Okay so I’ve been thinking about this. If the purge happened in 1992, how did Danielle Rousseau survive, with all of the gases in the atmosphere. The science team crashed in 1988. This has been bothering me. Opinions?
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3 thoughts on “The Purge”
Since I have no actual land mass measurements of the island, perhaps they exist somewhere, but I think it would be safe to assume that the island is larger than say an average city. If it takes people a few days to walk across it…
I would say that the harmful gasses dissipated before reaching every corner of the island. It’s like when the police send tear gas into the Kwik-E-mart, Best Buy across the street isn’t gassed out too.
If anything, I would’ve been more concerned with Ben and The Others removing their masks and walking freely thoughout the DI compound immediately after. Seems like there would’ve been some residual poison left on their clothes.
Why am I answering this with so much detail? I hardly ever post.
Maybe she was just far enough away that the gas didn’t reach her, or possibly the Others did something to protect her that she didn’t know about because they had a sort of truce that they wouldn’t hurt her if she stayed away from them.
I agree with The Apostle on this but would like to add that perhaps the Others did not consider Rousseau a threat. Ben always said that she was crazy and DHARMA was a bigger thorn in the side of the Others.
Since I have no actual land mass measurements of the island, perhaps they exist somewhere, but I think it would be safe to assume that the island is larger than say an average city. If it takes people a few days to walk across it…
I would say that the harmful gasses dissipated before reaching every corner of the island. It’s like when the police send tear gas into the Kwik-E-mart, Best Buy across the street isn’t gassed out too.
If anything, I would’ve been more concerned with Ben and The Others removing their masks and walking freely thoughout the DI compound immediately after. Seems like there would’ve been some residual poison left on their clothes.
Why am I answering this with so much detail? I hardly ever post.
Maybe she was just far enough away that the gas didn’t reach her, or possibly the Others did something to protect her that she didn’t know about because they had a sort of truce that they wouldn’t hurt her if she stayed away from them.
I agree with The Apostle on this but would like to add that perhaps the Others did not consider Rousseau a threat. Ben always said that she was crazy and DHARMA was a bigger thorn in the side of the Others.