Lost

[mousepod]

I love and hate this show. I dread the potential X-Files "wrap it all up" by wrapping up a few threads and ignoring the rest. I feel that this would have been a great miniseries, but might falter as a 5-year (did I imagine that?) arc.

Having said that - I haven't missed a single episode (yay dvr) and have developed a theory about the "secret".

A couple of key parts of my guess:
- There was no plane crash.
- All of the 'flashbacks' are suggested memories, not real ones.
- The "others" also part of the 'experiment' - they're not the puppetmasters.

There's more - but I won't bore you with it. So far, I haven't seen anything that directly refutes my hypothesis, which I've had since the beginning of the show.

When Ubergeek and I talked about it, he added a some observations that completely make sense (to my sci-fi warped mind, at least). I'll let him fill you in.

BTW, has anyone here seen "Dark City"? If not, you should.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by mousepod

I love and hate this show. I dread the potential X-Files "wrap it all up" by wrapping up a few threads and ignoring the rest. I feel that this would have been a great miniseries, but might falter as a 5-year (did I imagine that?) arc.

I have faith simply because in setting the 5-year (no, you didn't imagine that) time-line, Abrams specifically said that he wanted to avoid the X-Files trap. X-Files also started with a 5-year story line, but its success was so far beyond what they expected, that they decided to drag it out as long as possible. So by the time they finally did have to wrap it up, they had gotten so far off track that it was impossible to rein it in. Abrams has sworn that he's got a 5-year story and will stick to it.

[Eliza Hodgkins 1812]

Originally Posted by mousepod

BTW, has anyone here seen "Dark City"? If not, you should.

I love "Dark City". Plus, it has a really, really fantastic rendition of the song "Sway."

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by mousepod

BTW, has anyone here seen "Dark City"? If not, you should.

You know, I know I saw it. In the theaters no less. But damned if I remember it. I'll have to see it again.

[FEJ]

Originally Posted by mousepod

I love and hate this show. I dread the potential X-Files "wrap it all up" by wrapping up a few threads and ignoring the rest. I feel that this would have been a great miniseries, but might falter as a 5-year (did I imagine that?) arc.

Having said that - I haven't missed a single episode (yay dvr) and have developed a theory about the "secret".

A couple of key parts of my guess:
- There was no plane crash.
- All of the 'flashbacks' are suggested memories, not real ones.
- The "others" also part of the 'experiment' - they're not the puppetmasters.

There's more - but I won't bore you with it. So far, I haven't seen anything that directly refutes my hypothesis, which I've had since the beginning of the show.

When Ubergeek and I talked about it, he added a some observations that completely make sense (to my sci-fi warped mind, at least). I'll let him fill you in.

BTW, has anyone here seen "Dark City"? If not, you should.

Originally Posted by Stan4dSteph

Can you share your theory? I'd love to hear it!

One of the my main observations/beliefs is, along with Mousepods theory, is that:
By pressing the button, the survivors are in fact injecting themselves with whatever experimental drug they are under the influence of. (hence the forced realities/memories)

Using fear, Dharma is able to make them self perpetuate the experiment. And they don't even realize it. To me, the last episode made it more concrete for me. I could be wrong.

[scaeagles]

Bump - new episode tonight.

[BarTopDancer]

Thank you Leo!

I have to share this but only Lost junkies will get it.

I'm writing documentation and I have to say "click on [button name] button".

I have this urge to put in there (don't push the button! The button is bad!)

[scaeagles]

Originally Posted by BarTopDancer

I'm writing documentation and I have to say "click on [button name] button".

Funny! But do you write tech documentation as a profession???? ICK! I used to have to do that for software that I wrote and I despised every minute of it. Shudder. Now it's just the software. Thankfully.

[BarTopDancer]

Originally Posted by scaeagles

Funny! But do you write tech documentation as a profession???? ICK! I used to have to do that for software that I wrote and I despised every minute of it. Shudder. Now it's just the software. Thankfully.

No, it's not my profession. I'm writing documentation for my former and present positions since documentation for these positions is non-existant and the and everything is in my head.

[BarTopDancer]

Feel good episode all around.

Last 5 minutes... OMG. I knew it. We all did. Oy.

And next week? (Spoilers for GD)

Spoiler:

The doors goes down. I bet the computer shorted out. HG is an other. Is it next week yet?