Black rock

Tragamin2k2

I miss lost

Anyhow, the black rock slave ship in the middle of the island. Any theories floating around on how it got there? Any ideas anyone? We saw it in the season 5 finale but it was in the water heh

don ramo

geomagnetism, is my guess, that or jacob dragged it there with his bare hands, or maybe there was a river that dried up,

ArmaniJeanss

Dried-up river would be plausible if they want to explain it simply. We've already seen the remnants of bit and pieces of rivers that are now underground (the one that Richard/Saeed/Ellie used to get to the bomb.

Don't like the geomagnetism explanation as shirley the ship would have broken up a bit more if it 'flew through the air' or whatever.

A more left-field explanation might be that 'it was dragged by a series of pulleys operated by the descendants of the slaves that built the Anubis statue.' I'm guessing there'll be some sort of slavery explanation for the statue as thats how those things normally got built.

uncleoswald

I imagine its there because the writers thought it would be cool to have a big boat in the middle of the jungle.

If they do have an explanation for it how about this: The boat didn't move to the middle of the island, the island moved below the boat.

tok9

that dried up river theory is actually a pretty good one and easy to explain... i'd accept that no problem tbh

Sea Sharp

I reckon they're gonna have a Richard flashback that will explain all about him and how he got to the island on the Black Pearl.

tok9

GaNjaHaN wrote: »

the Black Pearl.

interesting theory... so johnny Depp, keira knightly and orlando bloom are due for 1 episode in s6!:p

mocata

I always thought the island teleported in space/time and reappeared under the ship?

Psychedelic

mocata wrote: »

I always thought the island teleported in space/time and reappeared under the ship?

I thought that too, but we saw in the Season 5 finale that the Black Rock was sailing toward the island when Jacob and the other guy were sitting on the beach watching the ship sail in. So it looks highly doubtful now that the island reappeared under the ship.

I think the dried up river is a good theory, but I was kind of hoping it would be something to do with the island's electromagnetism or something like that.

cooker3

While a dried up river seems fairly plausible. It's lost. I imagine they will end up coming up with a more well interesting way of doing it albeit less plausible.

eddiehead

cooker3 wrote: »

While a dried up river seems fairly plausible. It's lost. I imagine they will end up coming up with a more well interesting way of doing it albeit less plausible.

+1

What would be the point in having a slave ship in the middle of the jungle from series 1 if all they were going to do at the end was say "Oh yeah, a river dried up", it has to be something more interesting than that.

ArmaniJeanss

cooker3 wrote: »

While a dried up river seems fairly plausible. It's lost. I imagine they will end up coming up with a more well interesting way of doing it albeit less plausible.

eddiehead wrote: »

+1

What would be the point in having a slave ship in the middle of the jungle from series 1 if all they were going to do at the end was say "Oh yeah, a river dried up", it has to be something more interesting than that.

You're probably right, though I hope they don't go down the path of everything having a 'wow' explanation.
Better to have the a few boring 'dried river' explanations and use the 'wow' explanations sparingly for better effect, imo.

uncleoswald

It never actually occurred to me until all the time travel and Jacob's flashbacks that they would even try to explain where the boat came from. When we first saw the boat I simply figured that they were showing us that the island had a pretty weird history and that was good enough for me. I'd have preferred to leave somethings a mystery then to have a perfunctory explanation for everything. But now we are told the writers had a grand plan from the start and the statue and the Black Rock will be central to that story which really didn't seem to be the case when they were first revealed, at least to me.

Spiritoftheseventies

Tragamin2k2 wrote: »

I miss lost

Anyhow, the black rock slave ship in the middle of the island. Any theories floating around on how it got there? Any ideas anyone? We saw it in the season 5 finale but it was in the water heh

The key to ascertaining where it came from is trying to locate the Island itself. We know that when Ben turned the Donkey wheel he ended up in Tunisia. We know the private plain that crashed in the tree came from Africa. So you have to ascertain how much fuel a light plane would be carrying and also what route it would take in order to avoid suspicion of air traffic authority given the cargo it was carrying.

Zombrex

I think the Black Rock is similar to the Oceanic plane, Jacob keeps bringing people to the island to demonstrate something to that other guy. How it ended up in the middle of the island I don't know but I would imagine there was some massive event with the Black Rock similar to the events that happened to the plane.

danniemcq

tok9 wrote: »

interesting theory... so johnny Depp, keira knightly and orlando bloom are due for 1 episode in s6!:p

if johnny depp was in an episode my GF might actually watch it!

DVD-Lots

Wicknight wrote: »

I think the Black Rock is similar to the Oceanic plane, Jacob keeps bringing people to the island to demonstrate something to that other guy. How it ended up in the middle of the island I don't know but I would imagine there was some massive event with the Black Rock similar to the events that happened to the plane.

Tsunami anyone?

kryogen

Wicknight wrote: »

I think the Black Rock is similar to the Oceanic plane, Jacob keeps bringing people to the island to demonstrate something to that other guy. How it ended up in the middle of the island I don't know but I would imagine there was some massive event with the Black Rock similar to the events that happened to the plane.

excellent shout imo, my mind is full of possibilities if that would be the reason

vincenzo1975

tsunami??

current events would make it plausable. Could alos explain only the feet left on the statue at the beach.

but what caused the tsunami??

vincenzo1975

sorry, missed the post 2 above.

great idea dvd-lots :!

Spiritoftheseventies

Would have thought the statue was destroyed by christian crusaders as it was a pagan god.