joepa15425
12-08-04, 01:22 AM
Hello all, thought it was time to throw my two cents in. Hopefully you will find what I'm about to say at least interesting. This is my first post, but I’ve been lurking for quite some time. I've looked for a theory like mine, but haven't found one. If this is somebody else’s, then I'm sorry, and well done because I think this is the path to understanding LOST.
OK. Like many of you, I have been approaching the mysteries of lost much the same way a detective analyzes a crime or an archeologist studies the pyramids. For example, I wanted to weigh in when I actually had something to say, so I decided to sit down, re watch all the episodes, study them with great care, making notes, asking myself questions, searching for clues. I did that today. What I found was kinda obscure yet so obvious that I felt the writer was smiling from ear to ear knowing he 'got us'.
See the reason my approach was flawed is because this crime hasn't happened yet, and the pyramid wasn't built yet. Meaning, who the hell knows what's gonna happen in the end. Yes we all know that it's fiction, but we delve into the what ifs, whys and hows. I bet if you asked the writer, he would say he doesn't know either, not yet. But I believe I found the common thread. Although I haven't found the answers we all want (I still believe they don’t' all exist yet), I have found the Rosetta Stone that I believe can and will reveal the secrets. They may not be the ones we want, but here goes anyhow.
Alrighty, like I said, I rewatched all the episodes and took notes, blah blah blah. Whilst perusing my copious notes one episode stood out like a sore thumb. Not for the obvious reasons but for the not so obvious one. For example, each episode had some kind of island drama in it, monsters, treetop pilots, polar bears, transmissions, dead people walking, attacks from behind, french women. All but one that is— episode 8, Confidence Man.
It was a good episode, but nothing really happens that makes you wonder. It seemed all the questions were answered. It got me thinking. This would be a great time to give the big clue. The one if I’m the writer, I can point out later and say, why didn’t you see it, it was so obvious. Maybe the reason we didn’t see it (and again if somebody did mention this I’ll defer credit) is because the most it seems we could discuss about that episode was whether or not Locke was the real Sawyer (yawn). I had no notes on episode 8, as I wasn’t looking for character threads, just island mysteries. No notes cept one–WATERSHIP DOWN, the book Sawyer was reading, that belonged to Boone.
Out of curiosity and because I work near the local library I checked the book out today. I’m not gonna pretend I read it, I didn’t (it’s over 400 pages). I rented the movie instead, and watched it. There were so many obvious references to LOST I didn’t even have to pay attention to catch them. I’m sure I missed the most important, or perhaps they lie in the book where I think our favorite writer would be a bigger fan. I’m not gonna get into detail about the story. But basically it’s about a bunch of rabbits who because of a psychic vision by one of the rabbits leave there home for a new place to live. Basically most of the rabbits aren’t high up on the pecking order, aren’t highly regarded, (sound familiar?) So they leave because of impending doom as foretold by the vision. Along the way they come in contact with other rabbits and other natural dangers that threaten them, basically they long for peace and tranquility. Along the way, they realize they have no female rabbits so the must go steal some from the local farmer. In addition they do battle with an evil General (what was Locke called by his Risk playing buddy?)
Did you all notice the scratches on Kate and Jacks faces through most of the early episodes, hell the might still be there for all I know they are so obvious. Well in the book some rabbits are given a mark to identify who belongs to who by being scratched. The marks look striking similar to our two heroes.
In the beginning of their quest, just as it’s beginning, one of the rabbits is suddenly and unexpectedly killed. Not much to it, it just happens, and nothing is said again about it. Sound like the woman drowning early on?
Let’s see what else? (I’m saving the big one for the end) The song in the movie sung by Art Garfunkel is called Bright Eyes. What’s a pet name Sawyer calls Kate?
There’s more but I’ll leave it to you guys to investigate further, if you are so inclined, but here’s something from the book I noticed while I was checking it out. In the back of the book is a section called Lapine Glossary. The very first entry is (this comes word for word from the book) Bob-Stones: A Traditional game among rabbits. (See footnote on page 246.)
Turning to page 246, the following is the footnote, verbatim. * Bob-stones is a traditional game of rabbits. It is played with small stones, fragments of stick or the like. Fundamentally it is a very simple kind of gambling, on the lines of “Odds or Evens” A “cast” of stones on the ground is covered by the player’s front paw. The Opponent must then hazard some sort of surmise about its nature–e.g. one or two, light or dark, rough or smooth.
