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Lautréamont · Posted: Sat Apr 15, 2006 9:54 am Post subject: The Great Secret French Theory

The healing island sounds like a novel by René Barjavel, Le grand secret (the great secret).
It tells the story of a very specific virus which actually heals people. The virus kills all the other deseases and stops your growth at your maturation level (same with plants and animals). So you're virtually immortal except if you're deadly injured.

In the novel, people from all over the world who got that "sickness" are all gathered on an island where they live in some kind of a Golden Age utopia. Governments of the world agree not to let people go out of the island. Because if they did they coul infect the whole world which would soon be over-populated and people would starve.

So could be the Lost island that kind of island with some kind of a healing virus ?
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doctor hanso · Posted: Sat Apr 15, 2006 10:28 am Post subject:

wow

thats kinda amazing, and makes so so so much sense all things considered.

brilliant catch Very Happy

*more thoughts after coffee
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blueaznmonkey · Lost is my Life Joined: 02 Mar 2006 Posts: 643

That's pretty sick..... but wh ythe kidnappings? Shocked

Lautréamont · Posted: Sat Apr 15, 2006 10:47 am Post subject:

doctor hanso · Posted: Sat Apr 15, 2006 10:51 am Post subject:

blueaznmonkey · Lost is my Life Joined: 02 Mar 2006 Posts: 643

Yeah - keep the people on the island....

You know - a LOT of the characters depend on being on that island..... I guess the ones who don't NEED to be there need to be given a /reason/ to stay....

I dig that....

doctor hanso · Posted: Sat Apr 15, 2006 11:06 am Post subject:

Skolos · Lost Addict Joined: 30 Mar 2006 Posts: 30

Well, if the virus stops your maturation at whatever point you're at, they probably want to inoculate the kids and babies so that they won't stay children or infants forever--so that they'll be able to grow up. If the vaccine needs booster shots every few years, as many do, then whenever the kids are full-grown, they can stop inoculating them and allow them to be infected.

I was wondering myself the other night why they had to be so worried about a "sickness" if the island is so good at healing people.

Skolos · Lost Addict Joined: 30 Mar 2006 Posts: 30

Oh wait, were you saying that it stops aging once you mature, not at whatever point you're at at the time you're infected? Sorry, think I misunderstood!

Lautréamont · Posted: Sat Apr 15, 2006 11:17 am Post subject:

Actually in the novel the virus makes the groth of anything living at maturation, that is right after puberty for human being. For people infected when grown-up, they stay at their actual age and don't get any older.
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blueaznmonkey · Lost is my Life Joined: 02 Mar 2006 Posts: 643

They have already done a lot of forcing.... or a lot of motivation manipulation.... And a lot of characters depend on the island for physiological reasons....

Jack saw his father

Hurley and Libby were brought together (And they /sort/ of depend on each other)

Locke can walk again

Rose is cancer-free (and that makes it so Bernard has to stay)

Sun can now have a baby (whether or not it's Jin's is yet to be determined but Jin has to stay and father it anyway)

Danielle (and whoever she's with) needs to find Alex

Michael (if that's reeeelly him) needs to rescue Walt

The annoying science teacher had to get blown up for the enjoyment of all

..... Kate?

Anyway: There's also people who have indirectly been given a reason to stay.

Charlie, a washed up rockstar, kicked his addiction there with, as Locke puts it, the help of the island.

Ecko found righteousness there

Claire had her baby there and the baby was "vaccinated"

Ana Lucia got to kill the annoying ritch-witch (Shannon =)

And unfortuantely for Sayid.... his love life /was/ a reason to stay but as stated above, AL got trigger happy

... I dunno.... I suppose this whole idea of motives to /stay/ on the island only really works if the other forty-some losties (who don't do JACK SQUAT) also have motives to stay =P

Blessings

belle_lune · Posted: Sat Apr 15, 2006 11:20 am Post subject:

positively brilliant, Lautréamont!

it would make a ton of sense... everyone has been "given" something, no?\

Sun & Jin = baby
Rose & Bernie = health
Locke = legs
Charlie = health
Eko = salvation
Hurley = Libby
Lbby = sanity?
Jack = closure?
Kate = ?
Sawyer = ?
Danielle = baby?
Michael = Walt?

edit - beat me to it, blue! Mad

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blueaznmonkey · Lost is my Life Joined: 02 Mar 2006 Posts: 643

The Blue Monkey strikes again!!!

But yes you're spot on. And I kind of see a connection between a few losties who sort of look at the island as a source for figuring out truth...like absolute truth.... life liberty and the pursuit of happiness truth....

Blessings!

doctor hanso · Posted: Sat Apr 15, 2006 11:28 am Post subject:

blueaznmonkey · Lost is my Life Joined: 02 Mar 2006 Posts: 643

Yeah Jack seeng his dad...odd reason to stay.

But! Jack staying for Kate?.... I know I would =)

Anyway - Jack is, next to Kate, the most suspicious character in my book. Like he knows something that nobody else knows, and as he is used to doing, keeps it all a secret.

His personality, however, leads me to believe that he isn't a bad person, he just knows stuff and doesn't want hysteria to break out or something...

Either way, Kate is the only thing I can see Jack getting out of this ordeal.... He finds someone that can jive with his personality and help get rid of the thoughts that have been plaguing him.

What about Sawyer though? He really doesn't seem to get much out of this, save for a bunch of people to mess with. Sawyer /was/ the first person to start pointing fingers after the crash in season one (but he's just like that...)