Originally posted by: C3PX
I am not sure it has ever tried to explian the whispers as having had anything to do with the others, unless I missed something. The whispers have always been more closely connected to the smoke monster than to the others. Don't forget about the smoke monster, Jacob, or the unaging Richard, I am confident there is still something cool to come with those things.

Near the end of season two they tried to explain the weird whisperings as merely being the result of "the others." It was in the episode where Michael led the chosen group to be captured by the others. Just before everyone was hit with darts they all heard similar whispers in the surrounding jungle. Clearly it was the others trying to coordinate with each other before the trap was sprung. Therefore I thought that was obviously an explanation for what Sayid had heard. Needless to say, I have been hoping that explanation was merely a way to throw all of us viewers off of the otherworldly trail, but, as the show goes on and they keep trying to demystify everything, I'm starting to think that may have been the real explanation. It seems like the writers really want to go for a world where they first make my imagination go wild with impossible things only to then give me one boring explanation after another. I now worry that eventually the show will simply devolve into Gilligan with guns.