Mike Voss
5/15/2009 7:39:00 AM
"Carol in LA" <chicks5026@aol.com> wrote in message
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On May 14, 2:33 pm, foxy1vi...@aol.com wrote:
> As my nephew mentioned to me--a theme last night was "What's done is
> done." If you think about it, much of the dialogue gives away what
> went on, after you look back on it. So dead is dead, after all.
So, if Dead is Dead, what does that mean about all the people who have
died on the island so far? Wasn't that Jack's purpose - to reset time
in order to save their lives?
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There's a large contingent of fans who
A) Think Jack is wrong (in everything he does)
and/or
B) *Want* Jack to be wrong.
So if Jack *is* wrong, his actions don't create a reset for the Losties.
Things to consider in support of this:
Jacob has an agenda involving the Losties (his visits to each at
crux points in their lives, and possibly appearing to Hurley as
those who died on the island). He clearly wanted them to come
to the island, both the first time *and* the second time. A reset
would make both meaningless to whatever scheme he has.
(Apparently related to his having apparently summoned
others to the island repeatedly as part of his "battle" or game with
his unnamed nemesis (somebody nicked him as Darkob on the
Lost newsgroup - I'll stick with that <g>).
Jacob seems to have anticipated, perhaps cooperated, in his own apparent
death
aspart of Darkob-as-Locke's manipulation of Ben (the loophole Darkob
declared he would find in the opening scene). I'm thinking he will still
be around in one form or another next season (the Phoenix myth is
being mentioned in a few posts on the Lost group - Jacob rising from
the fire that appears to consume him in his final scene of this ep).
So I think whatever his scheme for the Losties involves,
he'll be there to see it played out, and so will they. Hard
to predict exactly how it would play out, though.
The bomb may NOT have exploded after all.
The whiteout with the black Lost logo that ends
the ep is a mirror image of the usual ep ending,
it may be nothing more than symbolic of a shift in
power between the light and dark forces that have
been hinted at throughout the series (Locke's
white and black sides speech to Walt about backgammon
would be symbolic of the game between Jacob and Darkob;
the "Adam and Eve" found dead in the cave had black and white
stones found with them; numerous other light/dark motifs have been
seen throughout the series, and Jacob and Darkob wore dark and light
clothing). IF the bomb never really went off, then "what happened,
happened": the Incident created a need to wall off the basement of
the Swan station, and the button had to be pushed to release the
energy beneath it properly, and Desmond failing to push it on
Sept 22, 2001 probably brought Flight 815 out of the sky.
That's what the "I think/hope that Jack is wrong" contingent
would like to see revealed next season: everything just as
Miles suggested, Jack's actions contributing to rather than
preventing the Incident, and everyone right where we left
them. And everyone dead is still dead - but fodder for "possession"
by Darkob and/or Jacob :-)
Mike