Survivors of the Chancellor - an observation
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By Veefre
- Survivors of the Chancellor - an observation
- Created: Mar 14, 2008
- Last updated: Aug 14, 2008
- After episode: 3.22: Through The Looking Glass
- Status: Current
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In Ji Yeon, freighter person Regina is seen guarding the door to Sayid and Desmond’s cabin (really the infirmary). When Lapidus walks up, he notes that the book she seems to be reading is upside down.
The book is “Survivors of the Chancellor”, by Jules Verne. This book describes a rather horrific last voyage by a sailing ship in the 1870’s, where only 11 of 28 original passengers and crew survive. Sabotage, fire, shipwreck, repair, sinking, and cannibalism adrift on a raft are among the traveler’s experiences.
Probably just as well it was upside down. Not a particularly relaxing story for people trapped on a vessel stranded just off shore a somewhat toxic island.
Didn’t the Chancellor wreck on that island?
According to Wikipedia, the Chancellor was a fictitious vessel, which ran aground on an uncharted reef somewhere between Bermuda/Sargasso Sea and British Guiana (in the South Atlantic).
Well, you know the writers like to use books in the show to draw attention to something. Not saying they will resort to cannibalism or anything, but sabotage and losing some people wouldn’t be far-fetched. Since she was only pretending to read the book, I wonder what else she had been up to instead. And why she killed herself. She didn’t seem the least bit depressed, more like furtive and and angry.
Veefre: The book is just a reference, but it appears that Regina may have been suffering from the same effects as Minkowski. Recall Minkowski saying that several members of the crew were bored and went off the freighter in a small boat to explore “the island”.
The “extreme cabin fever” that Regina and the other crew members suffer from is different than the Minkowski/Desmond “time flash illness”. She was reading the book upside down because zombie like behavior seems to be a symptom of this “extreme cabin fever”. If she were suffereing from the “time flash illness” then she would have been passed out.
I believe that Rousseau’s crew suffered from the “extreme cabin fever” illness instead of the “time flash illness”. There seems to be 3 possible results when people travel to/from the island: 1) they’re fine 2)they get sick with the “extreme cabin fever” 3) they have previously been exposed to high levels of radiation/EM and get the “time flash illness”