This is a really good thread idea, aproy1101. It's one of those topics that gets you thinking and keeps you thinking.
I've only watched a portion of one "Lost" episode...I guess that I'll have to purchase the DVD and watch the series. How come Anna Lucia hasn't already killed everyone, if she's such a killer? Not enough bullets, or something...? Did you suspend your disbelief when Locke miraculously regained his ability to walk, after the airplane crash...? I saw the episode where Locke was wheelchair-bound before the flight...and it was too much for me to take that the airplane crash somehow "cured" him.
I've seen the old movie version of William Golding's "Lord of the Flies," in class, I believe, back in the days when 'Lord of the Flies' was required reading. Having a bunch of 12- to 14-year-old boys castaway on an island was scary enough, back when I was fourteen.
It's a tough call, this thread. I'm torn, each way. Getting killed by another castaway would be bad, but, so would be going insane, because there aren't any other people around. Man is a social animal, and being alone is nearly as dangerous, maybe more so, than having other people around.
If you knock off just the ones that you're worried about killing you, or, perhaps, those that would be wasting supplies, you're going to have to do it in complete secret, or else the rest of the group will get to decide if you stay, for you, and they might not respond well to your reasoning for the "elimination(s)." Being stranded on a (apparently) deserted island will take its toll on the survivors anyway, probably without one having to resort to the extreme measure of killing the others in the group.
Anna Lucia is only a suspected killer, right...? That is the only explanation I can conjure up for why she hasn't already been exiled. The "enormous overweight guy" should have lost some
serious amounts of weight, since "Lost" is in its, what, third season...? If "enormous overweight guy" is maintaining his enormousness, then he's eating just as much while he's on the island as he was before the plane crashed, right...? And, apparently, struggling on the island hasn't made him more physically fit...?
If you decide to sneak away in the middle of the night (how would one manage that, if there is a guard rotation duly posted, throughout the night...?) are you going to shun other people, for the same reasons as you've left the "Lost" group, or, try to join another group...? I don't think that assuming that another group will accept you into their group is reasonable. True, everyone on the "Lost" plane had their plane ride and plane crash in-common, but, other than that, they were all strangers to each other...but, they are the people that you would have most in-common with.
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Sorry, I'm being long-winded. "Lost" is just a TV show, and, as such, it demands that you suspend your disbelief. A paraplegic on an airplane along with his
Zero Halliburton case of knives...? Oh, yes, that sounds realistic.
This thread has gotten me thinking.... My plan, should something terrible happen, like a nuclear attack, or the Bird flu ("No one expects a Spanish Inquisition!" [Monty Python's Flying Circus]...or a hurricane named Katrina...), was to hang out and lie low for awhile, until things become calmed down a bit, trying to be one less wrung-neck chicken running-around on the interstate, not knowing what to do first. However, due to this thread, it's gotten me thinking about bugging out quickly, to be with others, like friends and loved ones, instead of hanging around here, where I don't have connections that tight.
Unfortunately, I think that if/when the SHTF, it'll be more along the lines of "The Lord of the Flies" rather than 'Lost'....
Thanks for a great thread topic!
GeoThorn
