The Hidden Clue in the Pilot?
Written by admin on June 9, 2008I’ve looked at a quite a few LOST sites before making this post as I didn’t want to write something that had already been theorised - but as it stands the sites I’ve been on don’t have any theories about this, so I’m going to go right ahead and write it! (Please let me know if this has, infact, been mentioned before!).
The writers have always said there’s a big clue in the Pilot episode of LOST and between Seasons 3 and 4 there were alot of picking at straws, trying to disect what that clue was. Now that Season 4 has finished, I think I’ve found the big clue the writers are refering to!
Remember in “The Shape of Things to Come”, when in the first scene we see Ben lying on the ground in Tunisia, appearing to have only woken up? At that point of the Season we didn’t know how, or why he ended up there. But as the Season Finale unfolded we are now set to believe that Ben ended up there as a result of moving the Island.
Jack couldn’t have possibly moved the Island and then appeared in the middle of the jungle as a result, and even if he did he would’ve had some sort of recollection of what had happened.
I’m not entirely sure the why’s and what’s, but maybe the Island set Jack up in that position so that eventually Jack could return (from the past, from the future?) and repeat the events that have already occured, only this time, do them right?
I don’t know if I’m going in the right track with this, but I think that these two scenes being very similar means something.
What do you think?
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June 9th, 2008 at 11:00 am
I think the island moved itself to where the plane was going to crash. from that point (when he woke) began his “mission” on the island and when ben wakes up in the desert his mission begins off the island.
I still hate that do-good-know-all-bastard called Jack
June 9th, 2008 at 1:40 pm
Everything in Lost means *something*, and certainly the similarities you pointed out are undeniable. I think you’ve hit the nail on the head that parallels have to drawn, even if we don’t know exactly how or why yet.
June 10th, 2008 at 8:07 am
Passi - interesting theory you have there. It will be interesting to see if that’s what happened.
Logan - thanks for the comment. It certainly does seem like the Jack / Ben scenes are significant and I can’t wait to find out how.
October 14th, 2008 at 10:04 am
This does not make sense to me, in season one there was that whole One side is dark One side is light thing… with Locke… I would take that as a much bigger clue than Jack in the middle of the jungle!? although there is the whole thing about Jack that he was born to be a leader (and his tattoo!) … and how his father tried to talk him out of being a hero when he was younger!!! ( and his father is with jacob now) but anyway…
October 14th, 2008 at 10:58 am
Jade, yes I agree that that also must play some significance. Afterall, they found the black and white stones with Adam & Eve as well.
I just can’t shake of the similarities between these two scenes though.
Hopefully Season 5 will bring us some more clues (and probably more questions!)
:)
February 23rd, 2009 at 6:05 am
hhhmmm, interesting, especially considering what happened in last nights 316 episode!?
March 19th, 2009 at 10:47 pm
what if adam and eve are in fact rose and bernard..i dont know it just popped in head.
May 7th, 2009 at 12:16 pm
I think the clue is actually Vincent.
Vincent is the 2nd character we are introduced to in the Lost pilot episode, however if you have ever watched any of the “missing Pieces” clips that were on the ABC.com website, the missing piece episode 13 clip titled “So it begins”, is an extension of the opening scene in the pilot. It begins with Vincent, and then we see Christian who instructs Vincent to wake up his son, jack.
You can see the missing pieces clip, “So it begins” on youtube, here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWW9vw_ZmmI
Now take this into account:
“Damon Lindelof confirmed in the February 4, 2009 episode of the Official Lost Podcast that Vincent will survive through the end of Season 6, making Vincent the first and so far only character that has been confirmed will survive the entirety of the series. (Official Lost Podcast transcript/February 5th, 2009)”
and then consider this:
“Naveen Andrews, who portrays Sayid Jarrah, has a theory that the series finale will feature the rescue boats coming to rescue Vincent while the graves of all the survivors are seen behind him.”
May 8th, 2009 at 10:57 am
Why did rose say that the mechanical-sounding noises from the nearby jungle seem “really familiar” when they just arrived to the island????
May 18th, 2009 at 5:21 pm
This makes a lot of sense after the season five finale, with the possibility of them time flashing forward back to the beginning of season one. Maybe they’re stuck in a loop?
May 26th, 2009 at 4:00 am
I think that’s absolute nonsense. The theme of someone being asleep, with the camera focused on their eyes and then it opening, or the camera zooming out is continued all the way through Lost, so making that link is a little bit silly. I appreciate the devotion, but I really think the two things are entirely unrelated. However, i’ve been wrong before…
August 24th, 2009 at 1:17 am
I think that the clue in the first episode has to do with Charlie. He ended up with Jack and the middle section of the plane despite the fact that he runs to the front section of the plane to get his drugs. He buckles himself in one of the first rows of the plane.
January 7th, 2010 at 5:40 am
The lost directors have said that many of the answers to the ‘big questions’ in lost can be found in the opening pilot episode, meaning that the scene in which jack wakes up must be fairly significant. It is also strange how Jack wakes up in a forest of bamboo stalks with only minor injuries to his back - falling from a great hight onto hundreds of tall, spikey bamboo plants would surely mean death…?
January 14th, 2010 at 10:56 am
I agree Jack does appear the same way as if place in that location by some event on the island. And after some review. At the end of Season 5 there is a clip that shows an eye.. suprisingly that eye… is 100% jacks eyes.. infact it is the same shot taken at the opening of season 1. Reflection of trees can be seen shadows are the same.. So in the pilot Jack Runs off towards the smoke monster and disappears.. so in the Pilot and I expect in season 6 Opener we see Jack Appear on the island and ang runs off to the smoker monster but the we left the crash behind and the story follow Jack on.. in his new mission.