I had the same thought -- why not just cut the cable?
It's not clear, though, that the cable gives the station power. On Sayid's documents (incidentally, what ass did he pull them out of? I don't remember seeing those before) the cable is described as an "anchor," suggesting that all the cable does is keep the station from being swept out to sea by the currents. Assuming the cable doesn't give the station electricity, then cutting the cable might just make it more difficult to find the station without actually stopping it from jamming any transmissions. Now, presumably, if it went far enough away, it shouldn't be able to jam transmissions to the island, but who knows how long that would take? Better to take matters in your own hands and flip the switch yourself.
ACTUALLY the documents Sayid has are a map of the POWER GRID, which Sayid took from Mikhail's Kozy Kabin. Right? That's how I remembers it. So all the lines connecting stations and structures are power lines.
If the line was an anchor, it wouldn't be so slack, and it wouldnt stay buried in the sand... I think the Looking Glass seems to do a pretty good job of anchoring itself. Once Charlie was inside, that shit looked SOLID. Like a fricking military base.
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I had the same thought -- why not just cut the cable?
It's not clear, though, that the cable gives the station power. On Sayid's documents (incidentally, what ass did he pull them out of? I don't remember seeing those before) the cable is described as an "anchor," suggesting that all the cable does is keep the station from being swept out to sea by the currents. Assuming the cable doesn't give the station electricity, then cutting the cable might just make it more difficult to find the station without actually stopping it from jamming any transmissions. Now, presumably, if it went far enough away, it shouldn't be able to jam transmissions to the island, but who knows how long that would take? Better to take matters in your own hands and flip the switch yourself.
ACTUALLY the documents Sayid has are a map of the POWER GRID, which Sayid took from Mikhail's Kozy Kabin. Right? That's how I remembers it. So all the lines connecting stations and structures are power lines.
If the line was an anchor, it wouldn't be so slack, and it wouldnt stay buried in the sand... I think the Looking Glass seems to do a pretty good job of anchoring itself. Once Charlie was inside, that shit looked SOLID. Like a fricking military base.
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