Answers???!?!?!

[Jalocke]

Im still a bit in shock... for the first time on LOST we actually got a pretty sizeable amount of answers. First off lets all bow to LOSTY! She got it right with the sickness. I am sure of it.

What this episode showed us was that anyone who enters or exits the island through the electromagnetic field falls prey to the displacement and time. This is the sickness. Rousseau's crew crashed onto this island and they all started skipping through time. As we saw with Desmond they prolly all were initially hostile and so Rousseau killed them.

Two questions now remain though:
1. Why didn't Rousseau suffer the same thing?
Well its possible that somehow maybe she went ahead of the rest of her crew and managed to go down the small corridor which would allow her to safely approach the island. I say this is unlikely. Secondly she did jump through time but found her constant. What that would be? I dont know. Or third, she wasnt on that boat.

2. Why didn't Desmond get the sickness the first time he crashed on the island?
Ill bet he did but that stuff he inject, along with what was injected to Juliet when she came actually manages to get rid of the sickness in you.

We know the reason 815 didnt get the sickness is cuz they passed through the EM field when it was freaking out due to Desmond's first little mishap.

However, I still actually have a lot of questions regarding it. Why did only Desmond suffer the effects? Why not Sayid or the pilot? Is it because he had been around a large quantity of EM? If thats the case was Minkowski around a large amount of EM? Was Rousseau's crew? There are still a lot of things which need explaining here.


However, I do think this provides us the reason why the pregnancies don't work out. The babies somehow contract the sickness and start mind hopping all over the place causing them to suffer brain aneurisms. Not sure if this is true or not but it would be pretty screwed up. If so does the fact that aaron survived mean that he can time hop? How does this relate to smokie and jacob? What significance does this have to Walt? Any? What is causing this electromagnetic field? Still a lot of questions but I do think we actually got some answers this time around.

[frostysnowbro]

Good theory about the babies, Jalocke. It's entirely possible it may be true.

Desmond was suffering the side effects due to him being ground zero at the Hatch implosion. So it offers a new question; Since Locke was also in the Hatch when it imploded, would he also suffer the same "side effects" if he were to leave the Island?

[Jalocke]

But why would only Desmond suffer the side affects. this means that only people who are around a large amount of EM get affected by the sickness. Thats a bit oddly specific...

[Bigdog5758]

maybe the sickness only effects certain / or random people, and thats why Rousseau wasn't affected. The same could be said for Naomi she came to the island and she didn't have the sickness.

[losty09]

heheh, thanks Jalocke.

I really like your theory about the babies. If it works, that would be why Ethan was giving the vaccine to Aaron. He probably wanted to ensure that the baby didn't show side effects of the disease.

You think that Danielle's team would have all simply died on their own, if they were suffering from the same thing Minowski was. Unless she made decided to off them before they could hurt her or her child.

Keep in mind, Dan also says that it affects some people worse than others. If the losties hadn't been exposed to large levels of radiation or electromagentism, then breaching that "field" wouldn't really have effected them, and that explains the fact that they haven't been suffering from the sickness. But scientists, I'm sure they are exposed to high levels of either of those two things. That would explain why the majority of Rousseau's team contracted the sickness. It would also explain why Dharma was afraid of the sickness. It's probable that a great deal of their original team suffered from it, and that's why there was a quarantine warning on the hatch door.

[Masque]

That's a good point about what Dan said, losty, and that makes me wonder about how many people have actually been affected. If the more intense effects include your entire consciousness moving through time, then a minor experience could be something as simple as a hallucination. I'm thinking that when we've seen the losties see someone from their past, it could be the displacement affecting them. I personally favor the idea that these ghosts from the past are due to the will of the Island, but the time displacement is something I think should be considered.

[losty09]

If the more intense effects include your entire consciousness moving through time, then a minor experience could be something as simple as a hallucination. I'm thinking that when we've seen the losties see someone from their past, it could be the displacement affecting them.

Brilliant.