[BlueGrassGirl]

Who else watches this show and what are your theories as to what is going on? I love this show!

Here is a list of theories I found online:

1The island gives you what you need (Locke). My theory is this is similar to the old movie “Forbidden Planet” and there is some sort of device that manifests the subconscious. The monster is somebody's “monsters of the Id.”

2Perhaps a kind of limbo between the physical and spiritual worlds...a place to sort things out, a place of introspection, a place to make peace with one's self and former life. ( I think I agree most with this one..)

3I think this island is/was used to scientific experiments of some kind, possibly carried out in secret. I think it may have something to do with Nazi scientific experiments. This is because in the episode “House of the Rising Sun” when they move into the cave and find the bodies, Jack states that they are approximately 50 to 60 years old. Perhaps this was a Japanese island where the Japanese worked with Nazis creating mutated animals and/or people. Maybe that's what the “creature” is and why polar bears are there.

4If the plane was a thousand miles off course leaving Australia, it's reasonable that they crashed on an island with a curious climate and subsequent vegetation and animal life due to its proximity to the South Pole. A secret tropical island hidden behind distant ice walls of Antarctica comes to mind. Furthermore, it is at least hypothesized that there are areas of magnetic field disturbance over certain parts of the globe, providing a reason for more than one plan crash in a Bermuda Triangle-like area

5My favorite theory is that Locke is the only one who died in the crash and everyone one else is stuck between life and death in a sort of purgatory. Locke is the only character who is no longer “lost.” On the island, he has become the Colonel. I think it is Locke's role to help them find whatever it is they need to move on and whether that is to the afterlife or back to reality, only time (and the writers) will tell.