Comments on: On LOST

By: K. Liebert

K. Liebert — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 21:19:09 +0000

@ Moff & @Holland: Yes.

@ braak: There are a lot of arbitrary conditions that the writers seem to have to work around. At least they are consistently inconsistent.

By: braak

braak — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:57:23 +0000

Well, it’s consistent, though also inconsistent. I mean, they don’t take trees with them, or dirt, or anything else. Though that part is kind of consistent.

Of course, needing the van in the first place — to move the beam — was the result of an arbitrary condition created to require the van. If they’d just been able to move the beam by hand, they wouldn’t have needed the van at all.

I assume that Juliet wasn’t as deep because the bottom of the hole that she was at represented the bottom location of the hatch, which was all blown up. In the future, they’re not in the pit, they’re in the crater that was left behind when the hatch blew.

@Moff & @Holland: Yes.

By: Jeff Holland

Jeff Holland — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:42:40 +0000

I think “Richard Alpert and his Time-Traveling VW Van” is a spinoff we can all agree on.

By: Moff

Moff — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:37:10 +0000

I like to imagine Jacob telling Richard to drive the bus through time. All these clocks whirring past him as he checks his watch and steps on the gas.

By: K. Liebert

K. Liebert — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:34:53 +0000

I guess the bus couldn’t have gone… Regarding the writers: it essentially had to go for them to tug the one beam out of the way so that we could see that Juliet was still alive, and that Sawyer could bury her when she did die & make Miles talk to her, all so he could hear “It worked.” Sawyer has a lot less reason to not kill Jack aside from his spite, which meant that Kate can still fret about her decision between which one she likes more…. “It worked” could mean that origi-Losties might have an idea that the plan worked, so that they are aware of the possibility of new-Lostie versions of themselves out in the world. So when/if the two realities collide it can tie up quicker? Wow, that’s damn convoluted…

The greater question I had was why was Juliet so close to the surface now. When she went down the hole, it was really deep. When Sawyer gets to her in the wreckage she moved to within what seems like 30 feet of the surface, and under a beam, instead of way down in the hole. All I could come up with was she had to be close so that Sawyer could hear that “it worked…”

By: K. Liebert

K. Liebert — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:19:51 +0000

Well, it’s consistent with the Lost-verse. When they were skipping through time, the boat/raft they were on went with them. Just like the rope that Sawyer is pulling on in one flash, rope stays in his hands, backpacks, clothes, guns, etc… The boat, rope, bus, etc all go as natural extensions of everyone’s “being.” As a natural extension of Jin, or even Hurley (since Hurley was reclined against the bus,) it travels. It is tugged on through.

By: braak

braak — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 19:35:44 +0000

I am not sure what you’re saying. Do you mean it had to go from a logistical point? Like, the writers couldn’t think of a way for the bus not to go?

I’m also not sure why Jin couldn’t have appeared in mid-air.

By: Moff

Moff — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 19:07:19 +0000

@K.: I’m not sure that answer is realistic enough.

By: K. Liebert

K. Liebert — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 19:05:33 +0000

@ braak: The Minibus had to go since Jin was inside the bus. The explosion blew the Kate into the tree, Miles into the Forest, Jack & Sawyer into the grass… So, if Jin was in the bus, he wouldn’t just appear in the middle of the air- the bus had to go.

(This was shamelessly ripped from my comment on io9′s liveblog answering the same question CJA asked about the bus/van.)

By: Jeff Holland

Jeff Holland — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 15:57:45 +0000

Abandoning all technology and medicine and going to live with cavemen is a PERFECTLY VIABLE ALTERNATIVE TO WAR.