sledgeweb
10-20-2005, 11:19 AM
Hey Raggs,
I was wondering if you could talk to some people and try to figure this out for some concerned hardcore fans:
One of the great things about LOST is all the detail work that goes into it. The fans really want to believe the people behind LOST are super-geniuses, and that every prop and every detail is significant and purposeful.
I know you'll don't like to discuss the potential timeline to LOST as it relates to the real world, but it is something fans try to figure out - and you do supply them with small clues along the way.
Apparently, someone on the production staff goofed, and created a major time contradiction within the show.
Jin's resume (http://lost.cubit.net/pics/jin_resume.jpg) indicates he is 30 years old, and born in 1974 (and also list his family name as KWAN and not KWON). This means the events in his flashback take place after Nov. 27 2004. Which means, after he loses his job at the hotel, meets Sun, courts her, marries her, goes to work for her father, gives her a puppy that grows into a dog, and boards flight 815 - it is, at the earliest, sometime in 2005.
However, we also have this information: http://lost.cubit.net/pics/booneLicense.jpg which is a screen capture of Boone's license (which Shannon looks at after he dies). This indicates Boone is born in 1981. We know Boone's mother married Shannon's father when Boone was 10 and Shannon 8. We also know, from the census, that Shannon is 20 on the island, which makes Boone 21-23 years old. 1981+(21-23) = 2002-2004.
So, at the latest, Boone was on the island sometime in 2004, yet Jin didn't board the same plane that Boone took, until sometime in 2005.
Is this really an error on the production team's part? Or is there an explanation for this? I know a lot of fans would be upset if they began to feel the show was starting to get sloppy in some of the details... so, I'm hoping there is an explanation.
I was wondering if you could talk to some people and try to figure this out for some concerned hardcore fans:
One of the great things about LOST is all the detail work that goes into it. The fans really want to believe the people behind LOST are super-geniuses, and that every prop and every detail is significant and purposeful.
I know you'll don't like to discuss the potential timeline to LOST as it relates to the real world, but it is something fans try to figure out - and you do supply them with small clues along the way.
Apparently, someone on the production staff goofed, and created a major time contradiction within the show.
Jin's resume (http://lost.cubit.net/pics/jin_resume.jpg) indicates he is 30 years old, and born in 1974 (and also list his family name as KWAN and not KWON). This means the events in his flashback take place after Nov. 27 2004. Which means, after he loses his job at the hotel, meets Sun, courts her, marries her, goes to work for her father, gives her a puppy that grows into a dog, and boards flight 815 - it is, at the earliest, sometime in 2005.
However, we also have this information: http://lost.cubit.net/pics/booneLicense.jpg which is a screen capture of Boone's license (which Shannon looks at after he dies). This indicates Boone is born in 1981. We know Boone's mother married Shannon's father when Boone was 10 and Shannon 8. We also know, from the census, that Shannon is 20 on the island, which makes Boone 21-23 years old. 1981+(21-23) = 2002-2004.
So, at the latest, Boone was on the island sometime in 2004, yet Jin didn't board the same plane that Boone took, until sometime in 2005.
Is this really an error on the production team's part? Or is there an explanation for this? I know a lot of fans would be upset if they began to feel the show was starting to get sloppy in some of the details... so, I'm hoping there is an explanation.