Uncharted Island

We have now seen that the island’s reach extends past the boundaries of the island, past the stormy barrier that hides the island from the rest of the world. Michael heard the whispers on the freighter. And he saw Libby.

And apparently the island can control whether or not people live or die… even if they’re not on the island. Michael survived ramming his car into a dumpster. His gun malfunctioned and he couldn’t shoot himself in the head, even though the chamber was full of bullets. Jack didn’t jump off that bridge because the woman crashed her car after seeing him on the ledge.

Mikhail seems to have nine lives. He survived the sonic fence around New Otherton. He survived a stab wound. We haven’t seen him since he blew a hole in the side of the Looking Glass, so he may or may not really be dead this time.

Charlie had a lot of near misses with death. He’d been hung, stung by dozens of bees, nearly struck by lightning, nearly dashed to pieces on rocks… until he finally drowned in an act of self-sacrifice. The island must have been done with him to have let him die.

So everyone who has died on the island was supposed to die. It only makes sense. If the island can twist chance to jam a gun or provide last-moment distractions to prevent someone from committing suicide thousands of miles away, then it stands to reason that it could’ve intervened any time someone died within its boundaries.

I know the writers and producers have said all along that they wanted to stay firmly grounded in science - or at least pseudoscience - but what this points to is quite clearly supernatural.

Aside from Charlie and Mikhail, a number of people have had some extraordinary recoveries.

Jack resuscitated Rose the day they crashed. Locke survived a gunshot wound. Sawyer survived a rather nasty illness with only the antibiotics they had on hand. Naomi survived her fall from the helicopter; it was Locke’s knife that killed her.

And then there’s the little fact that the island can move through space… and time?

I can’t wait to find out more.