Black Dahlia
12-12-04, 06:43 AM
Sorry, not really. Someone made a joke (I think) bout it on another board, and when I started to reply it turned into a mini-essay:
all i know is that the fortune teller thing was dumb. besides, the fortune teller planted a bomb on her luggage. that's why he knew what would happen.
This is not entirely implausable.
Let's start with a clue from the show that something was amiss with the psychic. The first time Claire visited him, what he saw terrified him. The second time, he was a bit aloof but wanted to "feel around" in his visions, looking for clues that the future might not be as horrible as he first saw if he could manipulate Claire somehow. The third time, when he made the business offer, he seemed to be up to something, acting hurredly and maybe a bit nervous. He almost acted like he was being watched to make sure he got Claire on that plane.
Well, he was being watched. By whom? Why, the people who's counsel the psychic sought after Claire's first vist. Only through collaboration with others with interest in his field would his attitude change so dramatically between each of Claire's visits. What kind of people take the pseudoscience of psychic readings seriously? Parapsychologists and occultists, and many of these people are both. Certain individuals with greater knowledge of the meaning of the psychic's visions gained insight into exactly how important what he saw was. And those individuals had ulterior motives.
What exactly the visions were and who the people, be they working for light or dark forces, were who interpreted them is not important to hypothesize what they knew needed to be done. Because who/whatever Claire is carrying in her womb, in their opinion, needed to be on that particular flight, seated in the same section as those particular people. And that flight needed to end up on that particular island.
So bringing the plane down intentionally is certainly within the realm of possibilities as to what measures this group of people would go to ensure their plan of global and histoical proportions comes to fruition. Heck, they might have even sent an agent, "Ethan Rom," to act as her guardian angel, or perhaps as her personal demon.
Oops, I forgot to speculate on what the fortune teller saw in Claire's reading.
The first time, he was horrified because he had a vision of Armageddon, which was somehow tied to Claire's baby. After the reading, he consulted his peers and together determined that if the baby was not going to survive the end of the world as we know it, then he wouldn't have been able to have visons of it through the fetus and its mother. They urged him to do the reading again, armed with this knowledge, and find out more.
The second reading involved visions of what role Claire's child would play in the rebuilding of society, and it turned out to be a very important one. Just whether her offspring would lead the remnants of humanity down the path of light or darkness was unclear, so the psychic's personal opinion was that Claire needed to raise it, because he saw she had as kind a heart he had touched with his powers. After the reading and again consulting with, um, others, they decided that the future of humanity was to important to chance in the hands of one individual, no matter how kind-hearted, so they either a) arranged for elite protection of the child, in which case it would have to be flown to Los Angeles (under the watchful aegis of their agent[s]), or b) arranged a grand scheme of rebuilding society on a very special island, known to very few and inundated with strange regenerative properties, with a hand-picked group of people picked for whatever reasons, by pulling off the most dangerous and fascinating pyrotechnical stunt ever dreamed up in order to get these people safely from miles up in the atmosphere, traveling hundreds of miles per hour in a long, aluminum cylinder, to the sandy beaches of said island, or c) arranged the same grand scheme as above but to an island on which the final battle between good and evil is fated to take place.
To further speculate on my speculation about my original speculation, I'll go with c), because it jibes with the survivors just being pawns in a game between darkness and light.
all i know is that the fortune teller thing was dumb. besides, the fortune teller planted a bomb on her luggage. that's why he knew what would happen.
This is not entirely implausable.
Let's start with a clue from the show that something was amiss with the psychic. The first time Claire visited him, what he saw terrified him. The second time, he was a bit aloof but wanted to "feel around" in his visions, looking for clues that the future might not be as horrible as he first saw if he could manipulate Claire somehow. The third time, when he made the business offer, he seemed to be up to something, acting hurredly and maybe a bit nervous. He almost acted like he was being watched to make sure he got Claire on that plane.
Well, he was being watched. By whom? Why, the people who's counsel the psychic sought after Claire's first vist. Only through collaboration with others with interest in his field would his attitude change so dramatically between each of Claire's visits. What kind of people take the pseudoscience of psychic readings seriously? Parapsychologists and occultists, and many of these people are both. Certain individuals with greater knowledge of the meaning of the psychic's visions gained insight into exactly how important what he saw was. And those individuals had ulterior motives.
What exactly the visions were and who the people, be they working for light or dark forces, were who interpreted them is not important to hypothesize what they knew needed to be done. Because who/whatever Claire is carrying in her womb, in their opinion, needed to be on that particular flight, seated in the same section as those particular people. And that flight needed to end up on that particular island.
So bringing the plane down intentionally is certainly within the realm of possibilities as to what measures this group of people would go to ensure their plan of global and histoical proportions comes to fruition. Heck, they might have even sent an agent, "Ethan Rom," to act as her guardian angel, or perhaps as her personal demon.
Oops, I forgot to speculate on what the fortune teller saw in Claire's reading.
The first time, he was horrified because he had a vision of Armageddon, which was somehow tied to Claire's baby. After the reading, he consulted his peers and together determined that if the baby was not going to survive the end of the world as we know it, then he wouldn't have been able to have visons of it through the fetus and its mother. They urged him to do the reading again, armed with this knowledge, and find out more.
The second reading involved visions of what role Claire's child would play in the rebuilding of society, and it turned out to be a very important one. Just whether her offspring would lead the remnants of humanity down the path of light or darkness was unclear, so the psychic's personal opinion was that Claire needed to raise it, because he saw she had as kind a heart he had touched with his powers. After the reading and again consulting with, um, others, they decided that the future of humanity was to important to chance in the hands of one individual, no matter how kind-hearted, so they either a) arranged for elite protection of the child, in which case it would have to be flown to Los Angeles (under the watchful aegis of their agent[s]), or b) arranged a grand scheme of rebuilding society on a very special island, known to very few and inundated with strange regenerative properties, with a hand-picked group of people picked for whatever reasons, by pulling off the most dangerous and fascinating pyrotechnical stunt ever dreamed up in order to get these people safely from miles up in the atmosphere, traveling hundreds of miles per hour in a long, aluminum cylinder, to the sandy beaches of said island, or c) arranged the same grand scheme as above but to an island on which the final battle between good and evil is fated to take place.
To further speculate on my speculation about my original speculation, I'll go with c), because it jibes with the survivors just being pawns in a game between darkness and light.