Lost spoiler-esque theory

[sigma7]

Not sure if this counts as a spoiler as it's speculation albeit intriguingly-grounded speculation, and thrown out as an idea. Not mine, but seen online, and too cracktastic not to be shared.

TPTB have been inflicting Nikki and Paulo, the two obnoxious newbie castaways, on the audience at every possible opportunity, at the expense of other ancillary characters who don't get nearly enough face-time anymore. I mean, what about Bernard and Rose? When was the last time we've seen them, anyway?

Funny, we haven't seen Rose and Bernard since before the hatch blew, right?

What if...Desmond, in his non-anchored temporal state, prevented them from getting on the plane? And Nikki and Paulo replaced them?

It's insultingly pandering enough and callous enough to the characters to be true, isn't it? Bubbles and Xerxes get their own episode next week, I believe. Gee, I can't wait. *checks pulse*

Comments

[foenix.livejournal.com]

Ooooh, interesting theory.

I'm not quite as...annoyed by the new characters. There are forty some odd castaways, and bringing a few others to the fore as we've thinned the herd a bit is fine by me, but some fleshing out would be nice, as well as having maybe seen them before. Of course, with actors' paychecks the way there, I can see how that's not feasable and let it slide...

And I keep looking at that icon and wanting to change it to "WAAAAAAAAALT"

[motteditor.livejournal.com]

Agreed. The annoyance with them confuses me. It's just a different pair of the castaways than we became accustomed to. And it's not like they're taking time away from the Losties who've disappeared. They really haven't been on any more than anyone not named Jack, Sawyer, Kate or Juliette (last few weeks excepted as the producers have finally remembered that they have more than four people in the cast).

[gloomchen.livejournal.com]

Interesting... but yeah, way totally over the top. Not that we haven't seen a lot of retarded, stupid crap already, but eh. Since we're on the topic of silly conjecture, I believe the gigantic mutant polar bear became mutated by the weird sonic fence. I will back this up by noting that his brain must be fried if he showed up and found some people-food but never came back for more.

I enjoy watching this show as much as I enjoy hating it. It's kind of weird that way.

[aardy.livejournal.com]

Well, at least it'd be a semi-interesting use of time travel.

(Says the guy who just finished reading P.S.238, and thus now needs to go back into last year's comics to pull out the first two parts to this story to have hope of figuring out what the heck is the actual sequence of events.)