Comments on: A Much Improved Crash Landing

By: highbrow

highbrow — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 16:02:02 +0000

He wouldn’t need to know about the runway ahead of time. If he’s doing an emergency landing he’s trying to find the best place to put it down. The purpose of the runway is to provide a good place. It’s a tiny island! A long, straight strip of cleared land would stick out like a sore thumb from the air.

By: Andre7

Andre7 — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 23:59:57 +0000

The problem is that Frank does not know about the runway in any way shape or form as far as we know… Unless Juliet told him knowing he would be piloting 316. I don’t buy it. Maybe Ben maneuvered to place a fully briefed co-pilot on board. That way if Frank ‘flashes’ off the plane there is someone there to land the damn airplane! After all Ben is the one who had the runway built in the first place!

By: highbrow

highbrow — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 14:39:51 +0000

There was a discussion on another site a while ago about the runway and what it was for… it was suggested that it was for flight 815 to land on during another time loop… I have plenty of problems with that idea but what was discovered is that a plane that size couldn’t land on a runway so long it spanned the entire smaller island. It’s just too small. So the smaller plane was able to use the runway to make a safer landing but it probably wasn’t long enough to make a normal landing… therefore, the plane ended up in a tree.

I’m not completely convinced that Sun and Sayid aren’t in the ’70s. We only know that Frank went off in a boat with a woman. Who knows for sure who it is… they didn’t say he ran off with an angry asian chick… and the fact that Sayid is nowhere to be found makes me think that he did flash to the past…

By: kimberly

kimberly — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 07:03:08 +0000

I have another proposition on this thought.

If Sawyer, Jin, Juliet, etc. are on the island in the 70s, that is technically before 2004.

Wouldn’t it be possible for someone (in a scene/interaction we have yet to see) to reference a plane landing on the island in the future the same way that Daniel tells Ellie in 1954 that in “50 years this island is here and everything is fine…”

We do have the clue that the reason Alpert was at Locke’s birth was because Locke himself told him. So why couldn’t Juliet tell the Others that they need to build a runway? She’s just the example to prove my point about the whole “changing the future” ideas.

By: Damon Cuse

Damon Cuse — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 06:43:12 +0000

Let’s not forget that Lapidus was supposed to be piloting 815 and he’s an amazing “crash pilot.” Just like we saw with him salvaging the helicopter from one crash and keeping everyone alive during crash number two. Maybe his crash landing skills are why he was supposed to be piloting 815 in the first place.

By: cappayne

cappayne — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 02:11:30 +0000

username – Yes, and we don’t even know where SAYID is! I assume he flashed to his own place, alone.

I don’t think Ben was in charge of the runway, thus giving him knowledge of the future, as he told Locke he was going to miss him. He would know of Locke’s reincarnation if he knew about 316 landing on the runway.

By: username

username — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 01:37:59 +0000

What i found more interesting was that Sun did not flash like Jack, Hurly and Kate! That was unexpected and I wonder what that means.

By: ontopofoldsmokey

ontopofoldsmokey — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 00:37:10 +0000

Yeah I think your right Although I cant remember if we saw the actual runway on the last episode. correct me if I am wrong.

This might also lead to why Juliet said if I told you youd kill me. She said this to a couple people I think Sawyer was one possibly Kate. I think she is the one who said the runway was for Aliens. Whatever is about to go down seems like there is some death and war ahead and maybe Juliet has this further Knowledge along with Ben.

By: TheSwanStation

TheSwanStation — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 00:34:51 +0000

But we saw the plane sitting in a tree. Not on the runway. But good idea, Because the runway was located on the small island