I didnt understand one word of it!
You havewayyyyytoo much time on your hands.
Yep:Doc JensensLostSuper-String Theorycertainly got a reaction out of you a whole heaping bunch of yous.
Credit: Lost: Mario Perez
As I write these words on Thursday morning, less than 12 hours after theMaternity Leave episodeofLost(Claire!
Even scarier close-ups of Rousseaus haunted French face!
), your e-mail responses continue to flood my inbox.
Sample: Your theory sounds an awful lot like the plot toAkira, writes Jesse.
(Dear Jesse: Youre right!
Mad props to manga auteur Katsuhiro Otomo!)
Wow, thats some deep stuff and I must admit I LOVE it, raves Mindy Cardenas.
You have been officially labeled a Crazy.
(Dear Mindy: I wear Crazy with great pride.Namaste!)
Of course, there was also this from a reader named Hen: Such crap.
(Dear Hen: Hen?)
And Haneen Hussein was even more succinct, writing simply: Lost.
So heres what were going to do.
(Cant wait to get your feedback on my Satanic interpretation ofLost see below.)
Which makes me wonder if creating drama orpsychodrama, to be Freudian about it is part of their plan.
I just… like it, she said.
For example: Does They know you/ They know me/ Extra-sensory/ Synchronicity = The Others and Evil Aaron?)
Specifically, how does this explain Desmond?
The attribute that Jack possesses that makes him so threatening is his skeptical, hyper-rational mind.
Therefore, its in Evil Aarons best interests to make Jack doubt his own instincts.
What Im saying is that Desmond was brought to the island to basically fry Jacks logic grid.
But thats assuming that Desmond is actually real; he could easily be a hallucination.
BURNING QUESTION: So?
Now: All three books are examples of trickster fiction that employ what lit majors call an unreliable narrator.
With that in mind, consider anew the Hatch, a.k.a.
Station Three: The Swan.
Now, tap on that swan/snake and watch the orientation film.
That music at the beginning and the end thats snake-charmer music, people!
And Dr. Marvin Candles closing salutation, Namaste?
you’re free to anagram that word into Me Satan.
YOU MUST WATCH THE HOWLING MAN!
The phrases Dharma, Lost, and One of Them are all conspicuously referenced.
Am I suggesting that Dharma was trying to capture Satan, or perhaps cure mankind of original sin?
Which is why I think the orientation film is totally bogus.
And there you go: the Aaron Theory.
Simple: I ran out of space!
Lockes ability to walk anew is neatly explained by the popular Purgatory or Hallucination theories ofLost.
HOWEVER: Im betting thatLostis plotting a big twist about Lockes legs.
After all: were onlyassumingthat Locke was paralyzed or paraplegic.
What if he wasnt?
What if Locke was in a wheelchair because of a psychosomatic illness?
Yep: Im thinking Locke could walk all along he justthoughthe couldnt.
(Forgive me for being simplistic about a serious psychological malady.)
Paul Bosler wrote: …the number 42 is NOT retired.
It is still worn by Mariano Rivera, the Yankees closer.
Major League Baseball has requested that every team retire 42 because of Jackie Robinson.
As far as I know the Yankees are the only team that has not done so.
Nonetheless: We should have been more careful with our facts and words, especially around touchy Yankee fans.
Now: Can you stop flooding my e-mail box with Bronx cheers?
So they carry on, as if nothing happened.
Reinforcing each others skewered vision of reality.
Haunting the sky itself.
And frankly, anything else even Hallucination feels like a cop-out.
However, Smokey could be a separate bundle of weirdness altogether.
Moreover, Man-Things job is to protect something called The Nexus of Realities a portal to alternate worlds.
Thats Doc Jsrealtheory ofLost… but writing about disembodied psychics is so much more fun!
