He has another short post expounding upon his initial recap of "La Fleur."
Anyway, he wonders where Faraday was during the 1977 portions of the epsiode.
He also posts two reader/viewer theories about the island's anti-baby policy and how Amy's baby was born when others haven't been.
"My theory is that the Island's anti-baby policy was a result of Ben joining the Others and helping them kill off the Dharma Initiative. That must have been when everything got off track. The war to which Widmore was referring is the war that leads to the death of Dharma Initiative and his eventual forced exile from the island. The Left-Behinders and the Oceanic 6 were sent back to 1977 to stop those events from happening or to change the outcome." --Lorena
"You have to remember you are dealing with two different groups. The Dharma folks were all killed by Ben and the Others. The Others then moved into the Dharma facilities. Two possibilities. One, the Island is punishing the others for killing the Dharma folks. Second, the Others can't have children because they live so long, either as a byproduct of the treatment or a condition imposed by the four-toed god for the gift." --Jim Laurence
What do you think of these ideas and what's your theory about what's going on with babies being born or not being born on the island?
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I can't help but wonder if the the problem with the babies is something going on with The Others. The Dharma people are fine in this regard.
I think the fact that the babies were usually born off-island was a safety precaution.
And, as long as we're talking about Dharma babies, any more thoughts on who Amy's baby might be?
I agree with you, Jen. Moreover, I think a big reason for the Purge may have been so the Others could take the children from the Dharma camp and raise them as their own. I think Alexandra's boyfriend Karl was one of those Dharma children raised by the Others, but he was too young to have been Amy's baby, who would have been 27 at the time of the 815 crash.) Remember the Others took baby Alexandra from Danielle Rousseau, and gave her to Ben to raise a few years later, after the Purge. And when Oceanic 815 crashed, any surviving children were quickly targeted for kidnapping. I don't believe any children were targeted to die in the Purge. For some reason the Others cannot reproduce, so they hoped the Dhama kids would be able to grow up and have their own children. But when the Dharma children were raised as Others, the girls who became adults all died during their pregnancies. Maybe the Island is punishing the Others for the Purge?
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