“Sickness” after the “incident”
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By Appolobar
- “Sickness” after the “incident”
- Created: Mar 18, 2008
- Last updated: Aug 14, 2008
- After episode: 3.22: Through The Looking Glass
- Status: Current
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Dont kill me if this has already been posted…I am a little slow, hehe.
Danielle talked about her crew getting sick after they got to the island.
Marvin Candle talks about “the incident” in the orientation film
I think the “incident” was another EM burst like the one Des caused when he turned the key. (I know this is probably obvious to you all)
I think the “sickness” that Danielle talks about is the same “sickness” that Des felt when he was on the freighter.
To me it makes sense. She says they got sick and she killed them all. There was no virus or anything in the air - no need for anyone to be quarantined. So what could it be? Stuck between time?
The thing I cant explain is how Danielle’s crew would feel what Des felt while they were still on the island, but I would love for anyone to add ideas on that note.
Lol I just know I am gonna get this theory torn apart. I know there are holes but it is just the beginning of a thought…
bull bull bull
I think it is totally plausible Appolobar. Maybe her crew exhibited the same crazy “cabin fever” behavior that the crew of the Kahana are.
i think you are onto something there dude.
its definatly plausable that the sickness as indeed caused my an electomagnetic outburts, causing maybe the same sympoms desmond and the guy on the freighter had. im not sure about the time line though, roussau’s arrival and the incident! but we will fins out next season when they do her flashback :)
hmm, i dunno dude. the “incident” was in ‘85, according to the blast door map, and Rousseau arrived around ‘88. So unless those electro-magnetic pulses went all the way to France, it seems a little implausible.
A similar theory that’s been hinted at, if never formally stated, is that they ARE the same sickness, caused by Danielle’s crew traveling to the island, (just as Minkowski and Brandon were, Sayid was leaving the island) and that they had been exposed to electromagnetism not through a hatch but through their normal scientific work. Danielle may have been spared due to her pregnancy. But I don’t know what all that has to do with the “incident”.
Haha Connex, I am actually not a dude, but it is ok. :P
I am not sure of the timeline either but I can venture a guess. The orientation film looks like it is from the 70s or 80s and Danielle has been looping her distress call for 16 years. But that doesnt really say how long before she started the distress call the “incident” took place. We do know that there was Dharma when she and the crew crashed on the island because they took Alex. I think that happened before Ben killed the DI. I really am not sure, does anyone smarter than me know the timeline? Haha.
I just cant think of another reason that there would be a sickness but nothing in the air to cause a sickness. I know some will say that the DI faked the whole quarantine thing but that still doesnt explain the fact that Danielle witnessed her crew (including her husband?) getting “sick” to the point where she killed them all.
Appolobar, I agree. Rousseau may have had to kill them because they were disoriented like Des was on the freighter and didn’t even know who she was (just as Des didn’t recognize Sayid.) and they may have become violent…. Minkowski had to be restrained.
The whys and hows for why they were affected I can’t figure though. +1
thesaddo, you REALLY have been abusing the world bull lately, haven’t you. I mean … every post?
Is this really necessary?
haha i have noticed the “bull” in alot of the theories.
well apollo (apollina perhaps :p) i think kissapoc has got it right about geting the sickness due to traveling to the island like minowski. then we dont have to try and connect the incident with it hooray
*pulls a party popper
The way I understand it, in order to experience the mind time travel (like Des and Minkowski) you need to travel to and from the Island after being exposed to high doses of radiation or electromagnetism). This is why Sayid was not effected.
Now I think Danielle and her science team fulfil one of these criteria (travelling to the Island), but not the other (though I don’t know what kind of science they were doing, of course!).
As such, I inclined more towards Rousseau’s science team experienced what The Freighter team are experiencing; a sweeping craziness apparently effecting some but not others. Since Rousseau herself was immune to this ‘sickness’, that characteristic ‘random’ quality of this Freighter madness links in, I feel.
Other than Rosseau’s say so, do we have any actual evidence of a science team?
Appolobar, this has legs. I like it. So if I get you right, would it be fair to say that if everyone who ‘got/get’s sick’ (and this list recently got bigger with the arrival of the freighter) knew about the theory of the ‘constant’ then there would be less need for a good supply of body bags! Keep ‘em coming.
16 years ago, Ben let loose the poisen that killed everyone. Why can’t the sickness some how be related to that. Maybe it affects people differently based on proximity. If he used the Tempest to release the poison, why did he need canister of poisened gas to release in the Dharma van?
helloladies - I have been asking myself that same question since the Tempest epi. Why on earth did he use gas canisters to kill the DI folks when he had the dang Tempest there the whole time? They had gas masks for the “hostiles.” Why bother with the cans? Good point. I dunno. And you do have a point about the gas may have caused her team to go loopy but I still think it was this cabin fever/unstuck in time thing. By the way, I relate the “cabin fever” that the freighter people are experiencing as the same thing Des is experiencing. I thought that was obvious that they were the same thing but I dont think everyone is convinced of that.
AC - As for the freighter crew, some of them are experiencing the “unstuck in time” routine and they are just off the coast of the island. Same as Danielle’s team - they have (almost) come to the island but not left. Why would it be so crazy to think that Danielle’s team didnt get the same reactions? Maybe they were exposed to EM energy before they came within proximity of the island (like Daniel Faraday) and when they approached the island it started bugging everybody out. It even makes sense that the reason Danielle didnt go crazy is because she probably was spared from whatever it was they were doing with EM energy because she was pregnant at the time. So, no EM exposure = no crazy bugger.
LittleBen - Yes, I think that if all of her crew knew about having to have constants and stuff like that, they may have been able to control their timeline and may not have been killed by Danielle. Absolutely.
JacksEyes - No, I dont think we have seen evidence of the science team, but I think it is just because they are all dead. I cant remember what she said she did with the bodies. But IMO there is no reason to doubt that there was a science team intended for just what Danielle says.