Lost has always addressed as one of its main themes the nature of identity. Whether in an overt way, as Sawyer’s “real” name being James Ford or Hurley’s being Hugo Reyes, or in a more subtle manner, as when Boone tells everyone he’s a lifeguard when trying to revive Rose in the pilot but later tells Jack he’s a businessman, roles and duplicates and opposites are a main function of character.
Our good pal Betsy Warren started me thinking this week by sending me this one: “Can you explain to me why, aside from causing a fracture in time… they all just didn’t die and sink the Island when the bomb went off? And why they only got blown into some trees? They sunk the Island in the alternate timeline, so why didn’t they just all blow up in the current timeline as well? I can’t get past this part.”
Spectacu-buddy EJ Feddes had an awesome observation about last week’s
“LA X” title, in that of course the space there was intentional, and
it wasn’t meant to denote the three letter call-sign for the LA
terminal, but merely to evoke it. His genius was that it was meant to
name the parallel timeline, though, where 815 landing safely was LA
X, the other Jack was “Jack X,” “Hurley X,” and so on. Too good not
to adopt.
three words
very expensive garbage
“little big man” / “dances with wolves” in “jurassic park” meet luke, han and the death star on 9-11.
derivative much?
script writer had the easiest job in hollywood, write bathroom sounds for pages on end.