"I know your name as well as I know that you don't ask Penny to marry
you. In fact, you break her heart. Well, breaking her heart, of
course, is what drives you in a few short years from now to enter that
sailing race to prove her father wrong. Which brings you to the island
where you spend the next 3 years of your life entering numbers into
the computer...until you are forced to turn that failsafe key. And if
you don't do those things, Desmond David Hume, every single one of us
is dead. So give me that sodding ring!"
Much as I really didn't like most of the goofiness introduced in
"Flashes Before Your Eyes," I've come to the conclusion that the
producers are indeed going to "get wierder" with LOST and since
they've made other references to Hawkings, I can only figure that what
"she" said to Desmond has to be taken as serioiusly as anything else
said by "characters" such as Widmore, Yemi, "Christian," etc.
"And if you don't do those things, Desmond David Hume, every single
one of us is dead."
Note that she INCLUDES his turning of the failsafe key in this, so it
does seem to appear that Locke's apparent "lack of faith" which
resulted in him having to turn the failsafe was all part of some
"grand plan" designed so that "every one of us" doesn't end up dead.
And, since she gave up before she changed his mind, that just enforces
my opinion that her speech above was there only for the sake of the
audience, otherwise, why bother with it in the first place? If the
universe is going to "course correct" on its own to insure that
Desmond does all of the above, what difference does telling him about
it make?
So, once I accepted that this whole "course correction" thing was
going to be part of the way the fictional LOST universe works, it was
only a slight jump to the theory that the whole entire LOST television
series is about the process of the universe "course correcting" itself
to either stave off destruction ("every single one of us is dead") or,
more interestingly, bringing about that destruction despite the best
efforts of certain people who know what is "destined" to happen and
have been working against it happening.
If you define this as "destiny," all the various "coincidences" and
things like guns not working, character connections, and apparitions
showing up here and there makes a perverted kind of sense. It's not
the "island" or "Jacob" or Smokey or Widmore or aliens responsible for
most of the wackiness, it's the LOST universe itself making constant
adjustments to ensure a specific outcome. So long as it is not 100%
IMpossible, anything is fair game in a fictional universe like the one
in LOST and the writers seem to love pu****ng those limits.
Now, some characters (Hawkings, Jacob, Ben, Widmore, Alpert, Desmond,
Walt) may have perceptions/abilities that other characters don't, but
they don't have total control over what happens, the most they can do
is influence people and events to guide the process or work against
the process. I have to figure that not everyone is on the same side
here (if, indeed there are "sides"), but that most are working in
their own interests or what they perceive to be their own interests.
Now, the big question is how does Craphole Island fit into all this?
Hawkings couldn't have been referring to the entire human race, could
she? And if she was, how can one itty bitty island in the middle of
nowhere possibly control the fate of "every single one of us?" Unless
the "LOST Experience" was really onto something and DHARMA somehow
fortold the "end of the world" and was working to thwart it, it
doesn't make a whole lot of sense to figure anything about Craphole
would have much to do with the fate of the human race.
RWG (but, then, we have two whole seasons to find out differently :-)
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