Re: Time-travel expert: "Lost" could move the island through time and space

alooo wrote:
> "tdciago" <tdciago@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote
> On May 13, 10:35?pm, "alooo" <u...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> Boone didn't "hint" at anything. You created a connection between two
>> unrelated issues, which is easy to do with just about anything in
>> hindsight.
>
>> I've been saying that line pointed to a wormhole since at least July
>> of 2006:
>
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.tv.lost/msg/2f9607c736b108d5?dmode=source
>
>> In April / May of 2006, we had a couple of discussions here about the
>> frequency with which the word or the concept of "hole" is used on the
>> show, and the possibility that this pointed to either a wormhole or a
>> black hole:
>
>
>> When the secrets of the show are finally revealed, we're going to be
>> able to look back at the dialogue and certain plot points and see
>> that they were clues.  I believe "hole" is going to be one of them.
>
>
> No, *you* are going to interpret innocuous phrases as clues. You'll
> pick and choose statements to match the conclusions the same way you
> do to match your theories. A quick search of the transcripts shows
> that the word "hole" has been used 22 times. In that same sentence,
> Boone also used the word "stick," which has been used 44 times on the
> show. If frequency of use is any indication of a word's im****tance,
> than what's the significance of "stick?" Does it mean Boone is the
> glue that holds the story together? Is the island propped up on
> stilts? Or were the writers telling us in the very first episode that
> they plan to stick it to us in the end?
>
>
>> (And just to clarify, I don't mean that the character Boone said the
>> line with any kind of intent or knowledge; I mean that the *writers*
>> included that line as a clue.)
>
>
> You're giving the writers way too much credit (or insult) for
> obsessive word selection and clue placement. You remind me of my
> English teachers who made me hate poetry because of the way they
> picked apart writers' words and insisted that metaphors existed where
> the writers might not have intended them to. Sometimes a rose is just
> a rose. And sometimes a young guy mentions one of those "hole things"
> because it sounds more realistic than him whipping out the term
> "tracheotomy." Even if your wormhole theory turns out to be correct,
> I would wager every dollar that I have that the writers did not
> deliberately include that use of the word "hole" as a clue.

Like most humans, tdciago thinks that the patterns he sees in the universe

were put there by the universe.