Watching Lost

In the realm of theories, Jeff Jensen’s newest one makes quite a bit of sense. Could some of the Others be a collection of secret agents from the U.S. and the Soviet Union sent to the island to figure out what the Hanso Foundation was up to with its Dharma Initiative? Jensen’s explanation is this:

Everything about the Hanso Foundation and the Dharma Initiative is a hoax — an elaborate lie created by Cold War-era utopian idealist/activist prankster Alvar Hanso, designed to undermine BOTH the United States of America and the Soviet Union. His idea: trick both countries into thinking he found a way to save the world. His hope: force the superpowers into diverting their attention away from each other and toward his mysterious enterprise. Call it ”Operation: Venus Flytrap.” The whole point of Dharma was to lure agents from both countries (like Kelvin and his old Hatchmate, Radzinsky, who per this theory could have been a KGB agent) to infiltrate the Hanso Foundation, become part of the Initiative, and get to the island in order to find out what the hell was going on there.

Ironically, those who believe that Lost is actually just a big waste of time are more right than they know. Because that’s basically the true purpose of Dharma: to waste the time and energy of the two superpowers leading the world toward ruin.

IMPLICATIONS Could the Others be a collective of secret agents, American and Russian, who came to the island, saw through the deception, but for various reasons abandoned their respective missions, banded together, and are now hiding out from their spymasters?

Could this explain why Ben told Sawyer that they were better con men than he could ever be — because they are all spies, trained in the art of deception and subterfuge?

And could it be that a long, long time ago, the U.S. and the Soviet Union figured out Hanso’s ruse, but instead of busting him, have co-opted his enterprise for their own benefit? Could the island be a place where they banish bad agents and other undesirables? Or could it even be a place like The Village in The Prisoner — the place where they send People With Secrets in order to figure out what secrets they’re hiding?

Or what if one of the castaways is a sleeper agent with a secret mission, and when he finds the target of this mission, a suppressed memory will activate inside the mind of this secret someone, and his flashback will reveal everything?

I’m thinking this secret someone could be Sayid.

And I’m thinking he’s been sent to the island to kill Patchy.

To refresh your memory, Kelvin was the guy who got Sayid into torture when he was in the war. Kelvin’s also the guy who was in the hatch with Desmond, and Desmond ended up killing him when he found out Kelvin was planning to escape. So, there is a connection between Kelvin and Sayid. But why would Sayid want Patchy (Radzinsky) dead? Are we agreed that Patchy may be Radzinsky, or is he someone else?

I’m pretty much convinced that the Dharma Initiative was a big psychological experiment, but the ramifications of that experiment surely extend way past psychology. Too many people are on that island now. It seems the experiment (if that’s even what it is) has gotten out of hand.

Any thoughts?

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