[guest Poster, RICK] I had an idea about the Others and why they believe themselves to be the good guys.
The black smoke, the defence system seems to judge people and decide whether they should live or not. It let Locke and Eko live because they were good people but killed the pilot because he was not (I know thats a big assumption).
If you look at the map on the blast door in all the scrawled notes it mentions the Cerberus system and a malfunction in this system. Now in Greek mythology Cerberus guarded Hades so could our black smoke be Cerberus?
My Theory:
The Cerberus system escaped and went through all the DHARMA iniative tunnels under the island (it must use tunnels as it tried to drag Locke into one ages ago and on the map Radzinski/Kelvin wrote ‘a mouse does not rely on just one hole’ or something like that). All the stations concreted up their access to these tunnels which all lead the question mark, this could be represented by the crosses on all stations which point inland on the blast door map. DHARMA workers were killed and spared by the Cerberus system. The ones that were spared, legged it back to the Pala Ferry and went back to their barracks (Mark Wickman/Marvin Candle mentions this in the Pearl orientation video). They then happily spent the better part of two decades continuing their research on and off island believing themsleves to be good. Although, their character could have changed over two decades of isolation.
This could mean they also lived through the Swan ‘incident’ and therefore this could explain their lack of concern at the end of ‘live together, die alone.’
I feel quite satified with that in general. Of course the whole blast door map could be rubbish and is just there so people like me spend time thinking about it.
BTW, when I said could our black smoke be Cerberus I didn’t mean the nine headed dog I just meant the Cerberus system.
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I’m with you on some of your theory but not all of it.
1) The pilot wasn’t killed by the black smoke, he was killed by the huge stomping tree-shaking beastie, that only Locke has seen.
2) I don’t believe that the defence system decides who is good and who is bad. It tried to drag Locke below ground before. You say Locke is a good person (I agree on the evidence seen so far) so why treat him and Eko differently?
3) I like the idea of all the hatches being linked to the central ? hatch.
4) and kudos to you for noticing Cerebus and the sentence about the mouse not relying one hole on the blast door! I’ve never been able to make out too much at all on the map.
I have reason to believe that Rick may have this theory down. (Except for the part where he mentions Locke to be good, yet he is draggged into the hole)
1. Locke was dragged into the hole because the others wanted him to. That hole led to them and they wanted to have Locke on THEIR side, not the Losties.
2. In the map that Locke saw, all hatches connected to one big hatch, a fact that none of the survivors have been able to find. Is it really there, or is this just bogus info?
3. What about the french chick, what does she know that we dont?
i thought cerburus had three heads? anyway i really like your theory
well done sir