gonzai | That's One Theory... (Reply)

An exchange from WaPo's Lost Central today.

Geekmaster: It recently occurred to me that another serialized drama with a loyal following began airing about the same time as "Lost" and shares many parallels. Like "Lost," this show is steeped in internal mythology and revolves around core themes such as survival, conflict, ever-present threatening forces, the role of fate or destiny, ever-shifting factions and loyalties, the blurring of "good" and "bad," and the ramifications of the choices we make. And, like "Lost," this show is in the process of winding up for an "all-will-be-revealed" grand finale played out over its last episodes.

This leads me to wonder whether the creators of this show have been in cahoots with the creators of "Lost" all along, and whether they have really been the same show all along, but simply told from two different angles. If so, then . . .

The "coming war" over the Island -- and the world -- is to be fought against Richard Alpert and the Others, who are actually Cylons. These Cylons have been guarding the Island not for the sake of humanity, but to preserve it for themselves once humanity has been destroyed. The "Adam and Eve" skeletons in the cave will turn out to be the remains of Adama and President Rosalind. Starbuck was caught in one of the Island's time-jump flashes, which zapped her to the past and caused her to fatally crash, explaining why she saw her own corpse when she came to Earth with the Galactica crew. Ben and Baltar wrestle for control over Locke (after Baltar defeats Faraday in a "small clever guy with long hair and beard" contest), but they both overlook Desmond, who uses his own "specialness" to forge an alliance with Lee Adama to repel the Cylon takeover ("frack me, brutha!").

At the height of the pivotal battle at the top of the Orchid Station that represents humanity's last stand, the Doctor appears in the TARDIS, revealing that he is "Jacob" -- he inadvertantly started the whole time travel thing during a stop at Torchwood, not realizing that the rift in Cardiff was connected to an island on the other side of the world. He executes a crazy plan that he explains in rapid-fire scientific-sounding goobledygook to a young, wide-eyed female companion, and everything reverts to exactly where it was in September 2004 before Flight 815 went off course. The flight lands safely in Los Angeles, and all disembark with no memory of what happened, but with a strange feeling that they know each other closely.

But the Red Sox still win the World Series.

Liz Kelly: You lost me at "Cylons..." Sorry Battlestar boy.