“We” Have All Been Here Before
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By pabodie
- “We” Have All Been Here Before
- Created: Jun 24, 2007
- Last updated: Aug 13, 2008
- After episode: 3.22: Through The Looking Glass
- Status: Current
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Lost is about the sublimation of the Ego.
— pabodie
Lost is about the sublimation of the Ego, and I think it’s more like the Matrix in terms of plot than anything time travel related.
I think they are trying to look at issues related to psychology and spirituality within the context of a top-shelf adventure story with wonderful characters, and I love it.
Mrs. Hawking and Brother Campbell pushing Des along in the “right” direction (and the two of them knowing each other) and all the other coincidences, connections and synchronicities we chat about all seem to point to a design behind the Losties’ experiences, and I think it’s more than “God’s Plan.”
Jack and everyone else are within Jacob: They are all part of a program running in him, created by Hanso (maybe) and trying to encompass the true complexities of life and relationships and the confluences of decision making that create reality and history, to try to control it. Maybe to avert a global catastrophe, or maybe out of greed, to mold events and capitalize on them.
Either way, they have all “been to the island” before. This has all happened before, with variations, because the program has had to run many times in search of success. If and when the program runs and Jack learns his lesson (to embrace rather than “fix” everything, i.e., when he finally listens to Locke and doesn’t make the rescue call), then a huge insight into humankind and our motivations will have been gained and the experiment will be closer to success.
Some programs within the simulation are aware of what it is, but are still bounded by it because they are part of it (I would propose Ben, Mikhail and Dr. Alpert as candidates for this — maybe all the Others).
Some are nearing that realization. (Desmond and Locke?)
Some are too caught up in their programmed, faux-human personalities to deal with this meta-layer of their existence (Jack and Sawyer).
(To be fair: Maybe the picture of Hawking and Campbell was a way to tell us that Des’s flashes, and all the memory flashes, are imperfect, and colored by later experiences, but that seems a little thick and not very positive in terms of moving the story forward.)
Namaste.
Also this theme is misspelled.
Key characters
| Short Name | Full Name | Episodes | Theories |
|---|---|---|---|
| Desmond | Desmond David Hume | 2.23, 3.17, 4.5 | 853 |
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if this would be a game, then so many deaths would be a joke
If this is true I would want to hunt down the writers of Lost and kill them all for wasting years of my life.
Didn’t Dallas do this in the eighties when Bobby woke up and it was all a dream? Went down like a lead bomb didn’t it?
To be fair, I do think Jacob might be in a type of Matrix thing though, somewhere under the island trapped and can only use his mind powers.
It’s a very interesting idea; I just hope it isn’t true. As much as I enjoyed the movie “matrix,” I would be disappointed if this is the theme of Lost.