LOST Season Finale
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A theme of the show is whether or not things can be changed. Maybe these 2 guys have been doing this time loop over and over and the question is, can jacob change things and influence people's lives enough that it can be different this time around? The other guy who ends up posing as Locke wants destiny to be destiny (as does the actual Locke), but Jacob wants to prove to that guy that free will can actually change outcomes, hence him telling people while he's gently influencing their lives "you have a choice" etc. It ties in with all the quantum physics, electromagnetism stuff as well because a central thing in the science of all of that is whether the observer affects the experiment, and whether the idea of a "planned" universe or free will can be comprimised by chaos theory and whatnot. The show at this point adresses a time paradox in a way that says, if you could change the past, why would you do it? What's wrong with the way things are?
By the way, and I keep saying this - if they detonated the bomb to make it so none of it ever happened, they will never come back to detonate the bomb so none of it ever happened. This is an actual paradox that I hope will be addressed next season. Otherwise I will be angry and yell at my TV.
One thing I hate about this show - and there are many things I hate, even though I love it - is when some character is reading a book and the camera's all zoomed in on the title. Oh are we name-dropping Flannery O'Connor? Could it be more obvious that that's an influence? Stop pretending this is a smart show. As long as I can get past the retarded dialogue and annoying writing crutches (someone's about to say something revealing or important? Oh what's this? An entirely unplanned interruption!! Get your gun!) I will be a fan because I'm a sucker for cool ideas, mystery, surprises, sci fi etc. Oh and because Kate's hot.
- better wording - if they detonate the bomb they will never have needed to.nadnerb
- Yeah, I was thinking the whole thing is the loop ... "It always ends the same" ... and the hole in the loop is the different outcome.turnerworks
- outcome.turnerworks
- So yeah... their destiny was to finally cause change, but it's weird cuz Jacob actually seems to want it to happen.turnerworks