Others' Child Protection Agency

A new podcast available on the Lost Podcasting Network is simply awesome and has given me the seeds of a wicked new theory. The podcast is "The LOST Mystery Podcast with Anton and Evan." The concept is Evan has watched Lost and Anton is watching it for the first time. They watch the episode and then run down all their thoughts about it.

On episode 2-1, Anton said the way the Others always took the children was like CPS taking them out of a dangerous situation. As if psychological experiments, torture, hunger, and terror were part of a business model of Ben's. Ben's investors said all this is fine to do to the plane crash victims, as long as all the children were first taken out of harm's way.

So the Others quickly brought the children to safety and put them in foster care. They were then free to unleash the smoke monster, polar bears or any other terrors on the Lostaways.

This theory makes so much sense to me. It explains how we might be able to tolerate Juliette for another season. Last season, I kept saying to myself, "She steals children in the middle of the night! With no explanations! How can you people let her live with you on the beach??" It's a different story if the Others did this to remove the children from a situation that was sure to get more and more dangerous.

Add this to my last post, which posited Ben was the show's hero and Widmore the big bad, and Ben has an even stronger position as a hero. Now if I only knew how he was saving the world / making money for his investors by unleashing a mechanical smoke monster on plane crash victims...