this is in response to anonymous' question in the previous post's comments:
Has there been an explanation as to how some of the Others were capable of freakish physical strength? Ethan seemed more terminator than human. Then there was time twerpish Ben overpowered badass Anna Lucia and got her by the throat. The Others didn't begin to seem human and vulnerable until season 3.it has not been explained, but in the podcasts, damon and carlton have made sarcastic reference to how strange it is that they all seem to possess superhuman strength. so, i'm guessing an explanation is coming, though all we have to go on thus far are a few clues to string together.
we still don't know who the others truly are - the bulk of them are -not- dharma people, but rather the 'hostiles.' we've seen that richard alpert, who we know to have ben of the hostile camp, appears not to age, but we haven't seen anyone else of the others in this context.
so at first i thought - ah, it's the hostiles, the 'natives' who have this superhuman strength, but it doesn't quite fly. juliet has exhibited this strength, and we know she's come from off-island, and mikhail probably didn't develop a russian accent while growing up on the island, so i'm betting his story about arriving 11 years ago was true. and mikhail has proven to be the most super-human of them all.
so my theory is that the island strengthens you over time. the survivors of the crash simply have not been there long enough yet to notice physical changes.
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Thankyou. You have thought about this a great deal more than I have. You are doing all the heavy lifting while your spoiled readers just take it in. I remember at the end of season 3, feeling like all the original questions had been answered and replaced with questions concerning the future. Not so. Here's another one. We never learned what became of the abducted children. The abduction was logistically necessary. With the timeline being on the order of weeks, the actors would have outgrown their parts. As it is, Malcolm David Kelly is probably 6'2" by now with a voice like that of James Earl Jones.