Johnny1000@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
> Onna'beach@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Fish Biscuit) wrote:
>> The only scientific explanation I can think of
>> for the phenomena ( besides mind-bogglingly
>> improbable coincidence ) lays in my,
>> admittedly limited, understanding of quantum
>> theory.
>>
> If you haven't watched the movie: "What the <bleep> do we know?", do so.
> It's a take-off on what you are saying. ...And in fact does a good job
> of tying science, religion, and personal choice together.
>
> Having said that, I still think with LOST, we're dealing with a ****tion
> of time that basically sits apart from the natural flow of things. ...If
> you've ever watched "Q" on ST:TNG, you'll understand what I'm saying.
> ..You see.. The reason the gun didn't go off, is because it wasn't
> Mike's "destiny" to die.
>
> An example... Let's say, all of a sudden, you were trans****ted back into
> your body, a week ago. ...So you, now having knowledge of the future,
> decide to change things. You want to live life on the edge, so you hop
> in a race car, and zip up to 150mph. ...Then all of a sudden you hear a
> Mamma Cass song playing, get depressed, and decide to end it all for
> yourself right then and there, so you plow the car into a wall.
>
> You see, you can't die, because ....You "didn't" !!
>
> ...Your destiny is to be back at the location where you originally
> were, a week down the road, before your concious went back in time.
The problem with this, is it makes Desmond's time traveling in "The
Constant" dramatically meaningless.
Much of the drama in "The Constant" centered around Desmond's search for
his "constant" to anchor him back in his original time. Otherwise, he
was desperately ill and he was in real danger of dying *in his past* and
never returning back to the present.
If Desmond was never in any real danger of dying in his past (because he
has to return to live out his time in Swan Station), then it kills the
entire drama of that episode.
This is why the producers have had to make a rather arbitrary
distinction between Desmond's time traveling trips into the past, vs.
the flashforwards of the future. As they themselves have admitted.
The producers allow Desmond to change the past in his time-travels
(otherwise the episode "The Constant" would collapse as meaningless).
That's OK because the Universe can "course-correct" any major deviations
between then and now. But Desmond is not allowed to change the future,
if he ever time-travels into the future.
Because the producers want the flashforwards to represent the only
possible "real" future, so we can empathize with them as easily as we
can with the present-day island action.
So be careful. In Lost, it's not symmetric. The future has to be
handled one way, and the past has to be handled a different way.
--
Steven L.
Email: sdlitvin@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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