Thinking about this some more, if the MiB just waited, he would had won if Boone doesn't die. Desmond was at his braking point, and started to read his final book Penny gave him to keep his hope alive and to have something to look forward to when dealing with a difficult situation. Putting Boone in a situation which caused his death, made Locke question his visions the island gave him and bang on the hatch door, thus causing Demond to start to question what he was doing but continue to press the button a little longer. I think a plot hole with the story was Desmond heard Locke banging on the hatch door, but he didn't hear Locke and Boone digging around the hatch and trying break into it with various creative tools Locke created.
So you believe Radzinsky created the dead man switch in hatch after the purge? That would explain why the Hostiles allowed him to live and why they didn’t replaced Kelvin. It would also explain why the training film stated that to only use the computer to press the button and to not use it for communications. Since Radzinsky knew nobody was reading the logs dumped in a field, pushing the button in the hatch was probably a meaningless test, so he removed that portion of training film. The only critical part was pushing the button. Maybe when he created the dead man switch is when he edited the film. One thing that doesn’t make sense is how the edited portion of the film ended up in the Arrow hatch. I would think he would had thrown it away. Lastly, I think after Radzinsky killed himself the Hostiles would had made contact with him to provide replacements since Kelvin would not be able to push the button forever. Pushing a button every 108 minutes is impossible for two people…but doing it alone would not work. The person would never get any sleep. Watching Kelvin and Desmond, they should had saw they both of them were starting to crack by staying in the hatch too long and they needed to interact with other people. Once Kelvin decided he was going to leave, he should had taken Desmond outside to train him how the supply drops worked. By not training Desmond how the supply trains worked, he was setting Desmond up to fail. That was also a great catch that Ben may not had pushed the button since the hatch was in a lock down mode because of a supply drop. I completely missed that and thought he pushed the button but said he didn’t to place doubt in John’s mind.
@@lastpme Mikhail had a glass eye at the Arrow, and was managing communications with the outside, to hide the Purge from the outside world, which required allowing Kelvin to get to his post at the Swan, instead of sending him back to the mainland after he shows up, sent there by an unsuspecting Dharma initiative on the outside.
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Thinking about this some more, if the MiB just waited, he would had won if Boone doesn't die. Desmond was at his braking point, and started to read his final book Penny gave him to keep his hope alive and to have something to look forward to when dealing with a difficult situation. Putting Boone in a situation which caused his death, made Locke question his visions the island gave him and bang on the hatch door, thus causing Demond to start to question what he was doing but continue to press the button a little longer. I think a plot hole with the story was Desmond heard Locke banging on the hatch door, but he didn't hear Locke and Boone digging around the hatch and trying break into it with various creative tools Locke created.
@@lastpme Yeah that doesn't make sense. He would've heard that trebuchet for sure.
So you believe Radzinsky created the dead man switch in hatch after the purge? That would explain why the Hostiles allowed him to live and why they didn’t replaced Kelvin. It would also explain why the training film stated that to only use the computer to press the button and to not use it for communications. Since Radzinsky knew nobody was reading the logs dumped in a field, pushing the button in the hatch was probably a meaningless test, so he removed that portion of training film. The only critical part was pushing the button. Maybe when he created the dead man switch is when he edited the film. One thing that doesn’t make sense is how the edited portion of the film ended up in the Arrow hatch. I would think he would had thrown it away. Lastly, I think after Radzinsky killed himself the Hostiles would had made contact with him to provide replacements since Kelvin would not be able to push the button forever. Pushing a button every 108 minutes is impossible for two people…but doing it alone would not work. The person would never get any sleep. Watching Kelvin and Desmond, they should had saw they both of them were starting to crack by staying in the hatch too long and they needed to interact with other people. Once Kelvin decided he was going to leave, he should had taken Desmond outside to train him how the supply drops worked. By not training Desmond how the supply trains worked, he was setting Desmond up to fail. That was also a great catch that Ben may not had pushed the button since the hatch was in a lock down mode because of a supply drop. I completely missed that and thought he pushed the button but said he didn’t to place doubt in John’s mind.
@@lastpme Mikhail had a glass eye at the Arrow, and was managing communications with the outside, to hide the Purge from the outside world, which required allowing Kelvin to get to his post at the Swan, instead of sending him back to the mainland after he shows up, sent there by an unsuspecting Dharma initiative on the outside.
Radzinsky could have ventured out to the arrow to see if there were any survivors, and likely found none