Hi everybody! I'm crashing the journal because I loves me some Lost and while there are many fans, there are precious few obsessives, so I have to latch on to them when I find them!
So--GREAT article from Entertainment Weekly! Very informative. Interesting to see how hard they slammed the door on the idea of alternate timelines--that seemed an obvious implication of the second flight 815 found at the bottom of the ocean. I'm also surprised because I was convinced that if, in fact, that IS Locke in the coffin, and if he DID kill himself according to the scenario I described earlier, that part of Jack's desire to go back to the island is to 'save' Locke by rewriting the future from the point of departure. I guess I kind of pictured the confrontation with Locke at the radio tower at the end of season 3 as the temporal ground zero, where future Jack and company would return to prevent present Jack from contacting the freighter in the first place, thus negating the 'dark future' we're seeing in the flash-forwards. If there is no alternate timeline, that means whoever is in the coffin is dead for real, and that's surprising. I still think it's Locke, but this puts a different spin on things. If he did kill himself because he was forcibly removed from the island, that might actually represent a huge turning point for the character of Jack, who has always been Locke's polar opposite/nemesis. It will be interesting if, in the absence of Locke's belief in destiny/magic/fate/whatever, if Jack will abandon his black and white realist view of the world and be forced to find the middle ground between his previous worldview and Locke's more fantastic sensibility. They seem sort of like a Mulder and Scully pairing of a believer and a skeptic, and the question is, will the skeptic step up and, in the absence of the believer, become the believer himself? Seems to me that based on his self-destructive behavior in the finale, Jack is definitely coming to terms with the idea of a world without Locke and the knowledge that Jack may have been wrong all along, and that Locke has died for Jack's mistakes.
And the comment in the article about the possibility that Ben might have passed himself off as a passenger from the plane, and his thus a member of the Oceanic 6, is pretty crazy. Did anyone else get the impression that Ben was patching Sayid up in a veterinary clinic? I'd have to go back and look at the episode again, but if I remember correctly, there was something about the room that made me think it was a vet examination room. Has anyone among the 815 passengers ever mentioned being a vet? Someone whose identity Ben could steal? I know Bernard is a dentist...could it have been a dentist's office, and Ben is masquerading as Bernard?
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Date: 2008-02-21 07:48 pm (UTC)So--GREAT article from Entertainment Weekly! Very informative. Interesting to see how hard they slammed the door on the idea of alternate timelines--that seemed an obvious implication of the second flight 815 found at the bottom of the ocean. I'm also surprised because I was convinced that if, in fact, that IS Locke in the coffin, and if he DID kill himself according to the scenario I described earlier, that part of Jack's desire to go back to the island is to 'save' Locke by rewriting the future from the point of departure. I guess I kind of pictured the confrontation with Locke at the radio tower at the end of season 3 as the temporal ground zero, where future Jack and company would return to prevent present Jack from contacting the freighter in the first place, thus negating the 'dark future' we're seeing in the flash-forwards. If there is no alternate timeline, that means whoever is in the coffin is dead for real, and that's surprising. I still think it's Locke, but this puts a different spin on things. If he did kill himself because he was forcibly removed from the island, that might actually represent a huge turning point for the character of Jack, who has always been Locke's polar opposite/nemesis. It will be interesting if, in the absence of Locke's belief in destiny/magic/fate/whatever, if Jack will abandon his black and white realist view of the world and be forced to find the middle ground between his previous worldview and Locke's more fantastic sensibility. They seem sort of like a Mulder and Scully pairing of a believer and a skeptic, and the question is, will the skeptic step up and, in the absence of the believer, become the believer himself? Seems to me that based on his self-destructive behavior in the finale, Jack is definitely coming to terms with the idea of a world without Locke and the knowledge that Jack may have been wrong all along, and that Locke has died for Jack's mistakes.
And the comment in the article about the possibility that Ben might have passed himself off as a passenger from the plane, and his thus a member of the Oceanic 6, is pretty crazy. Did anyone else get the impression that Ben was patching Sayid up in a veterinary clinic? I'd have to go back and look at the episode again, but if I remember correctly, there was something about the room that made me think it was a vet examination room. Has anyone among the 815 passengers ever mentioned being a vet? Someone whose identity Ben could steal? I know Bernard is a dentist...could it have been a dentist's office, and Ben is masquerading as Bernard?
Sorry again for crashing--kick me out anytime :)