Through the four seasons of LOST we have seen many flashbacks, some flash forwards, and a lot of just odd occurrences. One thing that stands out in most of these flashbacks are the connections the characters seem to share with each other. There definitely has been a lot of crossover which leads me to the title of this entry. Is this coincidence, fate, or the TV world’s biggest conspiracy?
To me it seems a little fishy that so many of the people on Oceanic 815 are connected either directly or indirectly. It could be that TPTB are exploiting the famous “Six Degrees of Separation” idea which has hypothesized everyone on earth is connected by an average of 6 people. This idea is now a part of popular culture has inspired the famous game “Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon” (a game which I suck at). Darlton could easily be trying to make a statement everyone is linked if you really pay attention.
I however think this all just can’t be coincidence. What are the odds that all of those people who are connected just happen to be on the same flight? It also seems a bit coincidental that Abaddon was the one who pushed Locke to go on his walkabout which ultimately made him be on Oceanic 815.
Now we know that the plane crashed because Desmond didn’t push the button in time. This happened because Desmond didn’t get back to the hatch before the clock hit zero because he was too busy confronting Kelvin and eventually killing him. I wonder about this whole situation because it is very convenient. Could Kelvin have lured Desmond out there on purpose so the electromagnetic energy would build up? Could Ben have known about this all along but chose to play dumb to the situation? If Ben didn’t know about this then he is one lucky man because like he said a spinal surgeon fell out of the sky right when he needed it. Maybe the plane crashing was the island’s doing? Could the island have wanted the plane to crash so Locke would eventually take over for Ben? The final possibility I can come up with it that it is exactly what it looks like and is just one giant coincidence. However as we all know, nothing on LOST is exactly what it looks like which is why we love it so much.
To me it seems a little fishy that so many of the people on Oceanic 815 are connected either directly or indirectly. It could be that TPTB are exploiting the famous “Six Degrees of Separation” idea which has hypothesized everyone on earth is connected by an average of 6 people. This idea is now a part of popular culture has inspired the famous game “Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon” (a game which I suck at). Darlton could easily be trying to make a statement everyone is linked if you really pay attention.
I however think this all just can’t be coincidence. What are the odds that all of those people who are connected just happen to be on the same flight? It also seems a bit coincidental that Abaddon was the one who pushed Locke to go on his walkabout which ultimately made him be on Oceanic 815.
Now we know that the plane crashed because Desmond didn’t push the button in time. This happened because Desmond didn’t get back to the hatch before the clock hit zero because he was too busy confronting Kelvin and eventually killing him. I wonder about this whole situation because it is very convenient. Could Kelvin have lured Desmond out there on purpose so the electromagnetic energy would build up? Could Ben have known about this all along but chose to play dumb to the situation? If Ben didn’t know about this then he is one lucky man because like he said a spinal surgeon fell out of the sky right when he needed it. Maybe the plane crashing was the island’s doing? Could the island have wanted the plane to crash so Locke would eventually take over for Ben? The final possibility I can come up with it that it is exactly what it looks like and is just one giant coincidence. However as we all know, nothing on LOST is exactly what it looks like which is why we love it so much.
2 comments:
Good post. Heheh, like a wise bad-man-turned-good once said, "Never mistake coincidence for fate." :-)
TPTB do actually say a few words on the S-1 or S-2 DVD in the Connections section, about how we all might be more connected to each other than we actually realize. Or something to that effect.
I'm glad that we finally found out how Locke went from being a mush-mouse to having the nerve to go on the Walkabout, since we see that Abaddon put the seed of doing it in his mind. Very curious indeed. And it's difficult to imagine how Kelvin could have missed the giant tear in his suit before he went out, that Des saw to make him decide to go outside. I guess that it's possible but...
Speaking of connections on the DVD, Jack and Claire are connected to CS, and all three (I think) are connected to that shadowy person that we don't know about yet. I wonder if we ever will?! :-o
I don't remember now where I heard this (it might have been on one of the "official" podcasts) but I'm pretty sure that the Others didn't even know about the Swan. Or maybe they just didn't know where it was located. Ben and Juliet did use the Pearl to watch what was happening down there.
At any rate, you can't change the future so there was no option but for the plane to crash, right?
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