One interesting (9/21/2005) blog entry attempts to explain "the numbers" as Lost fans call them. The blog gives credit to a French man named Rousseau who they say wrote an actual book on something called "Genetic Mirror Theory" before he vanished with his wife in the south pacific trying to prove it 16 years ago. It's all very complicated, but Lost fans will eat it up.
All the numbers are totally there and it all makes a bit too much sense, if you know what I mean. The writer claims to have found Rousseau's work online but a run on Google proves that is only found on this blog - so where did they "find" it online as they claim?
Being that the Lost producers seem to like to plant stuff online on odd network-run websites to drive us insane with tons of secret doohickies hidden within. There might be something to it since, after the number's theory text, there is a link and a code word to enter in a certain spot at the official Lost site. Your prize is that you'll get to see a "lost" Lost script page they never shot that just seems to coordinate with the Frenchman's theory. (Or they put this stuff out there to throw us off the scent.)
That theory creep you out yet? No? Maybe this audio clue from Walt will do it. No? Dang, that's pretty darn freaky. Did you see Locke in the hospital ER? I think his car was the one that hit Jack's eventual finacee, and it was him on the other table in the room. So, if that's right it's probably how he got paralyzed. Man they love to torture us.
Then there's "the numbers" appearing as some kind of reference code (CR 4-81516-23 42) on the bottles of injections "Desmond" gave himself. And they show up again randomly in the mural in the hatch's hallway. Rumor is if you freeze frame the mural you'll find lots more clues than that. I did go back and frame-by-frame it but I didn't see anything more that cryptic arrows and the word "sick".
And how about that hatch, eh? Who knew it was a hipster batchelor pad without the dames, not me! Think that other bunk was Ethan's? I do. I'm really only sure of two things, it's been there far longer than Desmond has been, and the circa 1970's computer I'm pretty sure is a morning "Nope, not dead yet" check-in. Or not, who the hell knows. All this stuff coudl be a smokescreen for something much more mundane. I'm not even sure the writer knows for sure, but it is a fun ride.
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9-23-2005 @ 1:14PM
eujin said...
I call "Clever "Lost" Viral Marketing Campaign!"
A search of both Amazon.com and Bookfinder.com (which searches OOP books) shows no book titled Genetic Mirror Theory. Besides, there are only 7 continents, not --the South Pacific is not a continent, and why on earth would it be the most likely place for twins to meet?!
The GMT theory sounds like it's been concocted from a mish-mash of other movies and TV shows. The basic idea of a genetic twin somewhere out there in the world is ages old--doppelganger anyone?
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9-23-2005 @ 1:29PM
dpb said...
That was not Locke in the ER. He was referred to as Mr. Rutherford. As in, Shannon Rutherford (Boone's step sister).
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9-23-2005 @ 1:29PM
Jonathan Carpenter said...
The other guy in the car accident died, and although I didn't catch it, someone on another board said his last name was Rutherford, which I also heard is the last name of Shannon's, and whose father was killed several years before.
Also, on the mural was the number "108", which is all the numbers (4 8 15 16 23 42) added up.
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9-23-2005 @ 1:29PM
Gaz said...
C'mon now, pay attention to the show! It was very clearly stated that Jack's fiance-to-be hit the other car, not the other way around. It was also very clear that the other driver DIED on the table.
However, there's still a chance for a Lostaway Connection from that scene. The name of the man who died: Adam Rutherford (Shannon's father, perhaps?).
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9-23-2005 @ 2:04PM
Vince said...
And BTW he died at 8:15am
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9-23-2005 @ 1:48PM
Lacy Hall said...
Oh stop! Nothing on Lost is definite or really 100% positive. I don't think they actually said "he died"...I think they said "We lost him" and then you heard a prolonged beeping noise that is typically the international Television sign for "dead." But perhaps, they actually lost him...maybe he got up and walked down the hallway because his pager went off...hence the beeping noise. You have to open your mind to all the possibilites.
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9-23-2005 @ 1:54PM
Keith McDuffee said...
I think Locke's legs were affected by an explosion in the box factory he worked in. Or something like that. Didn't Hurley say something at one point about a box factory blowing up?
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9-23-2005 @ 1:55PM
Wolsey said...
Is it an ABC-run viral marketing campaign, or just a zealous fan trying to spread his own pet theory? Well, the wide cross-posting of this "theory" among Lost-related boards has been primarily from newly registered accounts. Someone is definitely deliberately spreading this.
The fact that he had the password to the new hidden section of an ABC-run site (http://www.oceanicflight815.com/) smells of network plant.
On the other hand, the password was easy to guess, so he could have read the "script page" and then made this theory up to jibe with it.
