Lost: Idle ruminations

[thebitterguy]

Just one thought: None of those people SHOULD have been on the plane.

Locke? Yeah, if he'd stayed in Australia and done some sightseeing, he'd be on a later plane. Druggie Hobbit? Should have stayed with his brother and gotten clean. Jack? He had to browbeat the clerk into letting him on with dad. Kate? Didn't she have another flight out, before the bounty hunter caught her? If the Korean wife had taken her out, she wouldn't have been on, and neither would her husband.

Yet, somehow, they all ended up on that plane, in that place.

Will everyone else have a reason that they really shouldn't have been on the plane?

Ah, well. Love the show, anyway.

Comments

[redeem147.livejournal.com]

Maybe they're all dead.

Was that Batman Paul Dini?

[thebitterguy]

Cindy thinks it may be PD as well.

How many guys could there be with that name?

[graveyardgreg.livejournal.com]

What's bugged me is the unrealistic survival rate of the crash. A professional pilot said that no one would ever survive a crash like that.

Tonight's episode justified that statement, and I thank them for it.

[noizangel.livejournal.com]

I wondered if they're dead - but I think there's more stuff going on.

I am loving Locke though - High Priest of the Island.

[thebitterguy]

loving Locke though - High Priest of the Island.

Yeah, but what taboos is it gonna ask him to follow?

And what if it demands sacrifice?

It just seems they were all they because they made the choice twice.

[noizangel.livejournal.com]

It just seems they were all they because they made the choice twice.

It'll be interesting to see if that bears out over the episodes. I have a feeling the named characters are there for a reason - but other than that I'm not sure.

Gary also pointed out that they're all people with little to nothing to go back to in the 'real world' so far.

As for Mr. Locke, my theory is that the island (or whatever it is) needed faithful - so it gave him the ability to walk in exchange for his belief in whatever it is. No monster in the jungle since Locke saw it.

I think that the island will give people what they need (not necessarily -want-) so long as they work with the island. But who knows?

Knowing the creator from 'Alias', I would look more for the problems to come out of interpretations of what the island wants from them. He's more into the choices that people make - the supernatural junk just forces them into decision-making positions.

[thebitterguy]

I'm just afraid that Locke may be required to be an instrument of the Island's will, which would just be scary.