Gary Troup

[evilgus]

Why do they go and stick an anagram of 'purGaTory' right in the middle of things?
I'm talking about Gary Troup's manuscript that Hurley was reading called Bad Twin or Evil Twin or whatever, that is actually going to be a real book.

So many references to them all being dead are peppered throughout the show, in conversation and book placements etc.

Either they really are all dead, or there is something very strange going on in the writing department.

[ralph-]

i think that the writers found a bunch of novels that involve one of the characters being dead, and they are putting them in the show to mess with us. they already told us that they are not in pergatory, this is just the writers throwing us off their scent, so to speak. you add things like that, so that people will be sidetracked. we are victims of the writer's LONG CON! it is a slight of hand trick. they are making us look at books about death, so we dont notice real clues that are placed in the story.

[Sunan]

I thought it was obvious that they're poking fun at the fans. The writers have come off and said COUNTLESS times that they aren't dead nor are they in purgatory. They wouldn't do anything but make fans extremely unhappy if they did turn out to be in purgatory.

Also, it's titled Bad Twin, and there have been tons of theories on Ethan having an evil twin, so two big theories on the internet finally being acknowledged by the writers, one of which having been debunked a bajillion times, couldn't possibly be anymore than them having a bit of fun.

[ralph-]

Ethan Rom = othER man