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| − | == Why the pregnancies fail == |
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| − | === Stolen babies=== |
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| − | * Women can't give birth on the island because Ben stole Alex as a child, and it is the island (Jacob) punishing for what he did. |
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| − | As we have seen women could give birth in 77 (Ethan), but couldnt after 88, which is when Ben stole Alex. |
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| − | === The Island's healing properties cause an immune reaction to pregnancy === |
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| − | '''Evidence''' |
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| − | * In {{ep|4x06}}, [[Juliet]] tells [[Ben]] that the immune systems of the women on [[the Island]] attacks the fetus (as if it were a parasite). |
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| − | * The healing properties of the island might be the result of [[the Island]]'s influence in making the immune systems of island residents hyperactive. |
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| − | * This explains why all the pregnancies terminate at around the same time, regardless of who the parents are. |
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| − | * This doesnt explain how Ethan was able to be born on the island without problems, even though the doctor does mention pregnant women usually dont give birth on the island. maybe this is just a precaution, |
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| − | * Women can conceive on the island, as demonstrated by Sun's pregnancy and subsequent confirmation that she conceived on island with the aid of an improved Jin. However the island's unusual healing properties are the cause of the problems. Many women display an immunological response to their babies, in effect "rejecting" the fetus as a foreign invader. In fact in the real world, an estimated 20%-30% -- about 1 in 4 -- pregnancies end in miscarriage. The heightened healing properties of the island (i.e. improved immunological response to injury and disesases like cancer), unfortunately has the side effect of causing pre-eclampsia for pregnant women on the island. The end result is a 100% rejection rate, taking the lives of both mother and baby. |
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| − | **Only the original inhabitants can conceive and successfully deliver a baby on the island. If someone other than someone born on the island conceives on the island, the potential baby is conceived as a native islander, but because the mother is not an original native, the physiology of the baby and the mother differ so that the mother's immune system rejects the baby. In the case of Claire, since she conceived off island, Aaron is the same physiologically, thus mother and son are neither natives of the island, and Aaron can be born successfully simply because of that. |
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| − | '''Counter-evidence''' |
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| − | * Why was Sun not affected or Claire/Aaron? Perhaps prolonged exposure is required? |
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| − | * This would explain why the child would be miscarried, but not why the mother would also die in every case. |
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| − | * The island's healing properties have been part of it for its entire history - this is why the hieroglyphics read "resurrection" and why Alpert was seen to not age from 1954 to 1977 (when Ethan WAS born). |
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| − | ===The "will" of the island=== |
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| − | The [[Island]] has the capacity to heal (e.g.: John [[Locke]]'s inability to walk); it also has the capacity to harm (e.g: [[Ben]] Linus' spinal tumor). The Island normally depends on the leader of the inhabitants to manage the population but, when it detected a lack of genetic diversity, began making it impossible for women of its inhabitants to survive pregnancy. The Island ''could'' have simply caused miscarriages, but it chose a more severe warning. |
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| − | When the Island is once again satisfied with the diversity of its inhabitants' gene pool, normal pregnancies will occur among couples of whom at least one member is "new." |
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| − | '''Evidence''' |
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| − | * This would explain why the child would be miscarried AND why the mother would also die. |
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| − | The Island is punishing the Others for becoming dependent on technology. Ben claims that Jacob doesn't like technology, but the Others used the DHARMA facilities, such as: |
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| − | * [[The Swan]] (now destroyed) |
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| − | * [[The Barracks]] (now damaged and at least temporarily deserted) |
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| − | * [[The Flame]] (now destroyed) |
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| − | * [[The Arrow]] (now abandoned) |
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| − | * [[The Hydra]] (now abandoned) |
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| − | * [[The Looking Glass]] (now (at least) partially flooded). |
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| − | The Island and its special powers need not be studied, only appreciated. When the Others purged the DHARMA Initiative, Jacob believed that Ben would be the great leader that would return the Others to the way of living that is completely natural. When Ben deviated from Jacob's plan, Jacob punished him the worst way possible, constant reminders of his own mothers death. Locke is now the new chosen leader, explaining why Jacob asked to be helped by him. The key to solving the Island's pregnancy issues is to appease Jacob with a return to natural living and the complete abandonment of the DHARMA facilities. |
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| − | '''Counter-evidence''' |
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| − | * Certainly there are more straightforward ways for the island to kill people? |
