Fringe

Jeff Wilson · 06 Apr 2012, 06:24 · from 2012-April.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at clueland.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2012 01:24:21 -0500
Subject: (urth) Fringe
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On 4/4/2012 7:42 AM, Lee Berman wrote:
>
>
>> Jeff Wilson: Er, they did NOT plan out LOST; the conclusion violated
>> numerous statements the producers made in earlier seasons.
>
> Which conclusion? There was the part about the island's secrets being
> traced back to an eternal fraternal conflict between Jacob and his
> "nameless" brother (given that the writers are jewish I think we can
> conclude the name was "Esau" and the Jew-Muslim enmity is being referenced).
>
> And there was the final conclusion seeming to suggest the whole series was
> the dying dream of a plane crash victim, fabricated from glimpses of his
> fellow passengers and his own life.

It looked to me like the "flash-sideways" world was Jack's dream, but 
they said in the first season that the resolution would not be
"it was all a dream" and again later.


> If the original name of the other brother was "Samuel", I am
wondering why they
> decided to delete it. The name "Jacob" was given years before they
ever showed
> him. Why keep "Samuel" unamed? For this reason I hesitate to
completely discard
> "Esau". 		 	   		

They said it was because it was more interesting to keep him unnamed.

-- 
Jeff Wilson - jwilson at clueland.com
Computational Intelligence Laboratory - Texas A&M Texarkana
< http://www.tamut.edu/CIL >

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