Aha! See, Lost Really is Sci-Fi!
By stephanie - Thursday, November 2nd, 2006
How could anyone question Lost’s status as a science fiction show after last season’s implosion of the hatch by a large magnetic device? But if you were still on the fence, last night’s episode should erase any doubt from your mind.
SPOILER ALERT!!
The big news is that Eko has been killed – and by that strange monster that scared us so much in season one and veritably disappeared in season two.
The monster – a big cloud of black fog – literally grabbed Eko and slammed him up against some palm trees. Then, in a move to make a wrestler proud, the fog slammed Eko down on the ground in a resounding final blow.
This, folks, is clearly sci-fi. We have no current technology that would enable a black cloud to grab a human being and throw him around like a rag doll.
Another Lost mystery is also coming together – the dead showing up around the island. Were they just visions? Finally, we have a clue. I believe the dead people (Jack’s dad, Eko’s brother, and possibly Boone) are corpses resurrected by nanotechnology. This would explain why Jack’s father’s body was gone from its coffin, and why Eko’s brother’s body had also disappeared.
This may also explain why the Others burned the corpse on a raft rather than burying it on their island – they don’t want anyone to come back to haunt them.
November 3rd, 2006 at 12:44 am
Yeah, sounds like nanotech. I don’t watch “Lost”, but it sounds very similar to Michael Crichton’s book “Prey” (2002) that I read a week or two back.
November 18th, 2006 at 9:51 am
Hmm – the idea of a “Prey” like nano-bot cloud has already been denied by the creators (see Wikipedia).
But the cloud is almost definitely the resurection of dead people, avenging people on the island – I particularly like the addition that of course “the others” are cremating bodies out at sea instead of a burial!
Of course Jack’s father wouldn’t go after him, I can see why maybe Eko’s brother would have done so, not sure why Locke saw it yet… The pilot was killed too. I suppose it’s possible someone in the crash blamed him for it?
Very interesting – I hope we will see a bit more in the second installment of Season 3!