Comments on: The Lost Watchmen Theory

By: fantomenos

fantomenos — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 20:27:35 +0000

Skeeter, I totally agree. Also, it’s worth noting that the news-stand guy’s name is “Bernard” and he serves the narrative as a kind of “man-on-the-street” reaction to the weirdness surrounding him, which is similar to the role of Lost’s Bernard.

By: Skeeter

Skeeter — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 08:48:29 +0000

I reflect similarities between Walt and the little black kid who read the comic book throughout Watchmen. Once I saw that in the show, I thought it looked familiar. I recently read ‘Watchmen’ again in preparation for the movie and there was my missing puzzle piece.

Also within the plot, of course are the similarities between Hanso and Veidt, the Antartic “island” and so forth and so on. I always respected Lindelof and his choice of great literacy as a backdrop for telling great stories, and none so great as to adapt ‘Watchmen’ in the series.

By: Steven Luce

Steven Luce — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 06:30:12 +0000

I guess you guys have probably already noted these connections, but here are some more:

1. The deaths at the end of Watchmen are reported by the news media in the world of Watchmen as being caused by a fourth dimensional creature being teleported into the Institute for Extra Spatial studies. Both anomalies involve a flash of white light which engulfs all the people. I wonder if the island is a kind of fourth dimensional creature or entity that has somehow intersected with this world?? I think Alan Moore (the author of Watchmen) at the end of From Hell, his take on Jack the Ripper, poetically described the Ripper as a fourth dimensional entity that linked across time periods. Maybe this is what has happened with Jacob and the island.

2. The scientists on the secret island in Watchmen are killed by an explosion on a freighter, that looks alot like the freighter we have seen in Season 4, one that is also lined with explosives.

3. The Dr. Manhattan character and Desmond are both unstuck in time in a similar way, although there are important differences too.

By: Lulu

Lulu — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 00:47:57 +0000

wow, i absolutley agree. this is great analysis. lost always has fantastic literary references!

By: Kevin

Kevin — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 04:09:47 +0000

Interesting theory, but wouldn’t it amount to a massive amount of creative plagiarism? And what about smokey the monster?

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By: GG

GG — Thu, 24 May 2007 15:13:13 +0000

It is a good article. My addition to that theory is how did the Dharma people on the island have the “killing gas” that Ben used on the Dharma people and his father? This gas isn’t something that you would normally keep in your supplies. I hope they explain that mystery, however my theory is that this “gas” is the virus that this guy discusses in his article to kill 30%. My other theory is that they are going to be “unleashing a virus which kills 30% of the world’s total population and keeps on killing 30% of all new born humans would stop overpopulation, famine, war and poverty.” They might not be able to control how it kills off 30% of the newborns and it kills all newborns, which is why they brought Julia to the island. That “vaccine” that Julia injects the mothers to help them live longer is probably part of the vaccine that the Dharma people used on themselves.

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