The Longest Con
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By Veefre
- The Longest Con
- Created: Mar 24, 2008
- Last updated: Aug 14, 2008
- After episode: 3.22: Through The Looking Glass
- Status: Current
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It’s the oldest con-job on earth.
— Veefre
In essence, it’s the oldest con-job in the world. The con-job of making people believe in the supernatural, in believing that someone is a god controlling our lives.
The Others have been on the Island for a very long time. This, coupled with the ancient looking ruins of the four toed foot of a giant statue, the big pile of rocks with a hole in the middle, brings up all sorts of ancient mythological possibilities. These options being endless, we must somehow narrow them down using whatever clues the series has thrown our way. One theory I kind of like is that the Others are really the gods of ancient Greece - or rather descendants of those humans who harnessed the earth’s electromagnetic anomalies long ago to trick lesser mortals into thinking the Others are gods.In this sense the Other’s mysterious “projects” are efforts to regain their god-like powers, and all that implies: eternal life, absolute power, total happiness (although the Greek gods seem to have more than their share of dysfunction).
The Others are part of a long line of con-artists, who discovered how to manipulate magnetic anomalies in the earth’s surface, and succeeded in conning the rest of mankind into thinking the Others are in fact living gods. Technology has made their existence rather tenuous, with mere mortals able to approximate many of the special powers of the ancient gods. This is why Jacob hates technology so much - he’s the equivalent of Zeus or Jupiter, and he is not pleased that his realm has shrunk to just this lously Island.
But outside forces are moving in, and threaten to take away the Other’s last refuge from modern civilization. This is what frightens and mobilizes Ben and the Others - and they have formidable powers to counter whatever the modern world can throw at them.
It will be, indeed, a clash of the Titans.
I think the longest con is you copying and pasting the same thing in multiple threads, thus wasting my time. Veefre, quit it.
I like the Mitologic ‘s idea because us like public we want the show end with the craziest idea, BUT If you see like the show is evolving you know that LOST will finish in a cool odd important place where the most important fact the writers invented will be revealed but in a simple situation or dramatic situation with the tipical tuninuni song… so I don’t think “jack meet Zeus”
BUT steel I like the idea so +1 tuninuni maybe it could work if the explanation CON us…
So you say that Veefre is Con us!!! so steel keep the +1 … tuninuni
TheDaddler, you just signed up. How would you know and how could you accuse Veefre of plagiarizing this post? I did a search and only came up with this one.
Don’t accuse without proof, that’s not fair to any member.
Thanks, Annie. Perhaps the complainer is another ID that has been blocked for misbehavior?
In any case, I have another thought on the matter of the theory.
Tom Friendly claims that Widmore staged the fake 815 wreckage at the bottom of the Sunda trench. As someone has already noted, there’s grounds not to believe anything Ben or one of his lieutenants like Friendly have to say about most things.
Instead, the idea that Ben and the Others staged the fake 815 wreckage makes some sense in light of the longest con theory. The Others would just as soon be left alone to pursue their connivances. If it became known that the Island was hosting over 70 survivors of the crash, then the Island would be innundated with new visitors. By staging the wreck, the Others hoped to defuse interest in finding the wreck and prevent discovery of the Island. Remember that Gault admits he’s working for Widmore, but he doesn’t say that Widmore staged the wreck. Rather, he simply asks how much money it would cost to stage such a fake, and asks the listener to wonder just how all those bodies were procured. Sure, Tom/Ben had documentation on the plane purchase with Widmore’s name on it. But it’s a lot easier to fake such documentation than it is to fake a motive.
The $3.2 million? Maybe that’s how much the whole fake 815 wreck cost?
Could be, Veefre. It would cost at least that much or more.
I am further thinking that Ben/Others are in cahoots with Mittlewerk. Ben has experience as a mass murderer, something Mittlewerk would value. MIttlewerk and Ben/Others are keeping Alvar Hanso captive, heavily sedated and placed in a hospital bed next to Michael Dawson. Of course the Others arranged for that bed for Michael, perhaps giving him a subliminal message of what might happen to him if he didn’t cooperate fully.