Lost

I skipped tonight’s special episode of “Lost” *cough*clip show*cough* but I figured it was a good time to post my crazy conspiracy theories. Throughout the second season, I’ve managed to stop analyzing every episode till my eyes bled. Sure, I’d listen to water cooler talk, but for the most part, I’ve resisted the itch. Sitting back and watching the show as just a drama has been fairly satisfying. I say fairly because this season has been just okay. It seems as if the button down in the hatch is metaphor for the reset button that’s been pressed when it comes to the characters. After all the arcs in the first season, they’ve gone back to their old ways. Sawyer (“leopard can’t change its spots”) is only looking out for number one, Hurley is crazy, Jin is an overbearing husband, Locke has a crisis of faith, Sayid is back to torture, etc. At some point, Kate will do something to remind us that she’s a hot, cold-blooded killer. And how could I forget, “WALT!!”

There’s a bit of an idiot plot going on, people don’t talk to each other. No one questions what the heck is going on, except for Bernard and you saw how long that lasted. I’m starting to feel like “Lost” is taking me for granted. It walks around in a terry cloth robe, hair in curlers and wearing an avocado mask. Is that supposed to keep me interested? Meanwhile, there’s another hot show down the hall, “Criminal Minds” and it keeps giving me the eye. “Criminal Minds” isn’t as hot as “Lost” but it sure is straight-forward. No mind games or getting me all worked up for no good reason... Where was I again? Oh yeah, theories. Here we go:

1) An alien or alien craft is somewhere on the island. Telepathy is its only means of communication. Scientists (The Others) are manipulating the being/craft to draw individuals with latent psychic ability (Walt) to the island so they can perform dangerous experiments. Walt’s comic book (via Hurley) involved an alien who was seeking revenge on mankind who had imprisoned him. The black smoke is a product of alien technology. Feel free to poke holes in this one.

2) The producers have said there’s a rational explanation to everything so here goes my reality based theory: it’s a long forgotten government experiment that’s still running autonomously. I’ve heard the scuttlebutt about a Nazi connection but I think that's off base... sorta. In 1961 there was an experiment conducted by Yale psychologist Stanley Milgram, to study what made Nazi soldiers blindly follow orders. In 1971, there was the Stanford Prison experiment where volunteers were divided into prisoners and guards in lived in a mock prison. This purpose of this experiment was to study the human response to captivity (I read somewhere that it was funded by the Navy). The whole thing was a big mess and was scrapped after a few weeks but is it goofy to think that someone would try it again? Now throw in the secret CIA mind control experiment, project MKULTRA, where various individuals were unwittingly experimented on with LSD. So what does this have to do with “Lost”?

Both the castaways and The Others are test subjects. The Others have been conditioned to believe they’re “good people”. They’re only doing what has to be done. Some hokeyness about a sickness. The castaways have been conditioned in another way. All those seemingly pointless flashbacks? I’ll go with false memories for six hundred, Alex. The magic numbers? Probably a post hypnotic trigger. The way everyone seems connected in the flashbacks? Seems like some sort of dream-like state to me. I think Hurley’s it’s-all-in-my-head episode was a clever deflection. What happens on the island is real. Everything up to that point is debatable. The blast door map is just a red herring to lead us further down the rabbit hole. My guess is that the season finale will hint that the plane crash was staged or that one of our beloved castaways is actually an Other.

Anyway, those are my theories. Hopefully, I didn’t sound like too much of a nut.