I have watched so much Lost that I will believe virtually anything. My suspension of disbelief has gotten so bad that it has bled over into my real life. Sometimes I don’t even go to work anymore because I have to stay home and push the button in the hatch I built in my basement.
I completely accept alternative realities, time travel, polar bears on tropical islands, big black clouds that look like dust devils on steroids, or even how hot the women of Lost look despite the fact that the characters have been basically backpacking on the island for months. All this I can accept without question.
The thing that’s a dead give-away for me, the thing that really makes be believe that Lost really isn’t a documentary is the fact that Hurley keeps getting fatter while stranded on an island with nothing to eat but fruit. You would think the producers would demand he stopped gaining weight for the show. How are they possibly going to explain it when he explodes? Is he eating the characters that are killed off on the show? Is the island causing him to get fatter in the same way that Locke (the former cripple) can now walk?
If it wasn’t for Hurley getting perpetually fatter, I think the Lost really could pass as a documentary. Please, somebody tell Hugo to quit ruining it for everybody else.
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Somebody hasn’t been watching the show very carefully! They found food in the hatch, and more of it airdropped. It’s a regular Dharma-brand food buffet around there. I actually found some fake wrappers for Dharma products (as featured here: http://www.insanelygreattees.com/news/?p=27.) and that was fun watching people catch on to it in the kitchen (peanut butter doubletakes; I left the jar out for months).
Actually, I have been watching the show quite carefully. I haven’t seen one person with food in the last umpteen episodes. The Darma food drops happened in prior seasons. Perhaps we are to suppose that, just like to story of the “fishes and the loaves,” that the food simply replaces itself.
Granted, I don’t want to see the mundane, day-to-day, experiences of Hurley. I do feel pretty sure though that if we did calculations on Hurley’s caloric needs (considering expenditures & amount required for basic survival, etc) that number would not explain how a man that fat can gain weight while stranded on an island. There simply isn’t enough surplus calories around that island (at least not as it is presented to us) to explain it.
Anyway, fun link.
GM Chrysler ! LOST is starting to suck.
Nothing is ever resolved. It is not rewarding to watch.
Except for Hurley eating everyday at the McDonald’s they must have down the hatch. Super-size me, dude.
Lost - why resolve any storylines on March 14th, 2008 at 4:44 pm | Link