The whole show is about a secret organization attempting to discover the secret to immortality. They need the 23 correct people to attain this goal. The Others are people who came before them and who have proven to be the incorrect people, and they are stuck on the island until they can find their own replacements.
Sound strange? Well, my boss claims to have written almost the same story as a film trilogy nearly ten years ago, and his predictions about the progression of the series has been up to this point disturbingly accurate.
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i should probably point out somewhere here that i'm dewgy shouldn't i
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