The entire series’ is unfolding in the mind of Hurley, who’s totally tweaked out on chocolate mushrooms, ketamine, and MDMA, flat on his back in the back of a Microbus parked in the club’s parking lot after a Phish concert.
My WAG is that the show is run by some people who couldn’t come up with a convincing enough reason to use a shipwreck to explain why they didn’t all die in the crash, so they just went ahead and used a plane crash even though there’s no way they’d survive, and there’s also no way the several radios on board wouldn’t work and nobody spots their signal fire until they find out midway through season 2 that it’s not going to be renewed so they have a passing ship finally spot them, send in some lifeboats, and they’re saved.
Roll credits.
Either that or it’s a remodel of that short story about people from the future who use time travel to rescue people from plane wrecks just before the plane goes down and transports them to the future so they can repopulate the human race. That’d explain why nobody’s found them and their radios aren’t reaching anything.
The “Island as Purgatory” is a good one, and could be used to stretch the series out for several years, but I’ve heard that that’s not to be the case.
I do think there’s a lot more to Hurley than meets the eye, no joke intended. I’m dying to get his backstory.
I think there’s more to Claire’s baby than anyone thinks. (I don’t by the whole psychic-as-baby-broker speculation going on in this week’s thread, BTW) Why did the psychic get a vision that said she had to raise it on her own? She’s certainly not on her own on that island, is she? He didn’t say “You can raise it without your no-good boyfriend,” he said, “You must raise it on your own.”
When the psychic first read Claire, he made “contact” with the forces on the island. They want Claire’s baby for some nefarious reason. It scares him and he sends her away. Through this contact, they manage to manipulate him into working for them so when she returns, he starts to manipulate her to get her on the flight which will bring her to the island.
Locke is there to guard the child and teach it once it’s born. That’s why he’s good with the knives/hunting and why he takes to children (Walt? is that his name?)
Others are there for a reason as well, but I’m not sure who or why.
Hurley is in on it so he’s taking a census to determine who is necessary and who is expendable.
We will have a Very Special Christmas episode where Cheech and Chong show up with presents made of hemp since Santa is being held at the USA/Mexico border by Homeland Security.
Rudolf is gay and proves it beyond a shadow of a doubt.
A few years back, there was a joke being passed around the Internet about each of teh Gilligan’s Island characters representing on of the Seven Deadly sins (Skipper was two), Gilligan was their jailer, and the island, hell.
I think someone saw that and decided to use it to make a serious series.
Oh, and the swimmer who died was actually in a coma. She woke up.
Yeah, I can see your point, but I still don’t think the psychic was an actual baby broker or con man. I’m going with what you said in the other thread:
I said exactly that to my daughter (she’s hooked, too) when the show was on, and Claire was talking with Charlie, after that last vision. The psychic saw enough to get her on that plane, knowing it would crash, but not knowing about the dangers on the island.
He also knew that it’s gonna be a looooong time before they’re rescued (or if they’re ever rescued), so she’ll be the one raising the baby, after all. I think I’m nitpicking over the “on your own” point (since she’s not “alone” on the island).
I think it’s going to turn out to be a plot by reality TV producers who have secretly been filming them. They manipulate everything on the island, creating the worst fears of each of the unwitting contestants, which they’ve found out through exhaustive research prior to choosing which flight to crash. If you successfully face your Ultimate Fear [sup]TM[/sup], then you’re rewarded with “celestial visions” or better living quarters. The first person to go barking mad loses. Imagine the pitch: “It’s like Survivor meets Fear Factor meets Big Brother meets The Truman Show! Lawyers? Where are they gonna get lawyers on a stinkin’ deserted island?” The French chick and her family were the losers from the previous edition, Lost:France, which never aired anywhere else in the world. And the French are all in on it.
Each of the characters on Gilligans Island represents one of the Seven Deadly Sins.
Ginger is constantly trying to seduce the males on the island into doing things her way. She is Lust
Mary Ann is starstruck by the “movie star”, and wishes she could maniplulate men like Ginger. She’s also still stinging from the “and the rest” business from the early episode theme songs. Envy.
The Professor can make cars and working radios, anything but a seaworthy boat, fom cocnuts and bamboo. That’s gotta make you a smug prick. Pride.
I won’t insult your intelligence by pointing out Thurston Howell’s paticular sin.
Mrs. Howell was the most worthless character on the island. She never did anything! Her husband, at least, would try to throw money at a situation. Sloth.
The Skipper is a two-fer. He’s fat, dispite spending years on a hunter-gatherer diet of fruit and fish. So, Gluttony, but he’s also always anger. Always hitting Gilligan with his hat. Wrath.
And Gilligan? Well, Gilligan is the one who first raises, then dashes their hopes of escape. Their tormentor. Their jailer. The island is hell, and Gilligan is Satan.
And here’s my Lost correspondance:
Skipper=Jack
Professor=Sayyid
Ginger=Whatsherface. You know, the girl that Sawyer is crushing on.
Mr Howell=Charlie (?)
Mrs Howell=Shannon
Maryanne=Claire
Gilligan=Hurley
Obviously, the Lost cast is bigger, so further analysis is difficult, but I think we can agree that Don Rickles=Locke
Well, my WAG in the other thread was that Claire’s baby is the anti-Christ. So I think I’ll build on that and say that the Tree-Crushing Monster is Fluffy … er, I mean Cerberus. And Locke didn’t get eaten because he played the harp and sang to him.
Wait, I think I’m mixing my mythologies. Is that like mixing metaphors? How about mixed drinks?
No, I haven’t been drinking, thank you, I’m running a fever. It’s almost the same but not as fun.
