Jeremy
02-20-2010, 02:02 AM
Not sure if any of you remember, but a while back I'd posted a thread regarding what I thought might be connected to Lost in some ways. Now, after having finished the video game titled 'Bioshock', and after watching the first few episodes of season 6 of Lost, I think the two may be connected even more so.
First, a little backstory: You play as a supposedly nameless character, though if you look closely at the letter he holds for a brief moment at the beggining of the game, you can make out the name 'Jack'. This happens moments before the plane he is on crashes in the middle of nowhere, out somewhere at sea.
Except that there is a massive underwater utopia known as Rapture just below him(underwater island, hmm?), and he is drawn to it. Upon entering it, Jack is guided by a man who calls himself Atlas, apparently someone who already lives in Rapture, by means of a radio. The so-called utopia is in disepair, what with pipes freezing and bursting, old structures being crushed under the pressure of the water, and the people of the city in a power struggle over stuff called ADAM. Andrew Ryan created this place.
Throughout the game, Atlas leads you to believe that Ryan is evil, that he is keeping Atlas and his own family from leaving. At one point, you get the chance to help Atlas' family escape on a submarine, but Ryan sabotages it, killing the family, thus giving Atlas a reason to want revenge.
Or so you are meant to believe.
Before and after this particular event, Atlas would use the phrase "Would you kindly--" once or twice, and then more and more, while asking you to do things that made you believe you were serving the greater good and helping whatever good people there were left in Rapture. At first I'd thought it was just a mannerism, but then came the answer as to why he asked questions that way:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEKVrTa40qo
Of course, that's not the end. Eventually you get to meet Atlas in person, whom reveals himself as Fontaine, and explains that he was just using you so that he could own Rapture himself, all the while becoming more powerful with the gene/DNA/whatever altering abilities of ADAM. And then you kill him.
Maybe it's all just coincidense, but the struggle between these two people, Fontaine and Andrew Ryan, reminds me of MiB and Jacob. But if there is any connection, then who is who? You go through most of it thinking Ryan is evil, but it was Fontaine controlling you. Has Jacob tried to control any of those who he has touched? Perhaps it's not MiB that has anything to do with infecting people, but rather Jacob?
MiB had his own chamber dedicated to him inside the wall around the temple. Perhaps Jacob tricked the Others into thinking MiB was evil, and kick him out of his own temple. Who knows. Makes you really think...
The difference here is that Andrew Ryan, the supposed good guy, is the one who dies first, whereas if we presume Jacob is bad, he is the one who's dead.
What do all of you think?
First, a little backstory: You play as a supposedly nameless character, though if you look closely at the letter he holds for a brief moment at the beggining of the game, you can make out the name 'Jack'. This happens moments before the plane he is on crashes in the middle of nowhere, out somewhere at sea.
Except that there is a massive underwater utopia known as Rapture just below him(underwater island, hmm?), and he is drawn to it. Upon entering it, Jack is guided by a man who calls himself Atlas, apparently someone who already lives in Rapture, by means of a radio. The so-called utopia is in disepair, what with pipes freezing and bursting, old structures being crushed under the pressure of the water, and the people of the city in a power struggle over stuff called ADAM. Andrew Ryan created this place.
Throughout the game, Atlas leads you to believe that Ryan is evil, that he is keeping Atlas and his own family from leaving. At one point, you get the chance to help Atlas' family escape on a submarine, but Ryan sabotages it, killing the family, thus giving Atlas a reason to want revenge.
Or so you are meant to believe.
Before and after this particular event, Atlas would use the phrase "Would you kindly--" once or twice, and then more and more, while asking you to do things that made you believe you were serving the greater good and helping whatever good people there were left in Rapture. At first I'd thought it was just a mannerism, but then came the answer as to why he asked questions that way:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEKVrTa40qo
Of course, that's not the end. Eventually you get to meet Atlas in person, whom reveals himself as Fontaine, and explains that he was just using you so that he could own Rapture himself, all the while becoming more powerful with the gene/DNA/whatever altering abilities of ADAM. And then you kill him.
Maybe it's all just coincidense, but the struggle between these two people, Fontaine and Andrew Ryan, reminds me of MiB and Jacob. But if there is any connection, then who is who? You go through most of it thinking Ryan is evil, but it was Fontaine controlling you. Has Jacob tried to control any of those who he has touched? Perhaps it's not MiB that has anything to do with infecting people, but rather Jacob?
MiB had his own chamber dedicated to him inside the wall around the temple. Perhaps Jacob tricked the Others into thinking MiB was evil, and kick him out of his own temple. Who knows. Makes you really think...
The difference here is that Andrew Ryan, the supposed good guy, is the one who dies first, whereas if we presume Jacob is bad, he is the one who's dead.
What do all of you think?