The reason I lean towards the latter is the (poor) quality of the theory. It is just too full of glaring holes. The "science" and math behind the Genetic Mirror Theory is laughable. Also, the title of the book is in English, but the book is only in French?
If TBTB were trying to build a viral backstory for Lost they would have been more careful in creating the details of the "theory". They would have spread it thru the web more carefully, as well, with user accounts that aren't so easily identified as shills.
I think the "script page" is a genuine, real red herring planted by ABC. I think the "genetic mirror theory" is simply a hoax that someone based on that red herring.
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9-23-2005 @ 2:04PM
Carl said...
Lacy: I thought you were going to stop posting about Lost and stick to things that are more your crowd like "The OC"? Because once again you show you weren't really watching...
The doctors clearly said "Time of death..." when the man flatlined. They posted his time of death on his chart.
Stick to the OC... it's more your speed.
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9-23-2005 @ 2:06PM
LH said...
Rosseau is the name of the French lady who was already on the island, right? Sounds to me like this is part of the storyline -- it will turn out to be her husband who wrote the theory.
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9-23-2005 @ 3:16PM
Lacy Hall said...
Carl: Once again, I'm a writer and writers lie. Also, once again...I was just being funny and goofing around. There's this new craze going around...it's called sarcasm. It's when someone is intentionally a smart-ass in order to make a joke. It's really sweeping the country, you should check it out. Until then, take a deep breath. And Relax.
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9-23-2005 @ 3:30PM
John Frost said...
An actual date for those flashbacks with Jack's Wife and Mr Rutherford in the ER? Would that be before or after 1984 (when the world waved bye-bye to the APPLE IIE and hello the the MacIntosh)? It would help us determine if Desmond met Jack in the stadium before or after his placement in the hatch/bunker.
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9-23-2005 @ 4:01PM
jen segrest said...
See, you all fail to get a couple things, that hatch is filled full of outdated stuff. The excercise bike, the record player, an old computer...
ACTUALLY - I don't think it's a mac. It's keyboard with a button says excute. What mac EVER said execute on the keyboard? It's also got a monochrome green screen, Mac's never did. They had those in the 70's - I don't think it's a "computer" so much as a "terminal" on a line to a mainframe like the old reel to reel kind in the room). Think IBM 1973...
(looking at the playback: I am reaaaaallllly sure he types the numbers in on the keyboard... sure looks liek it to me on slow mo)
But not all the stuff it old, I mean... the laundry machines I think were was newer!
Oh and did anyone else catch that the key around Jack's neck was standing straight out away from him near that wall? something is mega magnetic down there...
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9-23-2005 @ 3:58PM
Lacy Hall said...
The other thing with Desmond is that when Jack asked him why he was running he said he was training for a race around the world. Do you think that's maybe how he ended up on the island? I don't know if it was an actual race or not, but maybe.
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9-23-2005 @ 4:01PM
James Kew said...
Of course it's not a Mac; it's an Apple II, immediately recognisable to nerds everywhere.
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9-23-2005 @ 4:23PM
Keith McDuffee said...
It also looked like the area where Jack's key was being pulled was all boarded up, as if something was being blocked from coming in from the magnetic area. It's what attracted Jack to look at it in the first place.
Also, weird that the age of the guy who died in Jack's OR wasn't a number from THE numbers. I think they said he was fifty-something.
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9-23-2005 @ 6:04PM
Jason said...
4=number of years Locke had been in a wheelchair
8=the age Sawyer when his father killed his mother and then himself
15=I don't know yet
16=number of years the signal has been repeating and I believe the gate number the plane was at
23=Jack's seat number and Katie's ransom ($23,000)
42=Ana Lucia's seat number (girl from the airport bar)
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9-23-2005 @ 7:17PM
Erin said...
I completely agree that the "theory" is a plant. You can't find anything about it apart from Lost blogs.
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9-24-2005 @ 11:23AM
Rico said...
Wow. I like the "The other bunk was Ethan's" thing. Wow.
Yes, he does, in fact, type the numbers into the aforementioned Apple II(e?). I like the "Nope, not dead" input request theory - makes sense.
The numbers? They're all over the show, every single episode. Some iteration or another is in every show, and it speaks to connectedness of every main character; connections they're not even aware of, but they're there.
Best damned show on television. They need to cancel Desperate Housewives so their bloated salaries can be re-distributed to my peeps on the island.
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9-24-2005 @ 12:23PM
Vail Reese, MD said...
Here's another number: 3. For the skinny on new "Lost" strandee Michelle Rodriguez, check out the dermatology in the media blog. Her tendency to three distinct skin conditions does not detract from her poise and talent. Check it out at:
http://skinema.blogs.com/skinema_dermatology_in_th/2005/09/michelle_rodrig.html
--Vail Reese, MD
www.skinema.blogs.com
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