Comments on: Season 6 and “The Stand”

By: lostonlongisland

lostonlongisland — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 07:15:54 +0000

@Yojimbo – OMG!!! Your theory about The Stand comparison is amazing. You are awesome. I never read the book or saw the movie so I was intrigued and looked it up. For all of you who know all about The Stand, please forgive me for typing what you already know. I just flipped out and found it worth typing here

Yojimbo – I am just floored.

Wikipedia came up first so I clicked on that and I almost croaked –

“Intertwining cross-country odysseys are undertaken by a small number of survivors” and “They are drawn together by both circumstances and their shared dreams of a 108-year-old black woman from Hemingford Home, Nebraska, whom they see as a refuge and a representation of good in the struggle of good versus evil” and “The stage is now set for the final confrontation as the two camps become aware of one another, and each recognizes the other as a threat to its survival, leading to the “stand” of good against evil.” “Trashcan Man arrives with a nuclear warhead and a giant glowing handâ€””The Hand of God”â€”detonates the bomb.” There’s even a baby born.

Survivors? Drawn togther? 108? (Hello? 108!) Good versus evil? nuclear warhead? flu? labs? security breach?

Yojimbo – thanks for providing incredble food for thought.

By: Yojimbo

Yojimbo — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 03:23:50 +0000

Yeah, I think give it a few more episodes before they start dropping like flies. Out of, what, close to a dozen main characters in the stand only 3 live…

By: Tas

Tas — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 02:35:35 +0000

They are all going to die. Maybe not all but we are going to have some serious crying moments coming up if The Stand parallels continue. The death of Hurley will be really sad and I think they will go there.

By: Roland

Roland — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:16:40 +0000

I hope Lost doesn’t end like The Stand or Dark Tower.

By: Yojimbo

Yojimbo — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:47:46 +0000

I, Locke – Interesting – I keep meaning to get Dark Tower. It was another key one they mentioned, wasn’t it?

By: Yojimbo

Yojimbo — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:46:17 +0000

Whataboutme – Yeah there are so many mythical connections. If you check out Campbell’s “The Power of Myth” you can open it to any page at random and find Lost parallels.

By: Yojimbo

Yojimbo — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:42:28 +0000

Highbrow – Absolutely. This is part of the reason why I posted this thread- it all FELT so much like the Stand but I had forgotten so many of the details. Yes – huge Abigail and Flagg parallels.

By: Yojimbo

Yojimbo — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:39:15 +0000

@waycurious: Yeah – there are functional reasons, but its the way they’re handling those characters that feel so familiar (Sawyer comes very much to mind). Good point on Cindy – very much like the “good” people in Vegas who are just too timid to resist.

By: I, Locke

I, Locke — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:53:48 +0000

A random note for all you King fans who have read the Dark Tower. Henry Gale’s balloon has a Nozz-A-La Cola decal! I’m sure it’s just a nod toward one of the creators’ major inspirations, but I love Lostpedia’s explaination:

King seems to indicate that since his Dark Tower is the lynchpin of all realities, its decay is causing all realities to bleed into each other, even the fictional ones created by other people as well as our reality, where Stephen King, Lost, you, and I exist.
The appearance of Nozz-A-La in the Lost reality seems to indicate that either King’s Dark Tower is connected to this reality through this “bleeding”, or that somehow reality has become unhinged in the Lost universe (the Apocalypse Dharma was trying to stop) and it is collapsing, just like the Dark Tower, and therefore allowing other fictional worlds, such as Stephen King’s, to touch it.
It could also indicate that Lost takes place in a Stephen King-created universe.

By: whataboutme

whataboutme — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:28:06 +0000

speaking of uncanny story similarities: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisher_King