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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AdmundfortGeographer" data-source="post: 2282796" data-attributes="member: 4682">Oh man! Big time eerie music. Time to read up more on the HMS Bounty, HMS Pandora, Pitcairn Island and the whole saga.The moment my wife heard Locke say "hope" was what he thought was in behind the hatch, she said out loud. "Pandora! Hope is what was saved when she closed the box in time."There is a long, not-well-documented period after the mutineers left Tahiti, and when the survivors were discovered on the previously-uncharted Pitcairn Island in 1808. Only one of the original mutineers was still alive by then. Maybe Lost will posit that some other mutineers settled on another island, took up piracy, especially the kidnapping of youths to refresh their numbers... of which they still do to this day. Piracy, especially directed at ships such as those prison island bound vessels to free the prisoners to add to their numbers. I like the idea that those weren't slaves in the shackles, but rather prisoners.Or maybe the bodies in shackles aren't prisoners, but instead are the officers and crew of the ship, and what happened was that the prisoners mutineed (maybe with the help of the mutineers of the HMS Bounty), put the crew in shackles and left in the ship to die.So much to speculate upon...</blockquote>