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Originally Posted by CJFusco
But Mike, coming up with this stuff - attempting to solve the problems, make predictions based on prior knowledge, building connections with what we know from pop culture and the arts - well, that's the stuff that makes LOST so damned fun. Sure, you can appreciate the show on the basic plot level, but you can also do that with CSI or Cold Case or a number of other inferior shows; LOST is different.
Heck, I have been trained to analyze - it's my bread and butter... so I'll continue on my merry way, thank you very much.  |
I think you misunderstood my intentions..
I'm not trying to ignore the complexity, nor am I trying to ignore the clues hints and hidden things. I'm just trying to keep a bit grounded in my extrapolations...the writers have proven to know more about their story than I do
The surprises that they toss out are often completely unknown and unknowable beforehand, so trying to find hidden meaning in a scene is a fool's effort...they are all but guaranteed to write something 180 degrees opposite of what any of us could imagine. They have that annoying power...
They sprinkled more than enough other stuff in that can be traced around, examined, compared, and otherwise scrutinized. It obviously keep the numerous blogs and websites busy. Yes, the research done on the statue is interesting, but if one goes back to the first appearance, and reads what the writers were claiming back then, they simply wanted a statue leg that was "different".
Here, from the horse's mouth:
http://forum.thefuselage.com/showpost.php?p=1853178&postcount=40
This was only a year ago. So, they went from wanting a "weird" statue, to getting heat about it, to driving the blogosphere crazy, to showing the statue a second time...this time, full of enough clues to drive anyone to Tawaret eventually...which is exactly what happened.
I don't think they had that connection planned when we first saw the statue. I think they took this anonymous "weird statue", and made it a "5 Years Into LOST Full of Cultural Connections Statue", because that's what people expect.
Oh...as for who Jacob is...we've already met him:
