Sunday, September 20, 2009

What John did

One of the biggest secrets of the Swan disappeared with it, after Desmond turned the failsafe key and the hatch went sideways. Let's go back to the final, fateful moments of the Swan.

2|23 Live Together, Die Alone. Desmond realised that he was responsible for crashing 815, via the System Failure in the printouts from the Pearl, while Charlie and Eko were locked out behind the closed blast doors. With the end of the countdown approaching, Locke lost his cool. He grabbed the display of the Apple II and smashed it on the ground. Desmond panicked and shouted :"You've killed us. You've killed us all". The rest is history. But what did Locke actually do? He just crashed the display. The Apple II was no Macintosh, or an iMac, where the CPU, RAM and everything are built into a single case with the monitor. The computer remained on the desk, together with its two ancient Floppy drives. It would have been no problem to enter the numbers, and everything would have been fine.
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5 comments:

  1. Zort70September 20, 2009 at 1:28 PM

    Desmond has obviously never taken any Computer Science lessons !

    This blog is looking good, keep on posting.

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  2. AnonymousSeptember 21, 2009 at 5:26 PM

    Here's an idea about Locke that just occurred to me: We've all been assuming in the scene in "The Incident" where Jacob goes to John after his tragic fall, Jacob brought him back to life. Probably true, but could Jacob not also be responsible for putting him in a wheelchair at the same time, either by causing the spinal injury or by just not healing him at the time? Makes sense why Jacob would say he's sorry to John at that moment...

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  3. MandazoidNovember 6, 2009 at 8:00 AM

    I remember thinking of that at the time, too, but then I got distracted. :o)

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  4. CapcomNovember 14, 2009 at 5:49 PM

    Good point about the computer. As long as they had an extra monitor they could have just transferred one and plugged it in, if they could do it in time. But maybe John would have broken that one too, he was such a jerk. X-D

    Although there is that thing about not daring to use the computer for anything other than punching in the nubmers that could have included other consequences too (you know, like how it used to mess up your computer if you changed your mouse type without "telling" your computer), but I think that was just a tool of control over the Swannies, IMO.

    I agree, hope that you post more thoughts. :-)

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  5. CapcomNovember 14, 2009 at 5:49 PM

    P.S. I like your B/W and color graphics. :-)

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