Black Dahlia
10-24-04, 03:30 PM
This is my original theory from after seein the pilot, and since I haven't seen it repeated and it still is possible to some extent, I suppose I'll stick to it:
At some point in time an island was discovered on which nothing died of natural causes. The government (American? French? NATO? UN? etc.) realized what importance this real-life fountain of youth had and sequestered the area, probably as an area for international top-secret research and preservation of all species, making the island a sort of Noah's Ark (the island's secret will be revealed after 40 series-days). One of the species that of course must be preserved is Homo Sapiens, and just how to do this has befuddled the scientists and world governments since the project began. Or perhaps it is just an island with ideal conditions for these purposes that has been somehow purposely secreted from the rest of the world.
They can't just start with an Adam and an Eve; they need some diversity in genetics and skills and enough numbers to be able to survive and build a society. Predicting or perhaps having had past bad experience with an all-volunteer group (perhaps one of which the French "mayaday" sender was a member of?) A group of people are hand picked and routed onto one flight, which is somehow caused to crash while these people are all seated in the section which is reinforced and designed to break away and parachute (yes, there are parachute systems that can bring down the largest transport planes in the world intact - not that we saw any evidence of a prachute at the crash site) safely to the island, or something similar that would ensure their survival (Remember the turbine that still ran - it must have been a soft landing indeed). Perhaps the pilot was supposed to die, or he was to be part of the group, but he definitely wasn't supposed to tell the others they had a 0% chance of being rescued (indicating he knew where they were to some extent), and that may be why he met an untimely demise at hands of a terrifying creature, machine, or entity before he could reveal more.
Of course, there are probably creatures on the island from WAY back who lived until modern times - just no dinosaurs. Even if and assortment of dinosaurs from 100,000,000 years ago survived on the island (How big is this island, anyway? Could it be a lost continent, like Lemuria [Mu]? The location is dead-on) they would have evolved into different types of animals completely, or more likely died off over time from being squeezed out by more adaptable and fit species. The danger of these animals to the survivors, however, is nothing compared to the danger posed to them by the most dangerous species to ever inhabit Earth - their fellow human beings. The inevitable competition and infighting amongst the subjects is what has made the experiment fail all the times it was tried in the past.
I expect Locke may be the control character, the person on the island to guide the survivors in the right direction without revealing they are part of an experiment in forming a new society. Of course, the powers that be may go the easy route and "reveal" to them that the rest of the Earth has been destroyed, and they were the people chosen by lottery or for whatever reasons to repopulate the planet. The true shocker comes when they find out the rest of the Earth has been tooling merrily along without them, and that they were just part of an experiment (a la The Chosen Survivors, a cheap early 70s horror film with bats).
At some point in time an island was discovered on which nothing died of natural causes. The government (American? French? NATO? UN? etc.) realized what importance this real-life fountain of youth had and sequestered the area, probably as an area for international top-secret research and preservation of all species, making the island a sort of Noah's Ark (the island's secret will be revealed after 40 series-days). One of the species that of course must be preserved is Homo Sapiens, and just how to do this has befuddled the scientists and world governments since the project began. Or perhaps it is just an island with ideal conditions for these purposes that has been somehow purposely secreted from the rest of the world.
They can't just start with an Adam and an Eve; they need some diversity in genetics and skills and enough numbers to be able to survive and build a society. Predicting or perhaps having had past bad experience with an all-volunteer group (perhaps one of which the French "mayaday" sender was a member of?) A group of people are hand picked and routed onto one flight, which is somehow caused to crash while these people are all seated in the section which is reinforced and designed to break away and parachute (yes, there are parachute systems that can bring down the largest transport planes in the world intact - not that we saw any evidence of a prachute at the crash site) safely to the island, or something similar that would ensure their survival (Remember the turbine that still ran - it must have been a soft landing indeed). Perhaps the pilot was supposed to die, or he was to be part of the group, but he definitely wasn't supposed to tell the others they had a 0% chance of being rescued (indicating he knew where they were to some extent), and that may be why he met an untimely demise at hands of a terrifying creature, machine, or entity before he could reveal more.
Of course, there are probably creatures on the island from WAY back who lived until modern times - just no dinosaurs. Even if and assortment of dinosaurs from 100,000,000 years ago survived on the island (How big is this island, anyway? Could it be a lost continent, like Lemuria [Mu]? The location is dead-on) they would have evolved into different types of animals completely, or more likely died off over time from being squeezed out by more adaptable and fit species. The danger of these animals to the survivors, however, is nothing compared to the danger posed to them by the most dangerous species to ever inhabit Earth - their fellow human beings. The inevitable competition and infighting amongst the subjects is what has made the experiment fail all the times it was tried in the past.
I expect Locke may be the control character, the person on the island to guide the survivors in the right direction without revealing they are part of an experiment in forming a new society. Of course, the powers that be may go the easy route and "reveal" to them that the rest of the Earth has been destroyed, and they were the people chosen by lottery or for whatever reasons to repopulate the planet. The true shocker comes when they find out the rest of the Earth has been tooling merrily along without them, and that they were just part of an experiment (a la The Chosen Survivors, a cheap early 70s horror film with bats).