Hint I found in Yi Jeon

[Sawyer Delany]

I just went to abc.com to watch the episode Yi Jeon again and noticed something interesting. I thought I would pass it along, in case nobody else noticed it.

When Frank is on the ship at the beginning, he walks down the ship corridor and there is a woman reading a book. I forget her name, but the book is upside down. I decided to pause on the upside down book and use a magnifying glass to see what she was reading.

It was interesting to see that she was reading "The Survivors of the Chancellor" by Jules Verne. Here is a link to a site about the book.

http://www.classicbookshelf.com/library/jules_verne/the_survivors_of_the_chancellor/0/

Any thoughts on this would be cool.

[Patchouli Princess]

My friend thinks that at least some of the original Others were shipwreck survivors from the Black Rock (or whatever that ship is where they found dynamite in an early season). If there are survivors from that ship among the others, it would explain why people have managed to exist on the island for so long despite not being able to have children. None of the Others looks to be over 50 (minus the dead guy who met with Michael in NYC). Ben is over 40, meaning that the initial group of others who fought Dharma when Ben was a kid would be in their 70s by now. Yet there are no truly old people on the island. So nobody on the island seems to die of natural causes (minus the abnomalies of Ben's tumor and Jack's appendix), and the aging process stops in the 40s. Thoughts?

[Sawyer Delany]

My friend thinks that at least some of the original Others were shipwreck survivors from the Black Rock (or whatever that ship is where they found dynamite in an early season). If there are survivors from that ship among the others, it would explain why people have managed to exist on the island for so long despite not being able to have children. None of the Others looks to be over 50 (minus the dead guy who met with Michael in NYC). Ben is over 40, meaning that the initial group of others who fought Dharma when Ben was a kid would be in their 70s by now. Yet there are no truly old people on the island. So nobody on the island seems to die of natural causes (minus the abnomalies of Ben's tumor and Jack's appendix), and the aging process stops in the 40s. Thoughts?

Interesting thought. I think the ship is significant somehow after noticing the book and you are right ... they all did seem to be young. All the original others. I'm going to watch more of that episode now. Maybe I'll find some more hints.

[Sawyer Delany]

Just noticed that I got the name wrong. Ji Yeon, lol. Well, I was close.

[XmasDVD]

LOL I do that all the time - Yi Jeon, Ji Yeon.... :--)

[silverana]

Rember Richard whatever his name is was the same age when Ben was a kid as he is now or at least looks it.

[Sawyer Delany]

Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. Richard didn't age a day it seemed. He had to have been on the ship. So does that mean they are actually dead? Spirits or something? Of course we all know now that the crash of 815 was supposedly staged, but how then did they all get on the island? I thought from the very beginning that they were all planted there.

That they were all part of some social experiment of some kind. Maybe the 2 halves of the plane never really crashed. Maybe they were staged as well and there memories were all planted or messed with. For all we know, Jack isn't really a doctor and Kate isn't really wanted by the law. Hurley isn't really a nutjob and Sawyer was never a con-man. Maybe Locke could always walk and so on and so forth. There memories could have all been placed in there heads as part of the experiment.

Maybe that is the heart of the Dharma Initiative or maybe that is all part of their delusion. Maybe they are not even on an island. Maybe they are all in an asylum, like Hurley supposedly was and is once he gets off the island again. Maybe they never really got off the island and the flash forwards are all part of their delusion. We really don't know, but I think it is a good possibility that this is all just some ****ed up mind ****.

Of course I think the shipwreck could very well be a huge part of the show that we are forgetting about. Remember, that is where Sawyer killed Lockes old man. Anyway gotta go for now to play in a poker tourney ... wish me luck :).