Desmond and Claire's ex-boyfriend connection

[rasalghul]

As a follow-up to the "Desmond's serum is tampering his brain" thread, the paintings and the bunker's mural can be explained if we think about the Spielbeg movie, Close Encounters of the Third Kind:

The main characters who have experienced the same kind of encounters with the aliens are obsessed and compelled to represent the mountain where the encounter was about the happen.

So if Dharma is conducting some kind of experience, maybe DNA modifications infecting the brain, inside and outside the island, Desmond and Thomas, Claire's ex-boyfriend, may have been subjected to the same serum. With the same brain tampering, they may have the same inspiration to draw the paintings and the Mural.
Of course, it is possible that someone else draw the mural, but this person was in the bunker and probably took part of the Dharma "push-the-button"project. So he/she may have been under the same influence of the serum.

It is possible that Thomas, in need of money, was participating in drug testing, as those experiments are well paid and he's broke !

[evilgus]

Sort of like Alias?

[rasalghul]

Exactly like Alias, the other show created by JJ Abrams for ABC. At the end of season 3, JJ Abrams introduced Nadia, the girl who has some kind of long lost message encoded in her DNA.

When she's injected with a serum, she starts to spill out a strange message in a non conscious state of mind.

Moreover, Hanso foundation has cryogenic program and this year, Alias introduced a next generation cryogenic technology !

[Annie]

It's good to have a French Connection. You really think outside the box, mon ami.

[Redsox]

it would be weard if alis saved them off the island

[rasalghul]

Merci Annie

What you said just goes right to my heart !

I just tried to find the most plausible theories, using as little SF elements as possible, even if a lot of things make Lost looks like SF loaded. There's a lot of very imaginative theories, but it's very important to separate facts and interpretation of these facts by the characters when we look for stuff to back up our theories, or they would be just speculations.

I believe that JJ, Carlton and Damon's idea for Lost is very simple. It has to be so that the pitch for the show convinced the ABC executives right away. They cannot afford to create a Survivor-look-alike and copy an idea from another network.

[rasalghul]

Hi redsox, who knows we may find Vaughn on the island if the Purgatory theory stands !

By the way, I have to say that I'm a Yankee fan, but we love you though !

[Annie]

Good point about the pitch to ABC. If JJ started trying to explain a bunch of weird sci-fi complicated plot stuff, ABC/Disney wouldn't have bought it. We fans are probably way way WAY over-analyzing and making it out to be much more going on than there really is.

Still, it is fun to use the grey matter for more than work and grocery lists. Ha Ha.

[evilgus]

It wouldn't have just been Jeffrey Abrams on his own, probably those other guys Carlton and Damon. But they must have been able to explain it quite quickly, what the ultimate plot was. Obviously side plots can develop organically dependant on how many seasons they expect to have to fill. So in some ways we might not be over-analysing, there could be loads of things we miss, but also red-herrings we stupidly follow.

rasalghul je parle francais aussi, mais je n'ecrit pas tres bien.

[rasalghul]

salut evilgus !

My opinion is that, true, the ultimate plot has to be simple, so our ultimate theory has to be simple, too. And the creators are just humans, they have a finite imagination, we the fans are some kind of supercomputers trying to understand everything, so we might deceive and disappoint ourselves if our fantasies don't come true.

By over-analysing, we may raise the bar too much for a TV show. Anyway, there will be surprises and it's exactly what we want.