ChromeFox wrote:
Why would she take her child on a potentially dangerous research field study?
Maybe it wasn't supposed to be dangerous. I can't remember, did she ever say their intended destination was the island? Maybe they were on their way to study the maturation of cucumbers in Georgia, but went offcourse and ran aground on some mystery island. lol
Plus, if both she and her husband Robert were part of the research team, who would have been taking care of their kid while they were gone for who knows how long? I was under the impression that they brought Alex along to live with them while they were studying whatever.
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But then, if everyone was killed, why would she interrogate Sayid about where Alex was? Assuming she believes Alex died with the others.
That's why I think Alex saw his/her mother goin a little jungle-crazy and ran away from her after she killed Robert and all the others. Which is why she has no idea where Alex is. If that were true, Alex would have to be old enough to fend for him/herself in the wilderness. If his/her parents were field researchers, it seems reasonable to assume that they'd have taught their child basic survival techniques, at the least. Maybe s/he's been living off that knowledge for 16 years.
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I think that the two survivors were Danielle and newborn Alex, which would make sense since Alex would have been by her side at pretty much all times (if Alex got the sickness, she probably would have gotten it as well).
See, that's the thing. I don't think there IS any sickness. I think something happened to the others (possibly involving that black rock she mentioned) and she was somehow threatened by it or it frightened her or something, and she killed them because she thought she had to protect herself. Maybe she was already a little crazy in the bargain. *shrug*
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So she and Alex hid away from the creatures in the jungle, both grew older, and one day Alex was kidnapped or something.
Kidnapped by whom? Unless there are MORE people on the island, in which case this is getting to be a pretty darn big island. lol
I've heard theories that the island is like, some sort of alternate dimension or something. Which would explain the weirdo polar bears, to a degree. lol I dunno.