Dunno, but Rosseau knew about them so they've been around for awhile. Its a security system called Cerebrus.
This show is fantastic. I am a bit befuddled though. With the constant influx of characters that are semi related to everyone else, there are too many outs. Who's to say that at the end of season 3, Henry Gale's childhood nanny isn't behind all of this. I love the suspense and the surprise, but there is always something coming from left field. I would wager that anyone's theory's about what is really going on might partially be true (by partially, i mean 2% right). The writers are doing a stellar job at letting us get lost in the trees and not be able to see the entire forrest. All that said, Lost (as the show's title) surely has multiple meanings.
Not an experiment?...damn now I'm confused, so what the hell were the electromagnet and the numbers for then...saving the world? my theory on the arctic/snow people: after her father died revealing with his last breaths about the existence of the island, she hired these men to find Desmond through looking for abnormal EM signatures.
I think Henry gave Michael the coordinates right back to where the plane first crashed. He'll be 'rescued' by his friends and that's about it.
Heiroglyphics: They "spell" out the causative form of the word "death". Polar Bears: They were shown in one of the Dharma videos. One of Dharma's experiments was something along the lines of trying to adapt animals to a non-native environment.
right...but i thought there was some other kelvin connection to someone else on the island, not just sayid. also, everything, certainly the technology in the hatch, computers, vinyl, etc, points to the dharma initiative having begun in the early '80s. Kelvin was in the gulf war, yet he says he "joined" the initiative. how'd he get there?
Dharma goes back to the 70's. Kelvin is pretty much the only person we know who is a part of the Initiative. We don't know for sure if the Others are a part of it. We don't know how Kelvin got to the island or how long he's been there. We know atleast 3 years, because that's how long Desmond was with him. The plane crashed in Sept of 04, three years prior would mean that Desmond arrived in 2001. Kelvin got to the Island sometime after the Gulf war and before 2001.
The experiment theory is that the Losties were brought there as part of an experiment and that everything around them is a hoaxe. Clearly, that is not the case. The Dharma Initiative is real, damaste.
actually, i think it is Kate's bio-pop. the guy she killed in the blast was her step-dad. i remember the connection w/ Kelvin now- at the end of the episode where kelvin (joe inman) cuts sayid loose in the desert, Austen, kate's dad, was also there, looking at a picture of young kate in his wallet.
The guy Kate thought was her stepdad turned out to be her real Dad. The guy she thought was her real Dad (the guy in Kelvin's squad in the Gulf War) was not.
Like another poster said, the person she believed to be her step father was indeed her biological father. She blows Wayne up because of this fact. When Sawyer was dying from the bullet wound, he turned into Wayne. She admitted to him that she killed him because she hated him, and hated that she was made of him. Kate went to her dad (Sam Austen) and asked him if he knew and such.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ent/tv/3914461.html May 30, 2006, 9:42AM Lost novel finds its way to best-seller lists By FELICIA R. LEE New York Times News Service Novels by unidentified authors have made the best-seller lists, as has at least one said to have been written by a soap opera character. But this may be the first time that a book by a nonexistent writer who is thought to have died in a plane crash has cracked the charts. The book is Bad Twin, by Gary Troup, a character from ABC's hit drama series Lost. Troup was on Oceanic Flight 815, the plane that crashed in the show's first episode. After making the Publishers Weekly and Amazon.com best-seller lists, the book, published by Hyperion this month, will appear for the first time on the New York Times best-seller list on Sunday, at No. 14. Hyperion said more than 300,000 copies had been printed. The porous relationship between fact and fiction has fans buzzing in cyberspace about Troup's real identity (Stephen King comes up often) and how clues in the novel correlate with the show's plot. Lost features roughly four dozen survivors of a flight from Sydney, Australia, to Los Angeles that crashed on a mysterious Pacific island where bad things keep happening. (Gary Troup is an anagram for "purgatory," a theory already dismissed by the show's creators.) The series, with an average of 15.3 million viewers a week, had its season finale on Wednesday. "Whenever people can be creative in a way that gets people reading books, I'm happy," Robert S. Miller, the president of Hyperion, said of the mystery within a mystery. Both Hyperion and ABC are divisions of the Walt Disney Co. Whether Bad Twin is good fiction, good marketing for Lost or both is a judgment call. The novel follows the private detective Paul Artisan, who is helping the scion of a wealthy family find his twin brother. Entertainment Weekly called the book "a chewy snack for Lost-philes, though its mythological value is TBD." Margaret Maupin, a buyer for the Tattered Cover bookstore in Denver, said Bad Twin sold out quickly there. "I'm not sure that the people who are buying this are your general book buyers, but they love the TV show," she said. Maupin said she was unconcerned that a book by a fictional author, connected to a television show, crossed a line. "There have been so many scandals in the last year in the book business," she said. "Nothing shocks me and nothing offends me anymore." Bad Twin represents a hybrid between content and marketing, said Michael Benson, the senior vice president of marketing at ABC. "We wanted the audience to believe this was real," he said of Lost, adding that Troup can be seen being sucked into an airplane engine in the first episode. In an episode broadcast on Feb. 8, one of the show's characters was seen reading a manuscript of the book with the title, author and publisher clearly visible. In another episode shown this month, another character was seen reading the same manuscript, only to have it thrown into a fire by Jack, one of the castaways. On Web sites devoted to Lost, fans have been debating the meaning of the book and how it figures in the Chinese-box puzzle that is the Lost plot. On ABC's site devoted to the show, one post declared that the book was an "alternate reality" experience relayed to Troup. ("That's the only thing that makes sense.") Meanwhile, on the site The Lost Experience are lists of possible clues: the names of the characters, various literary references (including The Great Gatsby, Beowulf and King Lear) and even references to the color green. To add to the layers of marketing and mystery, the book has been denounced by the Hanso Foundation of Copenhagen, which is also part of the Lost puzzle. The island where the Lost characters are stranded has bomb-shelter-type hatches, where they find videotapes made by Hanso that suggest the island was used for experiments or for scientific research. On its Web site, the fictional Hanso tells visitors not to read Troup's book. Hyperion, in return, has taken out real advertisements in real newspapers defending the book. "It's about perpetuating the mystery and what's going on," Benson said. "Everyone knows Harry Potter doesn't exist, but it sure makes it more fun to believe that Harry Potter is somewhere out there, in a magical place." Robert Thompson, the director of the Bleier Center for Television and Popular Culture at Syracuse University, said there was a history of television shows' expanding their cultural equity into books. In 1990, Thompson said, the book The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer was published to capitalize on the layered, mysterious show Twin Peaks. In 2001, Harper published Hidden Passions, a novel spun off from the NBC soap Passions, in the form of a diary of Tabitha Lenox, a character with supernatural powers. Promoted heavily on the show, the book reached No. 4 on The Times' list. "What the entertainment industry has figured out is that Lost is not just a television show; it's a lifestyle," Thompson said. "There's no limit. Not only are we going to see more books like Bad Twin in the publishing business, but more shows like Lost, in which you create this universe that people want to inhabit. You can make it real and put a price tag on it." The jacket states that Bad Twin is Troup's "final novel before disappearing on Oceanic Flight 815," which went down in September 2004. The copyright page, though, mentions that the author is a fictional character. Miller of Hyperion said the manuscript was given to him by two executive producers of Lost, Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse. He even expressed concern, in that clever Lost way, that the Hanso Foundation would ask for a recall of Bad Twin. As to whether the real author of Bad Twin will ever come forward, Miller was noncommittal. "What do you tell your children when they ask if there is a Santa Claus?" he asked.