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| − | * Ben's spinal tumor could be just a coincidence |
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| − | * The Island could hardly be responsible for Dharma stations being abandoned. |
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| − | ===The mothers are much older than they appear.=== |
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| − | '''Evidence''' |
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| − | * In his recruitment presentation to [[Juliet]], [[Alpert]] shows her a scan of a uterus he says belongs to a 26 year old, which Juliet says is that of a woman in her 70s. |
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| − | * Perhaps while the people on the island are protected from aging and disease there are limits to the length of time the endometrium will regenerate. |
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| − | ===The Purge left residual effects causing Infertility.=== |
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| − | * Pregnancies and birthing can occur when the DHARMA Initiative is on the Island in 1977 |
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| − | * After the Others Purge the Island they recruit Juliet to understand why pregnancies result in death |
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| − | ** At some point in between these two times something happened on the island causing infertility. The Purge killed out the DHARMA Initiative but an accidental side effect of the gases emanating from The Tempest are still in the air on the island. Whenever a woman on the island gets pregnant the gas from the Purge eventually kills them. |
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| − | **There is still a pregnancy problem in 1977 but it isn't always deadly. This is proven when he says all pregnant woman are taken off the Island just before they give birth. |
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| − | ***The doctors aren't capable of delivering, giving birth is always difficult so it may be easier just to take the women off the island |
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| − | *Jacob didn't really want the Purge to happen so he punished the Others by taking away their ability to reproduce. |
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| − | ===The Mothers died, but were revived by the Island.=== |
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| − | * Sun never got sick when she was pregnant because she was not dead before coming to the island. |
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| − | * Amy did not get sick because she was part of the DHARMA Initiative and was not a hostile/other. |
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| − | * The uterus shown to Juliet by Richard. Juliet said it looked like it came from a women in her 70s, but Richard said the woman was 26 years old. This could be because the women had been dead for over 50 years, or because a glitch in the island's healing process. |
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| − | * This could also explain why Juliet was drugged before coming to the island, because they killed her. |
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| − | * There has never been anything to suggest that there was a problem with pregnancies during the DHARMA era. |
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| − | === Pregnancy and Fertility Issues were caused by the Incident === |
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| − | Before the Incident it would seem it was perfectly possible to conceive and give birth on the island, backed up by [[Ethan]]. However, whatever the Incident was, it caused pregnancies to become problematic on the island. The electromagnetism of [[The Swan]] was felt everywhere on the island to some degree, as proven by the dodgy [[Compass]] Locke had, and the Oceanic Flight being brought down by the failure to push the button. Perhaps the fetus reacts negatively to the strong electromagnetism around the island. After the Purge, the only inhabitants of the island virtually was the Others, which means they were left to deal with the pregnancy issues. However, they had very little knowledge about the Swan, because it was hidden, hence why in all those years they never found out why there were pregnancy issues. |
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| − | *Once the Incident began an infinite time loop "started" in which 30 odd years went by and a population (the left-behinds) was sent through time before settling in 1973. The infertility results because any children/people added to the population in the loop would cause an increase of X children/loop. This would in turn increase infinitely (through any probability of conception over absolute zero at an infinite rate) so that the population would reach infinitely instantly and destroy the loop. Therefore no people can be added to the loop who are not subsequently removed from the loop. |
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| − | **Examples of added/subtracted from time loop: |
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| − | ***Alex is born to Danielle (added) but killed (removed) |
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| − | ***Aaron born but leaves the island and does not return to the loop |
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| − | ***Ji Yeon |
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| − | ***Ethan (conceived before arrival of Sawyer & co.) |
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| − | **An issue with this theory may be the fact that the Others don't seem to travel through the loop with non-natives (evidenced by their disappearance in front of Locke); still it seems that this theory may be partially right, with the time loop/"paradox" prohibiting the arrival of new players in the loop. |
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| − | === Reproductive cancer === |
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| − | Radiation from the Jack and etc. blowing up Jughead releases radiation and electromagnetic energy in such high doses that cancer affects everyone, but it is a special type because of the electromagnetic energy mixed in. Reproductive cancer: It attacks the woman's eggs and uterus, but causes mens' sperm to multiply rapidly (hence the dramatically increased sperm count). The sperm and eggs are not normal, so the woman's body attacks the zygote, while the cancer kills the mother, so both die. |
