> rwgibson13@gmail.com (rwgibson13) wrote:
>>
>> Hmm, I'm not getting that "expecting" vibe at
>> all. Care to remind me of onscreen evidence
>> of this?
>>
> I don't know... To me, the news reports on the TV, just seem to take the
> find in stride, as if they were expecting the missing jet to show up
> somewhere in that particular vicinity.
>
> Now apply this same thought, to let's say, back in the 60s (I think)
> when divers discovered the remains of the Bounty off of Pitcairn.
> ..Now how different would the news reports have been, if they had dove
> down near the Bounty and discovered the "Titanic" ?
>>
>> We really haven't been given enough
>> onscreen evidence for any of this IMO. We
>> have Danielle's dialogue about her ship being
>> a few days out of Tahiti, we have Desmond's
>> (assumed) navigational skills telling him
>> where he should've been when he ran
>> aground, and we have Toomey's wife telling
>> Hurley they were monitoring the Pacific for
>> signals. I'm sure I've missed a few other
>> references to the location of the island, but
>> the producers have gone to great lengths not
>> to give us a whole lot to go on...
>>
> I guess It is possible that Captain Norris was BSing the Losties, and
> that they were actually flying NW towards Bali, instead of towards LA.
> However, we also know that the jet they were on didn't end up in the
> Sunda Trench. ..Plus there would have been ATC information to back up
> its location for the first 6 hours. ...So, if Daniel and Desmond are
> lying, then the island must be over by Bali, or else the ATC personnel
> were snoozing for 6 hrs., and pulled a Nixon with their tapes, or else
> we're looking at a different time-line/universe.
>
> Given what we know, I would suggest the jet was actually flying NW,
> rather than NE -- It hit some weird Bermuda triangle near Bali. ...The
> plane duplicated, and one went down into the Sunda Trench, and the other
> was miraculously transported over to an island in the Pacific, but
> retained the same time zone. ..This is the only explanation I can come
> up with (as weird as it sounds) that seems to satisfy all contingencies.
>
> ..Perhaps it's a case of destiny: They "were supposed" to fly to LA...
> But ended up going in the wrong direction. ..An accident happened which
> caused the jet to crash. ...However, because it wasn't the Losties
> "time" to die, they were transported to the opposite location on the
> Pacific side, where they originally would have been (had the jet been on
> the correct route) and thus, are now all still alive. Jesus... Give
> me a wall to bang my head on ;-) ...Jon
>
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