Wash ,'War Stories'
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Christian's speech to Jack and Jack's on-island death seemed to leave no wiggle room to me.
Then again, Christian was a dead guy. Wearing tennis shoes.
(I actually am totally on board with the island-was-really-real explanation; I just wanted to pick on a fictional dead guy.)
Plus...how was he wearing the tennis shoes if at least one of them was hanging -- rotting in the tree, at the edge of the beach near the bamboo grove -- AMIRITE?
There was probably more than one pair of tennis shoes on the plane when it crashed.
I hope at least Seska skims the last few pages. I included a non-religious analogy that I hope will help quell your disappointment.
Heh. I have been busy, but will read it today. I'm delighted you appealed to my inner closeted skeptic.
I have not yet read the review.
I do wish that sideways world wold have been an offshoot of real world, and everyone would have just remembered, and gathered anyway.
Except Rose would still be cured.
Yes, I am Pollyanna.
Finally read all 36 pages, Cindy. You made me hate the finale a little bit less, not to mention remembering the bits I loved. All except the last fifteen minutes - religious and secular metaphors notwithstanding. (I'm going to miss your Lost recaps!)
Unanswered questions continue to plague me. Specifically, do we know that the island-based infertility problem was the result of the Incident?
My biggest consolation is that I said, at the end of season five, that I was sure they had caused their own entire situation by setting off the bomb. That seems to have turned out to be right - although they side-stepped the point entirely, by focusing on the 'sideways reality'. (I'd have much preferred a season six where we saw the results of the Incident in more detail. But there you go.)
Seska,
Jacob mentioned that he brought them to the island (because they were unfulfilled), so I'm not sure they really "caused" their own situation.
He did. But they also set off the Bomb that caused the Incident that led to the Button that crashed the Plane (that lived in the house that Jack built. But not that Jack). Faraday thought the digging at the Swan would cause that, but it was actually their attempt to stop it that did.
Hmm. Maybe it's a free will/determinism puzzle.
I don't think the bomb either went off or caused the incident. The drilling caused the Incident which was was already happening when the Lostaways brought the bomb to the site. I think *it* is what flashed the Lostaways from 1977 back to 2007. The bomb was the fail safe mechanism that Des set off in 2004.