Spoilers for the "Lost" episode aired on March 25, 2009 follow. Do not read further if you do not wish the episode to be spoiled!
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Okay, I've accepted the fact that the there's time travel in "Lost" now. But what I don't understand is how they justify the causation of events.
From an overhead timeline perspective, in the '70's, Ben gets shot by Sayid. Presumably, it's this event that sparks him to retrieve information on the Oceanic rat-pack and have it waiting for them when they crash-land in the 2000's. He then is all creepy and messes around with Sayid, jerking him around the world and manipulating the ever-living crap out of him. Sayid gets caught, gets on the Ajira plane, gets sent back to the '70's where he meets kid Ben and gets the bright idea to shoot the little creeper, setting us off on the whole chain of events again. Time loop!
Which came first, Sayid shooting Ben or Ben manipulating Sayid? My head hurts.
Ferraro, I need you to run this down for me - you watch, explain! I don't get it.
Thursday, March 26, 2009
I'm Lost
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It's like Terminator. John Connor would not have existed unless he sent his father back in time to sire him. Miles Dyson invented the chip technology for Skynet by reverse-engineering the original Terminator's chip. Time travel fiction always has some form of causality loop or paradox.
Faraday has repeated several times that they cannot change the past. They are only playing the hands that fate has dealt them.
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