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• Desmond Pushing the Button on "Lost"

  august > January 24th, 2016, 06:25 PM

  I really don't recall this ever having been mentioned during the peak of Lost fandom, although there's a reference in one of those Wikias for the show. Turns out there was an episode
  of the new Outer Limits called Dead Man's Switch that J.J. and Damon and Carlton had to be familiar with, and it's all about a guy in a bunker pushing a button in order to save the world, with alarms going off if he doesn't. :confused:

• Desmond Pushing the Button on "Lost"

  Michael > January 30th, 2016, 01:28 PM

  I never heard of that episode. I did not watch many episodes of Lost but I remember when they found the bunker with the button. How did the Outer Limits episode resolve it? For that matter, how did Lost resolve it?

• Desmond Pushing the Button on "Lost"

  august > January 31st, 2016, 06:20 PM

  haha - I'm not going to spoil the ending of either. :laugh: But basically the Outer Limits ep related to a potential alien invasion, except the button pushers
  (several in separate bunkers around the world) began to suspect it was all an experiment, to see if they would follow orders. But then there appears to be
  proof that the invasion did indeed happen while they were closed off underground. There was a resolution... then a twist, with the episode having the guy
  return to pushing the button, heading into an unknown future.
  
  It wasn't entirely resolved on Lost either. There were a LOT of implications that it was an experiment to watch how people reacted in isolation...but ultimately
  there was a big explosion that negated the need to push the button. But something happened that may or may not have sent one character's consciousness
  jumping around in time, and/or alternate realities. And something may or may not have been destroyed or altered in that explosion. And if one character
  hadn't used a fail-safe key - whatever the heck that was - there possibly could have been a HUGE electromagnetic surge/pulse thing that could have severely
  damaged the planet. But it was never answered why no one let that happen to begin with, so as to make the button-pushing unnecessary. Possibly over the years
  scientists thought they could somehow harness all that energy, and so initiated the button-pushing in order to keep active whatever source of power there was.
  
  At the time it all seemed completely believable... and now it's impossible to explain or describe coherently. :crazy: But I've probably described it more clearly above than the show ever did. :poke:

• Desmond Pushing the Button on "Lost"

  Michael > February 7th, 2016, 12:50 PM

  Well, thank you for (not) clearing that up. I guess it's a plot device that can be used more than once.
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