Lost.

Immediately after last night’s episode of Lost, Katy asked me “what’s going on?” and although she had a sarcastic tone I got to thinking maybe people kind of like what I have to say about it. At the very least, the comments left on my last Lost blog were encouraging. So I want to talk about last night’s episode, where the killer line-of-the-season was:

“You can’t be the survivors of Flight 815… they found the plane. There were no
survivors. Everybody died.”

This was of course spoken by a parachutist who jumped from her helicopter moments before it crashed into the ocean surrounding the island.

HOW DO YOU EXPLAIN THAT ???

I immediately started dorking out and going into sci-fi mode, saying things like “On Donnie Darko…” and “maybe the anomoly crated a replica of the plane and everyone in it,” and “maybe the survivors just *think* they are the survivors but are actually Other people and the flashbacks are just memories being imprinted into them.”

Then I realized that we ultimately learned the mysterious Others ended up being some guys named Ben, Tom, and Dan, and we later found out the reason they left no footprints was because some guy followed behind them walking backwards erasing them with his feet.

So, what’s the likelihood that there’s some creepy, over-the-top sci-fi explanation for why someone from the outside world would claim they found the wreckage and they’re all dead?

Well, it’s probably just a cover-up.

A good old fashioned conspiracy no doubt put together by Mittlelos Bioscience, The Hanso Foundation, or the Widmore Corporation — maybe even all three (all of which we’ve seen affiliated somehow with the Others.)

What could the reason be? That probably shouldn’t be too over-the-top either. I still don’t really go with the theory that the Others influenced them all to get on the plane knowing it would crash. In other words, I think the plane crash as we saw it was the truth, and that it was indeed accidental. But then the Others found the survivors and realized they’d make great subjects to continue their research. And as we saw in a few episodes back, Mikhail (the Eye-Patch guy) was monitoring the plane crash in one of the hatches on the island as it happened, so they no doubt had all the information they needed to stage the wreckage so people back home would consider them dead.

The hole in this theory is that no Other bothered to cover-up Desmond’s disappearance in the real world. So people would no doubt look for him after he went missing. Perhaps the Others weren’t expecting Desmond to end up being the lost-love of Penelope Widmore (daughter of the Widmore Corp. CEO), who is rich, and who (I think) sent the parachutist to rescue him.

Then again, maybe it really is all about sci-fi and Donnie Darko and shit.

For example:

What if the magnetic anomaly split a hole in the fabric of space, allowing persons and things from other planes of existence to slip through.

How is Mikhail alive, even though we watched him die on an electric fence? Maybe that’s not he same Mikhail, but a Mikhail from an alternate reality who (knowingly or not) wandered into another reality.

How did Desmond re-live portions of his life in the moments the hatch exploded? Maybe he didn’t, he just briefly merged with an alternate Desmond.

Thinking out loud: Still doesn’t explain why he can see the future.

On second thought, nah, it’s all a big cover-up.

Alternate dimensions, multiple universes, and time travel are all too much for a standard Wednesday night TV viewer, methinks.

Thoughts?

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Even though it’s pretty obvious at this point, I am going to call it right now just in case I can play on your ignorance:

Let’s review: A con man was responsible for James Fords’ parents killing each other. This left little James all alone. Little James found out the guy who was responsible called himself Sawyer, and so when James grew up he took the same Sawyer and became a con-man, promising to kill the real Sawyer when he found him.

He’ll find him next week. I’d bet Mikhail’s life on it.

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EDIT: You know what I just realized? There was a cat that kept showing up in the episode that introduced us to Mikhail (when Locke blew up his station.) Cat’s have nine lives, right? That was probably foreshadowing us the fact that Mikhail would return.

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I’m gonna call something about Lost right now so that, 3 years from now when the show is wrapping up and all the mysteries are explained you can say, “damn, back in ‘07, Adam called that one spot on.”

You’ll even use the term “spot on,” because you’ll be so impressed you’ll turn British for a second.

Here it is:

If you follow Lost (if you don’t, why are you reading this?) you’ll be familiar with “The Incident.”  That is, when the survivors found the original hatch they found a projector with a roll of film.  When they played the film it was an orientation video for something called “The Dharma Initiative - Station 3; The Swan.”  In it, the narrator explained that the occupants of the station (the hatch) had to press a button once every 108 minutes to avoid a catastrophic discharge of an unknown magnetic anomoly near the station.  But they didn’t always have to do this–only since “the incident.”

The video was made in the 70s or 80s, and to this day Desmond was still pressing the button.  Anyway, the “Incident” was never explained, although it’s been hyped up to be something huge.

So, I found something in the real-world called “The Vela Incident.”  (Don’t ask how I find these things.)  It was recorded by a satellite on September 22nd, 1979, and it recorded a series of flashes originating from an island in the Indian Ocean.  The flashes themselves are known as “The South Atlantic Flash.”  Nothing is known about the flashes or where they came from.

Maybe Lost will take advantage of this unknown phenomena and incorporate it into it’s story.  Could the Vela Incident have been the beginning of the magnetic anomoly the Swan was setup to control every 108 minutes?

We know that the Dharma Initiative was originally set up to change something called the Valanzetti Equation (4 8 15 16 23 42).  We also know that the Dharma Initiative failed and something happened to most of it’s members.  Maybe once the incident made it so that they had to push a button every 108 minutes, they said “screw it, we can’t do the initiative anymore,” so most of them left, some of them became the Others, and they tricked someone into staying in order to push the button.

Me-hope-a-so.

Either way, I called it.  Remember that shit.

Another coincidence:  The Vela Incident occured on September 22nd, 1979.  The plane crash survivors landed on the island on September 22nd, 2004.

Another prediction:  it’s been shown (inconsistantly) that magnetic fields have healing properties.  That’s how John Locke and Rose were healed.

Speaking of real world events on fictional shows, the way time moves in Lost is that each episode is kind of like a few hours, and each episode continues from the last.  So, even though the show premiered 3 years ago, only 3 months have passed on the island.  Which means it’s December 13th, 2004 on the island.  The Indian Ocean Tsunami happened on December 26th, 2004.

The Others have already shown that they know shit in a spookily way.

Maybe that’s why they left?  They moved to higher ground.

And will Desmond see it coming?

Me-hope-a-so.

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