LOST Speculation

[mik3cap]

So that statue remnant of the four-toed foot... that was a huge statue at some point. Well my guess is that the statue was actually the "monster" that "grabbed" the plane. When Desmond caused the magnetic accident, it charged the hell out of the statue and drew the plane towards it, making it look like it was grabbing it.

So the only question is: what was it a statue of? It must have been something that the Dharma Initiative built, and it clearly had an outstretched hand statue-of-liberty-style.

Also - with regard to Desmond trying to sail due West; maybe he was trying to use a compass instead of navigating by the stars/sun, and that was drawn off by the magnetic anomaly (hence why he sailed in a circle back towards the island). The magnetism also makes sense for pulling in all the other craft like the old ship and plane and balloon... maybe that's why the island is so "lost" and can't really be reached by ordinary means.

So why does sailing out at a bearing of 325 work (versus a bearing of 270 anyway)? Does that make it a tangent to the magnetic anomaly or something?

Additionally - the magnetic resonance thing may be why the cancer lady is feeling better... if that's true, and it's been destroyed, will she get sick again?

Lastly: I think there's some kind of psychic powers thing going on, and the "hostiles" on the island are doing some kind of psychic research. I'd bet that's even what the whole point of the Dharma thing is. I'm betting the black smoke is some kind of psychic projection/mirror, or some manifestation of the Dharma experiments, which is why there are "visions" in the freeze frames of when people encounter the smoke.

Comments

[jessnut.livejournal.com]

If it was just magnitism that was causing him to get turned around then anyone traveling due south would get away. The needle would always point toward or away from the island, the source of the magnitism, so heading either due north or due south (depending on the needle) would get away, so maybe 325 is that heading. Or also maybe there is a wall of some kind on one side of the reactor, like a deposit of natural iron, which blocks the signal from on direction so someone saying in that blocked section can get out.