I'm a huge fan of LOST, and when I spotted the dharma ink on the shark (S02E02: Adrift) I almost fell off my seat. "Did you see that!?!!" I exclaimed to my sigother."The shark... it had the symbol on it!" I explained. "No way... that makes no sense" she replied.
We were both right. How they heck do you explain a shark with a tattoo on it? You can't drug a shark and put a tattoo on it--they have to keep moving, they're sharks! Obviously, no shark is going to stand still while someone puts ink on it.
So, what does that leave? Is it a dolphin? Is it mechanical? Is it all a dream? Discuss.
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10-01-2005 @ 5:35PM
Radical Bender said...
Obviously the island is a secret lair for a supervillain. You know, Dr. No, Blofeld, The Incredibles type of a deal.
I mean think about it. Mysterious strangers with guns, branded sharks, strange hatches on an island that no one on the outside can see.
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10-01-2005 @ 5:39PM
Jason said...
Funny..... I totally thought Dr. Evil when I saw that.
Question: Did LOST jump the shark with the dharma shark?
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10-01-2005 @ 7:23PM
wassily said...
Actually it is just a myth that sharks have to keep swimming in order to stay alive. They need water flowing over their gills, but they can remain still and open and close their mouths to get that. Sorry to go all comic book guy on you.
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10-01-2005 @ 7:25PM
Tony said...
Obviously it's a brand, not a tatoo, and since it is under water, they found some way to brand it with fricken laserbeams!
But seriously, researchers implant tracking devices in sharks, don't they? If one can catch and tag a shark electronically, why not smear your "corporate logo feces" (as George Carlin likes to call it) all over it too?
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10-01-2005 @ 7:29PM
Jamie said...
It is implied that walt has some control over animals. Perhaps he was (forced?)into using the shark.
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10-01-2005 @ 7:58PM
erik said...
We are talking about a south pacific island with polar bears on it and you are stuck on the mystery of a shark? lol!
As Locke believes, the freaky thing that blows up trees is a secutiy system for the island, maybe the polar bears and the sharks are part of that.
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10-01-2005 @ 8:37PM
Siraris said...
It's one of those hip sharks from California.
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10-01-2005 @ 11:58PM
Tucker said...
#6 - exactly. I'm all for good theories and spending "water cooler time" trying to figure out all the nuances of the show... But for the love of god, we're talking about a show where 4815162342 has like serious cosmic significance, polar bears are running wild, Walt is 'special', cripples (oh wait, sorry, un-PC... disabled folk) can walk...... One way or the other, we all saw Michael bust a cap in the shark's ass, so we may not get an explanation any time soon.
Regardless, I think the best thing about LOST is that it inspires so much discussion. Never seen people scrutinze single screen caps from a TV show before. Hats off to that.
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10-02-2005 @ 1:50AM
Danny Cohen said...
uhm, excuse me, didn't blood shoot out of it when Michael shot it? thus, it is not robotic, unless robots have blood, in which case we should all be worried about the bigger picture.
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10-02-2005 @ 2:22PM
Jason said...
I think it's a dream of a robotic dolphin that's been tattooed...
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10-02-2005 @ 4:14PM
Rico said...
I'm thinking genetically engineered sharks. If they're tinkered with on a genetic level, those crafty Dharma scientists could "grow" a logo to show up on the its skin.
Or, it could still be midgets.
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10-02-2005 @ 10:31PM
Victor Agreda said...
It depends. Are you a man of science, or a man of faith?
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10-02-2005 @ 10:52PM
eric s said...
i think # 12 hit on the most possible scenario, it all seems to add up in that direction, though they give us almost nothing new!!! half the last episode was footage from last season! are the producers of lost poor? they shouldnt be, i just gave them my 2 cents...
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10-02-2005 @ 11:38PM
Love Lost said...
Yeah, I'm thinking it's a whole genetic experimentation lab gone wrong. They quarantined and monitor the people exposed to something and keep them on the island with the sharks and bears and monsters.
Part of it is if Dharma is a corporation, by all that's sacred on TV and movies they have to be bad.
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10-03-2005 @ 12:42AM
jd said...
isn't it a pa kua, not a dharma?
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10-03-2005 @ 5:17PM
Sean R. van Sommeran said...
"If it bleeds, we can kill it:":
S.
PSRF
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10-04-2005 @ 9:40AM
Gordy said...
Any force that can 'safely' crash a plane, put a polar bear in the artic, and make the lame walk again can brand a shark easily.
The numbers are the key...
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10-04-2005 @ 10:33AM
Zachery said...
More important than all of that is the fact that if you look closely enough, you'll find that the logo on the shark is actually not the exact same as the one on everything in the Hatch. What could it mean?
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10-04-2005 @ 11:39AM
Bob said...
Shave the dead polar bear, see if it has one too!!!
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10-04-2005 @ 1:35PM
Sean R. van Sommeran said...
"If it bleeds, we can kill it":
S.
PSRF
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