Comments on: Lost: Unanswered http://www.thisisthelastword.com/blog/2009/02/12/lost-unanswered/ Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 07 May 2010 14:21:48 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: MightyThor http://www.thisisthelastword.com/blog/2009/02/12/lost-unanswered/comment-page-1/#comment-272 MightyThor Tue, 03 Mar 2009 18:19:34 +0000 http://www.thisisthelastword.com/blog/?p=129#comment-272 Time travel is getting the be the TV writers' hack of choice, and it bugs. Time travel is getting the be the TV writers’ hack of choice, and it bugs.

]]> By: MrHattyHat http://www.thisisthelastword.com/blog/2009/02/12/lost-unanswered/comment-page-1/#comment-254 MrHattyHat Mon, 16 Feb 2009 21:53:41 +0000 http://www.thisisthelastword.com/blog/?p=129#comment-254 I hope that's true, or that they at least have some direction in mind. That would re-engage my mind in the show. This season has been more interesting, but I think I'm still teetering on the "I'm not sure I'm interested" ledge. I hope that’s true, or that they at least have some direction in mind. That would re-engage my mind in the show. This season has been more interesting, but I think I’m still teetering on the “I’m not sure I’m interested” ledge.

]]> By: Atticusser http://www.thisisthelastword.com/blog/2009/02/12/lost-unanswered/comment-page-1/#comment-251 Atticusser Sun, 15 Feb 2009 22:27:04 +0000 http://www.thisisthelastword.com/blog/?p=129#comment-251 Interesting take on Charlotte's reveal. I hadn't considered that the memory may have been only been formed at that moment. In other words, it was Charlotte's (imminent) death that would prompt Daniel to warn her never to go to the island. I found a site a few weeks ago that addresses the good and bad of time travel as used in TV, movies and writing. One of the more interesting points is the paradox of the "uncaused cause" as discussed here: http://www.mjyoung.net/time/cause.html The basic point is that you can't have something happen only because it happens. There has to be a catalyst for the sequence of events that eventually becomes a loop. What I think Lost may be doing is providing that catalyst. In other words, the island is the cause. That theory would explain why Rousseau did not recognize Jin. Maybe the island has caused him to be injected into that time stream where he wasn't there when it originally happened. Of course, that would mean that you can indeed change the past, in spite of that principle having been repeated several times by Faraday. So I think the writer's are setting us up for a new reveal that time (or events in time) is not quite so fixed as we usually assume. Interesting take on Charlotte’s reveal. I hadn’t considered that the memory may have been only been formed at that moment. In other words, it was Charlotte’s (imminent) death that would prompt Daniel to warn her never to go to the island.

I found a site a few weeks ago that addresses the good and bad of time travel as used in TV, movies and writing. One of the more interesting points is the paradox of the “uncaused cause” as discussed here: http://www.mjyoung.net/time/cause.html

The basic point is that you can’t have something happen only because it happens. There has to be a catalyst for the sequence of events that eventually becomes a loop. What I think Lost may be doing is providing that catalyst. In other words, the island is the cause.

That theory would explain why Rousseau did not recognize Jin. Maybe the island has caused him to be injected into that time stream where he wasn’t there when it originally happened. Of course, that would mean that you can indeed change the past, in spite of that principle having been repeated several times by Faraday.

So I think the writer’s are setting us up for a new reveal that time (or events in time) is not quite so fixed as we usually assume.

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