'Lost' Fans, post your theories

[Xithras]

Since we apparently have to wait until January 5th for the next new episode, I'm curious to know what you're theories are so far. Alternate dimensions? Aliens? Heaven? Hell? The poll has the most popular theories that I've heard, but feel free to post your own.

[MemphisTiger]

1. Whatever it is, it's the best show on TV right now

[Jack_Dawson]

2. PLEASE let it not be PURGATORY

Cop-out city.

LOVE the show, though!

:toast:

[Liberalynn]

10. E-Website

On E- Entertainment's web site they offered a theory that it maybe some sort of wish it/think it and it happens stuff going on, on the island.

They offer as evidence that many of the passengers had reasons for not really wanting to get where they were going. I.e. Kate being taken in by the law, Jack not wanting to confront issues in his life, Charlie not wanting to deal with his addiction, Locke probably not wanting to go back to his work etc.

They said maybe their desire not to face what was going to happen when they reached their destination caused the plane to crash.

Also they said Walt was reading a comic book with a polar bear either on it or in it shortly before they had the encounter with the bear.

This kind of made sense to me when I read it, even though I didn't notice the polar bear on the comic book thing.

Also after I read this there was that episode with Locke telling Charlie to think and wish for his guitar and then he looked up and there it was in the tree.

I mean Locke might have just noticed it before and there is a perfectly logical explanation but it would also fit E's theory perfectly.

[jeff30997]

3. I'm not familiar with that show...

What is the main story ? I'm searching for something new to watch.This show seems interesting.

[barb162]

6. Their jet crashes on an island and no one is rescuing them as they

were somehow (?) 1000 miles off course. For some reason the jet split in the air, the tail came off in midair.

[Jack_Dawson]

7. Wednesdays at 8 p.m.

7 Central. They re-ran the pilot last night. Here's a summary:

http://abc.go.com/primetime/lost/episodes/2004-05/1.html

[Xithras]

11. Quick summary:

Bunch of people are on a jet. Jet loses radio contact, goes off course, and then suddenly breaks apart at 40,000 feet. Roughly 40 people (give or take) survive the crash, and wake up on an uninhabited tropical island paradise.

From there, the story gets very difficult to summarize because each episode tends to revolve around one of the main characters. But so far they've run into polar bears, mysterious 30 foot tall maneating monsters, a psychotic shipwreck survivor who kept ranting about "the other people" on the island killing off her family, and lots of really mysterious, really quirky things. One of the survivors was even a parapalegic before the flight but can suddenly walk again. There's dozens of other mysteries introduced, but it would take paragraphs to summarize them and would spoil the show.

But believe it or not, that's all the background story. The real appeal of Lost tends to revolve around the character development and backstories of the individual survivors. So far, the only thing these people have in common is that they all lead incredibly screwed up lives, and that their presence and fight for survival on the island is forcing them to come to terms with their own demons (which is where the purgatory theory comes from).

They re-ran the first episode last night, but you can pick it up starting with the second episode next week. Honestly, I've never been a huge TV watcher but this show has me hooked.

[jeff30997]

17. Wow! Sounds like my kind of TV show.

[barb162]

4. I have just watched the first episode this week. How many other

episodes have been shown and can you give a one sentence synopsis of each one? PLEASE???? Was that really a polar bear on the first episode. WHat pulled that pilot out of the plane?

[Xithras]

16. 11 Episodes So Far (Full episode guide is available here).

Yes, a polar bear really ran out of the woods. And we don't yet know what killed the pilot.

ABC has put a full episode guide together that gives a full, detailed summary of each installment. It'll take you some time to get through it, but if you really want to know what's happened so far you can go through here: http://abc.go.com/primetime/lost/episodes/2004-05/1.html#

[barb162]

27. thank you so much! I am going to read this and then watch the shows

[Bleacher Creature]

5. I wish I could.

I was going to start watching it last night b/c they ran the pilot and I forgot to set the VCR (time for TIVO). Can't I download it somewher (legally)??

[DrWeird]

8. Other.

The writers are just throwing random shit together and have no idea what to do with it. A la Twin Peaks.

