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I just recently bought Season One on DVD. As soon as the Pilot episode began, this question popped into my head.

I’m just confused as to what it could mean. In the end it may have something to do with the jungle - beach disconnect. Remember, as often as we’ve seen or heard smokey, it’s never been to the beach. Maybe Jack being in the jungle away from the fuselage and the beach like everyone else is connected?

i love the pilot episode, i can watch over and over again, especially in a room with surround sound.. thats when its great. its that episode that hooked me.

Also, interestingly, Kate came from out of the jungle and found Jack and sewed him up. We never saw her at the beach, did we?. She seemed to be walking from the jungle toward the beach?

Also Just bought Season 1 with the dual intention of a) getting my Girlfriend hooked on lOst, (so frustrating having to wait until she isn;t around to watch the episodes, its like my dirty little habit!!) & b) re-watch the episodes to see if there was anything i may have missed, as all the informed peeps on here seem to notice the coolest things second time around, will defo check for Kate entrance from the Jungle.

Guys sorry to debunk but I think Kate wasn’t on the island as she was removing her cuffs and ditching them in the jungle (later to be found by Walt. I say I think I swear at some point in the first 5 episodes we see her conscious when most overs are not, think she runs into the Jungle. I may have dreamed that so don’t quote me

but Im with the Jack thing 100% I just cant manage to work out how this is not his first time. He always says he has a plan cause he knows whats coming. Im not completely down with the time travel thing so am desperately searching for other possible reasons. maybe everything we are watching now will become a huge flash forward and the last episode will be Jack waking up on the island after the crash. hence knowing what is gonna happen.

I don’t agree with the whole Jack waking up in unbruised bamboo field theory. If you watch carefully there actually are some (albeit less than you would think) broken bamboo shoots around him as well as several stalks laying around where he falls (there’s even one laying across his legs). But more directly is the fact that it’s simply dramatic writing. The whole point of not having him at the crash site is to build suspense gradually. The audience, like Jack, is at first clueless as to where he is and what just happened. It looks as if he had been in a fight, got his butt whooped and left in a field. Why? Who did it? Where is he? It’s all a method of grabbing our attention, and mystery adds to that. How anticlimatic would it be if we see him waking up still strapped to his seat in a part of the busted up plane? We would automatically know everything. And not only is that anticlimatic, but it’s confusing. All at once we would be introduced to our main character, as well as know that he just survived a plane crash (along with others) on some island seemingly in the middle of nowhere. It’s too much info, too fast. I think the whole Jack not being with the fuselage means practically nothing. The first time we see Kate, she’s stumbling out of the jungle when Jack runs off to mend his wounds. And for all we know a lot of others woke up in the jungle and simply ran to the wreckage upon hearing the deathly screams of people trapped or injured at the wrekage site.

I think the fact that most of them seem virtually unharmed (Shannon for example seems like she just walked out of her bedroom after getting dressed, not a spot on her) is also a non-factor to the plot. If every one of our significant characters are hobbling around with broken legs drenched in blood, we wouldn’t be able to recognize them, not to mention the story would be very slow developing (physically) if they’re all seriously injured.

I think there are theories being sought where clues don’t exist.

On the other hand, that’s the whole fun of it. :-)

Well, I think it’s very possible that Jack not waking up on the beach is a non-issue, but the fact that they are not injured MUST be a part of the plot. It’s simply impossible for so many people to survive a plane crash. I will be very upset if the producers don’t explain this at the end, because there has to be a reason. It could be as simple as that they all did have broken legs, etc, but somehow the island healed them, or it could be something more complex. But, it can’t be a natural phenomenon.

in one of the season one episodes, i think it was Sayid, said that they cart wheeled through the jungle. that explains why people are coming out of the jungle. what doesnt make sense is why Jack came from the jungle and Rose was on the beach near the water, when ther were sitting beside eachother.

interesting theory…it is very strange that Jack and Rose where sitting very close on the plane but ended up on separate points of the island…hmmm

crbolosan: I respect your opinion. That’s cool. Try this on for size: the producers already knew they were going to use the island’s healing power as part of their plotline (Locke, Rose’s cancer, Sawyer, Naomi, etc) which allowed them to not have to deal with crash-injured people for very long (makes it difficult to do ANY filming if everybody is incapacitated!) but the fact that NO ONE other than the guy trapped under the landing gear has anything more than a scratch is just too unbelievable.

Shell: Explaining Kate wandering out of the jungle when she first meets Jack is easier. sleepz is right, more time has elapsed giving her time to go to the jungle to ditch her handcuffs.

Yes, I agree its more dramatic to have your hero come upon the wreckage (its one of my favorites in the whole series) but its still not logical. If you want drama - why not have him wake up having been impaled by a bamboo shoot. The reason i think Jack’s waking up point is suspect is also because Smokey can’t penetrate dense bamboo cage.

Oh well, guess that’s why we like to debate it all. Hey, thanks for posting anyway!

there are others who have more than a scratch. The marshall dies of his wounds, there is also the guy who gets sucked into the jet engine, not to mention that there are many people who did actully die during the plane crash. but i still think it is wierd how many people came through unscathed.

Just a thought about the guy that gets sucked into the Jet engine in the pilot episode.

It made me remember who that was. It was none other than Gary Troup,who I believe has some links still to the present storylines. Go to http://www.lostpedia.com/wiki/Gary_Troup. There are some pretty interesting reads there.

I would also have to agree with crbolosan, as I’ve stated before.

“the fact that they are not injured MUST be a part of the plot. It’s simply impossible for so many people to survive a plane crash. I will be very upset if the producers don’t explain this at the end, because there has to be a reason.”

There definitely could be a reason, but since it can be most simply explained by “they aren’t injured because we need them to be uninjured to have a tv show”, I’m going to stick to that for now.

It’s been proven that the island has some kind of healing properties, so perhaps that explains it as well. It’s not a particularly dramatic or exciting explanation, though, so I’m inclined to believe that it’s just one of MANY details of tv-show drama that we’re just supposed to accept as “tv reality”, which as we all know is different from ACTUAL reality.

why, for instance, do people often look so clean, their hair so perfect, when they’re stuck on an island? why does hurley not lose any weight? etc., etc.

I guess time will tell Nat…

The guy getting sucked into the engine was fine before he got sucked away. The marshall having the piece of metal is the only real injury we see from the crash.

The more I read these theories the more I think they’ve all been there before, over and over repeating the same things. I can totally imagine it ending exactly where it started Jack waking up in the jungle and it being some kind of time loop. I’m not sure that would be the best ending but I can see it happening.