosttheunofficalforumfortheabcseriesfrm29.showMes sageRange?topicID=465.topic&start=21&stop=26)
Ethan: Killing Machine? (http://p073.ezboard.com/flosttheunofficalforumfortheabcseriesfrm29.showMes sage?topicID=491.topic)
Even more Ethan (http://p073.ezboard.com/flosttheunofficalforumfortheabcseriesfrm29.showMes sageRange?topicID=465.topic&start=41&stop=58)

Who needs the fuselage? Lost-tv speculation is one stop shopping for all your theory needs!

[tracygee]

^ True, but I do check out the Fuselage for all the VIP postings .. it's nice to hear stuff from the writers, producers, and actors themselves.

Now, if we could only figure out how to get them posting here ... :b

[PinkTilly]

Well, this is a great idea/note... could it have ANYTHING to do with... Walt's comic book-polar bear coincidence perhaps???