Entertainment Weekly’s Doc Jensen wrote a “prescription for Lost withdrawel,” both for this week and for the summer. Mostly it’s a chance for the website to try to hook Lost fans on some of the other series they cover that have at least a modicum of carry-over potential. But it also includes the Doc’s new Lost theory.
Jensen says, “Ever since ‘LaFleur,’ I’ve been wondering why Richard Alpert can get past The Fence but Smokey can’t. (Se: the season 3 episode “Left Behind,” in which The Monster was hunting Juliet and Kate and bounced off the sonic wall.) I now wonder if Richard got past The Fence because he’s been stuck in a time loop for who-knows-how-long and therefore probably knows the code for turning it off. As for The Monster: “Dead Is Dead” — the Ben episode from two weeks ago — reminded us that Smokey is psychic. We know that The Fence targets the brain; presumably, it interferes with brain function. Could it be that The Fence not only keeps The Monster at bay, but also renders the Dharma folk virtually invisible to The Monster by preventing the combined mental energy of the Dharma community from being detected? Another hypothesis: If you believe, as some of us freaky comic book-weaned Lost theorists do, that mental energy helps shape the reality of The Island, then perhaps The Fence actually wasn’t created to keep Smokey away at all, but rather to prevent the combined Dharma mind from affecting and warping their supernatural ecosystem.”
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