[redqueen]

9. I voted for the magical island

but I can't figure how the voices Sayid heard in the jungle would fit with that. Maybe they're fairies?

Ethan kinda messes with that theory as well...

[Liberalynn]

12. I went with Magical too

for the reasons I stated in the above post on E's theory.

But I was also thinking it could be an island that has some weird sceintific research taking place on it too and the others already on the island are part of it. So the Matrix theroy would be my second choice.

[kk897]

15. and then there's the French woman

or does she really exist? Only Sayed saw her, I guess... otherwise, she thought some sort of illness was turning her party...what, against her? turning them evil? It was very odd.

I thought the purgatory thing at first, but it seems more complex. They all seem to have unresolved issues to deal with, which fits with the purgatory thing, but then you have the polar bear, the invisible thing stomping around, Ethan.

Also, I've noticed that the invisible thing and polar bear thing have all but dropped away from the story line.

[redqueen]

18. That's interesting

The polar bear supposedly showed up after Walt read a comic book with one in it... I wonder if someone else mentioned something before the invisible thing showed up? And perhaps Claire's fear caused Ethan?

And when the people stop thinking about this stuff, maybe it just goes away? Nahh... they had to shoot the bear. Nevermind.

[Xithras]

24. The Claire thing really has me wondering...

The psychic seemed to be implying that if she didn't raise the baby herself, then he was going to grow into something worse than Hitler.

So you think he sent her on the flight to kill her off, or to trap her with him so she couldn't adopt him out?

[redqueen]

25. I don't have a clue

been wondering about that myself.

[Jack_Dawson]

13. Episode Guide Here:

http://abc.go.com/primetime/lost/episodes/2004-05/1.html

[SavageWombat]

14. Interesting...

So either they've run aground on Fantasy Island, or the Star Trek episode "Shore Leave"?

[AngryLizard]

23. My husband's all about the purgatory theory

He thinks that everyone on the island has unresolved issues, which is why they haven't gone to either heaven or hell. That once they resolve those issues, then they'll die. Like how the pilot woke up just to find out that people had survived and tell to tell Jack, etc, that they were a 1000 miles off course, then he's killed by the monster. How Claire disappears after she realizes that the psychic lied to her. I also read something on another message board about an interview with J.J. Abrams, about a scene in the pilot that had the little boy reading a comic book. The comic was about a bunch of superheroes trapped on an island with a monster that they keep trying to run away from/kill, but the monster is actually good and trying to help them. He said that nothing in the show is a coincidence.

The show's surreal enough to be about purgatory.

[jackelope72]

19. I personally am avoiding forming overall theories

that cover the entire show or plot.

I tend to focus more on individual characters, making guesses about their backgrounds/lives or future developments.

*POSSIBLE SPOILERS FOLLOW*

For instance, I guessed about two shows in advance that the Korean woman knew English, and that she had been planning on leaving her husband.

I think that Kate's "crime" involves her knowing or finding out something that she wasn't supposed to know, and perhaps being set up or framed in order to get her out of the picture. I also think that she and the Marshall who captured her had been personally involved at one time.

I have to admit that Sawyer's story surprised me. I totally didn't see it coming that he was the little boy, and not the con artist.

[loudestchick]

22. I believe Kate was a nurse...

and her crime involved assisted suicide. The way the agent asked her to finish him...but she wouldn't/couldn't and the attraction with sexy doc!

[cmf]

20. Snowglobe theory

;-) Just kidding.

I have formed no theory. I'm just going along for the ride.

[Bridget Burke]

21. Other: They're in Sherman's Lagoon

It's a pretty odd place, although the strip doesn't show much about what's happening on land. Too bad about the bear, though.

http://www.slagoon.com/charactr/thornton.html

[AntiCoup2K4]

26. Only seen bits & pieces of it, but so far it looks like....

...Twin Peaks meets Gilligan's Island.

[Goathead]

28. I saw part of one episode, but it didn't really catch my attention.

Do I need to go back and watch this show? What you have posted sounds really intriguing.