An explanation for “Lost”?

If you’re British and you have Virgin Media, you’ve just lost “Lost” – and I’m sorry for you. If you’re British and you have Sky, then – like me – you’ll still be hooked. In the last but one episode, they discovered a character called Roger. Can you believe the coincidence? But he’s long dead.
So, what on earth is going on? The actor who plays Jack Shephard’s father, John Terry, has an idea:
“I have a theory about the whole island. It is the Superstring Theory. The only thing that makes sense to me is that this is parallel reality. In the Superstring Theory, I think there are 11 separate realities that can co-exist at the same time. This island represents a co-created reality of all the characters that are on it. The little kid Walt is reading a book with a polar bear in it, and then you get to the island and there is a polar bear. And the only logical way for 48 people to fall out of the sky at 45,000 feet and have them all survive is that they didn’t. They survived only in another reality so they are actually dead in our reality. They are just alive in a co-created reality.”

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  • Janet
    March 17th, 2007 at 5:42 pm

    Oh Roger, not you as well! The day before yesterday, my daughter (reading Philosophy and Spanish at University) rang up and said ” I’m having trouble with an essay. I thought I’d discuss the issue in three sections: imagination, existence and reality… But are existence and reality the same thing?
    And that was only the Spanish!