Hm. The first thing that popped into my head after reading C&D's comment in the ABC interview...
"Somewhere just outside the Crab Nebula is where it will all end, geographically," he said.
... was WTF?! Then I got to thinking, what the heck could they be talking about? Then I remembered some movie where a time-travelling dude was being held prisoner by aliens in some strange dome-like enclosure somewhere in outer space....
And I remembered. Slaughterhouse-Five.
Dang. Is LOST a re-write of Vonnegut's famous novel? Or at least heavily influenced by it? The plot synopsis from Wikipedia is compelling. I can't recall ever reading the book, but I know I've seen the film at least a couple of times (although the plot escapes me)... but check this point out from WP....
A disoriented and ill-trained American soldier named Billy Pilgrim is captured by German soldiers and is forced to live in a makeshift prison, the deep cellars of a disused slaughterhouse in the city of Dresden,
Germany. Billy has become "unstuck in time" for unexplained reasons
(though it's hinted towards the end that his surviving a plane crash
left him with mild brain damage) so he randomly and repeatedly visits different parts of his life, including his death. He meets, and is later kidnapped by, aliens from the planet Tralfamadore, who exhibit him in a Tralfamadorian zoo with Montana Wildhack, a pornographic movie star. The Tralfamadorians see in four dimensions,
the fourth dimension being time. Tralfamadorians have seen every
instant of their lives already; they cannot choose to change anything
about their fate, but can choose to focus on any moment in their lives
that they wish.
[Emphasis mine] OK, so throw out the part about the porn star (although C&D really should find a way to write
that in!) and the bit about the Germans and WWII....
Whoa!
It's clear we don't have one "Billy Pilgrim" among the group of 815 survivors, but taken as a whole we see one theme overarching everything. That being the flashbacks and how events in our characters lives have inevitably brought them to where they are today.
And then there's Desmond, his "guardian angels", and his ability to go back to previous events in his life, and to see the future....
Is the island in fact nothing more than the "zoo" that Billy Pilgrim is set up as an exhibit in? Is Jacob one of the zookeepers? Are the Mt. Moriah monk and Ms. Hawkins in on it too?
Consider the last two and their take on "free will" and how it relates to Desmond, and indirectly everybody else.
Man, that's just nuts. I'm sure this has been discussed at length and in more detail before, but I just made the connection, so... Man. That's just nuts.
(And now that I think about it, the computer-room "dome" inside the Swan had a striking resemblance to the outer-space structure Billy keeps returning to in the movie....)
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