I’m trying to think of any examples in the show (help me out) where we’re led to believe one thing, rather explicitly, and it turns out to not be true. My sense is that once we “learn” something it’s unlikely to turn out not to be true.
Now, I’m not talking about things where we didn’t have an answer and came up with our own collective assumption and it turns out to be wrong. But rather where it’s made fairly explicit but then the writers go totally back on that.
Sawyer can read (he just needs glasses). If it turns out that he can’t actually read, this would be a perfect example. Unlikely.
The plane crashed (and went of course) because the electromagnetic buildup wasn’t released when Desmond failed to enter the numbers for a few minutes. We’re basically told this. We don’t have proof of this, but I think it’s unlikely to be completely untrue since it’s so directly laid out.
Of course we’ll never be able to prove the positive in this case – that what we know now turns out to be completely true (the show’s not over yet, they could always contradict it down the line). However, I can’t come up with any examples where we’ve been totally contradicted in the past.
My feeling is that the show is one big mystery (duh!) but the big “plot twists” are just suprising elements of the mystery being revealed, not that things we thought to be true are flipped around on us.
Episode 3.6 is supposed to change everything we know about the island. Of course, predictions like that are often more hype than not. I guess we’ll see in 1 1/2 weeks.
First, we learn that the numbers are all important and must be entered into the computer every 108 minutes to prevent disaster. And we are led to believe that this is true.
Then we learn that it’s just an experiment to see if people are gullible enough to keep doing this. And we are led to believe that this is true.
Then we discover that this is a fake, and the numbers really are important after all.
Kate and Sawyer will run. They’ll be on the verge of escaping, Sawyer will demolish half a dozen armed men, get ahold of a weapon, and be ready to mow them all down when…
Someone puts a gun to Kate’s head. I think the plate in her head is magnetic or something.
The plane had been off course for over an hour before they crashed, so the Incident probably didn’t have anything to do with it.
We were led to believe that the Others were a bunch of mud-dwelling savages, and that turns out to be incorrect, pet theories re: two groups of Others notwithstanding.
We were led to believe that there would be a perfectly rational, technologically-believe explanation for everything that has happened on the island, and that hasn’t happened yet.
