Lost musings after Season 2

[karohemd]

- So, if the button doesn't get pushed, the interior in the Swan gets magnetised and everything goes wrong. You can counteract this with a hidden key switch which (assumingly) generates a massive EMP discharge which *might* have caused the Lost flight to crash (would make sense as everything electric and electronic would have gone bye-bye, the actual feasibility of creating such an EMP nonwithstanding). The first incident (and subsequent EMP) mentioned in the Swan orientation video could have been the cause for the crash of Eko's brother's plane (and the arrival of the Others?).

- HTF did the military commander (played by Clancy "Brother Justin" Brown) from Sayid's Iraq flashback end up with Dharma and in the Swan?

- Henry (or whatever his name is) seems to be higher up in the hierarchy of the Others than we thought, as he tells the scary bloke with the (fake, why??) beard what to do.

- The last bit in the last episode proves that the outside world is still there and they just can't get off the island because they're prevented by mysterious/supernatural or highly complex technical means which probably also prevent the island from being spotted from the air or by sea. If "Henry"'s suggestion to Michael is true, there is a way to escape by going into a specific direction.

- Everything seems to point at the whole setup being sophisticated technical rather than supernatural/mysterious, which is cool.
It's a shame that Walt hasn't really featured much recently because in the beginning we thought he might be the key to the weirdness going on (and the black woman of the Others asked Michael if Walt had displayed any unusualy behaviour earlier in his childhood) so there might be a mysterious edge to everything, after all.

Remaining questions:

- what's the (long-term) purpose of the island, or rather what was it? If Dharma still wanted to use it, they'd look after it better. It seems it's either been abandoned or they somehow lost control of it and it's doing its own thing.

- who are the Others really and how did they end up on the island? Are they in any way connected to Dharma (previous occupants of the hatches) or just similar crash victims who landed there earlier (possibly during the first "incident").

- connected to the above who is "He" (the man in charge according to "Henry")?

- What was the cause for the main crash and was it deliberate or coincidence?

I hope the producers get on with it and continue to drive the story forward without drawing it out necessarily (there's not much more scope than for one full season, IMHO) so it doesn't go and dies horribly because it jumped the shark and ratings drop. Keep it up and finish it while it's still interesting and moving, I'd say.