Sure, but everyone seems to be killing someone on the island or before the crash. Sayid, Charlie, Sawyer, Michael, Desmond, Kate, Eko, Sun, Anna Lucia etc.. And if I were Bernard I would probably have strangled Rose by now haha.
My roommate last year watched Lost religiously. I gamely played along. The commercials they played were pretty sweet. It didn't really grab me, but then I'm not really for soap operas, even if they are ripping off Lord of the Flies. I heard a pretty good one, though. Did you know you could see the Dharma symbol on the shark? The one the show jumped over.
Stop ripping off Pennyarcade. A friend of mine linked me to that following my admission that Lost is my life.
Really? There's a monster, there's a Jack and Ralph role, two tribes, even a piggy. The only real difference is guns and women, but they had to attract audiences somehow.
The first season maybe, but since the discovery of the hatch the nature of the island (isolation) is completely different. (They are actually NOT isolated). In LoTF the two tribes started out as one. In Lost the survivors are still together. The "Others" were already on the island prior to the crash. The monster has been largely insignificant up till now, and is not the main source of their fear. Also none of the conflicts on the island have much to so with how they should live. Jack (in Lost) never even wanted to be leader, he just is because he's a doctor.
what the hell is the smoke monster? best explanation ive heard is that it is a nanobot cloud like in the book prey. but how would they possibly explain and incorporate that without it being retarded? if it is something supernatural like god or the devil i will destroy my television.
So far they've managed to explain everything without resorting to the supernatural. Even the polar bears. I have faith that they will stay true to that. But they've still got some explaining to do. Like when the characters have flashbacks to past events and a bunch of the other characters are there. Especially Hurley and the mental hospital, and the sequence of numbers that shows up everywhere including the winning lottery ticket.
A strong theme of the show is destiny, fate etc. And the Numbers are the reason the DHARMA Initiative was created.
I've recently taken to musing that the Island is a metaphor for purgatory, specifically relating back to the fact that the characters are "fallen" in many ways, yet not irredeemable, nor out right evil. I also seek to find some degree of meaning in the names of the characters and their relationship back to historical figures. HUGO Reyes. JOHN LOCKE. Alexandra ROUSSEAU. Katherine AUSTEN. James SAWYER (Tom Sawyer) FORD. Desmond DAVID HUME. Ana Lucia CORTEZ. Boone CARLYLE Colleen PICKETT Note the three philosophers. All Enlightenment figures.
Could Desmond's recent time-defying predictions be related back to David Hume's conception of causality being irrational?