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| − | === Destruction of the Statue === |
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| − | It is shown that there once was a statue of the Egyptian goddess [[Taweret]], she is the Egyptian goddess of fertility. It never shows when the statue is destroyed but we know the problems with the pregnancy started before 2001 and, we do know that the statue was still standing at the time of the incident, this fact is provided when we see the island on the ocean floor after the nuclear bomb goes off, there is an ankh laying next to Taweret's four toed foot which has never been seen with the statue other than the time that is was fully intact. Just a theory, but something to ponder. |
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| − | ** unlikely as Ben says the statue was destroyed when he got there as a child, which doesn't tie up to Ethan being born successfully several years later. |
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| − | **Ben then admitted that he may or may not be lying about it being destroyed when he was on the island as a child. |
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| − | ** I think its more likely that Jacob's death caused the fertility issues. The fact that Aaron is born, and Sun conceives in the future suggests that he has returned, or never actually died though. |
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| − | *** The fertility issues were happening in 2001, 6 years before Jacobs death in 2007, as evidence of [[Richard]] recruiting [[Juliet]] to help them (Juliet said she had been on the Island for 3 years in 2004, which means she arrived in 2001) |
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| − | *** It appears mother and baby die only when the child is conceived on the island, and mother is still on the island close to the third trimester, because that is when [[Juliet]] said both mother and baby dies. [[Aaron]] was conceived off the island, and [[Sun]] was off the island before her third trimester. |
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| − | === Caused by Jacob's Nemesis === |
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| − | It is possible that while Jacob was recruting/touching people that he would need in his centuries long battle with his nemesis that the nemesis was doing some recruiting of his own. He caused the island pregnancies to fail in order to bring Juliet so that she would ultimatley ensure that Jughead was set off. |
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| − | * I think Jacob's nemesis orchestrated the destruction of the statue in order to keep innocent/good people from being on the island. This makes it more difficult for Jacob to maintain control of the island. |
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| − | ** As an aside: If Juliet's detonation of the bomb caused the destruction of the statue, and that caused fatal pregnancies then her reason for coming to the island was caused by her own actions. This circular cause/effect is important to Season 5. |
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| − | * Jacob's Nemesis hates humanity, so he made it so that women who conceive on the island will die, in an effort to indirectly kill off all the island's inhabitants. |
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| − | * another theory is that jacobs nemesis always hated how people were coming to the island such because it causes destruction and all the things he listed in his first appereance, which would lead him to kill the babies within the womb and the mothers so that the men could no longer reproudce and the people on the island would finally die. Also, after a while the doctors would realize hey this island does crazy shit all the time, how do we know its not doing this too?? finally, Jacob protected sun because she was going to play a key part eventually and claire because shell play a key part in the island... |
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| − | ===Caused by Jacob's Hand-Picking of Island Arrivals=== |
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| − | The pregnancy issues didn't start until Jacob started hand-picking the people he wanted to come to the island. He has something to prove, and needs these specific people to prove it; other people might upset the whole operation. He didn't want anyone else to come, whether via plane, boat, or uterus. |
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| − | *The first hand-picked arrival was probably Kate, sometime in the 1980s, which would account for Ethan's birth in 1974 and no known births afterwards by people who had conceived ON the island. |
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| − | **The only people known to have given birth after this date are Rousseau and Claire, but remember--both of them conceived off the island, arrived on the island with hand-picked castaways (Rousseau arrived with Jin; Claire with the other 815ers) and were past the point when the "immune system turns against the fetus." |
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| − | ***I guess there is one person young enough to tear my theory apart: Karl. |
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| − | ****But we don't really know how Karl got to the island. Perhaps he wasn't born there. |
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| − | ===Caused by Radiation=== |
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| − | *The damaged Jughead bomb was moved to the caves to help contain the radiation. The Dharma initiative later built their town on top of the caves. Radiation from the bomb could be escaping the caves and causing complications during pregnancy. The fact that there is access to the caves through Ben's house might have also caused his cancer. |
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| − | **By 1977, when Ethan was born with almost no problems at all, the bomb was buried under the caves for at least 20 years. |
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| − | === Caused by birth of Ethan=== |
