In this week’s Doc Jensen column, I posed the question of whether you subscribe to the science or faith side of the Island’s Great Debate, or if you think there’s no need to choose. Here’s your chance to weigh in; post your answers below.
Jan 6
2009
11:24 PM ET
'Lost': Are you a 'Scooby' or a 'Goober'?
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I’m goober
Goober!
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Science fiction has a history of becoming fact. If you’re familiar with M-Theory, you know science and physics can be far stranger than anything faith based.
Scooby gang for me.
Oh, I was willing to follow LOST wherever it took me. No matter how many questions it answered with other questions.
But THIS?? THIS is what I waited for?
“You can’t change the past. If it didn’t happen, it can’t happen.”
MAKES NO SENSE.
Past, present and future are relative terms. Once you travel to the past, it is no longer the past. It is the present. And you can change the present. So therefore you can change the past.
They don’t exist outside the space-time continuum. There is not a “past” to not be able to change unless there is a pre-determined “correct” path for them to be on. And then it’s pointless.
Now nothing makes sense.
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Oh, I was willing to follow LOST wherever it took me. No matter how many questions it answered with other questions.
But THIS?? THIS is what I waited for?
“You can’t change the past. If it didn’t happen, it can’t happen.”
MAKES NO SENSE.
Past, present and future are relative terms. Once you travel to the past, it is no longer the past. It is the present. And you can change the present. So therefore you can change the past.
They don’t exist outside the space-time continuum. There is not a “past” to not be able to change unless there is a pre-determined “correct” path for them to be on. And then it’s pointless.
Now nothing makes sense.
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My first popst to yoou, but I’m a long time reader. And I read your column AFTER I watched tonights eps (I’ve been bust) so I thought I’d post what I sent to te LostSpoilers list about 30 minutes in:
“After 30 minutes, “Lost” has finally reached the level I was hoping for since Season 1: purenscience fiction.
“And despite being fairly unspoiled (not that I wanted to be, but no one was giving away anything good), I good pretty much figured out what was coming. (Candle/Wickman, Ethan showing up, etc.)”
“So far, so good.”
There’s more, but it doesn’t pertain to this question.
Obviously, I really like the way where they’re going (I haven’t seen anyone mention that Fionnula Flanagan {Miss Hawking) is Faraday’s mother], and it was very clear to me even before the final scene that that’s who he sent Desmond to) and I’m more excited than I have been in years.
Just my .02
I’m with Goober!
Either way is fine by me!
I’m going Solomon here and splitting the difference with the help of Arthur C. Clarke; any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
I definately fall in the Scobby camp – I want some natural explanation for what happens on the show….It doesn’t have to be spelled out to me, or be listed as a definite theory, but I don’t want it to be all part of some plan. In fact, I hope that part of these final episodes will be a continued debate – faith versus science, with an added caveat – what if you think you are doing what is foretold, but you are reading the tea leaves all wrong. What if Hurley has it right, that Ben is manipulating others for his own personal gain, not to save those on the island.