OceanicCustomerService
03-10-2010, 02:21 AM
Thank you writers for throwing me another bone.
For those of us (OK, it's just me) who feel that Frank is the key to the wrap-up of Lost, this episode contained a big moment.
Ben is sufficiently shocked when hearing the news that Frank was "supposed" to pilot flight 815. Of all the Frieghties, we know why Miles is still around from a writer's point of view, but why is the pilot? Why is Frank still involved in the show in any way? Why are we re-hashing Frank's backstory if it isn't extremely important this late in the game?
The answer is quite simple. Despite my having to dodge the bullets of the time travel deniers, and the cult-like followers of the "whatever happened, happened" mantra, it has been clear to me, and I have argued for years (http://forum.thefuselage.com/showpost.php?p=1766588&postcount=12) that Frank is meant to pilot 815 in another timeline - the original timeline.
In fact, the previous seasons we have been watching have all been an "alternate" timeline, altered at some point by one of the major players in the big game. The universe has been attempting all along to course correct the altered timeline we are watching - the result is the bevy of strange, unnatural, unexplainable occurrences.
The original result of flight 815, the result the universe has been trying to course correct to this whole time, the result that will be revealed in the final shot of the series, is that Oceanic flight 815 piloted by Frank Lapidus will end up at the bottom of the Sunda Trench, with all of our Losties dead at the bottom of the ocean.
For those of us (OK, it's just me) who feel that Frank is the key to the wrap-up of Lost, this episode contained a big moment.
Ben is sufficiently shocked when hearing the news that Frank was "supposed" to pilot flight 815. Of all the Frieghties, we know why Miles is still around from a writer's point of view, but why is the pilot? Why is Frank still involved in the show in any way? Why are we re-hashing Frank's backstory if it isn't extremely important this late in the game?
The answer is quite simple. Despite my having to dodge the bullets of the time travel deniers, and the cult-like followers of the "whatever happened, happened" mantra, it has been clear to me, and I have argued for years (http://forum.thefuselage.com/showpost.php?p=1766588&postcount=12) that Frank is meant to pilot 815 in another timeline - the original timeline.
In fact, the previous seasons we have been watching have all been an "alternate" timeline, altered at some point by one of the major players in the big game. The universe has been attempting all along to course correct the altered timeline we are watching - the result is the bevy of strange, unnatural, unexplainable occurrences.
The original result of flight 815, the result the universe has been trying to course correct to this whole time, the result that will be revealed in the final shot of the series, is that Oceanic flight 815 piloted by Frank Lapidus will end up at the bottom of the Sunda Trench, with all of our Losties dead at the bottom of the ocean.