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| − | The fertility issues are a result of the Island attempting to course-correct an event that should not have happened -- the birth of Ethan Rom. The first act of the time travelling left-behinders are to intervene in the event of the hostiles attempting to execute members of the Dharma Initiative in 1974 including Amy, who later became pregnant with Ethan. If Amy was supposed to die, meaning Ethan was never supposed to be conceived let alone born, then the heroics of Sawyer and Juliet in saving her life, and allowing Ethan to be born, have forced the island to attempt a course correction. The island will not allow any children to be conceived and born on the island until Ethan Rom has been killed, as he should have been all along. In this way Juliet is recruited to the island in 2001 to solve a problem she essentially created in 1974. She went through years of suffering as she failed to solve the problem and she is not relieved of this guilt and pain until she saves the life of baby Ethan. |
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| − | === Caused by Jacob to stop his nemesis from leaving island=== |
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| − | Jacob's enemy is trapped on the Island and can't leave unless he possesses a body without a soul like a dead body or an unborn baby. Jacob had changed the "others" body chemistry to attack the pregnancy like a disease before the third trimester in order to prevent them from fully developing into a suitable vessel. |
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| − | === The Incident=== |
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| − | In 1977, [[Faraday]] was going to detonate Jughead, a hydrogen bomb. When bombs are detonated, they emit radiation. By physics calculations, it has been determined that doses of radiation can cause stillbirth and spontaneous abortion in pregnant women. Not only do the women lose their children, but their own immune systems are also depressed. It has also been proven that men exposed to doses of radiation also have been sterile for a period of time. Increased and continuous doses of radiation could lead to permanent sterilization of a region like The Island. The reason [[Amy]] was able to have her baby safely was because the Jughead had not been detonated yet. However, that would explain why [[Jin]] is sterile in the future. I know this all sounds very crazy, and I trust you, it is. But sometimes crazy pays off. |
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| − | *But Jin is sterile before he ever goes to the Island so what happened after time-travel would have no bearing on his pre-island self... |
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| − | === The Influence of Daniel Faraday === |
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| − | Faraday as a time traveler disrupted the natural flow of life. He essentially caused the destruction of the normal chain of events when the DHARMA people and their camp should have been wiped out. Everything that happened after his arrival on the submarine in the 70's and was an anomaly of time travel of his own creation. He showed up on the submarine and initiated the entire line of events that would lead to Charlotte and the Dharma people leaving and in hope of rewriting their destiny. None of the babies to the Dharma people would have been born had he not come to warn them and tried to change history. Charlotte would have died had she stayed on the island, with her death after time shifts being a correction. Claire's baby, on the other hand was meant to be born in the first place because it would have been born in LA. Daniel's attempts to beat time travel never proved to work for him and the death of children born after his attempt to beat fate is a direct result of that. |
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| − | === Flight 316 === |
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| − | Before Flight 316, Sawyer went to Juliet to convince her to deliver Amy's baby, Ethan. When Juliet comments that the mothers always die, Sawyer responds "Well, maybe whatever made that happen hasn't happened yet." Also, the producers have said that it was absolutely vital for Flight 316 to replicate Flight 815 as closely as possible and that if they failed to replicate Flight 815 that there could be side-effects. Flight 815 carried a pregnant woman to the island, while Flight 316 did not. Perhaps this is the root cause why women die while giving birth on the island. I realize that Danielle gave birth to Alex on the island after this point, but so did Claire give birth to Aaron. As of Season 6, we see that Danielle and Claire are very similar and perhaps they both have a special ability that allows them to give birth. (They don't have any type of special ability. They just conceived off the island. Only the women who conceive on the island and stay there through their pregnancy died.) We also saw "Littleton" and "Rou..." (probably Rousseau) on Jacob's wall, so maybe these two survived their pregnancies due to being a candidate at the time (they are both crossed out now). |
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| − | === Jacob === |
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| − | Pregnancies fail if the baby was conceived on the island, because Jacob hand-picks every person that is brought to the island. They babies are simply not allowed to be born. They would not serve Jacob's purpose. |
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| − | I was watching "One of Us," a Juliet flashback episode from Season 3. In this episode Juliet tells Jack and Kate that women can't give birth on the island because the mother's body turns on the pregnancy and treats it as a "foreign invader." |
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| − | I believe the man in black is the “foreign invader,” hoping to spread the same sickness to these babies that apparently has taken over Sayid. Because of this, Jacob kills the fetus to avoid evil spreading on the island, and potentially into the world. |
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| − | The reason Claire was able to give birth to Aaron and the reason Juliet successfully delivered Ethan in “LaFleur” was because Jacob looked at both of them as candidates. If you look at the cave wall in “The Substitute,” both Littleton and Goodspeed are written on the wall, proving they were once candidates |
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