Random guesses and responses and stuff:
- If you remember your high school science, magnetic fields curve from one magnetic pole to the other. The electromagnetic forces emanating from the island screw up Desmond's boat's navigation instruments, leading him in a circle away from and then back to the island. The only way to avoid screwing up your instruments would be by sailing straight up from either the north or south magnetic pole--which is why they told Michael to follow one specific header when he sailed away.
- The magnetic anomaly incidents had nothing to do with the food drop; the drops are regular scheduled events to feed the people in the Swan station and were not brought on by anyone not pressing the button.
- I don't think the magnetic anomaly caused by Desmond's earlier not-pressing-the-button-on-time literally sucked the plane out of the air, it just made the plane's instruments malfunction, which led to the crash.
- I don't see why some people are so bothered by the coincidence of Desmond's "system failure" incident bringing down the plane just as it happened to fly over the island, yet you're not all that bothered by the million other incredible coincidences that puts these specific people on that specific plane flight, etc. There's some kind of fate (?) involved bringing these people together. Desmond's system failure was just a cog in a whole line of events that were leading to some specific outcome.
- Or is it fate? We know the Dharmans are experimenting with psychic powers of varying kinds. Could part of their work be to attract other people with "talents," not in some obvious
Close Encounters visions-of-Devil's-Tower way, but by somehow manipulating the "luck plane" (to steal a Subgenius term) of these special people so that the wheels of destiny bring them to the island?
- Why did the others want Jack, Kate and Sawyer? It's been suggested that, like Walt and the polar bear, Jack somehow manifested his father onto the island and Kate did the same with her horse, but what about Sawyer? Well, there were Sawyer's little incidents with the warthog and the frog that seemed to bother only him. Can Sawyer manifest things too?
- Somebody mentioned that they didn't see living facilities in the Pearl hatch like there are in the Swan--that's because no one stayed there. If you remember the Pearl training film, the people watching the closed-circuit TVs are told at the end of their daily shift to go to the Pala Ferry. A sign on the dock in last night's finale said Pala Ferry.
- Then there's the question of why Henry, as Mr. Big (if he
is Mr. Big), would risk joining up with the castaways, not arming himself, and getting the snot beat out of him. Well we've seen that the island has some interesting healing powers, and Rose mentioned that she and Locke both know that his injured leg won't take weeks to heal. The Others certainly know about these powers as well--maybe Henry knew he wouldn't have to worry about any injuries he might get from the suspicious castaways.
- Locke and Eko are
so totally not dead.
Questions:
- As Desmond started to ask at one point, why have people push the button every 108 minutes when you can program a computer (or one of those dunking birds like Homer uses [
"It's drinking the water!"]) to push the button for you?
- Why wasn't Michael leading Jack, Kate, Sawyer and Hurley back to the Other's camp? Judging by Sayid's smoke signal being miles away from the group (Jack says something to that effect), Michael was not heading for that camp, but I don't remember the Others telling him to lead them somewhere else.
- Why would the Others let Walt go, if he's so "talented"? I suspect they know he'll be back--or have arranged it that way.
