It annoys me that the writers don't even seem to know what happens if the button isn't pushed.
I think they know. Why do you think they don't?
I know, world in peril and we have to work together. This is my last office romance, I'll tell you that.
Buffy ,'End of Days'
Lost 2: Tied to a Tree in a Jungle of Mystery
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Jon B. - Dec 27, 2005 5:33:54 am PST #517 of 5968
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Jessica - Dec 27, 2005 5:52:56 am PST #518 of 5968
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
and no one is questioning us on this!
Uh.....
Wolfram - Dec 27, 2005 5:55:40 am PST #519 of 5968
Visilurking
I think they know. Why do you think they don't?
They don't inspire much confidence that they do. Aside from them saying in the meeting with ABC when asked what happens:
"That's a good question,'' they said. ''We think it would be interesting to find out.''
they've also been less than confident about the number mystery ever being solved, and didn't Fury say something like they have no friggin' idea where they're going with things?
Jon B. - Dec 27, 2005 6:02:34 am PST #520 of 5968
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
didn't Fury say something like they have no friggin' idea where they're going with things?
Oh.
If he said that, then I stand corrected and in your corner of annoyance.
Wolfram - Dec 27, 2005 6:04:40 am PST #521 of 5968
Visilurking
I'm not sure if he did. I vaguely remember some kerfuffle along those lines, and I don't think he said it about anything specific like what the button's about. It's just this overall feeling I'm getting from the writer's camp, and it may be totally off.
Jessica - Dec 27, 2005 6:06:25 am PST #522 of 5968
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
I'm confident that they have a vauge idea of where things are going, and what the button does. I'm also confident that they're deliberately being noncommittal about it until they absolutely have to, in case they have a better idea later.
Topic!Cindy - Dec 27, 2005 6:31:14 am PST #523 of 5968
What is even happening?
I think the whole button thing was a psychological experiment in the first place, so it doesn't do anything, and because of that, the writers know what it does--nothing.
Wolfram - Dec 27, 2005 6:53:35 am PST #524 of 5968
Visilurking
I'm afraid of that too. What a great pay-off to a season+ worth of suspense. Like finding a patch of dirt under the hatch.
§ ita § - Dec 27, 2005 7:34:36 am PST #525 of 5968
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Fury did say they had no plan.
In fact, the plan they said they had has been contradicted so far as the non-supernatural explanations go--how can they pull that out? Answer--they won't, because they don't have an explanation for the numbers, period.
Steph L. - Dec 27, 2005 8:00:37 am PST #526 of 5968
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Fury did say they had no plan.
Though they are beltless.