Jeremy
05-14-2009, 05:16 AM
I've already talked about this at a number of different message boards before regarding the well that leads to the wheel underneath the Orchid, but now with the Swan and the Incident, it seems even more similar.
What I'm talking about is Stephen King's 'Desperation'. These two dieties, God and Tak, seem to be at war. Tak poses as a sheriff in order to find new hosts to live in, hunting them down. One of the characters believes that they brought to the town of Desperation for a reason, and that reason was to destroy Tak. One of the others, though, doesn't believe any of it and just tries to escape. He asks why God wouldn't just stop him from leaving if it was his will that he destroy Tak, and his answer is that God gives them free will.
So the two eventually go to the China pit, an old abandoned pit wherein a whole lot of people were trapped in and died. In it is the ini, or the well of worlds, where apparently Tak comes from. They plan to destroy it by throwing dynamite into it. However, one knocks the other out cold so that he won't have to sacrifice himself.
This just sounds awfully familiar. At first Sawyer and Juliet plan on leaving the island, but then they are convinced to go back. Jack wants to change the future by throwing jughead down into the Swan's pit, but it is Juliet who detonates it. And then we have Jacob who seems to believe in free will. It seems the only difference is Jacob is the one who is defeated.
I wonder, did the Losties in 1977 actually change anything and somehow stop this evil guy(Easu, perhaps) from killing Jacob, or will they have all died and Jacob will be dead?
Mostly I thought that these connections were too obvious not to point out.
What I'm talking about is Stephen King's 'Desperation'. These two dieties, God and Tak, seem to be at war. Tak poses as a sheriff in order to find new hosts to live in, hunting them down. One of the characters believes that they brought to the town of Desperation for a reason, and that reason was to destroy Tak. One of the others, though, doesn't believe any of it and just tries to escape. He asks why God wouldn't just stop him from leaving if it was his will that he destroy Tak, and his answer is that God gives them free will.
So the two eventually go to the China pit, an old abandoned pit wherein a whole lot of people were trapped in and died. In it is the ini, or the well of worlds, where apparently Tak comes from. They plan to destroy it by throwing dynamite into it. However, one knocks the other out cold so that he won't have to sacrifice himself.
This just sounds awfully familiar. At first Sawyer and Juliet plan on leaving the island, but then they are convinced to go back. Jack wants to change the future by throwing jughead down into the Swan's pit, but it is Juliet who detonates it. And then we have Jacob who seems to believe in free will. It seems the only difference is Jacob is the one who is defeated.
I wonder, did the Losties in 1977 actually change anything and somehow stop this evil guy(Easu, perhaps) from killing Jacob, or will they have all died and Jacob will be dead?
Mostly I thought that these connections were too obvious not to point out.