The airstrip
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By CrazyPolarBear
- The airstrip
- Created: Oct 14, 2007
- Last updated: Aug 14, 2008
- After episode: 3.22: Through The Looking Glass
- Status: Current
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Watching ‘One of Us’ (again, its just full of inspiration) it gave me an idea as to why, Ben wanted Locke to destroy the submarine.
When Juliette arrives Mittelos HQ she comments that she didn’t know they had an airstrip, Richard just remarks that it ‘suprises everyone’. And in ‘Through the Looking Glass’ Juliette tells Sawyer that the Others are building a runway. You would think that Ben would want to keep the sub as it is useful for their work i.e. bring people such as Juliette and Cooper to the island.
I think that getting Locke to destroy the sub was a spur of the moment plan to prevent Juliette and Jack from leaving the island, and that the sub was about to become obsolete as they plan to use some kind of aircraft for their excursions between the island and Mittelos HQ. This could as point to the Vortice theories because it would be very hard for them to continually violate American airspace and not be detected.
Key characters
| Short Name | Full Name | Episodes | Theories |
|---|---|---|---|
| Richard | Richard Alpert | 314 |
Key episodes
| # | Title | Aired | Central character | Theories |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3.16 | One Of Us | 4-11-2007 | Juliet | 84 |
you’re assuming they would have to invade american air space. what if they never intended to do so?
CPB: Maybe I’m crazy too, but it seems like a possibility to me. :-) +1
Sorry CPB, I am under the impression, that the only reason why Ben was wanting the Sub destroyed, was to cut off any escape from “the island”.
Although, Juliette made a statement about an airstrip, I would still be skeptical of anything she said, because she may still be doing Ben’s bidding, and it’s not like it would be the first time Ben ever lied or misled people, either!
Hi CPB great post Just a thought. We Don’t know for sure if the sub brought anyone to the island. All we saw was Juliet exiting it at the pier she might have been brought to the island in another way!
good thery +1
CPB: What is the Vortice theory? I’m a little lost on that one?
I’m giving a plus 1…But I have some questions.
If you can get to the island by ordinary means, via airplane….it makes sense why they would be building an airstrip~they should have had one all along! But we have been given every indication that you can not reach the island by ordinary means…suggesting the need for the submarine. So why build an airstrip at all in this case?
Sincerely,
Confused.
Tharde5 the vortice theories (they are on this site somewhere I forgot what they are called) suggest that the way to the island is via wormholes that exist at locations such as the devils triangle, bermuda triangle, north pole etc.
Nickee - some have suggested that the submarine is infact piloted through a wormhole, no reason they could not do the same with a plane. I’m not sure why they don’t have one already, but I thought it was odd that they would own an airfield back in the real world if were not for some purpose.
dab - in one of the deleted scenes from season three, while Kate and Sawyer were working in the quarry, Pickett also told Saywer that they were constructing a runway:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDXGJBnTWtE
Nickee - You may remember the supplies that were dropped from above in season two. How else but with a plane could these have been delivered?
Rocket, of course I remember they were dropped…..dropped….could have been dropped by helicopter. or by other means yet to be shown to the viewing public.(vortices)
I just don’t see why there wasn’t an airsptrip in the first place if flying a plane over the island or to the island was a capability they posessed all along. Why build one now?
Seems to me the only confirmed means of getting to the island is to fall out of the sky. Even the Black Rock seems to have landed in the middle of the island. Yemi’s plane, a hot-air balloon, Oceanic, the parachuted goods, etc. Sure, all of these things could have been planted, so it’s hard to say either way, but I’m inclined to think they’re for real. Also, who’s to say the runway is for a landing….it could be for a takeoff couldn’t it? Wouldn’t that explain a lot, if they lacked the ability to get off the island because the only way to escape was straight UP, yet they lacked the means? Just something to consider…