Am I the only one who... I mean...
Look. A Bad Thing happens in what is going to be a station to research a pocket of energy. Accident. Bad juju. So cancel the scientific mission there--it becomes about containment, cemented-down like Chernobyl. Gotta push a button to keep something really bad from happening again.
Until the day that button DIDN'T get pushed. And then the "Failsafe" key got turned, at which point the whole station imploded...
evidently neutralizing the massive pocket of energy?? Because we don't need to push that button anymore. Whatever we were preventing happening with that button either quit being a problem, or once and for all
happened, and now we're done with it. So then... why would Dharma build the station at all? Why not just fire the "failsafe", whatever that is, let the sky turn purple for a few seconds, and save a bunch of concrete?
Could it be that the "failsafe" IS the hydrogen bomb? Even so, why not just blow it up, rather than building the whole Swan station and locking a two-man team down there in perpetuity? It'd save them having to come up with a snowman-based joke, and eliminate one supply drop from the route.
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Originally Posted by Frosstbyte
Daniel died in 1977
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Yes, but THAT history wasn't written yet. Remember, for our Losties, 1977 is the present, not the past. So, things from the PAST 1977 can't be changed (except, Farraday implies, by way of the variables), but the people who are in their PRESENT in 1977 (because they haven't lived past the "current time" yet) are completely up for grabs.