In response to a number of factors, including the WGA strike and need to salvage the plot lines, Could the producers of LOST adopt a plot line trend that emulates the Soviet science
fiction masterpiece Solaris written by Stanislaw Lem?
This novel has been adopted twice into a major film, the initial in the 1970's by Russian Director Andrei Tarkovsky and the more recent 2002 effort by Director Steven Soderbergh.
Both screen play efforts offer the audience the subliminal take that, in certain areas where mass and energy are in transformation, such as near a black hole or star core, we might
create our own personal reality through the slightest energy such as an idea that becomes amplified and a nucleii through quantum steps to manifest in physical form? Thought begets energy, energy begets form, form begets reality.
The premis is that We are God, at least that was a tenant suggested in Solaris, and our thoughts can become the point of creative origin for the universe to nucleate its energy into an ordered system of reality.
I wonder this in part since Jeremy Davies, who played Snow in the American adaptation of Solaris in the 2002 release has been cast as one of the anti- hero "rescuers" in Season Four.
Is it possible that, recieving favorable copyright and use terms & protections afforded to many former Soviet works, since that the Lem novel rights are already WGA finished work product and third party controlled, having been sold to 20th Century and would be openly on the market to ABC, and since the writing has already been done with minor screen play adptions required, this allows the producers to "ethically" deal with the writers strike and use the Lem work as their final end plot lines since they have in essence purchased the intellectual property from Lem et al and so have the issue resolved (hence they anounce in late 2007 they know the shows final disposition).
The unique play lines that Lems Solaris novel affords any screen play writer to adopt all the loose ends into the final season, its is inevitable that the "we are each our own reality unto ourselves" plot line will become well depoyed into the end plot for LOST.
That is what I would do. I would salvage the series into an adaptable hall of mirrors for the now tedious plot lines. In a sense, the WGA strike may have salvaged the final story by compelling the producers to seek out new on the shelf material leading them by way of Soderberg and at least Jeremy Davies to the Soviet masterpiece by Lem as the end plot outline.
Here are some visual clues from the original Russian work by Andrei Tarkovsky.
One may also wish to view his major work "Stalker" in which a plot line also adopted in Lost associated with the use of "Others" (a term actually used by the primary players, who venture into a forbidden post nuclear zone to forage for food in Stalkers). The film Stalker is in Russian, so few would have any idea that such literary cross pollination takes place in Hollywood, unless one works there.
"In Episode 13 Locke is shown going through the library in the hatch. Please note that just when he and Sawyer parley back and forth with a few words, Sawyer askes Locke what he is doing with all the books spread out on the adjacent table, the scene pans from a close up of Locke holding the referenced book "An Occurance at Owl Creek Bridge".
Just another clue? One might take away the opinion that at least the sets prop-master is providing yet another visual clue to the aforementioned "persistance of memory" plot theme for each dying passenger as they expereince the utlimate journey from the physical to the 'next' state of existance.
I can envision the finale scene in the last minutes of the whole LOST series...all the passengers o0f Flight 815 walking from the beach into the clear white light, in quasi "crossing over" sequence in due homage as per "Ghost". Each of them resolving their earthly attachments an issues on the purgatorial ISLAND, departing in sequences for some through their individual deaths throughout the series, and one last curtain call en masse. Just an idea on my part as a rank amatuer viewer. I would feel cheated if the writers took such a cliche and used it as an exit stragegy to close out the series. If I can conjure such trite nonsense by definition LOST deserves better. Who knows. Perhaps a "crossing over" end play theme alluded to here could pass editorial muster with the suits at ABC and Disney - Touchstone. Forgive me if I commit herasy in these suggested plot lines. Better that I sit back and watch professional screen players work their craft."
Theory by Larry
