[davehig]

i think the food supply was shot out of the same hole the black fog came out of in an earlier episode, i think the dharma team are still on the island along with the others and the plane passengers , they are all living seperately but do they all know there are a few "tribes" on the island, and i think the fake henry gale has been outcast by the dharma team or the others

[NctrnlBst]

If someone has picture enhancing software, there is a word written on the side of the balloon pod. As best as I can make out, it says Caution, and then there is another word under it that is too blurry to read. I have no proof of this, but what if it said Widmore on it, and the real Henry Gale was a spy sent to the island to find out what Dharma was doing?

Oh yeah! i If this pic is real, then I totally called it! 

[maze]

I've got two theories on this...

First, The Parachute came BECAUSE of lockdown, it was part of the procedure, and lockdown happened because the timer reached zero.

Second, When they were first looking at the food supplies, I think it was Herle that said there were only 3 Months of food left, and assuming that there isn't any connection between the Swan and DHARMA anymore, they could have figured that there were still two people in the hatch, therefore cutting the food supply in half. This in turn would mean that DHARMA was making the regular supply drop and lockdown was a coincidence.

Just my 2 cents

[Steveagain]

I've got two theories on this...

First, The Parachute came BECAUSE of lockdown, it was part of the procedure, and lockdown happened because the timer reached zero.

Second, When they were first looking at the food supplies, I think it was Herle that said there were only 3 Months of food left, and assuming that there isn't any connection between the Swan and DHARMA anymore, they could have figured that there were still two people in the hatch, therefore cutting the food supply in half. This in turn would mean that DHARMA was making the regular supply drop and lockdown was a coincidence.

Just my 2 cents

So any time that Hurly wants food all he has to do is to stop anyone from puting the numbers in ?

I think its the other way around and that the lockdown is triggered by and prior to the supply drop, otherwise Sawyer would need a far larger tent 

[maze]

I think its the other way around and that the lockdown is triggered by and prior to the supply drop, otherwise Sawyer would need a far larger tent 

Ya, I'm a bigger fan of the second one... The whole coincidence thing, But I do think the island has a thing for fat guys, A Tubby Chaser Island, LOL, keeping Herle nice and plump

[Higgypop]

OK all of what everyone on here said was interesting, here's a rap up about the food supply, (stop talking about things that don't go with the subject, post in the appropriate spots)
A.The food was definately dropped by air. because it is in the middle of the island and has a parachute attached to it. And it is way too big to be brought there any other way.
B. it was obviosly just dropped because it's by the path from the beach to the Hatch, the only time it could've been is when the doors went down.
C. Has everyone forgot that the hatch has some elctromagnet field? And it seems that any vessle that goes near the island crashes there? The doors might have gone down to prevent the plane that is dropping rations from crashing.

-My first post, please tell me if it is wrong in anyway-

 
 
Thank you, I have been making this point time and time again but it keeps getting skimmed over.
The lockdown can't be a distraction because it warns on the speaker them meaning they could just leave and npt get trapped.
 
So it MUST be because there is a chance that the plane is going to crash out of the sky that they are safely locked behind a blast door every 2/3 months when the food is dropped.
 
May be this is why the lights went off, it powered down the hatch to also lower the rick of the plane being pulled out of the sky.
 
This could also be the reason why nothing happened when the counter got to zero because the hatch was powered down.

[NctrnlBst]

I think that it was dropped by a Blimp. Blimps can run almost completly silent, and, unless you know to look for it, it would be impossible to see in the night sky. Especially on a semi deserted island in the south pacific with no light pollution. This would explain why no one heard anything.

[Amrahd_06]

I think that it was dropped by a Blimp. Blimps can run almost completly silent, and, unless you know to look for it, it would be impossible to see in the night sky. Especially on a semi deserted island in the south pacific with no light pollution. This would explain why no one heard anything.

hmm, very well could be but it would have to fly "dark" because any blinking lights would draw attention to it. However, if a hot air balloon was pulled to the isle and crashed there whats to say the same would not happen to a blimp? for what its worth I think you are probably right.

Latest theorys: The lock down occured BECAUSE of the drop, not because the button wasn't pushed and the drops are planned for regular occurances. the button was supposed to not be pushed during this time, and that is what the speaker thing was trying to tell the hatch personel. there are multible food drops that occur all over the isle to provide for the other hatches (and the others). However we have not seen anything more about the vaccines Desmond was giving himself in the hatch, so i will be expecting another delivery of those at some point.

[KomiX]

OK i agree that dropdown was caused by the lockdown....but why the heck would they close blast doors?? OK-maybe to prevent 2 "hatch guards" to see the plane and scream 4 help?? Geeez it doesn't make any sense!!
I wonder if Desmond knew about dropdown.....

[mensabrains]

having watched 'Lockdown' again in summer saturday midnight reruns the other night, i now have a new theory:[ this after watching 5 seasons or 6]--
the food drop is a time delayed phenomenon that got time shifted, the same way daniel faraday's missile timing experiment did between when the freighter said they launched it to his location, and how long it took to actually arrive at his marker.
we now know that the island has a time bubble around it which can only be penetrated by leaving or enetering on a specific bearing. any other point on the circle results in time warping and time jumping for the person or objec making the pass thru that boundary. we see this in 'the constant' as desmond starts flipping around in time points in his own life when the helicopter carrying him, sayid and frank lapidus doesn't quite make it out on the right heading.

so i propose that the food drop started its journey years earlier on a typical day or night when dharma was still operating as it always had, but it hit the barrier bubble and got time warped, and fell out of the sky in 2004, fortuitously for the Losties  instead.
I also agree with the electromagnetic field being maintained by the mysterious magnetic power pocket the swan was built over to study and control if possible. it's what HG means when he mutters dolefully that 'god can't see this island'. it hides the existence of the island from view and detection by planes, satellites, instruments, by anything, unless the force feild falls and reveals it.
hence, why the plane crashed. hence, why any of the planes crashed.[ yemi's] hence why the balloon could find land and crash.
and as we know from later episodes, once the swan is gone, naomi and the freighter can find the island, the satphones work, missiles can find their target from offshore to onshore, because the cloaking bubble is no longer being kept up as it once was.

altho as shown by 'the constant', you still have to respect the bearing. there's still a boundary; it's just not as total and obscuring as it was while the swan was effective.

[tipper]

As good a theory as many others Mensa, but I'm not quite sold on it, though you have now convinced me to go back and watch again...damn you.