I’ll leave you with that, I think it’s obvious. The series, I believe is based perhaps loosely perhaps not, on Watership Down.        Sorry about the earlier botched post, my pc sometimes has a mind of it’s own. --JoePA
OK. Like many of you, I have been approaching the mysteries of lost much the same way a detective analyzes a crime or an archeologist studies the pyramids. For example, I wanted to weigh in when I actually had something to say, so I decided to sit down, re watch all the episodes, study them with great care, making notes, asking myself questions, searching for clues. I did that today. What I found was kinda obscure yet so obvious that I felt the writer was smiling from ear to ear knowing he 'got us'.
See the reason my approach was flawed is because this crime hasn't happened yet, and the pyramid wasn't built yet. Meaning, who the hell knows what's gonna happen in the end. Yes we all know that it's fiction, but we delve into the what ifs, whys and hows. I bet if you asked the writer, he would say he doesn't know either, not yet. But I believe I found the common thread. Although I haven't found the answers we all want (I still believe they don’t' all exist yet), I have found the Rosetta Stone that I believe can and will reveal the secrets. They may not be the ones we want, but here goes anyhow.
Alrighty, like I said, I rewatched all the episodes and took notes, blah blah blah. Whilst perusing my copious notes one episode stood out like a sore thumb. Not for the obvious reasons but for the not so obvious one. For example, each episode had some kind of island drama in it, monsters, treetop pilots, polar bears, transmissions, dead people walking, attacks from behind, french women. All but one that is— episode 8, Confidence Man.
It was a good episode, but nothing really happens that makes you wonder. It seemed all the questions were answered. It got me thinking. This would be a great time to give the big clue. The one if I’m the writer, I can point out later and say, why didn’t you see it, it was so obvious. Maybe the reason we didn’t see it (and again if somebody did mention this I’ll defer credit) is because the most it seems we could discuss about that episode was whether or not Locke was the real Sawyer (yawn). I had no notes on episode 8, as I wasn’t looking for character threads, just island mysteries. No notes cept one–WATERSHIP DOWN, the book Sawyer was reading, that belonged to Boone.
Out of curiosity and because I work near the local library I checked the book out today. I’m not gonna pretend I read it, I didn’t (it’s over 400 pages). I rented the movie instead, and watched it. There were so many obvious references to LOST I didn’t even have to pay attention to catch them. I’m sure I missed the most important, or perhaps they lie in the book where I think our favorite writer would be a bigger fan. I’m not gonna get into detail about the story. But basically it’s about a bunch of rabbits who because of a psychic vision by one of the rabbits leave there home for a new place to live. Basically most of the rabbits aren’t high up on the pecking order, aren’t highly regarded, (sound familiar?) So they leave because of impending doom as foretold by the vision. Along the way they come in contact with other rabbits and other natural dangers that threaten them, basically they long for peace and tranquility. Along the way, they realize they have no female rabbits so the must go steal some from the local farmer. In addition they do battle with an evil General (what was Locke called by his Risk playing buddy?)
Did you all notice the scratches on Kate and Jacks faces through most of the early episodes, hell the might still be there for all I know they are so obvious. Well in the book some rabbits are given a mark to identify who belongs to who by being scratched. The marks look striking similar to our two heroes.
In the beginning of their quest, just as it’s beginning, one of the rabbits is suddenly and unexpectedly killed. Not much to it, it just happens, and nothing is said again about it. Sound like the woman drowning early on?
Let’s see what else? (I’m saving the big one for the end) The song in the movie sung by Art Garfunkel is called Bright Eyes. What’s a pet name Sawyer calls Kate?
There’s more but I’ll leave it to you guys to investigate further, if you are so inclined, but here’s something from the book I noticed while I was checking it out. In the back of the book is a section called Lapine Glossary. The very first entry is (this comes word for word from the book) Bob-Stones: A Traditional game among rabbits. (See footnote on page 246.)
Turning to page 246, the following is the footnote, verbatim. * Bob-stones is a traditional game of rabbits. It is played with small stones, fragments of stick or the like. Fundamentally it is a very simple kind of gambling, on the lines of “Odds or Evens” A “cast” of stones on the ground is covered by the player’s front paw. The Opponent must then hazard some sort of surmise about its nature–e.g. one or two, light or dark, rough or smooth.
I’ll leave you with that, I think it’s obvious. The series, I believe is based perhaps loosely perhaps not, on Watership Down.        Sorry about the earlier botched post, my pc sometimes has a mind of it’s own. --JoePA