Comments on: Rousseau’s story just doesn’t add up

By: aching_for_perfection

aching_for_perfection — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 22:57:22 +0000

i don’t think rousseau lights the black smoke. she says that before alex was taken, she saw the black smoke. she took aaron b/c she saw the black smoke and thought that she could trade them aaron for alex. but they didn’t want aaron, they wanted walt.

By: imisscharlie

imisscharlie — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 18:58:09 +0000

also, didn’t the writers say that Michael Emerson had originally signed onto “Lost” to only play that one part of “Henry Gale” but then they liked him so much they kept him and cast him as Ben?

By: Damon Cuse

Damon Cuse — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 18:33:08 +0000

Thanks for letting me know the producers had said Ben’s capture was largely coincidental. That really puts a bender on my theory, guess that’s what makes it a theory.

Thanks!

By: shanimal44

shanimal44 — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 17:40:39 +0000

Yeh, they did say Ben’s capture would be explained, and that it was largely coincidental.

I think Rousseau’s story adds up about as much as its going to, which is not bad all things considering.

In her original story she said she came to the island about seven months pregnant. 2 months on the island they set off to find the distress signal. It was there “in the Black Territory where Montand lost his arm,” that the sickness manifested.

So things are relatively consistent. Judging by the decomposition on the arm Jin sees, the flash seems to take him roughly two months later, when she kills her team. It remains to be seen if we will see the taking of Alex, or if this ties up Rousseau’s story.

By: Martin

Martin — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 09:48:44 +0000

The Rousseau-Ben conspiracy theory makes sense, but haven’t Damon and Carlton already confirmed Ben’s capture to be coincidental?

By: Damon Cuse

Damon Cuse — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 07:07:49 +0000

I remember that. I have never thought of it meaning the others never lit the black smoke originally, I always assumed that much was true and that she reenacts it in the season one finale to get her hands on Aaron.

We know the place the smoke is lit is clear on the other side of the island. It will be interesting to see who lit the first signal, Rousseau and her team or the “others.”

By: cappayne

cappayne — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 07:02:32 +0000

She lied when talking about the Black Smoke. She made it sound like it was the Others’ black smoke, but we find out that she made the black smoke (in I think season 3) that scares the losties.