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if LAverse was Limbo, how did the bomb send them there?
The bomb didn't send them there. They went there after their respective time of death in the real-verse. They just started telling the limbo-verse story after the season finale in which the bomb supposedly exploded as missdirection. In fact, the bomb never exploded, Faraday's plan never worked, and that fade to white at the 5th season finale was a missdirection as well. The whole alter/limbo-verse storyline was a missdirection as a matter of fact. Desmond was never Super-Desmond, he just went into shock after being EMP-ed by Widmore and thought that by removing the Cork (now official name), he would be magically teleported back home and that is what he meant when he talked to Jack pre-uncorking. People remembering things in the limbo-verse was not them remembering their lives up to that point and realizing they were in an altered timeline; it was them remembering their entire lives until their deaths, whenever that might have been, during the course of the series or in 2057, and realizing they were dead and in limbo. And I think, storytelling-wise, that was blood genious. It is also interesting to notice that many characters remain in limbo - one of them willing so - and will have to figure it out for themselves eventually without the help of Fake-Super-Desmond. Jack's son was probably only part of the cenery, and the Ghost Charlie that visited Hurley in the mental institution might have been just an actual hallucination. He did have a history with imaginary friends...
You know what, it may not have been the hard science fiction resolution that some might have prefered, and did fall in the "it was actually God" soft science fiction cliché*, but I liked. It was good to see all finding their happy ending, even if it was after death. Hell, when Vincent the dog laid besides dying Jack, perhaps knowing what he was going through and choosing to keep him company so that he wouldn't have to do it alone, made me cry like a little kid watching Bambi...
* I think this cliché, that we also recently saw in Battlestar Gallactica, comes from the fact the most science fiction writers, unlike most scientists, are ultimately suspicious of technology and its implication to Man's purity vis-a-vis the Natural Order. They always think we are going to pay for our Hubris and that the actual way to find "the" answer is to let go and have it answered by some higher power. Most science fiction is actually quite supersticious in that sense. Clarke managed to avoid this cliché, being such an activist atheist, but he often enviosioned God-like advanced alien civilization and tech, so he doesn't count. Asimov,as far as I can tell did a good job too, although he did have the psychohistory concept, which was a bit Deus Ex Machina. |
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