Thursday, January 29, 2009

Chekhov's Gun

So...there's a rule in play/screenwriting called "Chekhov's Gun", which basically states that if you put a gun on the wall in Act I, it had better go off by Act III (because otherwise, there's no reason for it to be there).

This is what I was thinking about this morning after Last Night's lost.

All I'm saying, is that you don't just have a randomly leaking hydrogen bomb on this island. It's there for a reason. And if it's there, and it's unstable--one way or another, somethin's gonna happen.
If you're like me (Rissa...) you read all of the next-morning Lost theorizing, and I'm kind of upset b/c they co-opted the "The hatch and the 108 minutes are there to keep the buried H-Bomb from going off" theory.

But if that's the case--what's the deal? Why didn't the island go nuclear when Desmond turned the key?

Also...on a non-Lost-related note. I'm sick. I blame Jessie. We now begin our winter ritual of passing a cold back and forth until It's march and it fucking gets warm outside again.

Oh yeah...there's 7 inches of snow on the ground.

Fuck you California Boy.