Doubles, Replacements, and Crazy Ideas
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By WillsDad
- Doubles, Replacements, and Crazy Ideas
- Created: Nov 7, 2007
- Last updated: Aug 14, 2008
- After episode: 1.9: Solitary
- Status: Current
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This theory is based on Dr. Marvin Candle & His Alias by Hanzo. You may wish to read it before continuing.
Is that why the Swan hatch was stenciled “Quarantine?”
— WillsDad
You guys are going to HATE this.
The idea is not finished, and I would love to get some input.
Here goes: Are the Losties being methodically replaced by … something else?
By coincidence, I watched two episodes today that seemed to fit together.
I’m going to start off with an odd premise: the Lost episodes that play off the word “Lost” have some special significance. The title seems to be elevated above that of other episodes. I refer to the episodes “…In Translation” and “…And Found.” Today, I am focusing on “…And Found.”
In that episode, one of the main story lines involves Sun losing her wedding ring. Jack shares with her a story: he lost his wedding ring once, and he panicked, and searched everywhere to no avail. Sun asks where he found it. Jack says that he didn’t; he went to a jeweler and had a replica made and nobody ever knew that it had been missing.
Hmmm…..
Next episode I was watching was “Solitary.” This is the episode where Sayid meets Rousseau. Rousseau speaks of her team, and of her lover, Richard. And then she tells us that she killed them - even her lover - because they were sick. She was concerned about the sickness making its way to civilization. The key thing is that this info comes out when Sayid and Rousseau are pointing rifles at one another. Sayid pulls the trigger, and the rifle clicks. Rousseau says that the firing pin is missing, and that Richard didn’t notice that either when she killed him.
In what way was Richard sick? He must have been physically well enough to stand and point a rifle. Did Rousseau sense something else about him that she attributed to a “sickness?”
So, here it is. Was Rousseau’s team replaced by doubles? If so, and they acted oddly, did Rousseau attribute their odd behavior to a “sickness?” Maybe some kind of mental illness? Is that why she and her lover were at some time standing pointing rifles at each other?
Is that why the Swan hatch was stenciled “Quarantine?” Is this what the injections were for?
Should we be watching for characters who are suddenly (or maybe not so suddenly) acting in a way that differs from their earlier behavior?
Now, I know this is probably whacked out. I have no idea who or what would be doing the replacing. I don’t know why.
I just thought I’d throw it out there and start a discussion. After all I haven’t been ripped to shreds since … well, since my last theory.
Key characters
| Short Name | Full Name | Episodes | Theories |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sayid | Sayid Jarrah | 2.14, 1.9, 3.11, 4.3, 4.12 | 406 |
Key episodes
| # | Title | Aired | Central character | Theories |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2.5 | …And Found | 10-19-2005 | Sun | 71 |
| 1.9 | Solitary | 11-17-2004 | Sayid | 94 |
Key events
| Theme | Relevant Episodes | Theories |
|---|---|---|
| French woman radio trasmission discovered | 1.2 | 105 |
Well, somebody came by and did a drive-by minus one. Not exactly the discussion I was hoping to spark.
Some dill weed put that thing on the top about another article we should read first. Unfortunately the person who put that up there hasn’t read it lately, because if he did he would have seen that the theory has been retracted.
That’s the problem I see here; Intelligent people are having a grown-up conversation, and we get disrupted by the “low information” fan. Scores aren’t what they could be because the votes of the low IQ set count equally with the votes of the rest of us.
Incidentally, this is how we end up with George W. Bush in the White House. There should be an IQ test to vote.
So, anyway, how about some actual discussion?
WillsDad :I think it is unusally quiet around here tonight, with the exception of some drive-by negative voters. I also put up a post (actually more of a link) awhile ago ,and the first thing I noticed was not a comment but a -1 I guess some think this is funny. I sure don’t .In fact I proposed on another thread that anyone voting should indicate it. I am giving you a + 1 just so you know. I only wish there was someway that it could be changed, to if you don’t at least comment, if only by saying you are giving a + or a - that you can’t just sign in and vote anonymously .
I think that you have made some good points, but unfortunately I don’t have anything intelligent enough to say about it? Oh there is one thing I would like you to know though. That thing that you referred to be at the top stating that it is based on another theory you may want to read before continuing. Any- way the thing is this I am assuming that you did not put it there. I had the same thing happen to a post of mine, and I didn’t put it there either.
I think that somehow the system is doing that from an archive of theorys automatically. Because there is no way(at least,none that i know of ) that your post can be edited by anyone but yourself.
is Danielle’s Richard our Richard Alpert? have we ever seen Danielle’s Richard?
It was Robert not Richard that Danielle spoke of in “Solitary)
Clones. Invasion of the body snatchers. If this was someone else’s post, you’d be pithy in a second.
Firstly, what has ‘solitary’ got to with the term ‘Lost’?
The two episodes that omit the word Lost that completes their common completed term (… In Translation, … And Found) both pertain to Jin and Sun. That’s the only parallel I have ever noticed.
KSJ else pointed out it was ‘Robert’, not Richard. That was another one I going to get to.
You said at the start of this that we would hate it. You were right.
(Cut to: Episode 1, Season 4; flashback to Danielle showing her science team replaced by bizarre clones of themselves, followed quickly by the sound of my favourite T.V. programme jumping over a shark.)
WillsDad did make a valid point –Should we we watching for characters who start acting differently than previously? Whether due to cloning, or sickness, or conversion to otherhood, or emergence as a plant (not the vegetable kind), it would be significant.
Can somebody explain how this theory ended up in “obsolete?”
Isn’t that where theories go when they’ve been disproven by later events?
Is it possible that some people whose theories I’ve shredded are sort of hunting down my theories? Or is that too much like Sawyer and his boar?
Remember, you’re only paranoid if you’re wrong.
AngeloComet: was that pithy, or pissy? :-)