Twilight Zone

[Jstraw]

Seems to be an obvious solution or a big red herring:

Last night Locke held up a book in the library called Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge which was made into an episode of the Twilight Zone. It took place (I think) during the Civil War and involved a man being hung at Owl Creek Bridge. At the beginning he is pushed from the bridge with the noose around his neck. The rope snaps and the condemned man runs for his life. The 30 minute episode follows his escape to freedom. As the episode concludes, the film cuts back to the bridge and the man continues his fall from the bridge and hangs from the noose and is dead. The point was that the 30 minute episode following his escape was all in his head in the 2 seconds between being pushed from the bridge and when the rope snapped his neck.

This a popular episode shown in some film schools to demonstrate how you can use film to screw with time.

This is an easy out for the producers. They can end this season by having one (or any number of) characters having imagined all that has gone on before during the time that the plane was crashing. Then the plane can crash and they can start over with one cast member or any other number. Helps with contract negotiations too.

[Lpspider]

Originally Posted by Jstraw

Seems to be an obvious solution or a big red herring:

Last night Locke held up a book in the library called Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge which was made into an episode of the Twilight Zone. It took place (I think) during the Civil War and involved a man being hung at Owl Creek Bridge. At the beginning he is pushed from the bridge with the noose around his neck. The rope snaps and the condemned man runs for his life. The 30 minute episode follows his escape to freedom. As the episode concludes, the film cuts back to the bridge and the man continues his fall from the bridge and hangs from the noose and is dead. The point was that the 30 minute episode following his escape was all in his head in the 2 seconds between being pushed from the bridge and when the rope snapped his neck.

This a popular episode shown in some film schools to demonstrate how you can use film to screw with time.

This is an easy out for the producers. They can end this season by having one (or any number of) characters having imagined all that has gone on before during the time that the plane was crashing. Then the plane can crash and they can start over with one cast member or any other number. Helps with contract negotiations too.

Care to run that by me again, more simplified?

[stevepoland]

Jstraw is talking about the one book title we saw in The Long Con when Locke was rifling through looking for clues. It was An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce. It's really more of a short story. There's a guy who basically has a long drawn out dream as he's being hanged from a bridge. You'd made to think that he's escaped, but it turns out it was all in his head. Sort of like his life flashing before his eyes, except instead of seeing his life he sees his possible escape.

Jstraw is making the point that many have made this week about how this could be a possible easter egg from the writers that Lost is all a dream that one of the passengers is having as the plane crashes. But I doubt that they will do it at the end of this season, as it would pretty much end the show.

An interesting side note is that Ambrose Bierce was a famous author who went missing and was never found.

[The Lost Man]

I doubt they'd be that lame. The whole dream scenario is a writing cliche.

[stevepoland]

I hope not. I think they're just messing with us.

[Lost Eternal]

Originally Posted by stevepoland

I hope not. I think they're just messing with us.

Which, it appears, they do quite often.