Saturday, October 7. 2006

Here's Another Question....

So was Kelvin (the guy manning the Swan station before Desmond arrived) one of the "Others", one of a separate group of Dharma employees (the "bad guys?"), or just a hapless pawn (like Desmond) in all of this?

Discuss!  Has this already been established and I'm just out of the loop?

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Posted by PlanetLOST in characters, theories at 21:37 | Comments (7)
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#1 hardgoodshowie on 2006-10-08 07:58 (Reply)
A'm I the only one feeling "lost" and let down by the season opener ??? And feel the Lost series is turning into a soap ...
#2 AviTheLostee. on 2006-10-08 08:33 (Reply)
Here's my opinion about the whole Kelvin issue. I feel that he was more of a pawn, I think he knew a bit more information than Desmond, but not much at all. Maybe that is why he was so eager to get off the island with Desmonds boat.
#3 wayne on 2006-10-08 18:58 (Reply)
i also think he was a pawn working for dharma . in the season opener ben was surprised the survivors have a boat and he wants it. if kelvin worked with ben the boat would be known to all the others.
#4 Anonymous on 2006-10-08 19:32 (Reply)
That's it finally I admit I'm LOST and that what is all about!!!
#5 Avid Lost Fan on 2006-10-09 00:28 (Reply)
Kelvin has to be part of Dharma. He drew a diagram of all the stations.
#5.1 Guinea Pig (Homepage) on 2006-10-09 09:11 (Reply)
Well we're supposed to believe that he drew his station map on the blast door in pieces as he went out onto the island and basically mapped it out from his explorations, all within the 108-minute timeframe... note that there's a comment by "The staff' that says it can't be surveyed because of the 108 (Swan timer). However, I have a few issues with all of this:
1. How is The Staff too far/long to get to but the Arrow is the furthest point with at least hilly if not mountanous terrain if you go the other way?
2. There is a lot of information on the blast door map... some of this could be determined by exploration, other data could only be known through prior knowledge of DHARMA or discovery of explanatory documentation (i.e. "Stated Goal: De-territorialization of Ursus Maritimus...").
3. Each station has its entry point to the central station crossed out, indicating blocked... including The Staff, which has been stated as having incompatible travel time... so how does Kelvin know this?
#6 JimmyB on 2006-10-09 11:18 (Reply)
Kelvin and Radzinski (his partner) started drawing the map together, so if Kelvin watched the computer for 8-10 hours, his partner could go exploring. Military training or no, with that suit on and in that terrain, Kelvin isn't doing a lot of exploration in 108 minutes.

Kelvin definitely isn't old-school Dharma, since he was in Sayid's flashback from Gulf War 1 back in '91 and the orientation/station vidoes are all 1980 or earlier. He must have joined later and gone to the island.

For those of you who have not seen the Hanso Exposed video on YouTube, here's a link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PPCCcXarkc&eurl

There's a scene after the Dharma video where a bunch of guys in a warehouse are talking about innoculating the native population. I forget if they were wearing hazmat suits, but I wonder if Kelvin wasn't one of those guys, who then was assigned to keep the Swan station going. Based on what we know so far about each of the hatches, it seems like the Swan was the only one that really needed/warranted some kind of consistent monitoring. The rest that we have seen have fallen into disrepair and/or are abandoned.
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