Podcast "Orientation"

"Orientation" played tonight, which means podcast #3 is just around the corner. Now is your chance to submit your feedback and ideas by posting a comment, sending us an email, or recording an audio comment for us to include in the show. We want everyone to participate, so make sure you get your thoughts to us before the recording on Saturday morning.

There's plenty to talk about, as this latest episode revealed a number of topics that are already generating conversation online. Let us know your thoughts on Locke's back story, the orientation film, the new replacements in the hatch, Jack's issues, literary references in the show, how the episode has altered overall theories... or anything else you'd like to talk about. This may be our longest podcast yet...

Comments

[scott]

that film reminded me of my puberty 101 film lol

[matt]

I'm revising my Skinner Box/Operant Conditioning theory from last night. The film said that the Hatcheller Pad was Dharma Corp station 3 of 6. It is probably the psych experiment station. The whole island isn't a Skinner Box, just the Hatcheller Pad. Desmond is the rat in the box. If we assume the other stations are on the island that would explain the polar bears and other weird shit.

Or my first instinct is right. Maybe the whole island is the Skinner Box. The film, the magnetic field, the bears, the monster are all part of the complex set of stimuli that the researchers are using to examine or modify behavior. Skinner thought that you could use Operant Conditioning to change people. All of our Lostaways are have massive flaws. Maybe they were selected for those flaws and Island is a part of a study to see if they can be corrected. An extreme form of therapy.

Or it's just a cruel behavior experiment and the 815 folks, Desmond, Rousseau, The Others, Ethan and anyone else that has the misfortune of ending up on the Island are just rats in a cage.

[matt]

I'm also slightly revising my Tailenders/sickness theory. The people that have Jin, Mike and Sawyer are indeed the tailenders, but they may not be sick. They've just had it rougher than the front end of the plane. They have probably had more contact with The Others and that's why they are so parinoid about the rafters. They can't be to careful.

[matt]

One of the active projects on the Hanso Foundation site is Mathematical Forecasting. It is used by companies and governments to find trends and patterns so they can predict future events. One of the industries that utilize this method extensively is the airline industry. Among other things they use it to track passenger patterns. This could explain why so many interconnected people ended up on the same flight. I bet Oceanic Air is a holding of Alvar Hanso.

[Aaron]

Hi, great podcast. After listening to some of your more recent shows, I'm starting to dig back into these older shows. Just a note about "namaste". While what you said about the religious origins of the term is correct, but it's also used in modern Hindi just as a greeting, basically without religious connotations. So, in a way, Dr. Candle is saying, "Thank you, hello, and good luck."