[X The Dude X]

Originally Posted by 2short

The Oceanic press agent had to be in on the cover up and I am sure Oceanic put together most of the story together about where the plane crashed, what islands they were on, and how they were found.

There is no way Jack or any of the survivors could come up with that, and sell it to Oceanic and the Coast Guard on there own.

That is probably why the settlements are larger than what you would expect them to be. On top of the 10's of millions they received they got a "Fly for Free" pass, which we know Jack uses every weekend in future.

My guess is that we find out Widmore owns Oceanic.

Yeah, I had a feeling that Oceanic came out with all the b.s. about crashing here and drifting to this island and rafting to here and yada yada. But still I doubt the 6 of them told them about any other possible survivors, and I'm wondering both why and how they all came to agree on that issue.

And I've never really thought about Widmore owning Oceanic, but that's a damn good theory. That would explain how he just got a Oceanic plane to bury deep into that ocean canyon. And the guy seems to have more money than God, so that would make his ownership and the settlements very plausable.

[2short]

Originally Posted by DaRuckus337

Lost is a show that is usually pretty realistic and detail oriented. I was surprised to see such a stretch of reality with that apparent billion dollar settlement Sun received.

Maybe Hurly gave her 100 million from the lottery that he doesn't want. That would leave his mom and dad with 50 million. Then gave her his settlement.

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[X The Dude X]

Originally Posted by YellowHare

This is exactly what I see happening. Not to mention that, if you noticed, they were putting all the no-named Oceanic survivors on the boat, meaning this would be a good way to off all of them in a plausible way. At that point, 95% no-name's die, the other 5% being some key characters and all that's left are people who really matter to the core of the story.

I asked myself that same question last night, "why load up nothing but the nobody survivors to take them to the freighter?" And that's the answer, blow up that boat and you eliminate the need for survival and explaniation of all those people. I've been thinking that Desmond would die, which is unfortunate since he's one of my favorite characters, but with him being on that boat, I still see that happening.

And on another note, does anyone here think Sawyer will end up dying before the series is over? I doubt he'll die in the finale, but unfortunately I have a feeling that he won't make it until the end of the series. Not sure how or under what circumstances, probably while trying to help out someone else, but I think he'll die.

[X The Dude X]

Originally Posted by 2short

Maybe Hurly gave her 100 million from the lottery that he doesn't want. That would leave his mom and dad with 50 million. Then gave her his settlement.

Possibly, but I think Hurley is such and nice and compassionate character that we wouldn't give anyone his lottery money since he fully believes its cursed. That'd be like passing his curse onto Sun, and I just don't see him doing that. I think he'd rather just let is sit in an account to rot away then use or pass it to someone else.

[DaRuckus337]

Originally Posted by 2short

Maybe Hurly gave her 100 million from the lottery that he doesn't want. That would leave his mom and dad with 50 million. Then gave her his settlement.

Didn't her father's auto manufacturing corporation have major political clout and the ability to conduct hits with impunity? Sounds like a multi-billion dollar auto conglomerate (Hyundai, Kia, etc.). It's going to take more than powerball winnings and a generous cash settlement to buy a controlling stake in a major South Korean corporation. Like, tens of billions of dollars in capital. That scene was absurd and a little unnecessary imo.

[2short]

Originally Posted by X The Dude X

Possibly, but I think Hurley is such and nice and compassionate character that we wouldn't give anyone his lottery money since he fully believes its cursed. That'd be like passing his curse onto Sun, and I just don't see him doing that. I think he'd rather just let is sit in an account to rot away then use or pass it to someone else.

Well he has already given a big chuck to his parents.

[2short]

Originally Posted by DaRuckus337

Didn't her father's auto manufacturing corporation have major political clout and the ability to conduct hits with impunity? Sounds like a multi-billion dollar auto conglomerate (Hyundai, Kia, etc.). It's going to take more than powerball winnings and a generous cash settlement to buy a controlling stake in a major South Korean corporation. Like, tens of billions of dollars in capital. That scene was absurd and a little unnecessary imo.

I asked this same question a couple pages back. It does not make sense on the face of it. The only reasonable answer is that Paik Industries is not as successful as we have assumed, and is really just a smaller corporation worth less than $100,000,000.

[Jocke]

Originally Posted by X The Dude X

And on another note, does anyone here think Sawyer will end up dying before the series is over? I doubt he'll die in the finale, but unfortunately I have a feeling that he won't make it until the end of the series. Not sure how or under what circumstances, probably while trying to help out someone else, but I think he'll die.

Isnt Sawyer alive in one of Jacks flash forewards? When hes having a drunken fit with Kate?

[DaRuckus337]

Originally Posted by 2short

I asked this same question a couple pages back. It does not make sense on the face of it. The only reasonable answer is that Paik Industries is not as successful as we have assumed, and is really just a smaller corporation worth less than $100,000,000.

I suppose I will accept this explanation, and ignore the fact that it is impossible to be an auto manufacturer without billions of dollars of industrial capital, technology and engineering offices, marketing branches, and steal/aluminum contracts.