UPDATE: Why Must the Oceanic Six Reunite?
E!Online has unearthed a possible spoiler about why the Oceanic Six must reunite to return to the island in Lost’s fifth season. Read on at your own risk.
"What I’m hearing is that the reason Jack, Kate, Sayid, Sun and Hurley need to reunite is because the Oceanic Six need to fan out to a group of Dharma stations," E!Online’s Jennifer Godwin writes. "Even more intriguing? According to my source, these stations are not on the Island, but in other locations, and these off-Island stations are believed to be the ticket to getting back to the Island." She goes on to mention that we may have seen one of these locations already, so it’s time to start guessing what they may be.
I guess this sounds plausible enough, but I assume the task must be more difficult than visiting a few different stations and flipping some switches. If the Oceanic Six are only needed to visit Dharma stations, does this mean that Aaron and Walt don’t need to return to the island? This news practically raises more questions than it answers.
UPDATE: Kristin at E!Online has unveiled which of these off-island Dharma stations we’re already familiar with, and once again Australia is the key to the game. As she writes in her latest column, "the station is specifically in or around Ayers Rock/Uluru, the place Rose and Bernard visited on their honeymoon."
Penny’s arctic listening station?
Comment by royale — October 9, 2008 @ 2:07 pm
Hm, thats kind of interesting, but it seems like they could come up with something better. Who knows.
Comment by theotheraaron — October 9, 2008 @ 2:47 pm
Why does Locke have to go to a far off station? He can’t switch any buttons. Unless there is a station on the beach and season five will give lots of props to Weekend at Bernies.
Andy
Comment by Andy — October 9, 2008 @ 4:42 pm
WOW your sources sounds just the same as one in DarkUfo site..;)
Comment by Steve — October 10, 2008 @ 5:05 am
“There are places on earth with great energy, maybe magnetic, maybe something else”
These places that the faith healer Rose went to, spoke of. If anyone else new about them im sure it would be Dharma. The fact that people have traveled to the island from Portland, Figi, Nigeria(tunisia). Makes me think of a theory on Vile Vortices, the theory suggests Vile Vortices are like Bermuda triangles which all share the same latitude, this latitude lines up with Portland, Figi, Nigeria(tunisia)& possibly the island. Teleportation (kind of) Ben via donkey wheel ends up in Tunisa, but in the future. I dont have an answer but i don’t think im far off!
Comment by Mark — October 10, 2008 @ 5:17 am
“WOW your sources sounds just the same as one in DarkUfo site..;)” What are you referring to? He says it’s from E!Online–it’s not like he’s claiming it’s one of his sources.
Comment by Bilbo — October 10, 2008 @ 6:23 am
Steve - Bilbo is right. Dark UFO used the info from EOnline also. No one is claiming this to be some secret source that is just being copied from Dark UFO. Stay on Dark UFO if you like it better and out of here. This is a positive site, and we don’t need your negativity.
Comment by Dave — October 10, 2008 @ 10:31 am
Seems like someone always has to come on here and start trying to bring us all down through their snide comments, oh well whatever.
I’ve heard theories on the whole Vile Vortices thing before and it seems to be more plausible than ever that that is indeed the case here. Check out this picture here:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3101/2304319318_a7a24d32e5.jpg
If you haven’t seen a map of them before then I’m assuming your mind is just flying right now. Just like Mark previously mentioned, there is a Vortice over Tunisia (where Ben wound up and near where Yemi’s plane took off), one over Fiji (where 815 was headed before it crashed), another west of Australia (where the O6 turned up), one over both the North and South Poles (possible location of the “Arctic Listening Station”), and just for a grounding in reality: one over Easter Island, The Bermuda Triangle, and the Devils Sea near Japan which are all fairly famous places for their unexplained mysteries. For all we know maybe the ancient inhabitants of Easter Island slipped into a Vortice and landed on the island. The Black Rocks last voyage was from Britain to Thailand so they would have sailed right past the Madagascar Vortice.
The possibilities are endless for the Vortice Theory, and it just becomes more and more likely that it could be a big key to the show. Maybe the off island Dharma Stations are over these vortices, who knows, I guess in a year and a half we will know.
Comment by B*Locke — October 11, 2008 @ 5:04 am
the station in the pacific where sam and lenny heard the numbers.maybe DHARMA has a connection with the navy
Comment by joel — October 11, 2008 @ 11:20 am
Okay, interesting. This would help bring the arctic listening station into play, especially after the speculation that the guy in the station looked exactly like Jack with a beard and glasses. Well, Jack has the beard already. Don’t they say they have to call Penny? Jack knows Penny from when she picked up the 06. This could all fit together very well if someone wants to go back and watch that station scene.
What would have triggered the blip that the station picks up? Perhaps it wasn’t Desmond setting off the Dharma key after all, but something else. Or if they went back in time to a point Desmond was at the station, they repeat the sequence.
Let the speculation begin. I hope E-online is wrong, I prefer to be completely caught off guard.
Comment by Blutoschmooto — October 12, 2008 @ 9:46 am
Mark, you’re right. The each of the O-6 are headed for the location of a vortex. The fact is, of the twelve vortices, six have been connected to the Island in the past: Bermuda Triangle (Frank Lapidus apparently was based on a island at one corner of the Triangle); South Pole (Rousseau’s expedition was on its way to Antartica to study “time.”); Tunisia (Charlotte’s Expedition: Ben’s teleportation); North Pole (possible location of Penny’s listening station; habitat of Polar Bears);Eastern Coast of Australia (Multiple characters)(show may substitute Uluru, as a matter literary license, as it has been described as a “place of power” that “promotes healing”); Indian Ocean vortex near Zanzibar (site of Hanso foundation experiments mentioned in the first ARG, but not yet referenced in the show.)
Unfortunately, this seems almost too easy. As one of the first to mention the vortex theory, I kind of hope I’m right, but I also hope I’m wrong because I like to be surprised and amazed.
Comment by Thomas Hobbes — October 12, 2008 @ 7:10 pm
Could the station we have seen be “The Looking Glass” it is off island. It would also make it a difficult and dramatic place to get to.
Comment by d23 — October 12, 2008 @ 9:04 pm
“especially after the speculation that the guy in the station looked exactly like Jack with a beard and glasses.” Except he DIDN’T look like Jack, and in fact was played by another actor entirely.
Comment by Lorg — October 13, 2008 @ 5:22 am
Well, I guess this site’s brief resurgence of life was short-lived. The new posts have stopped already. It’s like a dying person who has an unexpected and sudden burst of energy before finally expiring.
Comment by Danke Shane — October 13, 2008 @ 2:06 pm
Lorg, feel free to brush up on Lost speculation:
http://www.thetailsection.com/lost-theories/your-voice-jack-in-the-arctic.php
Comment by blutoschmooto — October 13, 2008 @ 5:54 pm
Blutoschmooto: I’m aware of the speculation–just as I’m aware that it’s wrong, since the man in the Arctic station (as is made clear in the comments at the link you posted) is another actor, not Matthew Fox. They’re different guys, and don’t look much alike, in my opinion. In any case, a fan theory posted on this site means nothing, particularly when it’s provably untrue.
Comment by Lorg — October 14, 2008 @ 11:30 am
This website started to suck halfway through the last season.
I’m a fulltime DarkUFO user…
=]
Comment by Corporate Heroin — October 28, 2008 @ 6:29 am
so why would aaron and locke have to go back, they can hardly push buttons
Comment by clivemurch — November 18, 2008 @ 4:36 am